Academy Award for Best Actor

Describe an activity that you find boring in your life (e.g., taking out the trash). I find cleaning the car extremely boring which in fact, just thinking about it puts me in a bad mood. Don’t get me wrong - I love having a clean car, but when it comes to me cleaning it, I rather pay someone else to get the job done. I honestly don’t know why I find it boring but it’s just one of those things I cannot find the passion to do. Especially, here in Florida where we have this bipolar weather I rather…

Swoosh! Bang! Pow! The man hits Lavinia in the gut with a baseball bat. She falls to the floor and with a thud, she hits her head on the doorknob and is now unconscious. The Lonely One covers her face with a mask and ties her hands behind her back. He turned off the lights, picked her up, and then threw her over his shoulder. He checked to make sure the coast was clear and then carried her to his car and put her in the back seat. What he did not know is that as he shut the door Francine was…

but Andy never broke. After Andy exposes the wardens corrupt prison to police Norton takes his own life and Red says “besides the bullet, the last thing that went through Norton 's head was to wonder how Andy ever got the best of him”. It was Andys hope that had gotten the best of him and Nortons own fear had held himself prisoner to him. In Conclusion the film Shawshank redemption demonstrates the power hope and fear have on peoples actions and their fates. This is displayed through its…

A house is often regarded as a home, however this is debatable in many respects. Through globalisation and literature, the representation of a home is not necessarily a ‘house’, as is a house is not necessarily a ‘home’. There are many representations of home within literary contexts, and through an examination of James Cameron’s 2009 highest grossing film of all time, Avatar, I will discuss how deterritorialisation identifies with the idea of home, and how the film exemplifies this idea. In…

order to portray these ideas?

Interview Host: Today I am joined by the director and screenwriter of the internationally acclaimed motion picture The Shawshank Redemption, Mr. Frank Darabont. The film is accompanied by numerous accolades, seven Academy Awards nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, cementing its status as a must see movie of our generation. 

The movie focuses on the unfortunate life sentence of Andy Dufresne, a young and ambiguous banker, victimised by circumstantial…

astonished by his ability of doing this. One of them, Red, showed great respect to him, and they became great friends. Andy proved to Red that he would never give up hope however awful the situation was. “Remember that hope is a good thing, red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Andy wrote these words to Red after he escaped from the prison. These words haunted me for a long time. It made me think what I would do if I was Andy. What life have for me in the next moment? I…

eventually get filmed in The United States and New Zealand, James Cameron watched his script get brought to life. Avatar was just another success on Cameron’s record, following Titanic (1997) that broke all box office records and earned eleven Academy Awards. He is now married to actress, Suzy Amis, who was in his film, Titanic and known has the most sought-after directors in Hollywood. Overview/Relevance Avatar is filled with an abundance of references to the real world and society. For…

Brown has designed Thula to represent the working class of America, and the self-doubt that once haunted Joe so heavily. Her appearance is tired, sickly to represent how many Americans were feeling at the time, and to show that many still did not have hope for the future. Brown describes her in a manner as well that makes the reader feel resentment towards her even more, and makes her an easier target for the reader to direct their animosity at her for all the pain she has put Joe through.…

Witness is the famous American movie directed by Peter Weir in 1985 which the story starts with the witness of a brutal murder happened in the bathroom of New York City station by a little Amish boy named Samuel Lapp. Through the investigation of the incident with the policeman, John Book, Samuel and his mother, Rachel, the viewers encounter the plain life led by blackclad Amish people. People there had a lifestyle which the “American” experienced a few decades ago, for example, riding horses…

This movie shows us the hope that Andy Dufresne had with him the whole time he was in prison. It is the hope that we find Søren Kierkegaard and Albert Camus talk about – existentialist hope. After having read on the philosophies of the two existentialists, I started to realize how I could see that hope being portrayed in this movie. Existentialism is focused on human existence and how to become fully human. For Kierkegaard, to exist means to stand out which was exactly what Andy did a few…