Billy Elliot

When Billy visited his old war buddy Mary’s husband to discuss the war for a book he was going to write. He had two little girls with him (15). Her admiration was shown in the way she treated the girls. The girls were mixed right in with her own to play games and watch television (16). Mary had a problem with Billy discussing the war, she felt the ones who fought the war was only babies including them (18). She wanted the book Billy was going to write to tell the truth…

Manipulated By Beauty: Body Heat vs Double Indemnity In the film noir Double Indemnity (1944) and neo-noir Body Heat (1981), two men commit adultery as they are convinced by narcissistic, money hungry, manipulating women who have premeditated the murders of their spouses. Even though both men are in different professions, Walter is an insurance man and Ned is a lawyer, they prove to be valuable assets to the femme fatales of the film’s, Phyllis and Matty. In the same way that Walter risks his…

Maria Stephanie Amaya 03/30/2017 Moneyball film extra credit The film “Moneyball” is about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane reinventing how people view the game of baseball and how players are scouted for teams. Faced with the dilemma of being unable to re-sign Oakland’s best 3 players after the 2001 season due to their limited payroll, Beane uses the power of statistics to find value in players and understand the sport of baseball. Beane meets an Ivy League graduate named Peter Brand.…

Moneyball details the story of a change in how Major League Baseball (MLB) players were scouted and recruited (Palmer et al., 2016). Traditionally, MLB used highly knowledgeable scouts to recruit talent based upon future performance indicators, however Billy Beane and Peter Brand leveraged a statistical approach named sabermetrics which determined the best recruits based upon statistical analysis of their past performance (Palmer et al., 2016). Sabermetrics was met with change resistance from…

Marilyn Monroe Biography Early life: Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926, as the third child of Gladys Pearl Monroe, a negative cutter at Columbia Pictures. However, Gladys was mentally and financially unprepared for a child, so she place Monroe with Albert and Ida Bolender in Hawthorne, California for several years. In the year of 1938, Monroe attended Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles, where she wrote for the school's newspaper. In late 1944, Monroe met…

“I am a history nut.”- Billy Joel. With the media as it is today is making it harder to learn truth and querying things like, who was Marilyn Monroe, What is Berlin, and what does birth control contribute to society? Choosing three things from the iconic Billy Joel song was a tough decision, but I lucked out in the end. Always intriguing me with posters and t-shirts, Marilyn Monroe, and moreover with her famous photos and flirtatious dances on the screen. Knowing Berlin was a subtopic within our…

Marilyn Monroe, born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, was an iconic actress and one of the most enduring sex symbols known. Marilyn led an astonishing career even in her short life, starting as a model and making her way towards the film business, she dazzled the public with her beauty and charm. To Marilyn, her refusing happiness was a massive quest for love and a sense of belonging. Looking back at her short career, one would think that Marilyn had not only achieved fame by her films but also with…

by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim has been through a life that no other human can imagine. With several themes built into this novel, Billy shows his growth within himself as a character. As Billy flashes back and forth from being in the army in Dresden, being captured on the planet of Tralfamadore, and his relationship with his fiancé, Billy gives an idea about his post-traumatic disorder. While working in Dresden, Billy begins his journey at a not so very serious approach. Billy takes the…

Every hero needs a first-rate, old-fashion villain. In fact, the greater or more powerful the hero, the more despicable must be the villain, for the sweetness of victory lies in its difficulty. The question must then be asked: Can villainous victories taste as sweet? Could an audience of normal, decent human beings really find it in themselves to take joy in the victory of, say, a manipulative, power-hungry murderer? In his play Richard III, Shakespeare puts this idea to the test, not only by…

Film in the 1940’s focused on lying, crime, and mystery. This particular style of film is now known as Film Noir, which focused on the dark side of humanity. Certain elements are needed to properly display a true film noir film. Double Indemnity (1944) is a film that focuses on insurance agent Walter Neff. Due to the dark events that take place throughout the film, several elements of film noir were used in the filming of this movie. Double Indemnity utilized film noir by setting a dark mood,…