Brendan Gleeson

The General (1998) and the Opportunism of Crime: An Analysis of the Historical Rise of the Middle Class Prosperity in Ireland in the 1990s This film study will define the opportunism o crime in the film The General by John Boorman to describe the rise of an Irish middle class in a crime genre setting. Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) is a leader of a gang of thieves that continually humiliates authority figures in the context of a trickster in the criminal underworld of Hollyfield, a slum in Dublin. However, Cahill purchases a home in a middle class area, which defines the increasingly middle class evolution of Ireland’s economy in the 1990s. This type of class mobilization defines the underlying theme of crime as a way to redistribute goods…

Voyage of Saint Brendan, which follows Saint Brendan and his brothers as they embark on their journey in search of the Promised Land of the Saints. Throughout their legendary seven-year journey, Brendan and his followers encounter an assortment of animals such as sheep, birds, a whale, and a devouring beast – all of which are allegories that allude to the central theme of the Last Judgment. This eschatological theme is conveyed through the helpful or threatening nature of these creatures,…

The Stolen Generation was the Aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions. On 13 February 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology on behalf of the Australian government to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and Indigenous assimilation. The apology was…

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While watching the institutional videos, I could not help but think about how the residents felt while living in such horrible institutions. Throughout the clips, there was a common theme within each that the residents of institutions were not treated the same as many other civilians. The residents were treated horrible along with the conditions of the institutions being horrendous and unbearable for them. It was clear that the employees did not care about the residents. The videos on Pennhurst,…

Naturally, the hardened prisoners Paddington meets are not all that bad and, true to form, the soft-spoken, always optimistic bear wins over the most blackened of hearts. Among them, Nuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson), the prison cook, whose booming voice and thunderous rage is sufficiently snuffed out by a taste of Paddington's Kryptonite - marmalade. King has such a command of this material, he makes the movie look effortless. Everyone has a purpose, whether it is Sally Hawkins and Hugh…

the desire to free the people from the English oppression, Wallace becomes a single minded. As both actor and director, Gibson makes an interesting decision to choose to play Wallace after the tragedy which is almost something inhuman in the time of battles: he is nearly merciless instrument of the death. But, Wallace who is too human use his ability for inspiring men to support him in the battle even against the seemingly obstacles that should be managed by his own desire to make other people…