Blockbuster Essay

Fact to Fiction; ‘12 Years A Slave’ Analysis Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s episode of ‘Fact to Fiction’, where we review the latest Hollywood blockbusters on how accurately they turn fact, into fiction. As always, I’m your host, Zodie Bolic. On tonight’s show, we will be analysing the portrayal of Solomon Northup in the movie ‘12 Years A Slave’, based on Northup’s besting selling memoir of the same name. In ‘12 Years A Slave’, Solomon Northup, a 33 year old free black man, is kidnapped…

The Discovery of Movies There are very few people in todays world that don’t enjoy sitting down on a comfortable couch, in front of a big screen, eating delicious snacks and having a nice cold drink. The movie and T.V. market has abounded will all the recent technology convergence, giving everyone the ability to watch their favorite movies or shows on their own time. An estimated 4.9 billion dollars was spent by consumers last year to buy and rent movies, and if that wasn’t enough, the market…

The movie Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, tells the story of general Maximus (played by Russell Crowe) that stands against crazy Emperor (played by Joaquiem Phoenix) is considered to be one of the best historical movies in modern history. However, as it goes in historic movies, Gladiator is showing the audience the popular recitation period and masks the real perception and the real course of government. It is true that most of the changes made in the movie could only strengthen the…

Heathcliff “Heath” Andrew Ledger was born on April 4, 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. His mother Sally was a French teacher and his father Kim an engineer and racing enthusiast. He has one older sister and two younger half-sisters. His parents divorced when he was ten years old. He liked to sing, act, play chess, dance and skateboard. When he was 15 years old, he was scouted by a local talent agent and appeared in the 1991 Australian film Clowning Around. Also, he appeared in two…

Big Screen, Big Problem The revolutionary African American activist Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” Now, the year is 2016. Discrimination against African Americans has been outlawed, and some consider the world equal. A lot of progress has been made throughout history, including the abolishment of slavery, desegregation of schools, and Civil Rights acts; but this is not enough. Racism is still alive and well in many aspects of human life…

In 2008, Twentieth Century Fox released the blockbuster film, Taken, an action-packed thriller that starred Irish actor, Liam Neeson. He played the character, Brian Mills, a former CIA government official. In the movie, he learns about his daughter’s abduction, while she and her girlfriend are visiting Paris, France. The viewer learns that his daughter had been abducted by an Albanian sex-trafficking gang, with the sole intent of selling Mills’ daughter as a prostitute in Europe. This movie…

"If she wasn't around I would be doing something interesting right now. I'd be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. I'd be staring at the latest Hollywood blockbuster. He finds it satisfying when his wife has something bad done to her. I'd be sailing the Vendee Globe on a 60ft clipper called the New Horizons, I don't know I'd be doing something" (Fish 1). This shows to me that the husband isn't fond of his wife…

Alandria Hatcher SOCY 100 Being Black Isn’t Criminal Amadou Diallo. Sean Bell. John Crawford. Oscar Grant. Eric Garner. Ezell Ford. Mike Brown. Renisha McBride. Yvette Smith. Eleanor Bumpurs. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Tarika Wilson. Rekia Boyd. These names are part of a growing list of African-American men and women who are unjustly murdered by those purposed to protect and serve. The police. In the alleged “post racial America”, Black Americans are being marked for murder by…

As I look at my desk, I see my pile of books, my laptop with an overload of files on my desktop, and my calendar full of things I’m doing for the next two weeks. I sit down and all of the worry comes at me full force. How am I going to get all of these things done today? As I work on getting things done, my focus goes in several directions. Thinking about what I said to my friend yesterday, if I have enough food in my fridge to last me until the weekend when I go grocery shopping. I’m stressed…

A young aspiring soccer player watches his dreams fade due to an injury that keeps him out of the game. The start of Sam Claflin’s life sounds like a script of a blockbuster hit movie. However while this man has been in plenty of movies over the recent years he comes from quite humble beginnings. Neither of his parents were in the industry, his mother a school room assistant and his father an accountant and finance manager of a charity radio station (Bio), both of his parents couldn’t have been…