The colors that make up the mural have certain meanings, like the top of the mural, which is red with some yellow. This represents a beautiful sunset and/or sunrise, which obviously gives a relaxed and euphoric mood. Los Angeles is a city that can boast a lot of beautiful sunsets/sunrises, so that tells us that life in Los Angeles is a beautiful thing. The bottom of the mural shows us some blue, triangularly shaped objects. These objects are most likely the San Gabriel Mountains that lay in the background in every iconic LA image, or it can represent the waves of the Pacific Ocean along our iconic…
“The 1970s marks Hollywood’s most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating story telling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood” Name of the dude who said that An era that started off by breaking new ground and later become what would be a profitable era of block buster entertainment, New Hollywood is recognised as a period where some of the most revered directors rose and some of the most memorable films ever to come out of the American film industry were made, all thanks to a new generation of film makers that would later be known as the ‘Movie Brats’. But before Jaws and Star Wars, before the millions of dollars that were made, the box office records smashed, and…
The Hollywood Bureau This essay will include some of the main makers and breakers of our time, why they were important to social change and how the fight continues till today. Those include Walter Francis White and W.E.B. Dubois. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was created in 1909 by W.E.B. Dubois for the protection of the rights of African Americans. . The NAACP started out as a defense against the KKK and the Jim Crow south.…
The Hollywood Bowl is a venue with worldwide popularity. It is also an important destination in Los Angeles for those who are seeking musical showcases. The place exhibits the significance of art and commemorates the worldwide social legacy. In addition, it is a place where developing artists can discover and explore their craft. The location of the Hollywood Bowl was selected in 1919.…
The theme of “Harrison Bergeron” is forcing people to be equal is Dangerous, and the author’s use of Hyperboles and Symbolism help to develop this theme in several ways. The use Hyperboles in this text make it very iconic. One of the iconic Hyperboles in the text, is when they say “and then in, an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang” this does not mean they flew. Because even for being one of the smartest people he could not really fly. The second most iconic piece of the text is when they use Symbolism.…
Symbolic Stories Authors all over the world use symbolism in their stories; it gives the reader a little twist. For instance, valentines day is coming up and what sign do you use, a heart! This is symbolic for love passed on to others. Now if you didn’t know before, symbolism is when an object is used to represent something else. Some examples of this is “Harrison Bergeron”,”The Lottery”,and “2BRO2B.”…
The film industry had many changes take place in Hollywood during the 30’s such as the transitions to sound, color, and a new code of conduct emerged. The Hollywood Production Code is also known as Hays Code. It is a series of guidelines created by motion pictures in order to restrict explicitly in filmmaking. Producers believed they were responsible for spirality and morality of people all over the world when they made films. When the industry transitioned from silent films to talking pictures it became necessary to implement a code of conduct.…
At the button of the poster, the film title GHOSTBUSTERS is also presented in all capitals and in broadway fonts with shadows. Noticeably, the letter “O” is replaced by a “O” shaped ghostbusters sign, which is a tribute to the original 1984 movie poster to evoke the nostalgic memory of old movie fans as a pathos…
“... and wherefore is she set up to public shame?” (Hawthorne, p. 54). A symbol in literature means a representation of an object that stands for something that is not material. As seen in many works of literature, a place or setting can often have a symbolic meaning. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, uses symbolism to show the importance of settings, objects, and characters in the novel.…
Critical Assessment of a Work by Gary D. Rhodes Gary D. Rhodes of Queen’s University Belfast challenges many current conceptions about Hollywood in his work “ ‘Movie’: How a Single Word Shaped Hollywood Cinema.” Specifically, Rhodes argues that the audience has power over the corporation in this industry. He explains how the word “movie” is a major representation if this idea. Rhodes presents this argument because he has seen how common it has become to accuse corporate Hollywood of finessing it’s viewers. However, Rhodes pushes the idea that the audience is responsible for the way that Hollywood cinema works today.…
Hollywood Melrose Hotel was finished in the year 1927. The designs have the building was made by S Charles Lee who is also known for building Tower Theatre in Los Angeles, a Spanish-Romanesque-Moorish design(and for others countless buildings around California and Mexico). The building laid between the Historic Hotel and the Wilton & Gramercy Place. The Paramount Film Studios company owned the building for some time. Before Simonian became famous for his techniques with make-up he had just arrived in the U.S in the year 1976.…
Even after the Civil War, in which all African-Americans no longer were deemed as slaves, the life of the black person did not get easier. For generations, the struggle to come out of impoverished lifestyles had been deemed as almost impossible. Faced by segregation, no equal rights, and the KKK, the newly freed African-Americans were not able to completely submerge themselves to “freedom”. Little by little, new opportunities emerged; however, the depths of acrimony and pain prevented blacks to completely embrace them. Those who fought for the chance to make history, emerged successful, but those who let the past hold them back, continued to live in the restrictions of the past.…
Another gay “sign” focuses on Sir Thopas’ surcoat being completely blank. This may symbolize the fact that his sexual orientation or gender are unclear due to the lack of markings. Poet Chaucer describes it as, “And over that his cote-armour / As whit as is a lilye flour” (866-867). Sir Thopas is not defining himself or associating himself with anyone or anything; he wears the blank coat of arms as a sign of independence and freedom from assuming a specific role. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and the members of interscripta’s state, “…armour as an armoire, a closed space, a closet…a constricting exterior to a lifelong struggle to reconcile the ‘new’ binarism inside / outside (or self / other)” (1).…
PART ONE: POETIC DEVICES & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Metaphor 1:Her mind is Tiffany-twisted During the second verse, Don Henley sings the line “Her mind is Tiffany-twisted”. This is a metaphor as The Eagles are comparing this girls mind to Tiffany Jewelry Store without using like or as. They compare the girl's mind to the jewellery store because the narrator notes that this girl is pretty, rich and likes to be glamorous.…
A symbol is when the actions of a character, word, action, or event that have a deeper meaning in the context of the whole story. There are many symbols that have a rather deep meaning in The Contender. Every symbol represents a theme that the book could be written around. Each of them intrigue the reader and make them want to continue the book. Three of the symbols are, the stairs, the cave, and the ice ball.…