SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK AND THE LAST WAVE Australian cinema has started to gain succes at the beginning of the 1970s. As well as the films that are screened in succession demonstrate varities in Australia, Australian cinema awake the attention in Hollywood. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that directed by Peter Weir in 1975 and is acclaimed worldwide. Actually this mysterious film is the adaptation of an Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot is…
Have you ever wanted to catch an illegal alien? That’s exactly what director, Steven Spielberg was attempting to do in the blockbuster film E.T. extra-terrestrial. At the time of its release, E.T. was ahead of its time and drew record crowds. The score was written by the famous composer John Williams and won an Academy Award for best Score 1982. The music in E.T. the extra-terrestrial establishes the exciting and frantic mood the characters are feeling and foreshadows the action in the upcoming…
The last time I cried was during the middle of the summer when I was traveling in Europe with my mom and my dad. It was a usual day, and me and my dad had just arrived in Prague, while my mother left to get back to work. We were staying in a hotel when my dad left to get some food. At this time, it was around 11 am and I was exhausted after being on a train for the whole day after coming from Paris. While waiting in the hotel room, I decided to finish a book titled The Last Star by Rick Yancey.…
but now called the First order. They have a new system of getting solders now. They just take kids from their family and erase their memory, and then train them. They go out into the galaxy to find the Rebels that have pieces of a map to find luke skywalker. (who´s played by Mark…
The movie Star Wars the Force Awakens was full intense action scenes and a lot of visual effects. Many of these effects were astonishing. Most of time I could not tell what was real and what was not. Some of the first visual effects we see in the movie are amazing. At first I had no clue if what I was looking at was real or was computer generated. During the first fight, we see several examples of how amazing these visual effects are. The characters involved in this fight were shooting lasers…
Before Luke became a Jedi and savior of the galaxy he was a simple farm boy on a moisture farm. He was completely unaware that his actions would change the world around him. As the R2 unit his uncle chose had a malfunction he picked out R2-D2. This little droid would cause him to change his perspective and meet his father. When Old Ben (Obi-Wan Kenobi) ask him to go to Alderan with him he refuses because his Aunt and Uncle still need help on the farm. Luke finally goes when stormtroopers kill…
Marvel brings us to the close of Kanan's Clone Wars experiences with issue #11 of the fierce Jedi's monthly title. The talented Greg Weisman (Starbrand & Nightmask) is the storyteller. Penciler Pepe Larraz (X-Men '92) provides the explosive visuals for the tale. Caleb Dume’s first foray into the Clone Wars comes to a conclusion in Kanan #11! The inevitable conflict with General Grievous and another mysterious warrior occurs! It's a Star Wars adventure which takes us from the Republic to the…
In both Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Star Wars our protagonists Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker can each be considered a “chosen one” due to their characterizations. Each creator has followed a similar framework that structures their emergence to becoming a chosen one which results in noticeable parallels between the two. Neither of the boys have a comprehensive understanding of their own history, as they are both considered orphans who were raised by extended family, they also…
Things changed after Order Sixty-Six…fall of the Republic…the fall of the Jedi…and the rise of the Galactic Empire. I remember that day, my parents were both Jedis in love, but they kept their love a secret along with my existence. By the age of eight, my parents always told me after the war, they would leave the Jedi order and be a real family. Then that day came, peace talks began; the war came to a close. My parents took me to the Jedi temple to face the Jedi council when the war ended, but…
The Archetypal Pattern in Stars Wars: Episode 4 In many novels, there are archetypal patterns, this is shown prominently in The Odyssey. The Odyssey’s archetypal pattern consists of a returning wanderer, a waiting women, and a parent-less child. This archetypal model is reflected in Star Wars: Episode 4. The returning wanderer is Obi-Wan Kenobi, as until Luke found him, Kenobi lived in isolation. This was due to the loss of a battle with Darth Vader. Through conversation Obi-Wan Kenobi…