English-language films

few points. Although Idiocracy is a comedy, the director Mike Judge is warning us what our future would look like if we drive our focuses away from important things, such as education. The film Idiocracy reveals the ways in which mass media can negatively affect a culture’s intelligence. More specifically, the film shows how corporate consumerism hurts intelligence, how entertainment media hurts intelligence, but most importantly how intelligence is needed to face the challenges of the day. Joe

In its coverage of sports such as English football the media communicates attitudes of sportsmanship by highlighting activities such as players greeting opponents via handshakes at matches, walking out with children on the field, congratulating the winning team on a victory as well as outside

Beowulf is an epic story written in the English language. Originally only spoken not written. The story is about Beowulf accepting a quest to defend Herot from Monsters for the treasure and fame. Beowulf is our main character in this epic story who has the strength of 30 thanes and is the bravest around. As Beowulf sets out for this journey his partner Wiglaf and his men are there to help him throughout the journey. As Beowulf begins his Journey he sails from his home “Geatsland” to Hrothgar, during

The Last of the Mohicans The Last of the Mohicans is a 1992 American historical drama directed by Michael Mann and staring Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, and Jodhi May, with Russell Means, Wes Studi, Eric Schweig, and Steven Waddington in supporting roles. It is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War. British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from various Native American war parties. The Mohicans are allied with the British while their old enemies, the Hurons, side

Memorial University - English 1110 October 25, 2017 Anna Clorinda Raselli The Brand of Dead Celebrities The essay “John Lennon, Michael Jackson: Do Celebrities Die Anymore?” (2011) by Katrina Onstad is informative. It explains the business of dead celebrities and the new possibilities of the current technology brings with it, so that it seems that they are even alive today. Besides the illusive immortality of celebrities, it proves to be a lucrative business. However, Onstad’s writing fails to answer

classic supernatural French film “La Jetée”, directed by Chris Marker and starring Jean Négroni as the narrator. The story of “La Jetée” is one of the future, telling the story of man who unknowingly sees his own death while also drawing references to a utopian/dystopian future. While narrated, the film is composed entirely out of photographs, the only moving scene being the blink in the eye of the beautiful, mysterious woman from the “Man’s” memories. While the film also includes a haunting narration

Pritchard played the role of Lady Macbeth, while playing the role of David Garrick Macbeth in the play. And as Thomas Davis as "never feels remorse and they stubbornly bent on cruelty." [6] .As for Helen Fawcett lambasted by Henry Morley Professor of English literature at the University of London, which he saw as "very noisy" in scenes that preceded the murder of Duncan during her speech she talks to witches and asking them to come, and also in the finale while screaming hoarsely. I also think that Fawcett

is "governed by the rules of the signifier as it is language that translates sensory images into structure.” In the world of Underland, Alice encounters different atmospheres that help us understand the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. To look further into the idea of the imaginary, the subject of Alice’s encounters can also be viewed from a less structured arrangement by redirecting these views to Christian Metz. In the beginning of the film, Alice has to make some decisions in her life. She

ability to grow, learn, and seek company. Overall, the monster is simply a victim of his creator, making him anti-heroic rather than a flat-based villain. By commanding the sympathy of an anti-hero not only by his apparent use of eloquent and educated language in his expressions of remorse as he looks over the body of his creator. Thus, Shelley makes the monster a sympathetic

Harlem Riots, accused of making fun of black culture and as a “ campaign to Burlesque negroes” Until Welles persuaded crowds that his use of black actors and voodoo made important cultural statements. In 1947, David Bradley produced an Independent film of Macbeth, intended for schools, and for the eighty-three