YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film From Here to Eternity
Essays 151 - 180
in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
the market. This sums up the strategy of a company which wishes to be a leader rather than a second mover in...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
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 ...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...
Aruru to create a man mighty enough to subdue him if necessary: "It was you, Aruru, who created mankind, now create a zikru to i...
gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...
adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...
in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...
Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...
mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...
attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...
specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...
evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...
in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
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...
the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...
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...
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...
funny. The boys arrive at Uranyas beach shack, which is "straight out of Fellini," on their bicycles (Young). One boy ventures for...