The Themes Of Desire And Identity In 'The Talented Mr Ripley'

The three themes that stood out the most to me were: prejudice, leadership, and bravery. My first theme is prejudice, in my opinion it is not right to own someone as “property”

Natives who watched these films expressed that they experienced identity issues when watching films by John Wayne and other films. The

Throughout our time in literature we have read poetry, short stories, and watched plays. As we did this we were able to break down the key components of each literature piece, by getting deep into the stories and poems and plays and finding the real meaning and background of them. We were able to figure out all the themes, plots , more on the character’s personalities. As we read these literature pieces i have noticed a lot of the works themes are the same. About love or death and racism. But all those themes are a real reality to today’s world.

There was many different themes in these stories, from friendship or independence, to perseverance or redemption. One theme that stuck with me, and could be found in a few of the stories we read, was the theme of shame. Shame can be found in a character’s actions and thoughts. There are many ways in which shame can be depicted, but I saw the overall theme in three of the stories we read in class.

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

There are 3 major themes in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, the first is the constant battle between fantasy and reality, second we have the relationship between sexuality and death, and lastly the dependence of men plays a major role in this book.

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

Often times, people judge those who diverge from the typical ideals that societies have created in place for them. Although, director Tim Burton challenges societies’ norms through his work in the film industry and exemplifies his argument through outcast protagonists that alter the perception of normal. The differences, not only in the characters, but the setting as well, are seen as a “peculiar” set of characteristics that make them unique and special. Tim Burton expresses the idea that individuality is preferable to conformity through his use of contrasting settings and misfit protagonists in films such as, Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children and Edward Scissorhands.

In the essay Little Themes by Claude Chabrol, Claude Chabrol argues that the script of a movie does not matter, but the theme of the movie is the most important. He says there is no such thing as a 'big theme' and a 'little theme', because the smaller the theme is, the more one can give it a big treatment. In this essay we are made to understand that a film's moral position should be in its form and style, not in an underlying social message in its narrative and that the content of a movie is subject to style. Style is something that is personal to each filmmaker. Style is what differentiate movies from one another. Several

Stephen King is a contemporary writer who has written many books in his lifetime. In his novel Misery, he discusses the consequences or bad sides of being famous. This normal average man, other than being a world famous author, acts as a regular individual in his daily life. In Stephen King’s Misery, King uses Paul Sheldon, as a doppelganger of himself to describe the horrors of being a famous person in the worst situation, showing readers that it is not so bad to be a regular person.

Colours cannot only serve as visually separating or connecting elements in a frame but also represent symbolic components inside a frame. Having already written papers on character constellation and notions of beauty in American Beauty, colour was another aspect that attracted my attention when watching the film for the very first time. Although one can detect numerous similarities in terms of framing between American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, and Shame, the importance of colour in all three films appears even more striking to me and was one of my main motivations to compare these films. Especially the colour red in American Beauty catched my eye and reminded me of Pleasantville, a film that deliberately utilises colour to support and convey

In the movie “The Departed,” three important ideas that are shown throughout the film. The idea of love and how people act when they are in love, the father-son interactions between characters, and the idea of an individual’s identity. The characters are forced, every single day, to adapt and mold into different roles throughout the film. The movie shows how people are placed into new situations and they create new identities to fit the ever-changing circumstances in their lives.

Tom Ripley is consistently represented by Highsmith and Minghella as someone who’s always lacked an identity. His overriding ambition to be someone else using the talents of impersonation, forgery and telling lies portrays him as a predator, hunting for congruence, cohesion and meaning in life. From this point onwards, Tom enters a cruel and unstable reality where his obsession with Dickie Greenleaf causes him to kill him and assume his

Throughout this class, various discussions and blogs have been used to analyze the different elements of films such as theme, cinematic techniques and genre. It is time to bring all of these separate elements together in the analysis of one specific film, according to class text, “analyzing levels of meaning below the surface story can greatly enhance enjoyment as well as understanding of a film” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014. p. 10.03). There are several different approaches to film analysis including formalist, auteurist, and generic or any combination thereof. Utilizing a genre theory lens, the 1956 film The Searchers will be analyzed addressing contextual information, story/plot, aesthetic choices, social/personal impact and how these areas come together to develop the film.

For my essay I will compare and contrast the themes between 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained, two movies that differ immensely when it comes to the direction and delivery of their respective plots; while still holding some key similarities such as their motifs and themes throughout both films. It 's those similarities however is also where we can dissect the corresponding differences such as how “heroes” and “villains” are portrayed entirely different from one another. And by using key examples I also aim to show how 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained are prime examples of how one movie can break the usual feel-good cliché plot that all American cinema seems to portray; while the other follows a more traditional route that we