Helena Bonham Carter

The film Hamlet by William Shakespeare was made by two directors in two different versions which one was Kenneth Branagh and the other Franco Zeffirelli. By watching the four scenes of the play of the two versions, the viewer has come up to the conclusion that Kenneth Branagh’s version best captures the essence of the play in terms of costume design, acting, directing, and cinematography. The directing and cinematography in Act IV, Scene V the Ophelia Madness Scene as well as the acting, costume

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 has descended into is in act four scene five. The two portrayals by Helen Bonham- Carter and Kate Blanchett are quite different as shown by their acting of this scene. First, Bonham-Carter’s movements appear much more calculated than Blanchett’s movements

William Shakespeare is one of the world’s most renowned authors, who is especially known for his plays. One of his plays is Hamlet tells the story of a young educated prince, Hamlet, who comes home to his mother married to his uncle, in which he seeks to find the truth behind their relationship. Based on his actions, Hamlet is in fact experiencing a psychotic breakdown, but it is resulting from his act of being crazy. The other characters have noticed how Hamlet has changed since he has been back

At its most basic level, magical realism is the mixture of the supernatural with realistic characteristics. This genre is known for having specific traits to help classify if a work of art is in the genre. One work of art that exemplifies almost all of these traits is “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel García Márquez. After a washed up corpse is found in a small village, the people of the city fall in love with the man's tallness and his handsomeness. They quickly decide to worship

Stanley Kubrick, known for his critically acclaimed films, sent the world into a frenzy with the film he released right before his death. His last movie, Eyes Wide Shut, based on Traumnovelle (Dream Story), is a social commentary on the consumerist society we live in today and its relationship to the class system in place. It is important to note that the backdrop of the film is Christmastime in New York City. People who are familiar with Kubrick’s films are aware that everything the camera passes

Hamlet: Branagh's Ophelia and Showalter's Representing Ophelia       Ophelia falls to the floor, her screams contrasting eerily with the song pieces she uses as her speech.  In an instant she is writhing and thrusting her pelvis in such a gross sexual manner that it becomes clear that, in his film interpretation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh wants to imply a strong relationship between female insanity and female sexuality.  Such a relationship is exactly what Elaine Showalter

Tim Burton Style Analysis Tim Burton is one of the most unusual and unique directors of our time. He brings characters to life by putting them in a habitat they don’t belong. His movies “Alice in Wonderland”, “The Corpse Bride”, “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, and “Edward Scissorhands” all demonstrate how one of a kind his movies are. Using cinematic techniques, Tim Burton points out the misfit character and shows how different they are then everyone else. His use of camera angles, lighting

What makes a producer’s style unique? How does a producer’s style distinguish itself from others’ styles? In Tim Burton’s imaginative productions, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one is able to identify Burton’s distinct style when peeling back the layers of his films. Summarizing these films, in Alice in Wonderland, a young woman is transported to the mystical wonderland, where she must defeat the forces of evil along with a journey of self-discovery

Style Analysis Essay “We do not fear the unknown. We fear what we think about the unknown.” Is a quote from Teal Swan. This idea is incorporated into a lot of director’s movies, however Tim Burton, a creator of many famous movies, would probably have one of the best understandings of this idea. This is because Burton tends to use ideas about the unknown in many of his films. However, these ideas of fearing the unknown and curiosity of the unknown are especially prominent in Burton’s films such as

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Furthermore, a desire for one to bend the world as they see fit, even when what they see fit isn’t meant to be. There are many ways to read the novel “Alice in Wonderland”, it holds not one point of view, but many which can be interpreted in several