Whiplash, A 2014 American Drama Film

The main character, Malik, is a cocky African American track star that thinks everyone has it easier than him. He feels that the world owes him something, but almost everyone in it will work to hold him down. Epps has made a living portraying one type of athlete or another, but this is probably his best work because he creates a character that can be very accurate and likeable one minute, but totally juvenile and wildly frustrating the next. He struggles throughout the movie, but like the Fredrick Douglas quote used here says, "without struggle there is no progress." Malik really grows up a lot because the three main people around him are good influences. Malik Williams (Omar Epps) fits the traditional athlete type: cocky and arrogant. An urban black male on a partial track scholarship, Malik is at school to run, not learn. His attitude is that the world owes him, not the other way around. The reality that he can lose comes as an ego-bruising lesson.

Derek became an acclaimed concert pianist by the age of 10. His longtime piano teacher, Adam Ockelford, explains his student’s unique relationship to music. Adam encouraged his obvious musical interest and ability, although it was obviously natural. Adam gave him lesson as child understanding

The movie ‘Her’ is the story about Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice. At the beginning of the film, Theodore is completely inept when it comes to how to make relationship with person, specifically women. However, after he gets to know Samantha, an OS program, a feeling of true love develops inside of Theodore’s mind. Then he realizes how he was fatuous in his past. Throughout the film, the director (Spike Jonze) uses five distinct color schemes to correspond Theodore’s feeling and situation.

Tanner started his freshman year playing in the second best orchestra of three in his school. Here, he excelled musically and made new friends with upperclassmen. By January, one of Tanner’s older friends had convinced him to join choir, so he decided to audition for the upcoming year. As a sophomore, Tanner sang bass in the top choir, even though he did not have any prior singing experience. The same year, he also auditioned into Symphonic Orchestra, the top orchestra of his school. While he was in both the top orchestra and choir, he started student conducting for the lower orchestras and choirs. By senior year, Tanner’s schedule was almost completely filled with music classes. Consequently, Tanner grew extremely close to his high school ensemble directors. It got the point where he could casually call his Symphonic Orchestra director “mom.” This inspired Tanner to make it a goal for himself to form strong relationships with his future students. Through his experiences conducting his high school orchestras, and choir, Tanner found that he really enjoyed teaching music and decided to study music

Unfortunately, the AIDS-stricken director died before the film was completed. This film operates as a kind of last will and testament for Marlon Riggs. “He bequeaths the idea that rigid

‘He told me I have the wrong kind of fingers’” (7). When the father fell for it, the boy’s sisters also told the father similar stories so they could get out of their lessons. Even when all three children had stopped playing their instruments, their father still tried to get them to play, but with different instruments, “‘the trumpet or the saxophone or, hey, how about the vibes?’” (7). No matter what the children said, the father tried to get the children integrated into music somehow. When the children refused to play different instruments, the father tried to get the children to listen to recordings so they could be inspired, “‘I want you to sit down and give this a good listen. Just get a load of this cat and tell me he’s not an inspiration’” (7). No matter how hard the children pleaded into getting away from music, the father still tried to connect his kids into music

The narrator, a teacher in Harlem, has escaped the ghetto, creating a stable and secure life for himself despite the destructive pressures that he sees destroying so many young blacks. He sees African American adolescents discovering the limits placed on them by a racist society at the very moment when they are discovering their abilities. He tells the story of his relationship with his younger brother, Sonny. That relationship has moved through phases of separation and return. After their parents’ deaths, he tried and failed to be a father to Sonny. For a while, he believed that Sonny had succumbed to the destructive influences of Harlem life. Finally, however, they achieved a reconciliation in which the narrator came to understand the value and the importance of Sonny’s need to be a jazz pianist.

Set in 1971 Alexandria, Virginia; High school football is the town's most popular sport. The school board is under a court order to integrate the public schools. In the process of integration, tension amongst individual in school becomes high. This film is a perfect

The musician Jordan’s practice approach is BEST described as repeating the same material for years until he has completely mastered it.

Damien Chazelle’s critically acclaimed American drama film Whiplash (2014), presents a thought-provoking and confronting depiction of volatile and manipulative relationships, in which Andrew Niemen, a young ambitious jazz drummer is pushed to the brink of his ability and sanity by his ruthless teacher, Terence Fletcher. Nieman’s passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into an obsession. Whiplash proving highly popular with audiences utilizes cinematography to explore the central themes, the battle between being a good person and being remembered and the effects of a volatile and manipulative student-teacher relationship. Whiplash utilizes conventions and ideas from the drama genre to communicate these central themes and film

From “Sons of Anarchy” to “Nip Tuck”, FX has created popular TV dramas over the years. However, none of them has had such significant popularity as Ryan Murphy’s “American Horror Story”, known for its blood and gore, and “Glee” known for its sharp social commentary. The creation of these TV series led to the drastic rise to stardom of Ryan Murphy’s career. Though “Glee’s” stint on TV has ended, it was a highly acclaimed series with high ratings. Today, “American Horror Story”, his project following “Glee”, is now one of TV’s highest rated series, which is an especially peculiar accomplishment for a TV series of this genre. Therefore, when the creation of a new horror TV series was announced, nothing but sheer greatness was expected.

However, he plays into John Bender at first regarding the scene with Bender’s home life. This will be Andrew’s last mistake in stereotyping people. Claire calls him on it too by saying “You shouldn’t have said that.” Andrew is the first of the students to recognize that Brian has name and the first attempt at breaking down the stereotypes. While Bender and Vernon are the antagonists of the film, Andrew I believe is our protagonist or our hero. He stands up for Brian when he asks Brian for his name. He sticks up for Claire when Bender is picking on her. Through Andrew, Hughes shows us that these students are more than just their stereotypes. Hughes’s camera techniques are better at showing depth to the characters, but Andrew is the first to believe that people are more than just their typical stereo types. This is emphasized through the reason that Andrew is in Saturday Detention. The reason he’s there is because he bullied Larry Lester and was caught. We then see the scene evolve into more when Andrew empathizes with Larry. Andrew continues with the fact that Larry has to explain what happened to him that day to his father. It is here we see Andrew breakdown with remorse towards Larry. This comes kind of full circle when Andrew defends Brian against Bender as Andrew doesn’t want to commit the same mistake

this movie also deal with elements of experince that shape a peson's charcter very well and touches human feeling. it show about hardwork, teamwork,leaderships. his team played a reversed against the racial who initiated the recruitment of arican american in all sports. Youth Haskins poer paly a central role in this movie. all

Despite other hardships that Sonny has endured through his life he is able to overcome them by achieving his goals by playing jazz. The narrator and his brother become closer than ever through music that has created a stronger relationship between them. The music is being felt by everyone in the room giving everyone hope, “Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen” (Baldwin, 1957). This relates closely to how jazz was being used to not only reconnect the narrator and his brother but also achieve support from the community in aims to publicize their suffering, to make a difference and to abolish segregation.

Charlie’s battle with chronic PTSD is a difficult journey as he drowns himself in music in order to prevent himself from thinking about the things which he fears most. Director Mike Binder incredibly enables the viewer to enter the mind of a person suffering from PTSD and successfully stays true to the not only the symptoms of the disorder, but also its effects of loved ones and the individual themself.