Rosemary’s baby (1968) is a horror film directed by Polish native Roman Polanski. This was Polanski’s first American film and his second horror film and it was based on Ira Levin’s bestselling novel of the same name written in 1967. This was a creepy and eerie film about a young couple Rosemary and Guy (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) who were newlyweds who moved into an apartment in an old apartment building in Central Park West in New York. The couple became friends with their strange neighbors who were an elderly couple that were members of a coven of witches and very intrusive. Guy, who is a struggling actor, isn’t finding much work in his career but all that is turned around when he befriends his neighbor Roman (Sidney Blackmer).…
Sunset in the Canyon In their poster, Fox Searchlight Pictures uses color, pattern and chunking to appeal to audience’s sense of fear and worry and persuade the audience that buying a ticket for this movie would be very well spent. Generally, this poster focuses on the man in the middle, who is probably the main character on the movie. With the visual elements on this poster, this will attract people who love watching extreme sports because of the man trying to hike across the two very steep rocks. There are a lot more of amazing visual elements in this poster that can be discussed for this poster.…
Baby ER by Edward Humes is a detailed book that carefully illustrates the experiences of nurses, specialists, physicians, patients, and loved ones while encountering a variety of different circumstances in the NICU. NICU is an abbreviation for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a hospital. NICUs are nurseries within hospitals that supply continuous care to ill or premature babies. The nurses and other health care workers are trained to provide the best possible care in order for these infants to get better. However, the NICU is often feared by health care workers.…
In the chapter “Can I get a Witness” as the woman who was eating her lunch at Good Food is waiting for the waitress to return with her credit card, a man walks in with a bomb taped to his chest and it explodes. The woman is already going through issues at home with her husband and her kids who she claims she does not get along with. With this happening, she hopes that her family will think that she died in the bombing and never think to look for her. In the meantime, she meets a man that had approached her to see if she was alright and she immediately begins to fall in lust with him. She ends up leaving with him and going to his house as they talk about their past and life.…
Most children require a decent and nurturing role model, otherwise they cannot see the optimistic qualities of life nor form lasting relationships with anyone. In Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, Harper Evelyn Birch or Great-Uncle “Baby Harper” befittingly serves this niche as the role model for the protagonist, Linda Hammerick. Throughout the text, there is evidence of their sincere bond such as Linda confiding and finding solace in him which is significant because comparatively speaking, it is arguably the only healthy relationship Linda has. As a result of this bond, his involvement in the story is to not only serve as a confidant to Linda, but rather a much more essential purpose; he highlights the positive aspects of the three reoccurring…
The character in a story is the main foundation in any story, essay, or any other form of writing. These characters not only give the writing a purpose, but present the irony, symbols, and conflicts in the stories. Without the main character there would not be any sort of writing. The main character may also be dynamic, which means the change as the story goes on, or they may be flat, which meants that they don’t change. From the many stories we read in our class, I fell in love with the character Rochelle, from the story “The Bride” by author Christine Granados.…
Animals are often treated in the most harshest ways, with little to no regard of their well-being. Presented in an abrupt manner, Karen Joy Fowler, author of the novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, depicts Rosemary, a young woman who recounts her childhood experience with Fern, a young chimp who lived with Rosemary as part of a social experiment to observe how they lived together as well as comparing how their intelligence grew when they lived as siblings. Living with Fern impacted Rosemary, the human sister, in the sense that she saw Fern as a sibling that was becoming a threat to her family’s livelihood. As Fern continued to grow, she showed more violent and erratic behavior, up to the point where Rosemary’s family saw her as a…
Is Ghostbusters (2016) a racist, sexist movie? While researching the topic of social responsibilities of popular culture creators, I found the ongoing backlash against the rebooted movie Ghostbusters (2016) a vivid example. Long before the official Ghostbusters trailers were released, controversies against its casting, storytelling and production had already been heated on social media. Bringing together two sources in this essay, an review article by John Nolte and the official poster of Ghostbusters (2016), I will present one example of society’s concerns about the movie’s sexism and racism through analyzing rhetorical strategies used in the two sources and how the images presented in the poster was interpreted and responded by Nolte.…
In the movie Parenthood it shows life in a different picture, in a true reality to real life. It doesn’t show the perfect happy family, but what it does show is life, whether it is hectic, and wanting your kids to be the best they can. At Gil’s house in almost every scene it’s hectic. There are lost of people, kids everywhere running around, getting into and bumping into things.…
Rosemary’s Baby , by Ira Levin, is a horror novel about a young, newlywed couple who move into the Bramford apartment building. The building is haunted with stories of dead babies in newspapers and witchcraft and murder. Rosemary, a traditional housewife longs for a child that her husband, Guy, doesn’t feel ready for because of his focus on his acting career. But after making what we assume is a deal with the devil, he decides to give his wife to the devil to fulfill her desire of having a child and the devil’s desire for an antichrist. The novel puts a heavy emphasis on how Rosemary must have a baby whether of her own choice because it suits the needs of her oppressors.…
One job of a parent is to limit the amount of trauma on their child, especially at a young age when their minds and bodies are developing, and Jules does the opposite of protect but rather causes trauma in the form of violence, harming Baby’s mental health with anxiety, suicidal thoughts and regret. On top of demonstrating acts of violence towards Baby, Jules being a young parent, never gives Baby the attention a child needs from their parent in order to thrive and develop at a young age. Baby craves attention she never gets from her own parents, saying “I’d get excited when grown-ups paid attention to me. It always made me feel special. I didn’t have a mother and my dad wasn’t around anymore” (O’Neill, 2006, p.146).…
Film Analysis: Baby Mama 1. Introduction Michael McCullers film “Baby Mama” is based on the idea of infertility and surrogacy. This film was produced in 2008 by Micheal McCullers. Overall, I thought this film was an excellent film because it was comical and kept the audience engaged. However, from a sociological perspective this film left out a lot of important aspects of surrogacy such as the many people who endure endless amounts of boundaries when it comes to infertility treatments which resulted in a lack of realistic component to the film.…
The film Babies, that we watched in class, was a very interesting and a great example of how cultures differ in communication. It was amusing to watch the cultures that majorly differed from my own. The most surprising part of this film was the way parents raised children in Mongolian culture and Namibian culture. When going in to the film, I expected exactly what the movie was about, which was exploring very interesting cultures and the different ways of raising children within them.…
Abstract: This reaction paper will talk about four babies from different countries. The director of the film exposed the living condition of each of the babies in their designated country. It was simple to compare and contract the things that one babies had that the other one did not. The living conditions, similarities and differences will be elaborated through out the paper. Psychological theories will also be discussing in this paper because, it has effect on the babies as they transition into adolescents and even adulthood.…
Trying to save water may be a good cause but how does the person seeing this ad go about saving in the first place. Without a way to contact the person/persons responsible for this portrait the viewer is left with just an obligation to save without a necessary direction. However being such an overly emotional at least half of the people seeing this ad would feel some type of empathy for the shadow. With this half and half appeal there truly is not a clear cut victory.…