Film Analysis Essay

On one side, Monsters, Inc. is a family comedy with an interesting plotline and relatable characters. For example, Sully begins the film focused on achieving the scare record. He does not care about the children that he scares and only cares about being the best. As the film progresses and Sully becomes closer to Boo he starts to see the effect that scaring has on the children and realizes that being the best is not worth it if you have to ruin other…

TITLE OF FILM: The Karate Kid Given Circumstances: 1. Geographical location, including climate: At the beginning of the movie, the location took place in Newark, New Jersey. However, throughout the movie, the location takes place in Reseda, California. The climate overall was the typical moderate California weather, which included a shiny and sunny environment. 2. Date; year, season, time of day: The movie takes place around the early 1980s. The season of movie ranges from early Fall to…

Annie Hall, directed by, written by and starring Woody Allen follows the life of Alvy Singer, a neurotic New-Yorker. Throughout the movie, he narrates his experiences as he ponders on the meaning of life and his failed relationship with Annie. The intellectual but comedic urban romance marked a turning point in Allen’s career earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1977. Yet, this paper focuses on his counterpart played by Diane Keaton and how her performance shaped both the story’s…

Two of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous films are the spy movies Notorious and North by Northwest. Released in 1946, Notorious is a film about romance, espionage, and Nazis. Alicia Huberman agrees to work for the U.S. government by seducing Alex Sebastian, a friend of her father and a U.S. traitor, in order to get inside his home and learn valuable Nazi secrets. Along the way, she falls in love with her colleague, T. R. Devlin, and the plan goes differently than expected. North by Northwest (1959)…

The horror and hallucination factor of the first film is greatly decreased in the second. In Batman Begins Scarecrow uses a toxin on his victims that makes them hallucinate and see horrifying things such as a horse breathing fire and monstrous versions of characters’ faces. In the second film there is nothing like this. The most horrifying thing in The Dark Knight is the appearance of the burnt face of Two-Face. Christopher Nolan could have done this to attract younger audiences and leave more…

In this essay I shall be comparing the representation of British youth from an actual established film and television soap. Representation is the way the media symbolizes something as being for real in reality. A stereotype is a label which involves a process of categorisation and evaluation. In the UK the British youth is stereotyped as a group of young violent, aggressive, hoodie worn, knife carrying thugs, who do nothing in their lives but drinking, taking drugs, having sex at a young age and…

The Life of Pi is a 2012, critically-acclaimed American survival drama film starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, and Vibish Sivakumar, based on Yann Martell's book of the same name, It is directed by Ang Lee, also notable for his work on other acclaimed films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, and produced by Lee, Gil Netter, and David Womark. The film's storyline revolves around an Indian man named Piscine "Pi" Patel as he tells a…

Darko, I became engrossed in solving the mystery of films. I thought about what the director wanted his audience know and why. Watching movies is a hobby for me but I didn't start really paying attention to…

Throughout film history, the concept of the unruly woman has not been used until recent times. Before women were portrayed in the same light as men, they were portrayed as proper women who did not use obscene language and did not partake in irrational behavior. Women were usually seen as damsel’s in distress, they were portrayed as weak individuals that served to convey a male’s masculinity. In the recent years, audiences can now see women taking on ‘male characteristics.’ Actresses like Melissa…

Hollywood films featuring lead black characters have been in cinema for decades. In contrast, black character images that are portrayed in cinema was usually centered around traditional racial stereotypes of the past such as “Uncle Tom, “the coon”, “the brutal black buck”, and “the mammy”. In today’s contemporary films, the black protagonist is often represented as having super natural or magical powers. As a result of this portrayal, a new racial stereotype was created; the “magical negro” that…