Movie Analysis Essay

The movie “Moneyball”, released in 2011, contains several negotiations that exhibit techniques we discussed and practiced in class. To provide brief context, the movie is based on the Oakland Athletics baseball team. The film begins by showing a 2001 Playoff Series featuring the Athletics playing the Yankees, and highlights the difference between the salaries each team has. The Yankees boast a salary of $114 million, whereas the Athletics salary is $39 million. Despite the efforts of the Athletics

Zodiac is an American made movie which was released in 2007 and is based

Kathryn Scott’s The Help takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. This movie emphasizes tense racial conflicts that dominated the South during this post-World War era.  Segregation of whites verse blacks was a prevailing and dominating theme of the decade. The Help attempts to depict this time period by focusing on a white woman, Skeeter Phelan, who aspires to become a journalist. Society considered Skeeter as an oddity for wanting to leave her family and pursue an education. She goes

The final assigned film “The Martian”, was a thrilling Hollywood movie in which fellow astronauts leave astronaut Mark Watney stranded on Mars after a terrible storm leaves them no choice but to flee the planet in a rush. While they believed that Watney was dead, he was actually fighting to figure out how to survive alone on the Martian planet. Many of the events in this movie, I believe have factual potential. However, there were a few events that occurred and made me question whether or not they

The movie Reds, directed Warren Beatty, is about the life of John “Jack” Reed, a communist journalist from America. The movie begins in 1915, when the wealthy Louise Bryant meets Reed in Portland, Oregon. She becomes fascinated by Reed and runs off from her husband to be with Reed in New York. At this time, the two become even more caught up in promoting socialist causes in America as they work alongside people such as anarchist and writer Emma Goldberg. Meanwhile, Bryant is becoming more and more

The movie “Wit” was very touching story about 48 year old English professor, Vivian, who is diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer. Her physician gets her to agree to an aggressive chemotherapy treatment which is a research experiment. He tells her that the therapy is the best way to cure here cancer. Vivian went through eight months of rigorous and often painful experimental treatment especially the final weeks of her life. One of her former student, Jason, is a researcher on the team. Jason is

The Split movie is a drama, horror, mystery and suspense film directed by M.Night Shyamalan that came out in theaters on January 20, 2017. "Unbreakable" is one of the best films that is directed by M. Night Shyamalan. At the same time, trying to understand "Split" in the context of "Unbreakable" helps provide just the information about the movie. "Unbreakable" main character has supernatural powers like Superman and Batman. "Split" shows the behavior of a person with mental illnesses. There are real

Although at the time, there was a recession and people were trying to save money, this movie became the highest grossing film in at the time. The movie provided stunning 3D technology unlike any other movie and this was one of the reasons that made people want to go watch the film. From visual effects to the camera angles, James Cameron directed this movie to make the audience feel like they are in the movie. Although the film looked amazing, there were messages and themes inside the film that made

Dave McKean is the mastermind of MirrorMask, MirrorMask is a fantasy/drama film that released on September 30th, 2005. This movie was very different from a normal fairy tale, It didn’t have an evil stepmother, an absentee father and not really a prince charming at the end of the film. This story is about a girl named Helena, she worked in a circus with her Mom and Dad and they barely got by financially. Helena didn’t want to work in the circus anymore; she wanted to be ‘normal’ like everybody else

The television show, Shameless (U.S), holds true to its name as it follows the lives of the dysfunctional Gallagher family, who time after time fail to show any shame or remorse for their disturbing, illegal, and inappropriate behaviors. The pilot episode alone contains many instances of parental neglect, underage drinking, drug use, and alcoholism. Frank Gallagher is the father, and legal guardian of his six children: Lip, Ian, Carl, Liam, Debby and Fiona. He is a raging alcoholic and an absent