Stanley Kramer

In “A Streetcar Named Desire” Tennessee Williams reflects upon the conflict of reality versus illusion through the characterization of Blanche, Stella, and Stanley. In the play, Illusion is defined by a character’s hope or wish of how reality could be, or in some cases they ignore reality. Blanche, Stella, and Stanley choose to live a desired life of illusion and ignore reality. Blanche goes through a traumatic experience in her early life due to the loss of her husband. The death of her husband

In the story a Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; the authors point of view is focused to the devotion of free will. A Clockwork Orange means what happens when someone has had their free will taken away from them. In this case, Alex the protagonist can be described as a violent, psychotic criminal, and the idea of treating him so that he may no longer be able to commit crimes that may seem to be justified. “ What is happening to you now is what should happen to any normal healthy human organism

Michel Ciment, Stanley talked about some of the decisions he made concerning the adaptation. Within the interview Stanley mentions that when creating the screenwriting, the characters were altered a bit because they needed to be polar counterparts of themselves in the novel. He as well talks about how the problem when doing a rendition of a novel into film is that not all plot points are essential and those that are weak needed to be reinvented and altered in the story. Now why Stanley ultimately decided

Technical Essay Director: Kubrick, Stanley Movie: The Shining Sources: “Understanding Movies” For my technical essay I am going to talk about the movie "The Shining". I will explore in this essay I am going to set to prove that Stanley Kubrick is trying to prove that violence can happen when you are lefted alone and isolated. I use a screen from 1:43:44 to 1:53:08 to prove this point. This scene is about when Wendy looks though Jacks work and is scared though the

Stanley Kubrick’s sexual parody, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, illustrates an unfathomed nuclear catastrophe. Released in the midst of the Cold War, this 1964 film satirizes the heightened tensions between America and Russia. Many sexual insinuations are implemented to ridicule the serious issue of a global nuclear holocaust, in an effort to countervail the terror that plagued America at that time. Organizing principles, such as Kubrick’s blunt political attitudes

One of the main themes in A Streetcar Named Desire is madness. Blanche is used to depict madness throughout the play. Her madness stems from one specific event: the suicide of her late husband, Allan. She feels as though she was the one who pushed him to kill himself. While telling the story of Allan to Mitch, she says, “It was because of－on the dance-floor－unable to stop myself－I’d suddenly said－‘I saw! I know! You disgust me…’”(96). The tremendous guilt that she feels contributes to her downfall

The Milgram experiment is the famous study. Stanley Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be into the atrocities committed by Germans WWII. People should know about the Milgram experiment because it show how to make people obedient, people less obedient and learn people from different cultures. The Milgram experiment show how to make people obedient. People learned about milgram Authority figure who is responsible for the results of action. The Milgram participants were 40 males

I’ve done both. It’s quite an interesting story. Here’s a little background information: A Streetcar Named Desire is mainly about the life of Blanche Dubois and Stanley and Stella Kowalski after Blanche moves into their house. Blanche is Stella’s older sister, making Stanley her brother-in-law. While Blanche is living in their house, Stanley tries to drive her out. He tortures her to madness and eventually she is admitted into an asylum. Anyways, when it comes to comparing the book and the movie

In the article, “The Perils of Obedience,” Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, published the findings of his infamous human authority experiment. During this trial, human subjects were tested to discern how far one will go in order to obey the commands of an authority figure. The test subjects were fooled into believing someone was actually being shocked; however, the reality was the other person was simply an actor and never received any shocks. The results were astounding: sixty-five percent

Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 dystopian crime film, A Clockwork Orange, and Martin Scorsese’s 1976 crime film, Taxi Driver, both deal with the questions of crime and free will and how social interactions influence a persons behavior and opinions on crime and free will. The two main characters of both films start a two different ends. Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange is a young criminal out of many plaguing his society. Where as Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver is recently discharged out of the military and