YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 181 - 210
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...
The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...
on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...
towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...
were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...
documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...
of film by offering film at a lower price. Further Fuji became the official film of the 1984 Summer Olympics which took place in ...
In Dashiell Hammetts novel, "The Maltese Falcon," many people are given such an opportunity, and the story is filled with corrupt ...
subject of Gavin OConnors 2004 film, Miracle. As portrayed by Kurt Russell, Brooks is presented as a no-nonsense disciplinarian w...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...
at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions ...
conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...
take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...
is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...
a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...
flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...