Bernard Herrmann

Throughout my entire life, I’ve been involved in the business world. My parents have owned various businesses during my lifetime. I’m everlastingly grateful for my parents and the businesses that aided me in unveiling my passion. From lemonade stands as a child to assisting in managing full-scale restaurants, these experiences have been invaluable. As a child, I remember speculating what my passion in life was. Other kids wanted to be dancers and astronauts, some chefs or racecar drivers, but I…

Eventually, in the late 1600s, two more folios were published which included many newer improvements and many new plays which are believed to have not been wrote shakespeare. Modern day historians believe that the two later folios were made to meet the changing preferences in the area at the time. Due to the fact that all of Shakespeare's work is over 400 years old, there are many people who have conspiracy thoughts toward Shakespeare. It's hard to imagine that someone could accuse a very famous…

Pygmalion: Meant to Be Separate There're many discussions about the open ending of the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. From a feminist perspective, Eliza Doolittle becomes a independent woman from a flower girl, and she seeks equality and respect in the play. However, Henry Higgins is indeed a typical sexist person, which means there're such differences between their values. This paper will analyzes these two main characters and discuss the purpose of Shaw setting a open ending in…

made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else. I wish you’d left me where you found me,” said the smart-mouthed kerbstone flower girl Eliza Doolittle, who worked tirelessly to transform the negative perception society placed upon her. George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion and Gary Marshall ‘s film Pretty Woman both explore the themes of change and transformation in addition to the theme of social class and its impact upon the female protagonists. The social and cultural background and…

Parodies are commonly found in the literary world, poking fun at the original work or writing grossly exaggerated version of said original. Edith Hamilton’s “Pygmalion” has many parodies that stem from the roots of its story. It is evident that certain stories such as Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are parodies of Edith Hamilton’s “Pygmalion.” Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a horrific parody of the original myth “Pygmalion.” Instead of the creator falling in…

In the 1940’s Hollywood established a style of filmmaking that would institute an artistic movement. French film critic Nino Frank established the term “Film Noir”, also defined as a black film. These black films characterize as a style of filmmaking and genre that contains several elements such as crime, mystery, thriller, menace, and fatalism; these particular films are set in the era of crime and war. The dark tones and setting of the films attracted a wide number of audience, film Noir’s…

Music, an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony and colour (Dictionary.com, 2015). Music in it’s purest form transcends language barriers and borders. A melody can alter our emotions, soothe us, rile us, and make us wonder. The power of music cannot be understated in it’s ability to shape ones emotions and to change how we are meant to think, this is nowhere more apparent than film. Music adds energy to stories…

The movie starts off with Charles Foster Kane which was produced by, directed and starred by Orson Welles. The movie begins with the the newsreel obituary footage that tells us about the life of Charles Foster Kane. It keeps us oriented as the screenplay progresses, piecing together the memories of those who knew him – Jed Leland his best friend, Susan Alexander his second wife and Mr. Bernstein, his business wizard were some of the few. “I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life”. The…

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” ~Gustav Mahler. The romantic style period started during 1780 and ended in about 1910. It was one of the most influential time periods that ever was. The romantic period was dramatic and full of action, also involving contradictions between capitalism and socialism, freedom and oppression, emotion, and faith. Many passionate pieces were written during The result of this was creative artists…

films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is considered one of the greatest film score composers of his generation. Along with such composers such as Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films.…