John Carpenter

John Carpenter is one of the 21st century most original directors and cinematographers. Carpenter is known as the master of horror narrative, but he offers the viewer more than a good scare. Carpenter leaves his audience questioning their beliefs and identifying with the characters he personifies. Carpenters use of allusion in his films plants direct messages into our subconscious. Carpenter has a particular flare for slaying the innocent in his films and playing on the irony of the lease guilty

The last name of the director of the 1988 science fiction horror film They Live is fitting. Carpenter. John Carpenter wrote and directed this underappreciated movie, and his last name is fitting because They Live is clearly inspired by the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels—philosophers primarily concerned about the working man, which, of course, includes carpenters. The basic premise of this film is that aliens have secretly infiltrated society and actually make up much of the upper class

fairy tales. Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about direct link to morality tales and the slasher film genre. Thesis Statement: Slasher films are modern day morality tales, rooted deeply in urban legends and fairy tales, as clearly depicted in John Carpenter’s Halloween, where characters are punished with violence for their risky behavior. I. Introduction A. When asked to describe the two types of horror films, director Guillermo del Toro stated: “Much like fairy tales, there are two facets

In the 1988 science-fiction film They Live, filmmaker John Carpenter addresses and criticizes homelessness among other issues of the times in the United States. Through the movie, John Carpenter immerses his audience into his vision of what the 1980’s American culture is. Political views portrayed mainly come from the disdain Carpenter feels towards Reagan’s policies. He portrays the American people as a naïve people who are consistently deceived by a corrupt social and economic environment. Their

gingerly worked a diamond stud, wiggling it, forcing it through an earlobe. Then the other ear lobe, a clasped secured at the back. Her face shown in the mirror, a smile flashed toward her husband, the smile a mere reflection but none-the-less inviting. John worked at his tie; truly despising black tie events. Seeing his lovely wife excited and dressed beautifully in a cocktail dress made tonight less of a burden, a pleasure even. By the expression on her face as she lifted long, curled locks of blonde

With the increase in reinterpretations of death and Halloween symbols, two fundamental things occurred, the mass commodification of Halloween and a decontextualization of the symbols of death. In 1978 the premiere of Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, directly placed the holiday itself in relation to horror and gruesome death, more so than the introduction of gothic horror ever did (Rogers 110; Khapaeva 58). The introduction of explicit horror, according to Rogers, created. “a coded language

A great way to pass the time is to watch a John Carpenter movie. It has a great story line, easy to follow, and parent’s with young children can watch this film if they can differentiate costumes. It has loads of action, weapons, magicians, sorcery, magical elements and mystical beings. There is no blood and gore, just minimal scenes of bone breaking. The movie has a bunch of love interest but no nudity or adult content; just a high point of a love tango between Kurt Russel and Kim Cattrall characters

His ankles were so broken that the bone was sticking out making a puddle of blood. One day on a foggy and rainy night in a ranch Tucson 2 kids decided to look on their phone while playing Call of Duty. The phone said that there was a killer on the loose that killed with a sword only. The kids didn’t think much of it because they thought it wasn’t near them, so they kept playing. “ Noooo, how did you kill me I was across the map from you.”Said James angrily. “ I’m just better than you at everything

Whenever Chief Bromden is scared or is off his medication, he imagines fog rolling into the ward. When the fog drifts in, Bromden believes he can either “strain and look at things that appear in front of [him]...or [he] could relax and lose [himself]” (Kesey, 113). He embraces the fog as a way of escaping the stresses of reality. It allows him to hide and forget everything that is going on around him. It also makes him invisible to everyone else. Leaving the fog means being “out in the open where

How to: Escape a Combine Harvester One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey explores the tendency of humans to conform to ideals proposed by popular society. The participants in this society process their new members, shunning those who deviate from the norm. Ken Kesey uses the image of a combine harvester to symbolize the organized way society classifies its inhabitants. As a person excluded from society, Chief Bromden feels pressured by the representatives of society who try to ‘fix’ him