Martin Scorsese Essay

The Crucible, a movie directed by Nicholas Hytner, was critically acclaimed and earned several awards. It received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, a BAFTA award for best-adapted screenplay, and Golden Globe awards for supporting actor and actress in a motion picture. In Empire’s review, they say, “In this almost perfect screen adaptation, the lingering question is the most important one: what caused such madness?” This movie adaptation

Riz Ahmed’s acceptance speech at The Emmy’s This speech was delivered by, Riz Ahmed. Ahmed won best lead actor in a limited series or movie for his role in HBO’s “The Night of.” He is the first male actor of South Asian descent to win an acting Emmy. The purpose of Riz Ahmed’s speech was to accept his award from The Emmy’s. Ahmed’s speech was short but strong. It was direct and to the point without being pushy or seeming rushed. Ahmed’s speech was limited in time but his words were so powerful they

The film Pulp Fiction has, since its 1994 debut, quickly become a cult classic, with millions of devoted fans following their believed director, Quentin Tarantino. With a slew of notable actors, like Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Bruce Willis (just to name a few), the pieces start to be set for a good film, at least acting wise. This film is not for the faint hearted, filled with gangs, blood, murder, and drugs, the whole spectrum of crime/drama films is covered to the greatest

Essays, Not Rants! 194: What Makes A Superhero Story? Spike Lee was a guest on The Nightly Show the other day and one of the things they discussed briefly was people of color as superheroes. Lee offered up Bruce Lee as an example of an Asian superhero. Which raises an interesting question, what exactly is it that makes a superhero narrative? Could be the narrative type. The typical superhero plot follows an outsider/everyman (so, Peter Parker, Tony Stark, Clark Kent) who has some special abilities

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the film Endless Love (1981). After portraying supporting roles in Taps (1981) and The Outsiders (1983), his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business, released in August 1983. Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete "Maverick"

Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (/ˈdeɪmən/; born October 8, 1970)[2] is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter. He is ranked among Forbes magazine's most bankable stars[3] and is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.[4][nb 1] Damon has received various accolades, including an Academy Award from five nominations, two Golden Globe Awards from eight nominations, and has been nominated for two British Academy Film Awards and six Emmy Awards. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Guy Ritchie is an English-born filmmaker known throughout the film industry for the wide success of many of his films. He has directed movies such as ‘Snatch,’ ‘RocknRolla,’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ Arguably one of his most successful films ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,’ released in 1998 received 5 industry awards, placing Guy Ritchie on the radar of the hottest filmmaker of all time. This essay will discuss the life and rise of Guy Ritchie, his techniques as a filmmaker, and how he artistically

Matthew Lees’ “How many of the Bronx’ dreams?” is different from James McBride's “The city of Gods” because Lee discusses the lost dreams of Bronx’ New York while Mcbride focuses on the racial realities of America. In contrast, Lee discusses the dreams of people in Bronx’ New York “...Bronx’ dreams/...moved from the shadows/ how many of the Bronx’ dreams were even said out loud” (Lee 1). Lee begins by lamenting the number of lost dreams in Bronx’ New York. Lees purpose of persuading readers that

Societal norms and expectations are being reexamined more now than they ever have before; questions that many would never have dared to say (and some would not know to think about) are being debated and considered. Society still influences a major part of daily life, but it used to have almost complete control over others’ actions and views. In Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, a restrictive society works to maintain the same traditions, and put its next generation into the exact roles as those

In the movie “The Departed,” three important ideas that are shown throughout the film. The idea of love and how people act when they are in love, the father-son interactions between characters, and the idea of an individual’s identity. The characters are forced, every single day, to adapt and mold into different roles throughout the film. The movie shows how people are placed into new situations and they create new identities to fit the ever-changing circumstances in their lives. The movie demonstrates