The Breakfast Club is a well-known 1980’s movie directed by John Hughes. It follows five teenagers who end up in detention on Saturday due to their actions during the school week. Each of these teenagers come from a different social group and immediately judge one another but after getting to know one another they realize that they are more similar than they first thought. Each character in this film commits deviant behaviors. A deviant behavior is a behavior that/….…
Boyhood is a movie written and directed by Richard Linklater which shadowed the life of a boy named Mason from early childhood to late adolescence. Throughout Mason’s life, we see the many relationships that grow along with him. This particular research paper will be specifically focusing on Mason’s relationship with his mother and how their relationship evolved overtime This relationship will be analysing using the works of Winnicott and Freud while also relating it to the graphic novel, Are You My Mother? by Bechdel. Throughout early childhood, Mason and his mother have a very close bond filled with love and affection.…
1. In the documentary "Bra Boys" the Abberton brothers, Sunny, Koby and Jai were the main leaders of the brotherhood. Sunny in particular, was the leader of the brotherhood and was the filmmaker of the documentary. The "Bra Boys" were portrayed as misunderstood heroes, who are both the protagonist and the antagonist.…
Miss Evers’ Boys is a movie set in 1932 Macon County, Alabama, when federal government began a medical study called The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis. The aim of the study was to determine if African-American men reacted differently to whites to the overall effects of Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection. 412 rural black men carrying the disease were selected for the study, being told that they would get free long-term treatments when really they were only given placebos and liniments. Despite the validation of penicillin as an effective cure for Syphilis in 1940, the study continued for 40 years until a Senate investigation initiated.…
O Brother, Where Art Thou is a film directed by Joel Coen portraying the life of three escaped convicts adventuring rustic Mississippi During the Great Depression. The movie is loosely based on the poem The Odyssey written by Homer. The film opens on a chain gang of the penal farm, where are three main characters are introduced Ulysses Everett McGill, Peter Hogwallop, and Delmar O'Donnell (played by George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson), which are escaping to pursue an alleged buried treasure Everett buried before the area it is buried in is flooded to make a new lake. They steal a car and begin their long journey through rural Mississippi. Along the journey, the group of men encounters strange people.…
The Breakfast Club is one of my favorite movies of all times; as I was a junior in high school when this film was released in 1985. Detention was a common punishment; however, holding the detention sessions on Saturdays was controversial. Many individuals were angered by having to give up their time on the weekends. Therefore, the internal rebellion included not only students; but, parents and school facility as well. By the time my sister entered high school in 1988, Woodhaven High, no longer held Saturday detention sessions.…
Stephan King once said that “books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different”. For the most part this quote is accurate when depicting book to movie adaptations. Book to movie adaptations follow the same story lines and have the same characters, but at times they can be vastly different.…
The Tuskegee Experiment was a horrific event in which victimized untreated Black men with syphilis to see the effects. These men were unknowingly being deprived of treatment being a part of this experiment and were deceived to believe they were receiving treatment from the government. In the playwright Miss Evers’ Boys, the reader/watcher is taken on a journey to understand how the experiment came to be. More importantly its focuses on the relationship between the men of the Tuskegee Experiment and a nurse Miss Evers’. Through the provided evidence within the play Miss Evers’ Boys, it can be proven that given the circumstances, Miss Evers’ made the best possible ethical decisions she could as a black female nurse by fighting for the men and caring for them while maintaining the responsibilities of her job description.…
The idea of the America Dream is the driving reason why immigrants make the tough transition to America. The American dream is the concept that anybody can have social/ economic mobility, if they put in enough work to move upward in society. The film, “My American Girls: A Dominican Story” directed by Aaron Matthews, tells a story about a first-generation immigrant family from the Dominican Republic, who has come to America so that they can construct a home and raise their daughters with an education. The film gives its viewers a firsthand experience of the struggles and joys of being immigrants away from their homeland.…
As the Cold War waging between the Soviet Union and the United States heightened, the perceived threat posed by the Communists became known as the Red Scare. The spread of Communism and the possibility of an international nuclear war invaded the minds of Americans with a sense of constant threat. Literature, films, and other products of the warring period reflected these fears of a Communist invasion and an annihilation from atomic warfare. To protect the American culture and values, the nation adopted a nationalistic ambience that was imposed on all the people living in the United States; using social media and other methods of propaganda, the government was able to impose their ideologies onto their citizens. America’s society was constructed…
In the confronting documentary, Audrie & Daisy, film makers Bonni Cohn and Jon Shenk depict a completely biased and illusory stance on the aftermath of two teenage sexual assault victims. A range of conventions are expertly used, positioning the viewers to believe that the government and social media have, to an extent, influenced the victimization of Daisy Coleman, and the tragic suicide of Audrie Pott. Through the perpetuation of socio-cultural values and stereotypes inherent in American high schools, the employment of certain film techniques, specifically special effects, and a discerning use of language choices through editing, Cohn and Shenk have carefully manipulated the audience to sympathize and agree with their views regarding the…
Overview of Movie: My Girl is the story of an eleven year old girl named Vada whose mother died when she was born and her best friend is a boy named Thomas J who is allergic to everything. She lives with her dad Harry in a funeral parlor and has very mixed up views when it comes to death. When her mother died her grandmother Gramoo, came to live with her and her father. Her grandmother is now losing her mind and Vada is responsible for watching her on many occasions.…
The film, Miss Evers’ Boys was about an inhumane study of African American men suffering from syphilis. The film evolved around Eunice Evers, a nurse in a local Tuskegee hospital and her statement about the “Tuskegee study”. Dr. Brodus, the head doctor of the local Tuskegee hospital along with Nurse Evers were given fund to treat men with syphilis or what they called “bad blood” (Benedetti, Fishburne, Kavanagh, Konwiser & Sargent, 1997). These men were not very educated, and their health literacy were very low, so Nurse Evers had to use words that they could understand. After a while, the fund for the treatment diminished and they were not able to continue treating these men.…
"Wanted" is basically from a comic book that has limited series written by Mark Miller and J.G Jones, it is about an amoral protagonist (Wesley Gibson) who is discovered as the heir of super assassin. Russian director, Timur Bekmambetov, he is the cream of the crop, he turns this comic into a movie that make the viewers not sit still and make their adrenaline and cortisone levels spike with the actions. Bekmambetov used the similar style of shots and angles with his previous movie, Night watch. It's more to wide angle (long shot), so we can see the terrifying background like one of the scenes in the torture room, where Wes has been beaten up by the butcher. Not even that, there are many special effects that Bekmambetov applies in this movie, like slow-motion with sound effects that certainly provides that "ouch" reaction from audiences.…
The following essay will focus on the film Boyhood (2014) in attempts to explain how three significant events in the main character’s life story, Mason, exemplify developmental changes in the lifespan. There will be references to three developmental domains, cognitive development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources and perceptual skill, physical development referring to growth in the process of puberty and psychosocial development being the expansion of the personality, including the gain of social attitudes and skills particularly according to Erikson theory, the battle of identity vs role diffusion (Sigelman, 2013, p. 38). Boyhood is a story, based over a 12-year period, of growing up captured through the eyes of a…