Category: Film

Introduction Nicolas Hytner’s meticulous use of cinematic techniques to depict gender dynamics in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a compelling exploration. The interplay of camera angles, dialogue, and music becomes a lens through which we analyze characters such as John Proctor, Reverend Hale, Judge Danforth, Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. Hytner’s directorial choices breathe life…

The book and movie of the story The Hunger Games were great! Even though the movie wasn’t exactly alike it many similarities, but only a few differences. In my point of view the book was better. The book had more description, the story line was great, and it was just all around an awesome novel.…

“Secretary,” the motion picture, is a provocative and deformed love story. Viewers may go purple with rage or gray with disgust, while numerous may turn pink with humiliation in order to hide the red of stimulation. This motion picture crosses harmful mental territory: the limit between desire and discomfort, between surrender and subjugation. Gaitskill’s “Secretary”…

To Kill a Mockingbird: The Differences Between The Movie and The Book “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. ” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird). This quote defines one of the most important messages in…

Time is the most significant and important theme in both texts which is constantly reoccurring. In the initial opening scene of Run Lola Run, Tykwer incorporates an animated Lola running towards a large clock, with the use of a diegetic sound of a clock ticking. This is done in order for the audience to become…

The next stage of Plato’s Allegory is freedom. In Plato’s Allegory it simply states one day the chain connected to the prisoner breaks and he is able to move and be free. In the matrix this part is more nuanced and Neo is given a choice. After being guided by morpheus for awhile and morpheus…

What Features of fairy tales or legends are evident in the movie ‘Shrek’ The animated film ‘Shrek’ is a modern portrayal of a traditional story. It displays most, if not all qualities of both legend and fairy-tale. As the opening scene begins with non-diegetic music (audible to audience only) and a magical light shining on…

The director John G. Avildsen has made the concert scene memorable from the film “The Power of One” which was set in apartheid time in Africa by using many visual and verbal techniques such as lighting, music and dialog that support all the suggestions that the scene makes. These techniques make this scene and film…

The movie Far from Her, is a movie script adaptation from the narrative Bear came over the Mountain by Alice Munro. The story focuses around the relationship of Fiona and Grant, an Ontario couple wed over 40 years. The couple is required to face that fact that Fionas lapse of memory is actually Alzheimers illness.…

Introduction to Stream of Consciousness Stream of consciousness serves as a pivotal modernist narrative technique, endeavoring to replicate the unstructured flow of observations, ideas, memories, and associations within the fictional character’s mind. The intention is to create an illusion, allowing the reader to vicariously experience the inner workings of characters. This technique often manifests as…