Film Analysis Essay

Perhaps the most effective element director Guillermo del Toro incorporates in his film Crimson Peak is the stark juxtaposition of common fairytale and nightmare motifs. Del Toro redefines the haunted house genera with his strong use of both. He uses a combination of characters, colors, costumes, architecture, and symbols. All of which create a mystical environment for the story to develop. From the beginning we are introduced to the reoccurring theme of fairytale turned nightmare. One of…

It all comes down to faith when observing the inexplicable. There is no defined purpose; therefore, an individual creates their own life meaning. Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, is a black and white film, where Norma Desmond, a famous actress of the silent film era, cannot come to terms with her career’s end. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro, centers around a depressive Spanish war, where a young girl, Ofelia, can figuratively escape the reality of it…

In Django, the film displays the law enforcement’s failure to enforce any moral or lawful act early in the film and this scene sets the tone for the rest of the film. The scene begins right after Shultz rescues Django and they arrive in Daughterly, Texas. Shultz kills the sheriff of the county in the street. Afterwards, the marshal and the militia of the town come to the bar in order to arrest and/or kill Shultz and Django if they resist. Instead, Shultz proves that he is beyond the law and…

Waterboy The film Waterboy is about a stuttering man named Bobby Boucher who is caught between bullies, his momma, and the game of football. The movie Waterboy is a hero’s journey where Bobby Boucher’s story encounters and goes through the twelve steps to create the theme. The ordinary world of the movie Waterboy takes place in Louisiana during the 1990’s. The hero of the story is Bobby Boucher. Bobby is a 31 year old stuttering man living with his overprotective mom in Luisiana. Bobby is a…

how to cope with the different struggles in his life one being his sexuality, another being his relationship with his mother, falling in love, and heart break. These scene I have chosen to analyze for this first project takes place in act two of the film when Chiron is an adolescent, the scene is the fight that Chiron has with Kevin that is instigated by Chiron’s bully, Terrel, what makes this scene so important…

Taking responsibility for ones actions is important in life. In the film Attonement created by Joe Wright and based on the book by Ian McEwan, the author introduces the Tallis family and their struggles with the aftermath of the decisions they made. Wright shows that an individual can not take responsibility for themselves until they acknowledge the consequences that resulted from taking responsibility over others. If they do not, it will cause internal guilt and confilct. When one takes…

There are many films out there in the world of cinema where the audience has only seen the film from one angle. It is like going to the beach and all you can see is the surface of the ocean when there is so much more than just the surface. Film writers and directors want the audience to dig deeper and watch the film from multiple angles and different perspectives. Many films aim at a truth that they are trying to portray to the audience. The truth doesn’t necessarily have to be presented…

No Justice for the Short-film Judgment Was Minnie Foster going to quilt it or knot it? When this question arose in the short story A Jury of Her Peers, two women were slowly piecing together Minnie Foster’s murder mystery, and when the dominant male characters overhear the women’s conversation, they merely scoffed and couldn’t seem to understand why the women were worried about ‘trivial things’. Little did they know, it was the ‘trivial things’ that gave clues to figuring out the motive for…

in the theatre showing how the audience’s focus is purely on Andrew. Most of the shots are close up or extreme close ups as the focus is on Andrew, the drums and Fletcher. Chazelle said that he shot the movie as if it was a thriller with suspenseful film techniques such as quick montages of close ups. Alfred Hitchcock, one of the world’s greatest directors states “montages should be impressionistic” meaning that the scene should leave out bits and pieces for the imagination of the audience to…

Shared dreaming allows one to get inside of another’s mind unlocking thoughts from deep within, stealing information that one would not release in reality, this is called extraction. Dom Cobb is a spy who specializes in this exact thing. He is a thief of intangible things, he is a thief of ideas, secrets, and other various thoughts enclosed within the human mind. In the movie Inception, Cobb finds himself on the run for a murder he may or may not have committed, longing to see his children’s…