The Pianist Directed By Roman Polanski

Conversely, Kusserow, instead of using irony or literary images, she forms meaning in her poetry through the use of metaphors. As Tyson states, “ A metaphor is a comparison of two dissimilar objects in which the properties of one are ascribed to the other” (143). Kusserow uses several metaphors throughout her poem to help elucidate the effects of the Second Sudanese Civil Wars on the Lost Boys. Regarding the “Lost Boys”, the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Neur and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War, Kusserow writes, “packs of bony Lost Boys / roving like hyenas towards Ethiopia, / tongues, big as toads, swelling in their mouths” (15-17). Here, Kusserow has used two zoomorphic metaphors, applying animal characteristics sot humans. She compares the Lost Boys to a hyena, a wild and chaotic animal, depicting the boys as a bunch of mad and violent scavengers, implying that they try to search for and collect anything that can be a source of food for them. Moreover, her comparison in which she describes the tongues of the Boys to be as big as toads, she is illustrating the extreme level of dehydration that the boy’s probable experienced, and how their tongues swell up since that is a symptom of dehydration. From Kusserow’s use of zoomorphic metaphors, we can see that she is trying to show how the Lost Boys have been dehumanized due to the dreadful condition they have had to face as a product of the Second

Many composers use various techniques in which they communicate the distinctly visual. John Misto’s ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ and Alexander Kimel’s ‘The Action in the Ghetto of Rohatyn, March 1942’ represent significant issues in our world by using various literary and dramatic techniques. Through using these techniques it is evident that the composers of these texts allow the audience to ‘see’ with our eyes as well as with our minds. The many literary and dramatic techniques have the ability to create a visual that

"The Portable Phonograph" illustrates the connection between music and the memories it symbolizes through the men's feelings, and their

“The Conspirator”directed by Robert Redford is a new historical drama.The basic ethical and political problems are the murder of the president and the simultaneous coordinated attempts on the lives of Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward which throw Washington into panic. After John Wilkes Booth is killed in a shootout with soldiers, his fellow plotters are arrested and tried, not by a jury of their peers but by a committee of officers.

The conveyance of distinctive visuals within texts draw profound significance to the various aspects of life poised within their stories. Performed with the aim of elevating the audience’s understanding, this can suggestively nurture the common response amongst them of the significant aspects of life, thus, referencing a deep awareness of the composer’s concerns. This is clearly evident within John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ in accompaniment to the listening stimulus of John Misto’s Interview and Peter Skrzynecki’s poem ‘Crossing The Red Sea’ through the exploration of delicate notions such as the journey through times of hardship and suffering as well as the hope of survival and sacrifices.

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a short film based off a story by Ambrose Bierce. The director of this film is Robert Enrico. “The work was a winner at the Cannes Film Festival and also at the Academy Awards (Best Short Film, 1963)” (Petrie & Boggs 245). This quote tells the audience how enjoyable and famous this film was in the time of its release.

Maazel’s brilliant portrayal of Bruckner’s swaying emotions was evident as the pizzicato on the strings transitioned into the brass, fiercely bellowing the third theme. With my inexperience, I was rather uncomfortable with the sudden and almost jarring shifts in the mood at first, but gradually, I began to appreciate how Bruckner alternated between his themes, using them, as Mark Swed of the LA Times noted, as gigantic melodic building blocks to construct a massive “cathedral of sound.” Despite the complex, intertwining development of the three themes, the first movement vanishingly surrendered itself, as elusively as the introduction.

A hero is a man who, in the opinion of others, is greatly admired for his brave deeds and fine qualities. A hero is a man who, in the opinion of others, is greatly admired for his brave deeds and fine qualities. In Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg, Oskar Schindler is regarded as a great hero amongst many Jews regardless of the fact that he is a German Nazi, because he saves the generations and lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of about 6 million Jews and millions of others during World War II that was taken place in Nazi Concentration Camps, under the German Nazi regime. In the midst of this brutal time period, Oskar Schindler finds the heart to undergo a change from being

The film is immediately introduced with an unseen abrupt and abrasive pane of music playing, then it stops. The frames that start off the movie are rather dark and atmospheric without making it seem threatening. Another harsh hit of music plays almost as if in warning. The mood is lightened up by Antonio Saleiri’s servants eating desert acting quite comical, but when the door opens, the lighting goes very dark again accompanied with the violent voice of a violin coming in, like a heart is bleeding. Music is basically the first character introduced in the film, as it itself, introduces the film. Throughout the story music is portrayed, whether it is supporting the scene or characters in the back round, or physically being played. In the long run, music is the cause for everything that happens.

The scene reminds me of “Schindlers List”, it’s a movie about Nazi concentration camp, where thousands of Jews boarded their last train ride to Plazsow concentration camp, one of the numerous death camp built by the Nazi Germany. The Jews were grabbed and pushed and beaten up as they come out of the train cars, stripped of personal belongings and made to form a line before heading to their ultimate destruction in the Gas

JFK, an American thriller directed by Oliver Stone, arrived in theaters in December of 1991. The movie scrutinizes the series of events that culminated in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy and the ensuing cover-up perceived through the eyes of former New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, who is played by renowned American actor, Kevin Costner. Some years following President Kennedy’s assassination, Jim Garrison filed charges against New Orleans entrepreneur Clay Shaw, who is played by actor Tommy Lee Jones. Clay Shaw was accused of allegedly conspiring against and contributing to a plot to murder President John F. Kennedy, for which Lee Harvey Oswald, portrayed by Gary Oldman, was found to be the assassin by two government

As the movie’s plot draws to a close, perhaps the most emotional scene in the movie takes place, as Schindler breaks down crying, heartbroken at the notion that perhaps he could have saved at least one more person from the slaughter of the Nazis. This scene is accompanied by the movie’s trademark violin solo, along with other strings and a lone harp. The emotional tone set by this piece is nearly beyond description, as the sorrow and heartache of all those killed in the atrocities of the Holocaust, and those left to survive them, is felt through this lone piece. However, in listening to the music, there is a feel of underlying hope, buried beneath the ruins of the present, that perhaps points to a brighter future

Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’ is a biographical drama depicting the story of Cecil Gaines, a man who escaped a life of slavery and oppression to serve for eight presidents as a butler in the White House.

Thesis: The use of silence in Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point is a reflection of his signature themes of alienation, inability to communicate, sexuality, and the focus on the psychology of the characters, not action and his signature style of the focus on objects instead of people and long tracking and panning shots.

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (Wes Anderson, 2014) combines a perfect mix of nostalgia and history. The film explores the themes of war as it recreates history through mise-en-scene. Anderson also incorporates other themes such as racism and elitism during pre-war Europe. The film widely explores Europe from many viewpoints, one of which is of Mr Moustafa. His nostalgia is seen through flashbacks of when he was a lobby boy that went by the name of Zero. As an audience the depth of his nostalgia is seen through mise-en-scene. With the help of cinematography and props we see can see the time and place that Moustafa acknowledges. Anderson shows how history is reimagined through ones nostalgia. Mr Moustafa recalls events, which he was not present in yet he explains them as if he were there. This also shows how one reimagines history from another due to emotions and personal attachment. Despite the outcome being the same there are many viewpoints it can be seen from.