United States National Film Registry films

political, social, and personal problems that our country has to deal with. These problems are rooted in the battle between the need to create some false image of success and the need for truth which is the struggle that exists in every character of this film (except Jeff Goldbloom). To show this Robert Altman takes us through Nashville’s Country Music using political commentary, music and realistically portrayed dialogue to tell the story. Altman portrayed politics as sort of a parasite feeding off of

The Mise-en-scene describes the elements and details in a scene of a film and the way they are shown and arranged. This being said, the lighting, makeup, costumes, setting and props are all key factors of Mise-en-scene. The setting in a film creates a sense of place, a mood, and may also reflect a character’s emotional state. It can be entirely fabricated within a studio – just like Rear Window -- or it may also be found and filmed on-location. Perhaps the most easily visible aspect of mise-en-scene

In the realm of entertainment, Disney leads the way with creativity, bringing to life fairytales and stories that only the most imaginative child could come up with. Children of all ages, teenagers, and adults leave the theater of a Disney movie inspired, empowered, and entranced by the magic and wonder brought about.  Beginning in 2010 with Alice in Wonderland (Devoe n.pag), Disney has now resolved to produce live action remakes of everybody's favorites, including Maleficent, Cinderella, The Jungle

In the film No Mas Bebes (No More Babies) we are presented with the cases of several women who underwent unconsent sterilization at the County Hospital in Los Angeles while giving birth to their child. The situation takes a turn when a young Chicana lawyer decided to support these women and take the case to court against this institution, and we get to see an aspect of the control of population in the United States, and particularly the control of Hispanic childbirths. In the article of Elena R.

In the towns of Greece, there was a certain gray eyed, black haired boy named Tornado. What no one knew, was that he would grow up to treacherous things. Tornado was troubled as a young boy, with his father never home and his mother lying in her grave, he was depressed and lonely. He would go to school to find, his classmates either teasing, or harassing him and using him like a toy. His world started to slowly fall apart, and with Tornado being alone, he grew angry. Over the next few years of his

“Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015” Analysis Essay As civilization advances, most of the people in society are uplifted by the development made. In a thousand years, we went from an agricultural society to an industrial one, and we are rapidly entering the digital age. But inevitably, there are people whom civilization has abandoned and exploited in order to advance this far. In his poem, “Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015”, Craig Santos Perez dispels the preconceptions we hold about our society

Robin Williams legacy years later, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle which is set to release in December; four high school students are pulled into the game and are set as their avatars to find their way out. The trailer for the upcoming action/comedy film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is successful in engrossing the viewers by the use of music to bring the comedical sense of the movie together and uses different camera angles with fast paced cuts to show how the environment plays a crucial role in

Hitting the campaign trail, with Donald Trump! I didn’t literally go on the campaign trail, yet I did see him on several occasions. I must have seen Trump on four different occasions, three of which were at rallies, and I saw him once while he was departing from Charlotte in his motorcade. I was truly star-struck when I saw him for the first time, for he is truly a figure of authority. To be in the same room with who might be the next most powerful person in the world dwarfs me as a person. Donald

The crowd screaming, the disappointment in my eyes, the beautiful sky, the white ball flying, the bleachers packed. These are all my memories. Do they relate to yours? Read on to find out. Have you ever been to a pep rally? I have. People are yelling the loud chants and cheers. Everybody complimented me on my bright red cape on my sock. Then the stuco people started the cheers,and I swear my ears haven't worked the same sense. We started cheering for fall sports teams and I watched

A history of popcorn When it comes to popcorn, more often than not it’s the sound that hits you first with its “pop, pop, popping”. It starts off nice and slowly before heading full steam ahead into a firestorm of kernels as they almost magically transform into clouds of crunchy white goodness. The next thing you’ll no doubt notice is the incredible smell that wafts through the room and eventually the entire house, slowly pulling you in as it teases your nose. You’ll feel weak as the popcorn tantalises