Joel Schumacher

and outer surroundings. Shakespeare’s 1611 play The Tempest explores the dynamics between the significance of new knowledge and how certain experiences become catalysts for the ultimate themes of the play: reconciliation and forgiveness. Similarly, Joel Schumacher’s 1990 movie Flatliners uses a supernatural theme, structure and cinematic special effects to demonstrate how while ideas of discovery vary, each experience is a potent undertaking, intimately related to new perceptions of ourselves…

Life is Beautiful by Robert Benigni is a romantic war movie. When a Jewish librarian, Guido becomes victims of the Holocaust with his son, he tells his son their playing a certain game, when reality is fatally different. With humor and imagination he uses these techniques to protect his son from the danger Nazi concentration camps. Although the film won several Oscars’, many critics who accused the production to have falsely depiction of the Holocaust, unrealistic plot and comedy attacked…

With the use of tablets on the rise, schools systems struggle with the decision of whether or not to join the digital revolution or continue using textbooks. Textbooks have been used in schools ever since the 16th century, however the use of technology is rapidly increasing. There are several reasons why schools should switch to tablets, but we cannot deny the problems associated with them. Technology is surrounding us, and a large percentage of students and teachers are already making the…

In today 's society, to become a good person, understanding the difference between right and wrong, just and unjust is an important skill. Two characters from the movie “A Time To Kill” by Joel Schumacher and “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee have a very thorough understanding of justice. These two characters are Atticus Finch and Jake Brigance. Both of these people have comparable characteristics. They both have high intelligence, making them able to adapt to their surroundings and win…

fantasies of being the alpha male society values. BOLD NOTE: I am going to add scientific research behind modern happiness and analyze Peter Parker/Spider Man and his alter identity One recurring theme in The Phantom of the Opera directed by Joel Schumacher is the Phantom’s two faces as the caring Angel of Music and as the maleficent Opera Ghost. His upbringing in the opera house has taught him, wrongly, that people relate to one each other only through elaborate emotional gestures such as…

The featured documentary ‘Side by Side’ was an enjoyable, informative documentary that discussed the history of the film industries use of emulsion film and the cautionary switch-over to the new digital movie format. Beginning in the late 1800’s with continued development of emulsion roll film by Eastman and the pioneering photography work of Edweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince the advent of capturing and projecting moving images was at hand. The documentary covers the important developments…

Kieron coleman A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher. Is all about how a young 10-year old girl is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks --James Louis “Pete” Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Tonya is found sent to the hospital, while the two rednecks brag about what they have done in a local bar. Tonya’s father is understandably devastated and fuming with what happened it took it into is own hands to wait for the two rednecks to be taken through the court room to, storm in and…

Gotham is a relatively new episodic television series, highly anticipated following the box office success of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The Fox program revolves around a pre-Batman Gotham City, where it appears a big emphasis is placed on telling the origin stories of many Batman comic supporting characters. Christopher Nolan’s three films follow the narrative of Bruce Wayne/Batman from how he became a superhero to his circumstances as a superhero. However, these films could not…

How did Batman get so popular? It all started in 1939. “In 1939, National Comics (later to become DC Comics), was looking for a new super hero—a character who could build on the success of Superman” (Batman at 75: Highlights in the Life of the Caped Crusader). Editor Vin Sullivan asked Bob Kane to create a hero. Batman first started as an idea from writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane. Batman wasn’t always a superhero dressed in dark colors. Bob Kane originally drew Batman in brighter colors…

The 2004 movie, The Phantom of the Opera, is based off the original 1986 musical that was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The actual movie is also produced by Webber and is directed by Joel Schumacher. It was released in the United States in December of 2004 and has been a hit ever since. The musical is still very popular and is performed on stages across the world to this day. Each musical scene in The Phantom of the Opera is sung in opera, so one has to have a special talent to perform. Some…