A Jewish father with his wife and son are trapped between the appalling situations of discrimination and fall of a race. La vita è bella (Original title: Life is Beautiful) will certainly leave you in awe once you finish the film. According to IMDB (n.d.), it lavished prestigious awards including three Oscars (1999), one from the Cannes Film Festival (1998), four Italian Golden Globes (1998) and one Grammy Award (2000). The Italian film was directed by Roberto Benigni and was released on 20th…
Rationale This written task relates to part 3: literature- text and context, where we studied the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams. The written task is an extra scene added to the end of the play occurring twenty years later and is written in William’s style but with a more modern aspect. This is done to bring to light the transgressions of the antagonist of the play, Stanley Kowalski. The theme of past and present is explored as the characters pasts catch up to them. This…
Synopsis of The Manchurian Candidate The Manchurian Candidate opens in 1952 Korea during the Korean War. Sargent Shaw is seen walking into a bar where the members of his platoon are drunk and having a good time, he yells at them showing his strong sense of prudency and his no nonsense attitude. We learn more about Shaw and his dislike of his Senator stepfather, and his controlling mother as the movie continues. As soon as Shaw’s platoon is deployed they are immediately captured as prisoners by…
Black Mass, directed by Scott Cooper, tells the true story of James “Whitey” Bulger, an organized crime boss of the Boston Irish Mob crew known as the Winter Hill Gang. Following the story from the New York Times best-selling book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the movie recounts the events from 1975 when Whitey was a small-time gangster, up to his eventual capture in 2011, ending his 12 year streak on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The movie stars Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger…
In the YouTube video, Matthew McConaughey Winning Best Male Actor, took place at the 2014 Oscars. His audience ranges from different age groups, so the one thing that the whole audience had in common was they loved movies. The topic of the speech video was an acceptance speech and the winner talks about what he looks forward each day of life. The speaker has already been stated, but in case you missed it, it’s Matthew McConaughey. Prior to the event many already know a little bit about…
A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…
A. What reasons do your authors give to explain the historical inaccuracies in the films? All historical movies are of peoples interpretations of the events, or if it was written from someone who were there at the time of the event it's still based off of what they seen or remember. Things can get lost in interpretation but director's I feel do try to stick to the best of there knowledge while maintaining a film that would be popular in ratings. Like James Cameron who written, directed,…
What’s eating Gilbert Grape is a fictional film about the titular character who lives in a small town, where her cares for his younger brother Arnie who has a mental disability. Gilbert is responsible for the upkeep of the family home, where he lives with his extremely obese mother and two sisters. The film states that his mother gained a great deal of weight following the passing of her husband who committed suicide and has failed to leave the house in over five years. The film focuses on…
Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor, film producer, and environmental activist who worked in a joint-production with National Geography to develop a movie that emphasizes on how carbon dioxide emissions are affecting our environment. In his movie called “Before the Flood”, directed by Fisher Stevens, Leonardo DiCaprio starts his journey as an environmental activist by being elected as the United Nations Messenger of peace. Within the times of his film, Leonardo DiCaprio was able to bring on…
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as “a Renaissance man”. While he was great at all of these he is possibly the most famous painter of all times. He was born on April 15, 1452 in Italy and died on May 2, 1519 in France. Only 15 of Da Vinci’s painting are known to exist as his own, some of the most famous include: Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Baptism of Christ, Adoration of the Magi, and Medusa. Leonardo had 16 step/half…