YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 211 - 240
superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...
One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...
care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...
had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...
is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...
After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...
period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...
depicted in Dylans apparent treatment of many of those whom he comes into contact with. If fact, Dylan seems to be stuck in a perp...
but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...
meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...
lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...
relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...
it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...
foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...
he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...
safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...
MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...
1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...