What makes something great? What makes a film superior to another? How can you truly judge a movie? These are questions that must go through every film critic's mind. A useful technique of evaluating a movie is to set certain criteria and see where the film ranks. When evaluating the 1996 film, “Hidden in Silence”, I chose five criterion that objectively and fully examined the film (“Hidden in Silence”). Films can be judged by how realistic or unrealistic the plotline is, by how the characters were
the 1990 version of Hamlet created by Zeffirelli and the 1996 version by Branagh. While both actresses that played Ophelia conveyed the madness well, they took different approaches in terms of vocal inflections and movements. The directors also took different approaches to portray madness like costumes and settings. Lastly, while Bonham-Carter’s Ophelia in 1990 shows some ambiguity in the reasons behind her madness, Blanchett’s Ophelia in 1996 does not. The major scene that shows the madness Ophelia
Trainspotting presents an ostensible image of fractured society. The 1996 film opens, famously, with a series of postulated choicesvariables, essentially, in the delineation of identity and opposition. Significant here is the tone in which these options are deliveredit might be considered the rhetorical voice of society, a playful exposition of the pressure placed on individuals to make the "correct" choices, to conform to expectation. As such, the introduction might be read as contributing
others. I compared Columbia pictures 1996 version with Kenneth Branagh playing the role of Hamlet versus BBC’s 2009 Hamlet in which David Tennant played the honorable role of Hamlet. When comparing both movies I found a lot of similarities but there was one major difference when I compared the “To be or not to be” scene. The scenes vary in multiple ways whether it is lighting, focus, camera movements, and even the actors that play Hamlet. I first want to dissect the 1996 movie in which Kenneth Branagh
In the 1996 film, Lone Star, there is a lot of racial tension amongst the townspeople of a Texan city called Fonterra that lies on the United States and Mexican border.The town encompasses people of many different ethnic backgrounds, like whites, blacks, Hispanics and indigenous people of the Americas. There is a power struggle between the townspeople and it is argued about how history should be told. What used to be predominantly white police force is seeing their last white sheriff and this leaves
“To be or not to be”, one of Shakespeare’s most well known lines (3.1.64). In Act 3 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet begins a soliloquy with the famous line “To be or not to be.” Throughout this scene, Hamlet contemplates suicide and whether or not life is worth all the suffering. While he initially views sleep as a solution, he realizes that with sleep comes dreams and that those dreams may be good or just as miserable as life. Later, he touches on the fear of the unknown and that the fear of death
“You’re an attorney. Be proud. Your job is to find justice, no matter how well she may hide herself from you. So you go on in there and you do your job,” says Lucien Willbanks, a character who plays a very wise former lawyer from Joel Shumacher’s 1996 film, A Time To Kill. Jake Brigance, a talented lawyer from Canton, Mississippi, takes on the murder case of Carl Lee Hailey. Carl Lee is a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped and attempted to kill Tonya, Hailey’s daughter. This case
Tom is a turkey who hates Thanksgiving. Except this year he is going to his visit his family. He lives in Lexington, North Carolina and he is driving 1,572 miles to Miami, Florida. Apparently, Miami is cold this year. I blame gobbal chilling, the opposite of global warming. Sadly, Tom didn’t have enough clothing, so he goes and buys an additional 5 items. A sweater, $47.50, blue jeans, $79.99, a scarf, $17.75, a pair of mittens, $5.99, and boots, $89.99, but there is a sales tax (7%) and he has a
“Monsters under the bed” is a short story written by Lezanne Clannachan . The story takes place in Waterloo station in London, where the 2 main character present. The 2 characters, which are called Eddie and Angie, get into a conversation. In this conversation Eddie express a lot of emotional feelings about his mother. It is his mother’s birthday and he is on his way home, after buying eccles cakes which is his mothers favourite. The relation between Eddie and Angie is a little bit confusing in
A Film Comparison of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Independence Day (1996) The Day the Earth stood still and Independence Day were both made by 20th century fox. This company used to be one of the main 5 in the 50’s, and is a well – known conglomerate company, recognised for their Sci-fi genre. Star wars and X-files are two other of their best-known productions. The institution that made the films is one similarity; the main difference in the films is the