Thelma And Louise

The most famous and tallest elf of all is Buddy Hobbs, the main character of the classic Christmas movie, "Elf," which is also one of the films that companies me through the cold holiday break. The film talks about a normal baby boy accidently got taken to North Pole after Santa finished delivering all the gifts. He ended up living there and became one of the elves. However when he grown up, finally discovers that he doesn't belong there and have decided to go on his search to reunite with his real family. On his journey, I can see hope, love, lots of sweet bubbly energy, and also the great joy of Christmas.

Influence is the capacity or power of persons to produce an effect on the actions of others. Victor Flemming, the director of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, depicts a message that revolves around the reversal of power and gender roles. Moreover, Dorothy is a child in her physical presence but lives the role of a hero as she leads the scarecrow, lion, and tin man to the Wizard himself. Through the archetypes such as the hero being a women, Cultural values, and the stages of the journey, Flemming raises the argument that in this case those who don 't have much influence in society are very influential in the Emerald City.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The story first starts off with a group of scientist that discover a bunch of perfect condition fighter planes in the desert that went missing in 1945. After that, a couple of commercial flights reported seeing a strange bright light, that they could not describe to ATC in Indiana. Widespread power outage hits Indiana and an electrical lineman, Roy Neary had an encounter with a UFO while driving. He chases the UFO’s until he runs out of road. While this is going on, a little boy named Barry follows the UFO’s out of his house after all his toys started turning on by themselves. His mother Gillian chases after him until she

First off, in Carol Clover’s essay“Men Women and Chainsaws” the argument is focused on how women overcome their challenges throughout various films.  Clover focuses in on a few different films and specifically looks for the “Final Girl” which is the last female standing after overcoming their challenges.  All of this brings a new aspect to film watching because Clover’s theory shifts the viewer's attention from focusing on how the male is essentially tormenting a female to zooming in on how the female overcomes the challenge.  Clover does this because she wants to show the viewers a different aspect of film and genre.  This is because Clover feels that instead of having the audience focusing on a main character which is essentially a male tormentor she has them focus on how the female(s) overcome the challenge and defeat their tormentor.  This perspective opens up a new gateway to film

“When I was your age, television was called books” (The Princess Bride). A quote from the timeless movie, “The Princess Bride”, when the grandfather is talking to his sick grandson about an old family tradition that was about to get passed down to him. The grandson had previously been playing a video game on the TV that he had in his room, when his grandfather walked in and told him he was going to read him a special book to make him feel better. Reluctantly, the boy turns his game off to listen. Even though the movie was not necessarily trying to make this point, it did show that kids were slowly becoming addicted to the new technology, and cutting themselves off from everything. Since those times, our

They could either have driven off a cliff or turned themselves in to all the cops that were surrounding them. Thelma told Louise, “Let's keep goin'!” They held hands and drove off the cliff. “...The women remain subversive criminal figures through to the film’s conclusion and beyond, never allowing themselves to be reintegrated into the existing social structure and forever unrepentant,” explains Karen Hollinger in Feminist Film Studies (Hollinger 270). This film shows two women choosing to die free and with each other rather than turning themselves in. They knew that the Justice system would not believe their story especially with their assault and almost rape incident. Nobody would take them seriously and they would end up in prison. These two women broke out of their stereotypical norms and just lived without a care. They left all the men behind them and formed a ride or die type of bond.

In our second semester, we dove deep into different literatures, each encompassing different heroic traits. Four literary texts that we studied are Romeo and Juliet, The Miracle Worker, The Odyssey, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Each written work has its own perspective on the definition of heroism; however, they all link back to perseverance and bravery, concepts that relate success to hard work and will power. Yet, often times, persistence is not enough to reach the goals of these novels. The definition of bravery can also vary from people to people, in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus states,, “I want you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand, It’s when you know you’re

There was an intriguing article in a recent New York Times Sunday Book Review. It discussed the utility of literature and other

One of the most influential philosophers, Immanuel Kant, introduced the term, Transcendental.  According to Kent, "I call all knowledge transcendental if it is occupied, not with objects, but with the way that we can possibly know objects even before we experience them." (Critique of Pure Reason A12). Once Thelma and Louise experienced what it is to make their own choices and take responsibility for their own actions, they realized they have experienced something new that they never felt it before. They tasted freedom. Therefore, there is no reason to go back.  In the last part of the movie, where the police cars and the helicopter were chancing their car, Thelma and Louise knew that the road had came to an end; the car goes over the cliff of Grand Canyon. They chose to be free. I believe Ridley Scott makes it easy for me to understand what these ladies are doing is necessary to their freedom and

In today’s society, we continually live in fear that something catastrophic is waiting right around the corner. The genre of science fiction has made that fear even more prominent in today’s society with a plethora of movies showing a dystopian world. Popular movies like The Hunger Games bring viewers into a world where two people every year must fight to death to show their superiority and to earn their freedom much like roman times in the coliseum. Hunger Games isn’t the first movie to play on this fear though. I Am Legend, Minority Report, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers are movies specifically created to bring fear and discontentment to the human mind by feeding the fear of the unknown.

Thelma and Louise were two regular women in a world filled with controlling, greedy, powerful men. Thelma, played by Geena Davis was married to Darryl, a man who only cared about watching TV by himself without being bothered by anything that his wife said or did. Louise, played by Susan Sarandon, is a waitress dating a musician who is on the road all the time. Both women were sick and tired of the same monotonous routine. Even though Thelma seemed like she was in a happy marriage, she was miserable.

Thelma and Louise is no ordinary road trip movie, the dynamic duo start their road trip in order to take a break from their selfish partners after feeling they are not being treated properly. While out of town they find themselves at a bar, several drinks and flirtations later Thelma finds herself in trouble with the local bar rapist, Louise comes to her rescue to only end up killing the man. While the viewer could see this was a moment of self defense for her friend, the women worried the local cops wouldn't see it their way so they fled the scene yet still managing to be scene. The movie continues exploring the different reactions and cchanges between both Thelma and Louise while on the run.

Over the years of film production, women have been projected as being housewives. However, this has changed dramatically threw out the years. In this century, they are mostly portrayed with a masculine characteristics similar to that of a male. However, in the film Thelma and Louise, that was directed by Ridley Scott in 1991, woman in the beginning are illustrated as being housewives and waiters that obey their husband’s wishes. Nevertheless, as Thelma, played by Geena Davis, and Louise, played by Susan Sarandon, decided to go on a weekend getaway, things take a turn for the worse, when Louise shots and kills a man that attempted to rape Thelma. Since this happened, Thelma and Louise agreed on going to Mexico. Yet soon they are pursued my the

The film ‘Valkyrie’ is the most popularised interpretation of the July 20th 1944 bomb plot. As with any dramatisation it is possible for facts to be changed or only certain events to be shown to make it more viewable and exciting. However, the film is largely considered accurate since they consulted many credible historians, their main source being Peter Hofmann. He saw the war first hand, but only as a child, and was therefore unable to truly grasp the events at the time. Later, however, he became fascinated by the July 20th plot and would use it for his doctoral studies in Munich, West Germany. This intellectual background would make his views considerably traditionalist and he is still considered to belong to this school of history. Some more modern historians may claim that this could make his views unreliable since he was subject to the Nazi war propaganda and the post-war emphasis on redeeming the population of Germany from blame by focussing research on the Nazi terror state, instead of the actual part that the average German had in the regime and claiming that the large proportion of them, were moral and democratic. This is a common criticism from many revisionist historians since post-war Germany had many potential motives against freedom of thought on both sides of the wall. The western allies had learned from Versailles and were encouraging a cultural and social shift towards their ideologies while the Russians were doing the same with communism. This split,

Many science fiction movies are about aliens coming to the world with intentions unknown to the world. Their main story line being the revelation of those intentions which usually turn out to be disastrous for the world. Arrival is no different in the way it depicts the entrance of the aliens but it differs highly in the way it tries to explore the purpose of the aliens’ arrival. It does not begin with an assumption in mind about the aliens, the movie rather shows them the way they are. It gradually displays the purpose of the aliens’ visit through the eyes of the main character, Dr. Louise Banks, and her experiences.