Velvet

I, Noah A. King, am about to walk into the famous James D. Thorne Grand Ballroom with my friends Nathan and Grace. Crowds of people on both sides cheering to the top of their lungs. Things look glorified now but, things weren’t always like this. First let me introduce myself, I am Noah “Andy” King and I am 16 years old. I have been classified as a very “wired” kid but, my mother always told me “People just don’t get your way of thinking of things in life.” I have all way haven’t fit in with the crowd

A pit of dead bodies was not on Chantal Peroud’s agenda for being an anthropologist. And it’s a sight she’d like to forget. A reminder of the Velvet Heart Killer. There are many things in Chauncey’s Bayou she’d like to forget. But Phillip Guidry isn’t one. The first time she saw him, they couldn’t keep their eyes off each another. But Phillip is from Chauncey’s Bayou. Just like the small bayou town where she grew up. She made a promise to never live like she had growing up, trying to live off of

David Lynch's Blue Velvet is an exploration of things above and below the surface. This surface is really a borderline between not only idyllic suburban America and the dark, perverted corruption that lies underneath but also between good and evil, conscious and subconscious, dream and reality. Although this division seems quite rigid and clean-cut some of the most important implications of the film stem from the transgressions of these borderlines. In the initial scenes of the film Lynch introduces

Stephanie Says- The Velvet Underground Song Analysis The writer of the song seems to be talking about a girl who’s looking for answers; she’s confused and doesn’t really know what’s happening around her. Although this is not wrong there seems to be more to this girl- Stephanie – than meets the eye. Stephanie feels like she has wasted her life doing what people told her to do and following others without acknowledging her desires. This girl just wants to be herself but doesn’t know how. She

In many motion pictures, underlying themes and values are often hidden amongst more superficial demonstrations and ideas. In the film, Blue Velvet, Jeffrey the protagonist is trying to solve a crime while at the same time he is really exploring this other world of explicit sexuality that is opened by his new-found desire towards Dorothy Vallen, a mysterious and interesting woman that has ties to the crime. This new desire that Jeffrey has towards Dorothy is noted throughout the film as he slowly

The bizarre, avant garde music of the Velvet Underground was too much for the family-friendly mainstream of the mid-sixties. While the Beatles were performing two minute pop songs, and the Rolling Stones were covering blues numbers, Lou Reed, the lead singer and primary songwriter of the Velvet Underground, was composing experimental art rock on such topics as heroin, sexual deviancy, cross dressing, and hedonism. His strong interest in literature influenced his songwriting. Reed claimed he wanted

Steel Magnolias “Steel Magnolias” is a story about the close-knit relationships between six eccentric Southern women living in a small town in Louisiana. The film has a home spun, unpretentious feel to it. The plot alternates between humorous, everyday events with good-natured quips and the seriousness and heartaches to life’s unexpected crises. Through the laughs and tears, the six women learn to endure hard times and emerge from the struggles with grace and dignity. The film is set in the 1980’s

But as I was reading everything it all jumped back. Not just the words I wrote down but what I was feeling as I wrote down the words. ‘Red Velvet’ was done on my last day off and I was in tears because I had to go back to work at seven am. And I was feeling like a complete failure. I completely hated my job at the hotel but I couldn’t quit. Because if I did I would be letting those down closes

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is an illustration of a fantasy world full of seduction, desire and death. It explores the corrupted desires of society, while counterbalancing between its subconscious and social world. The film disrupts all nostalgic knowledge we have of American suburbia by juxtaposing the fluidic norms of gender and socioeconomic roles. As well as evoke neurotic notions of masculinity. However the construction of women being used as agents to the physical and social desires of men,

Sometimes death is good. The people of New Orleans believe The Velvet Heart Killer is dead. Yvette Collins isn’t one of them. She’s an investigative journalist for the New Orleans Gazette. She knows in her gut that the killer hasn’t stopped, after reading about a murder in the closed town of Chauncey’s Bayou. When a velvet, heart-shaped bag pops up on eBay, Yvette feels it may have come from the murder of a family on the same street where the bag is being sold. Clues begin to add up. But she knows