The Sapphires is a real-life tale of a group of aboriginal sisters (and their cousin) who sang their way from a dusty outback to an entertainment tour of duty during the Vietnam War. In opening scenes, the lively trio of Gail (Deborah Mailman), Diana (Jessica Mauboy) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) sing a cover of Merle Haggard's 'Today I Started Loving You Again' and blows smashes the opposition out of the water in the quiet “talent” show. When the bias judges fix the prize against them, they storm out, along with boozy talent host Dave (Chris O'Dowd), who has an ear for raw talent. Directly outside the pub, ambitious Julie produces an ad calling for wartime entertainers and in a matter of minutes, she persuades Dave with the promise of money that secures the girls both an interstate …show more content…
Kay gets the shock of her life when her long-lost aboriginal cousins rock up in the middle of a white Tupperware party. However her family ties win out and she signs on to complete and make the grope just like how it was back in the day. In grooming the girls for stardom, Dave weans them off their beloved Country and switches them on to the train of Soul (with a very funny of fundamental difference between the genres). In very short order, they've gotten the nod for the big break tour of duty and have landed in the untrustworthy Saigon. Their wonderful cover of Lyndell's 'What A Man' gets a bar of combat men on their feet in their first gig in Saigon and the response to diva Diana's voice solidifies The Sapphires' place on the tour. From the bars of Saigon, their booker propel them on a tour through real combat zones, to escalating audience sizes and horrific degrees of risk. It's no spoiler to say that on the course of the trip, some of the Sapphires find love, and all of them find
The Sapphires directed by Wayne Blair represents the theme of war throughout the film with the use of cinematic techniques and setting. The Sapphires follows four aboriginal girls; Julie, Cynthia, Gail and Kay on their adventure to Vietnam in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. The film follows the four girls on their journey around Vietnam performing for American troops while fulfilling their dreams of becoming a famous singing group. Throughout the film, Blair explores the theme of war through a variety of scenes and techniques. War ruins the lives of many people and this is demonstrated through the film with the use of cinematic techniques, setting and with the support of other themes. By exploring the theme of war, Blair is able to help the audience make connections to the film through the events and setting the character’s experience.
The Sapphires by Wayne Blair is an award-winning film, which explore the lives of four aboriginal women Gail (Deborah Mailman, Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) and their cousin Kay (Shari Sebbens) throughout their journey and role in the Vietnam War. A range of film techniques such as settings, characters, conflicts and symbols are used to explore prejudice towards their indigenous heritage, with a variety of film techniques as well.
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet who was named the “Greatest Italian poet since Leopardi” (Hecht). He was a hopeless romantic and that translated into his poetry and was the theme for most of it aswell, and the poem Any Hope of Ever Seeing you Again is no exception. The poem Any Hope of Ever Seeing you Again portrays two different sides to a story and can be interpreted in many ways due to its style of writing.
Music comes in various styles that work to evoke emotions and deliver messages to listeners. Whether it be jazz, rock, or soul, music serves to fill the gaps in ourselves and show us how we are all the same. As an artist that merged from the early 2000s, Rihanna has diversified herself in ways that we cannot brand her by any one particular genre. Like may artist, she works to create music that can reach her listeners and allow them to connect with her on another level. Despite her start, she has grown to the point where her songs go beyond the “pop” label society has branded it. A prime example would be one of her recent works, “Love on the Brain,” released on her recent album Anti in 2017. Rihanna’s “Love on the Brain” is a classic love ballad that uses qualities, often associated with soul and rock, to reminisce a song typical of the 1960s, telling a story emphasized by the lyrics to go beyond the realm of a standard pop record.
The film The Sapphires is set in the 1960’s and is based on a true story, portrays four young Aboriginal women singers who fight against egalitarianism and white society judgement in order to be
“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born september 15, 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She is a novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer who has published more than 15 novels. The novelist has also a myriad of awards such as Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award, MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this short story, “To My One Love”, the reader is given a setting on Nigeria in the 1990s where there has been an abundance of “Operations”, or robberies. At this time Chimamanda is in university and has taken a fancy to a young man named Nnamdi- unfortunately, he died because of these operations. Chimamanda wrote
Wayne Blair, director of The Sapphires used a combination of cinematography, dialogue, flashbacks and voiceover throughout the film. These film techniques developed my understanding of the extent of prejudice and the consequence prejudice can have. The director used these techniques to show the prejudice by White Australians, Aborigines faced in Australia.
Many families are willing to do anything to save their loved ones. In the article “I Know You Love Me--Now Let Me Die” by Louis M. Profeta, the author mentions a time when people died in places with happy memories that were forgotten once technology began to develop. Because dying in a familiar environment was the old way of letting a beloved person pass, Profeta uses circular structure to explore how every family wants to preserve their loved one’s life even if the person wants to die. Some families were able to let their special ones pass with the last days “[s]pent with familiar sounds, in a familiar room, with familiar smells, that gave her a final chance to summon memories that will help carry her away” (Profeta). In the past, the passing
Pamela’s radio show, The Love Channel Show, is on every Wednesday at 3pm Eastern on True Psychic Network, which is broadcasted on Blogtalk radio. There is always a topic on each show. She takes a couple of callers to give a psychic answer to one of their questions, and goes back to the topic. Pamela has a guest on every four to six weeks. The call in number is (323) 693-3312 to speak to the host and check out the other True Psychic Network radio shows live or in the archives.
“We Found Love” is a popular song produced by Calvin Harris and features singer Rihanna. “We Found Love” reached the number one spot in the top charts in multiple countries in 2012 and the music video became popular very quickly after being filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The music video features a young couple living in an impoverished council estate in West Belfast. Both characters portrayed in the music video are in their twenties and of mixed race, one parent being black and the other being Caucasian. Their relationship is distinguished by domestic violence as the couple is seen yelling, pushing and hurting one another, along with stealing from convenience stores, gambling and abusing drugs and alcohol together.
Tyler’s past endeavors with an infinite list of drug and alcohol consumption retain a certain amount of criticism for his ability to perform sold out venues repetitively , but he believes that the true culprit that kept him performing continuously was the adrenaline. Stepping into the spotlight of millions of screaming fans truly provides an adrenaline shock for most people; Tyler, as one to feel this shock, embraced the reaction and let the drug push him far past his sustainable limit. He expresses his addiction for the “high” of performing by insisting that “Love lifts you up and lets you fly” (Tyler). A supreme impression suggests that Tyler simply speaks of being in love and how powerful those feelings become while, in fact, Tyler proposes
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I. Comparison of instrumentations In “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”, an electric bass, a 12 string acoustic guitar, a classical acoustic guitar, brushed snare drum, tambourine, maracas and alto flutes are being used to play the music. In “I’m Down”, the Beatles use an electric bass, two electric guitar, a Vox Continental organ, drums, and bongos to play the music. There are two major similarities between those two songs’ use of instruments. First, they both use electric bass to set a harmonic foundation for the song.
When there is no social acceptance towards one’s trait, the most probable stance one would take is to hide such trait from the eyes of society, and pretend to conform to the social convention, in order to prevent troubles. However, it surely is questionable if such an action actually keeps them from trouble. In Will you still love me tomorrow? by Arvin Chen, the director suggests the social norm against homosexuality and the importance of family, influence decisions of gays in the Sinosphere to have heterosexual marriage, which ultimately results in the breakdown of a marriage and the dismantlement of a family. This paper will closely examine the main character Wei-Chung’s precarious married life, to better understand why
The song I have chosen is “I Will Always Love You” performed by Whitney Houston, produced by David Foster, and written by Dolly Parton. “I Will Always Love You” was featured in the 1992 movie The Bodyguard and is an iconic soul ballad sung with complex ranges by the late, great Whitney Houston (1963-2012). Whitney Houston was acknowledged for her exceptional voice: “a mezzo-soprano, she had tremendous range and popularized a difficult vocal technique, melisma, where a singer uses a range of different notes in one syllable” (Roberts). The single has its place in music history and its message is of heartbreak and happiness resonates with its listeners. The lyrics of “I Will Always Love You” are nostalgic and passionate because they are about moving on from someone you love in order to be happy individually rather than together, as seen in The Bodyguard.