Academy Award for Best Actor

12 Angry Men was one of the most critically acclaimed movies of its time, even gaining several Oscar nominations. The movie tugged into strings that in the course of watching the movie, or even after, continuously made me think. How will one person convince eleven other jurors of reasonable doubt and change their votes from guilty to not guilty? Twelve jurors have individual stands and differences that may have been affected by their experiences and upbringing. Every person in the movie represents

INTRODUCTION In films a big concept has always been the use of lights. The use of lights in films helps create a meaning about what the scene is about and at times reveals a little more. In cinematography there is different types of lighting such as: three point lighting, fill light, key light, high key and low key lighting, top or under, lighting and many more. In the times when films were black and white the use of light is not easily visible. The use of black and white still helped portray the

Prison systems corruption is not just something that occurred decades ago, it continues to occur to this day. In The Shawshank Redemption and Just Mercy, corruption of the prison system is shown and discussed. Corruption in The Shawshank Redemption is shown through the action of Captain Hadley and Warden Norton, while corruption in Just Mercy is shown by Bryan Stevenson’s clients. Corrupt leaders are one of the many ways that The Shawshank Redemption and Just Mercy show and uncover the horrible

Rebirth is an over arching theme in the book, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, written by Jamie Ford. One of the main symbols of second rebirth is the ever-present Oscar Holden record. The records symbolizes not only Henry and Keiko’s relationship, but how it can be renewed. From when Henry and Keiko buy the record, to Henry finding it 40 years later, the record always has a strong significance in the book. Though not the first mention of the Oscar Holden record, the story of the vinyl

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 plays Hamlet. The “To be or not to be” scene is clearly one of the most important scenes of the entire movie, so the directors

William Shakespeare is a master at literature, drama, and even poetry. In his 1599 play Julius Caesar, he shows his literary talents and they shine exceptionally well in Act 3, Scene 2-3 in which he has both Brutus and Mark Anthony speak to the people of Rome about the murder of Caesar. Brutus goes up first and sways the people into his favor by mentioning that he killed Caesar for the safety of Rome but then Mark Anthony with great oratorical skills brings the people into his side with appealing

Most often idea of a novel is lost whenever is translated to a film. On such example is Breakfast at Tiffany’s, a novella written in 1958 by Truman Capote that was adapted into a movie in 1961 with Audrey Hepburn taking the main character. Although there are many respects, the film shows found in the original book they are somewhat dissimilar. The depiction of the main character is different in the movie from Truman’s original novella. In the movie a character who she gets involved with is called

While the films of classical Hollywood differ in various aspects, there is a unifying style that allows one to look at each film as a piece in a larger picture. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks and based on a play of Tennessee Williams, remains conservative throughout which makes it an ideal film to look at to understand the paradigms, as David Bordwell would put it, that ultimately determined the way in which Hollywood films were made. Bordwell uses three different

That year he also won an award for his song “Somewhere Out There” from the animated movie American Tail. Soon thereafter in 1989, Horner won a second Oscar nomination for the score he produced for Field of Dreams, interestingly that same year he won another Grammy for his contributions on the dramatic civil war movie Glory. 1995 was a very productive year as well, winning two more Academy Award nominations for Apollo 13 and Braveheart. It wasn’t until 1997 for

Directed by Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade (1996) is a story about a man with a mental disability that is released from an institute after killing his mother and her lover when he was a child. He is able to start a new life in his home town, and makes quick friends with a young boy named Frank. Sling Blade is well known for the character Karl, and how well Billy Bob Thornton was able to convey the role. The visual aspects of the film create a frightening image of Karl, however, the literary aspect