Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

“Fight Club” (directed by David Fincher) is a 1999 American film based on the novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, all of whom were praised on their performances in the film. Edward Norton plays the unnamed lead role but it referred to as the Narrator in the credits. He works at a dehumanizing office job as he explains that all you have to do is follow a formula which a computer could do. The sequence I looked at starts…

I decided to write my paper about the movie “Rain Man.” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was produced in 1988 and was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. Rain Man depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. The movie is about an autistic savant name Raymond, who is a resident of a home for the mentally disabled, is played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking, self absorbed, self centered hustler, egocentric, younger brother, Charlie Babbitt, played…

As one of the best American films in the western genre, Unforgiven uniquely portrays a real culture through it’s setting; a pastiche of nineteenth-century Western style, which emphasizes the nature of law and order as the only thing that stands between civilization and chaos. Being both the director and the producer, Clint Eastwood constructs Unforgiven as a self-reflexive medium; which means the film’s aesthetic would consciously make the audience aware of the devices of the film’s construction…

Jack Christensen Period 5 June 2, 2016 IB Film Shawshank Redemption VS. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption There is always allot of discussion on a book vs. a movie. Which one is better? Witch one has more action, meaning, emotion or desire? What are the main differences? Shawshank Redemption was a story of hope. This hope is in Andy Dufresne. He always has hope though his trials that he is innocent, hope that he can get through prison, and hope that he can get. Then again everyone in…

In one of Shakespeare's tragedies-Othello, the most important character is not Othello but Iago. He is the one who builds us the story and bring the story to a climax. As an effective rhetorician, Iago uses various persuasive and rhetorical devices to manipulate characters in the story especially Othello. To achieve his revenge, Iago shows his honesty and loyalty in front of people, feigns to not share information or misinformation he wants to share along with a large amount of evidence,…

Hamilton Woman, starring in Henry V (1944), and Hamlet (1948), winning best film and actor award for Hamlet from the Academy (Official Olivier Biography, 2012). He had appearances in over 100 stage roles, approximately 60 films, and various television shows. These performances triggered nominations for Academy Awards as an actor, producer, or director. He received two Oscar awards and honored with additional two Oscar awards(Laurence Olivier, 2015). He battled cancer and other illnesses,…

The film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ is set in Thailand during World War II and tells the tale of a Japanese POW camp comprised mostly of British soldiers. The main characters are the vainglorious Colonel Nicholson and Colonel Saito, the determined Japanese officer in charge of the prison camp. When Colonel Saito receives word that he is to construct a bridge over the River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson takes on the challenge as a way to keep him and his men occupied, as they were beginning to get…

Chaplin, a well-known comic actor with his featured mustache, wrote, scored, directed and produced his first sound movie, The Great Dictator, in 1940. The Great Dictator marked the transition of Chaplin’s career from silent movies to a period of the sound movies. In his early work, for instance, The Tramp, he used to be a mime actor as he was so talented that his action and facial expression could perfectly present the whole story. Chaplin believed that the expression of an actor made dialogues…

In their first film together, Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman made an unlikely pair work as brothers in the movie Rain Man. Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) owns a car business. The first scene shows that Charlie is vary talkative. He can speaks with such eloquence. He has a beautiful girlfriend called Susanna (Valeria Golina). The conflict all started when he heard about his father s death, who he hadn t spoken for many years. His father had left him a car and a few rose bushes. The rest of the three…

There is a monster that roams the bridge by the church,and everyone knows about it. But Mr.Ross was the first to disappear. Dan Frank Ross had bright green eyes, had honey brown hair, and looked to be in his 20s . He was also 6’00” and was a muscular man. Mr.Ross normally wore any clothes that were clean, but he always wore a fedora hat to match his outfit. Normally he liked about any food or drink, depending on his mood. Mr.Ross also loved the colors black,blue, and green. Dan Ross had a…