BAFTA Award for Best Film

A father’s job is to care for his children, to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way as is made clear in two Jess Walter’s stories, “Please” and “We Live in Water” from a book of the same name We Live in Water. In “Please” the son in the story lives with his mom, Carla, and her druggie boyfriend, Jeff in an environment where drugs come first. Tommy, the absentee father, has little control regarding the safety of his child. In “We Live in Water”, it is…

confidence with each experience. Her fans observed, “For her first major film performance, the 24-year-old Hepburn won an academy award for best actress. Three days later, she took home a Tony Award as well for the Broadway show online (1954)” (Sonneborn). Audrey Hepburn was not as confident as she portrayed in all of her performances. She did not believe in herself, but she still emanated out on top winning two awards in the short time of one week. Hepburn was a beautiful but fragile…

Emerald Nau AF AM 110 Dr. Colapierto Civil Rights Roundtable 1963 The round table discussion consisted of James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Joseph Minklelwitz, and Sidney Portier. The topics of discussion were civil rights and the March on Washington. All the men had something in common; all were entertainers in some kind of aspect, and all came to Washington for the March on Washington. As stated in the video, some of these men were long term fights, and others…

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies”. She then turned around and began making her own movies to teach people the pros and cons of life. Let me guide you into a world of pop culture, love at first sight, and few academy award. Biography The story of a fashion icon and award winning actress begins in Brussels, Belgium on May 4th, 1929 a baby girl was born, and her name was Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston. Young Audrey spent only six years in a…

is the runaway from all their troubles, which leads to act III Thelma and Louise tries to escape and their official acceptance of an identity as criminals. The film sets up their escape perfectly through the methods of character development and foreshadowing. Character development allows the viewer to come to terms with the ending of the film. Furthermore,…

As much as a happy ending may seem desirable and promising to a person, a happy ending cannot always be plausible. Ironically, however, a somewhat unhappy ending in a novel is what can oftentimes create truly great and memorable literature. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a happy ending gets further and further out of reach as the novel progresses. Many of the conflicts that arise reach a point where they can never truly be resolved. Yes, fortunately, the boys who were stranded on…

conceal the truth with his lies. The transitions are very frequent throughout the film and have a cumulative effect on the audience as it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between the interwoven images of 'Pacino the Hollywood Legend ' and 'Richard the Murderous Tyrant '. The intertextual use of Prospero 's speech from The Tempest is empowered through the voice over at the beginning and end of the film "These our actors... all spirits... this insubstantial pageant..." which…

Death was an ongoing matter during the nineteen forties due to the events of WWII and the holocaust which brought a sense of darkness upon the world as a whole. The thought of despair and desolation was embedded in the mind’s of people as WWII lasted several years. The world witnessed the deadliest wars of all times with the loss of millions of lives. whether it was captured on the news, written in the papers or witnessed in reality, the whole world was alert to it. This brought a gloomy…

The film Shawshank Redemption is an award-winning film by Frank Darabont in which an innocent man, Andy Dufresne, is sentence to two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for after being wrongly convicted even after professing his innocence. While imprisoned Andy befriends a man everyone knows as Red who is known for being able to smuggle things into the prison. Over the years Red is able to get Andy a rock hammer as…

Roberto Benigni and George Orwell explore similar central ideas in the texts Life is Beautiful and 1984. Considering the setting of; a controlled society, a war based on ideological differences and family; the importance or unimportance, the concepts of words, thoughts, actions, death and family structure are explored. Life is Beautiful follows protagonist, Guido Orefice, in 1939 and his experiences through WWll, as later narrated by his son, Giosue. The fable-like tale focuses on the concepts,…