Heath Ledger

I am going to write a film analysis essay for the film The Dark Knight. My chosen essay topic is: Analyse how visual or sound effects were used to emphasise a theme in the visual or oral text(s). I need to show how the main themes of showing morality when making decisions and the power held by the villain are presented in the film through the use of dialogue, camerawork, sound, and editing. I will refer to the scene when The Joker announces his social experiment and he and Batman have their final

Brokeback Mountain, both as a short story (Proulx, 1999), and film (Lee, 2005) explores the notion that the use of various settings to develop issues and themes allow the audience to gain a grater understanding of the characters. Just like the nature that controls the ranch and mountain lifestyle, the force of desire that comes so naturally guides every significant action Ennis and Jack experience in Brokeback Mountain, even when they know the specific actions are against their better judgment and

In Ang Lee’s film Brokeback Mountain, two men, Ennis and Jack, cross paths and develop a complex, taboo relationship that neither of them can explain. They lose their wives, children, and ultimately feel as if they lose their own grasp of who they are as men while exploring their feelings for each other. Nature and the surroundings of Ennis and Jack play a vital role in understanding the mood of the situation and their feelings throughout the story. The story is primarily expressed through its surroundings;

The symbolism of ‘looks can be deceiving’, is a connection I found in the two films, The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, and Little Tombstone, directed by Fredric Azais et al, as well as finding a connection with the novel, Montana 1948 written by Larry Watson. Through my aspects of colour, sound, symbolism and character, it has become the foundation of my ideas that convey my developed concept, between these three subjects. The short film, Little Tombstone has a significant use of

There are many successful directors who have produced at least one blockbuster film that is critically acclaimed, and Christopher Nolan has been able to do this several times. Christopher Nolan began directing movies in 1998 and has directed fourteen movies since 1998. The film critic Alissa Wilkinson notes in her article The films of Christopher Nolan, explained, “Nolan has shown himself to be interested in both entertaining audiences and making them think, in pushing the boundaries of what they

A literary convention is a specific pattern like a repetition of a word, phrase, character, or setting. They are recurring patterns in particular literary genres and are present in many novels, short stories, plays, and sonnets. There are many different literary conventions or tropes in the stories that we have read, but I am choosing to write about the film The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan. There are also many within the film, but the one that stuck out most to me was Jokers famous saying, “why

When you think of psychology what is the the first name that comes to mind? My guess is that you thought of Sigmund Freud. Even though none of his theories of dreams or sexuality have any empirical evidence, he is still one of the most influential figures in all of philosophy. One of Freud’s ideas that does have substance is the idea that our minds are dynamic and contain both conscious and unconscious memories, thoughts, and desires. Freud labeled these phenomena the id, ego, and superego. While

“Brokeback Mountain” and “Amelia’s body” illustrate the vast differences of men and women in the West. One, about privacy and hidden secrets, and the other where a whole town knows every detail of this woman’s life. Both show the difference each gender has in the West and how their circumstances and gender roles affected them. “Brokeback Mountain” is a consensual love story between two men who live married lives and even have children. A major difference between this and “Amelia’s Body” is the consensual

Imagine yourself in a secluded place with just you and the person you love. Being together seems thrilling and maybe even effortless. Adversely, for Jack and Ennis, the main characters in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” in The New Yorker, being together was nothing short of laborious. For example, both Jack and Ennis would lie to their wives about where they would go, in consistent efforts to continue meeting up to be together and have sex. Some of the remote places these encounters occurred

The Mountains is a play about a young man that returns home from the city to help his father in his work as a home doctor. The play opens with the young man by the name of Richard, or as his sister Laura calls him Dick. The two have a long conversation trying to catch up with one another after Dick has been gone to school for the past eight years (Wolfe 57). At one point the two go to talk about how the mountains kill the folk around them. How the mountains kill the folks around them is what pushes