Julie & Julia

“Titus” (1999) is a movie adaption of one of the earliest and least known plays of Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus”. Directed by Julie Taymor, the movie takes you to another reality, and you can’t quite understand whether it is a dystopian future or a time-mixed world. From soldiers using swords, to using guns, from riding horses to motorcycles and tanks, you are left with the unanswered question to which point in time the story is taking place. The movie, as bloody and gruesome as the play is visually

Titus Titus is a film adaption of William Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Sponsored by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Sky Productions, director Julie Taymor and produces Conchita Airoldi and Jody Allen were able to bring Shakespeare’s vision to life. The main characters Titus and Tamora were played by Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Throughout the film the audience experiences how destructive revenge can be and the effects it has. A few important quotes that applies to this film

The film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle is an adaption of the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegurt Jr. Which looks into a dystopian society which everyone is finally equal. Vonnegurt wanted to show us how absurd the world will become when everyone is equal and Tuttle has convey that perfectly in his adaption. The story is told from George Bergeron perspective as he watches his son Harrison performs his act of rebellion and his own requiem. Tuttle uses Harrison to criticise how absurd

2081, Harrison Bergeron age fourteen broke out of jail. He is the first person to break out of jail in the history of the handicapped society. His plan to overthrow the government fails as he is clever, psychotic, and arrogant. Throughout the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison tries to take over the government, in the end he dies and the government never changes. Being clever isn’t always the best trait. Harrison, the main character of the short story, “Harrison

The Lion is expected by the audience to be furious and eximate power, but each passage shares the aspect that the plot is changed by the character’s doings. In passage one, Androcles and the Lion, the audience expects him to attack Androcles, except he shows his weakness as he “stumbled over the root of a tree and fell down lamed.” This choice of words expresses how the lion did not do the expected and changed the tone from the anticipated. When the lion does not attack Androcles in the circus setting

concerned, he preferred to support the past. His work reflected the cultural and societal environment around him in 1887; this suggests themes throughout Miss Julie, such as gender inequality and women’s’ rights, were inflicted by his own struggle between classes and promiscuous relationships with women. It becomes apparent in the play that Miss Julie, a self-portrait of Strindberg, typifies Strindberg’s creative energy and the close relationship between his writing and lifestyle. Miss Julie’s downfall

3 Differences Between The Play And Movie “The Tempest” “The Tempest” is a play written by William Shakespeare in early 1600s that has been previewed in different kinds of movies, such as the one made in 2010, directed by Julie Taymor. It is a play containing themes such as; revenge, allusion, retribution, forgiveness, power, love and hatred. When it is compared to the play, there are specific differences seen in the movie, such as; Prospero is reflected as a woman in the movie. The time differences

William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus Titus transforms into a character of carnival in Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus.” Carnival is a concept described by Michael Bristol in his paper “Funeral Bak’d-Meats.” In the paper, Bristol describes carnival as a period before the beginning Lent in early modern Europe, characterized by “hedonistic excess and transgression.” (Bristol 351) Carnival characters place special emphasis on food, disguise and a reversal of the social order or “uncrowning.” The

A CRITIQUE OF THE SNOW CHILD, TAKEN FROM ANGELA CARTER’S THE BLOODY CHAMBER. Throughout ’The Bloody Chamber’, Angela Carter takes the highly successful conventions that belong to once innocent fairy tales, and rips them unremorsefully from their seemingly sound foundations to create a variety of dark, seductive, sensual stories, altering the landscapes beyond all recognition and rewarding the heroines with the freedom of speech thus giving them license to grab hold of the reigns of the story

1. How do any one of the films screened in weeks 6-12 of the course represent and/or foreground authorship? Dating back to the 1920’s, the term ‘auteur’ was debated over, claiming to describe an “author of script and film-maker as one and the same” versus the view of scripts being appointed from authors or scriptwriters (1996, p12). Over the [course of 50 or so odd] years,. Known for his distinctive brand of comedy, the work of Blake Edwards, demonstrates the authorial stamp that is often referred