Video number twelve featured the 2006 feature film The Water is Wide. The movie was centered on a new teacher named Mr. Pat Conroy who found a job at the Beaumont, South Carolina school district to work at an island school called “Yamekraw Island”. Mr. Conroy was looking back at this particular experience periodically throughout the movie (however most of the movie is portrayed in the present tense). This island was home to many African American students who have never been to the mainland of the United States as was pointed out several times throughout the movie. When Mr. Conroy arrived, there was already another teacher who was teaching at the Yamekraw Island School and she also acted as the principal of the school.…
Gone Film Critique The film Gone is directed by James Puckett. The film is about two friends, Eric and Tommy, have had a rough friendship. Jimmy ends up taking his own life and Eric has a lot of built up anger towards the other.…
The Abyss (1910), is a movie ahead of its time. Not only due to the erotic dance scene resembling a modern striptease, but also its plot form, which is very similar to a modern Romantic-drama: Two men fighting over one woman—one a gentleman and the other an abusive cheater. The women ends up wanting the bad boy, because although the gentleman treats her better, he’s not the one she really loves. This is one of the first movies I’ve seen from this time with such a complex story within the plot.…
Nemo, one of the most famous antiheroes in fiction, is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian Raja, he is a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the Nautilus, which was built on a deserted island. Nemo tries to project a stern, controlled confidence, but he is driven by a thirst for vengeance and a hatred of imperialism (particularly the British Empire) and wracked by remorse over the deaths of his crew members and even by the deaths of enemy sailors. Aronnax is the protagonist and the narrator of the story.…
The two lead actors in Jaws are these same fishermen, who kill the shark in the movie as well. This movie received over ten awards for its efforts, and even 3 Oscars in its time, as well as many nominations. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/ Edit on later date ) With the spot light…
This was because Marlin's other children were taken from him by a barracuda along with his wife. Marlin is constantly worried for Nemo's safety and always fears that Nemo will be in danger as he has a negative outlook on life. Throughout the movie, an archetypal quest shapes a new outlook on life for Marlin. Nemo was reluctantly allowed to go to school by his dad. Ever since he has been an overprotective parent fearing that Nemo can’t fend for himself because he has a deformed fin.…
In the book 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, Captain Nemo, who built a self-sustaining submarine to with the thought of abandoning humanity and never coming back. Gradually this drives him insane. In the beginning he has secluded himself from humanity and seems to dislike people, however, throughout the novel he slowly changes from a level-headed man to a broken man who is full of anguish. Aronnax watches Nemo as he slowly learns that how hiding behind technology can't solve your problems. During the first stage of the theme Pierre Aronnax is taken captive by Captain Nemo and although Nemo seems suspicious he seems genuinely fair-minded.…
An article taken from moviepilot.com, “Mental Illness In ‘Moana’ & ‘Finding Dory’: Are Disney Done Celebrating Difference?” criticize recent Disney movies regarding to differences. The author Trevor Norkey states his disappointment when several characters in Moana and Finding Dory were mocked by other characters from the movie due to their disabilities. The characters do not developed into better ones that snapped off animated movie stigmas. Differ from the former movies when the stories tell how the characters overcame their disabilities while staying honest to themselves alike in Finding Nemo. Perhaps the author senses a similarity between them, effecting subjectivity arise when lately his favorite Disney producing movies that insulting mentally…
Marlin meets fishes he’s never met before and Dory meets fishes she had already met before. In Finding Nemo Marlin…
The movie Jaws released on June 1, 1975 in theaters and July 11, 2000 on DVD. The movie is about that on one hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers but closing the beaches doesn't go over well with Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the great white shark. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty for the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the shark for a reward.…
Social Psychology Film Analysis Paper: Coraline Noor Meer Bard High School Early College Queens January 9, 2015 The movie Coraline, directed by Henry Selick, is a film adaptation of the book written by Neil Gaiman. Coraline Jones is a lonely, neglected child who discovers a door in her house leading to another world. Everyone in this alternate reality has buttons for eyes. There, Coraline’s other-mother cares for her, makes her happy, and provides everything that her real parents have been depriving her of, mostly affection. However, things take a very twisted turn when Coraline discovers that her new dream world is actually a trap.…
Finding Nemo is a movie that begins with a family of fish. The mother and almost all of her eggs are attacked. The mother is killed along with all of the eggs, except one. The final egg left is named Nemo, and is raised solely by his father, Marlin. In the attack, Nemo was injured and now has one fin that is smaller than the other.…
The fish and its life, which is consistently mentioned throughout the story, is a representation of the family’s unity. The narrator first mentions the fish in a flashback at around the same time that she is reflecting back on her memories of her father and their daily routine. The father is the one who brings in the live fish and dumps it in the sink. This is notable because at this point in the narrative, the family is still seen as a cohesive unit and this parallels with how the fish is still alive. The next point in the narrative where the fish is mentioned is right after certain problems are shown to plague the family, such as the obvious language barrier that separates the parents from their children and the problem of the father and the brother’s conflicting attitudes towards the son’s unwillingness to keep hold of his Malaysian heritage.…
The film, “Jaws”, was released in 1976, by Stephen Spielberg and is widely considered the first Hollywood Blockbuster. “Jaws” is one of my if not my favorite movie, I have seen this film, as many as a half dozen times and each time I view it, I find that I enjoy it more and more. “Jaws” has a unique way of captivating any audience who views the film, its director Stephen Spielberg, is a master at grabbing the audience’s attention by making us feel as if we are the ones in the water at the Amity beaches, however he does not make the fact that he is doing this obvious, which is something that I feel sets him apart from his other contemporaries who were making film at the same time. The focus of this paper will be, Jungian Psychoanalytic Theory,…
In Finding Nemo, the ordinary world is the sea anemone. They are waking up for Nemo’s first day of school. While Nemo is excited for school and making new friends. But, Marlin is not as excited. He is worried about Nemo being out in the world.…