Short Narrative Essay

Film has a particular way of drawing those in to the way it should be viewed; the use of colour and how it is controlled is one such way. Tom Ford’s film A Single Man highlights the use of a controlled colour palette to create the atmosphere of the film. It relies on aspects of mise-en-scène such as positioning of objects on screen, colour aspects such as comparison of colours used between certain characters and comparison of colour between scenes and the reasons for such. A Single Man uses…

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick has long suffered from popular misconceptions surrounding the novel. Despite its near universal acclaim as the “Great American novel,” the work still struggles to find its way into the curriculum of any academic level below that of college. While I concede that teaching Moby-Dick in the high-school classroom is problematic, it seems that bringing it into a community-college syllabus is a bit more feasible. Though community-college students may often present challenges…

Secondary Characters no more In their performances my classmates brought secondary characters to life in three different ways. The first way was to have multiple speakers, such as in Pear and Sheridan’s performance, therefore dividing the number of characters that each had to portray. The second was to have a stand-in character bring a role to life that might have otherwise been dismissed; this was evident in Stacy’s performance. The third was to change the point of view of the story, thereby…

The 1920’s was a time of great change in America. It was dubbed “the roaring 20’s” appropriately as it brought with it a freight train like initiation of social movement across America. The Harlem Renaissance was a marked period of growth and identification for the African American culture originating from its Harlem epicenter in the northeast. The intellectual and artistic movement brought recognition to black arts, literature, and music, and for the first time in history, earned status,…

When someone tells you a story you are expecting to hear what actually happens. That is not always the case. We have certain characters from stories whom we encounter that they way the story is told is so believable, even though is not true. But there is always the case when story is told unbelievably, and we end up believing the facts that are presented to us, as readers. Two stories that come in mind about main characters or narrators whose stories are told in different aspects – believable…

A maze of digressions and associations characterise Tristram Shandy’s narrative voice. More so than other prominent narrators in literature, Tristram occupies the space between the internal world of the novel and the external world of the reader. Such a narrative now requires the reader to play a more active role in shaping her reading experience, with the responsibility of making judgements and associations so as not to get lost in the irregularity of Tristram’s consciousness. This…

As the author of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey did not approve of the film that was later produced in honor of his piece of writing. There is an ongoing debate over whether the movie, or the novel, was a better piece of art. In the novel, Chief serves as the narrator, which allows the reader to get into the heads of the patients in the institution, and better understand their perception of what is going on in the ward. In the movie, you are better able to experience what…

The artist/designer i have decided to base my work off is Tim Burton, Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is mostly known for his “Burton-esque” style that he has been developed by him as he is such an influential artist with his films and art, it is mainly frame by frame art as he does storyboards for his stop-motion films and also concept arts for his final characters in the films, his work has been produced since 1982 and he is still making work…

For this discussion board I tried to choose two movies that had a common story line which would create a much more interesting critique between the two. This will more so create a compare and contrast between the two movies I’ve chosen in my opinion just because they are in some ways similar. The Longest Yard and the Gridiron Gang are two movies both based on football being played by athletes who are incarcerated. The Longest Yard is a fiction movie and Gridiron Gang is a nonfiction movie. I was…

So, there were three movies I watched together by Tony Gatlif. Gadjo Dilo, Latcho Drom and Korkoro. My last review already says what I think of the 2nd one. But Gadjo Dilo isn’t only my list for the only reason being that I watched it before I ever got a chance to write it on my list. What’s the point of writing down a movie you’ve already seen? SO, little mini review of Gadjo Dilo (Translation: Foolish Outsider): A Frenchman named Stefan goes to Romania looking for a Romani singer named Nora…