I watched Fatal Attraction with a friend and I said to him "that's what you get when you just want some fun for the weekend". Although going with Alex was a decision Dan made it was very unfortunate that the woman he had an affair with was extremly crazy. I doubt that Alex got pregnen, if she was obssesed with Dan she could have made everything up. I don't belive Dan seen as a hero at the end of the movie because it has his wife the one that had the last shot, literally in the theatrical ending and figuratevly in the orginal ending.…
Fantasy Chapter book 1. In the Keifer textbook, they name several fantasy elements. I chose to read The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall because I have always enjoyed the supernatural. This book follows a young orphan as she moves in with her uncle and aunt and begins to be visited by the ghost of her late cousin. The main element of fantasy for this particular novel would be the supernatural element.…
In the film, “Sean’s Story”, Sean Begg is an 8 year old boy with Down Syndrome. Him and his parents had been enduring a seven year fight to have Sean placed in a regular public school. Previously, he was enrolled in a contained classroom in a school for children with disabilities. Throughout the film, audiences are able to observe the controversial experiences Sean and his family withstood as well as compare his new life in a general education classroom to his former life in a special education classroom. Analyzing various aspects of communication, collaboration, and Sean’s improvements by the end of his first public school year allow viewers to critique the educational decisions made in Sean’s life.…
Molly is overlooked as a “gothic” girl that’s very lonely. She allows ghost to replace living things in order to have the feeling of belonging there. “The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on.” Molly builds these imaginary characters so she can also feel accompanied.”…
In the chapter The Ghost Soldiers O’brien writes about his experiences as a wounded soldier in the war. He mentions being shot twice, once in the side and once in the butt. As O’brien tells his stories you can notice a significance in which injury was the hardest for him to deal with. When he got shot the first time in the side, the field Medic Rat Kiley got to him almost immediately and tended to his wounds. The second time he was shot there was a new medic, named Bobby Jorgenson and O’brien mentions that, “it took the son of a bitch almost ten minutes to work up the nerve to crawl over to me”(O’brien 181).…
The myth of freedom is introduced as a major theme in both the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the film "The Graduate." Each work has evidence on how society controls us based on the conformities and what is "normal." Throughout these stories you can notice patterns on how higher authorizes empower and overrule people in society, which create restrictions towards who the characters are as people. Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest recognizes how higher authorities are controlling every aspect of their lives, and McMurphy challenges the theme of freedom, in numerous ways, within an enclosed environment.…
The movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by Milos Forman is a piece of art. Forman was meticulous in his direction of the film by keying in on specific aspects, and by incorporating distinct camera elements into the film. Forman compiled the camera elements of camera work as well as costumes and make-up to accurately depict his image. The movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, incorporates a variety of camera work elements.…
Human beings, flawed as they are, frequently form unhealthy attachments, run arms akimbo into delusion, and create fictions that drive them eventually to suicide or madness. In the world outside of horror novels people lose their grip on reality and in their insanity meld their mental illnesses to the environment around them. Within the world of horror novels such a break from reality could certainly be hastened by a malevolent antagonist. In The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson the protagonist, Eleanor, begins to form an attachment to the haunted mansion in the wake of her mother’s death. Between her mother that required constant care and her less that compassionate sister Eleanor is left less than what one could consider proper mental health.…
1. Over a hundred people were involved in the production of this film. The entire cast and crew are not given equal credit in most films. The majority of the camera crew and other production workers are not given as much credit for their work as the actors and director/producers, even though they play a huge role in the development and production of the movie. The making of a huge blockbuster like ‘The Departed’ involves the use of an immense crew.…
Tombstone, a western shooting up the charts Wyatt Earp, a retired officer, is forced to come out of retirement due to cowboys overrunning his town. Tombstone is a western covering Wyatt Earp, everyone involved, and the Arizona town of Tombstone during the 1800s. Tombstone received a 73% on Rotten Tomatoes and was named "one of the 5 greatest Westerns ever made" by True West Magazine. Tombstone is a western during the 1800s when cowboys were running around and when silver and wealth were plentiful in Tombstone, Arizona.…
Life has myriad of unexpected and complicated events, which can challenge our maturity and growth. However, some complications can cause a cascade of detrimental effects to the family unit. As seen the story “Ghost Boy” by Martin Pistorius (2012), we read first hand how an illness can permeate not only the patient but also everyone around. In this paper I critically reflect on Martian’s illness experience and identify key characters such as his father, the main caregiver. In this paper, I will discuss Martin’s experience of illness, Martin father as his caregiver and an analysis of Martin’s experience.…
Throughout Albert Camus’s The Stranger, women characters are not portrayed as important because of who they are, but because of what outcomes they allow Camus to create within the novel. The three significant women characters present in the novel include Meursault's mother, Marie, and Raymond’s girlfriend. With each of these women, it can been seen that they personally are not essential to the story, but the actions they produce are vital to the stories meaning. The portrayal of women as insignificant contributes to the ultimate purpose of the novel, which is that the world and the people who inhabit it are insignificant. Furthermore, the unimportance of the female characters helps the reader concentrate on the intended focus of the novel,…
“By studying culture as something created and lived through objects, we can better understand both social structures and larger systemic dimensions such as human action, emotion and meaning,” (Woodward, 4). The truth of the American horror film. To better understand western culture and the connection between the object and the human. This connection is linked between western ideologies. These films draw on western cultures deepest fears and vulnerabilities.…
39-40) Hamlet was not at all surprised when he found out that his uncle murdered his father. Even though Hamlet as well as two other individuals saw the ghost with their own eyes, Hamlet was concerned and had a sense of doubt because he was the only one that could hear the ghost’s voice. The ghost had a propositon with discrete instructions for Hamlet to take revenge out on his uncle. Hamlet could barely believe that the ghost was real of just a figment of his imagination. He even thought that it was just a memory or the devil trying to mislead him while he was in a defenseless state.…
The movie The Shining based on a Stephen King’s novel with the same title and directed by Stanley Kubrick introduces a family who heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific apprehensions from the past and of the future. The "Danny's tricycle" scene is one of the most famous scenes in modern cinema history. Director Stanley Kubrick uses different film techniques to convey the horror and terror from Stephen King's novel. In this scene, camera angles and sound elements are used to create suspense, anticipation, vulnerability, and terror.…