YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 241 - 270
the movie from the perspective of the 21st century, the movie may not seem that impressive. However, for the audiences of the earl...
In five pages this paper discusses autheurism's validity in an analysis of Stanley Kubrick's films. Five sources are listed in th...
simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...
a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...
in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...
use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...
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...
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...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...
farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...
true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...
symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...
he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...
is no truly artistic use of the camera aside from working towards presenting us perhaps with the perspective of every day life. Th...
the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...
one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...
evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...
At the same time, there are two teachers in this work who are at odds. They are of course Forrester and Crawford. Forrester actua...
impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...
in their own construction (1991). Genetic engineering is used as an example here (1991). However, more than cloning or genetic t...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...