Academy Award for Best Picture

In this version of “The Second Son,” I took your advice to tell the story from another POV the extreme and changed from “single I” to an epistolary piece, with no central narrator. In this version, Mal Dallon is less of a “crazy” man, wandering the streets and fighting off his own personal demons, and more of an ignored messiah, in that he’s bringing a message to an unenlightened world (through his death), only for it to be quickly forgotten for the next news bite. Is this version better than…

The poem “The Thought-Fox” is written by Ted Hughes’ in 1957. The poem exists out of descriptive and figurative language; this language is used to emphasize the intrinsic and complex relationship between a poet and the poet literary creations. The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through. The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4…

What do Jaws, Jurassic Park and E.T all have in common? They were all directed by someone who arguably deserves the title, ‘living legend’. The first person to direct a movie that had a revenue of over $100 million, the same person who invented the modern blockbuster with the iconic movie ‘Jaws’. Steven Spielberg is the living legend in question. December 18th, 1946. This fateful day was the fateful day that Steven Allen Spielberg began to grace us all with his presence. Born in Cincinnati,…

On page 226 of Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist Macon is faced with the destruction of his home. The descriptive analysis used to portray the pipe burst that floods Macon’s home exposes the atmosphere not just in the house, but also in Macon. Before Tyler even begins describing the scene the demeanor is already implied by the weather. This part of the novel takes place in the dead of winter just after a snowstorm. Winter is usually associated with the cold and that piercing wind chill that…

In the novel, Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling uses the elements of an adventure tale to give an essential life lesson to the reader. Harvey Cheyne, Jr., the son of a rich businessman, falls of a luxury liner during a storm. He is picked up by a fishing crew who teaches him how to be responsible and good-mannered. In this story, Kipling uses simile, foreshadowing, and characterization to draw the reader into an extraordinary story. Firstly, the author uses simile to help the reader…

instantly recall the film, and important scenes come flooding back. Even for those who have never seen the movie in question, the song is so enduring that they probably recognize it anyway. We have picked out what are, in our humble opinion, the five very best movie theme songs, each one an original composition made especially for its film. All of these…

the movie, Clint Eastwood expressed Chris’s story in a very touching and a warm loving way but also catches you but surprise with numerous suspenseful, gruesome, and jaw dropping sense throughout the movie. Main reason American Sniper has multiple awards is due to the amazing actor that were apart of the film. Bradley Cooper playing Chris Kyle, Sienna Miller playing Chris’s wife Taya. Along with Bigger and Marc who were Chris’s friends, played by Luke Grimes and Jake McDorman. These actor plus…

“The Ransom of Red Chief” has a theme that is crime doesn't pay. He shows this through the actions and dialogue of Sam and Bill throughout the text. The whole story is about how Sam and Bill kidnap Johnny. But in the beginning of the story Sam drops a big hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. On page 11 paragraph 1“It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.”Right away they tell you that all isn't as good as it seems.So somethings gonnna happen to the criminals all…

Award season is creeping upon us and the best picture nominees of 2017 have been released. Nine nominees and only one winner. All the films that have been nominated are tough contenders and it will be hard to pick only one. With nominations like Dunkirk, call me by your name and Three Billboards (which already won the golden globe for best picture.) It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but if I had to choose I would pick The Post. Kay Graham the publisher for the Washington Post, was given…

On February 26th, 2017, Barry Jenkins' sophomoric feature, Moonlight, received the highest accolade of Best Picture, from one of the most prestigious ceremonies to celebrate film, the Academy Awards. In accomplishing two inaugural milestones, the first all-black cast to win such high regard, and the first LGBTQ-topic to be awarded Best Picture, Moonlight in context proves to be a memorable classic in performance, box office (for an independent feature), and universal critical acclaim. However,…