Cameron Crowe

The articles “Gladiator University” wrote by Jennifer Marino Walter and the article “Did Gladiators Always Fight to the Death?” , these articles changed the way readers look at gladiators and their ways. The recent archaeological developments has changed ever reader's perspective on gladiators. In these passages it explains how they lived and what archaeologist discovered about gladiators lifestyle. We in modern time thought gladiators were murderous and inhumane people. In shows, movies and…

Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a 2000 film industry achievement which stars the hero, Russel Crowe, as the unwavering Hispano-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius. Joaquin Phoenix is the foe and stars as Commodus, the degenerate and goal-oriented child of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The maturing Emperor is featured by veteran performing artist Richard Harris. Lucilla, little girl of the Emperor, is featured by Connie Nielsen who needs to oppose the perverted advances of Commodus and ensure her…

The film Gladiator is not true but there are historical events, gladiators, Coliseums, and actual people in which this film was about. The time frame of this movie, which is 180 AD, takes place around the time of the real characters and events. According to David Neelin, the director Ridley Scott and story writer David Franzoni of this film tries to not only show historical history, observation and experience, but to show the characters mental attitude and culture. While the events of what…

Titanic, a romantic movie also displaying a historic event, was directed by James Cameron, in 1997, based on a true story; however, the movie was too long and had many errors in it. Titanic is a movie about two people from opposite backgrounds that board this luxuries boat where they both happen to fall in love with each other. There were more than 100,000 people who turned up to see the ship called Titanic that was supposed to sail the across Atlantic Ocean. Rose (Kate Winslet) is saved by the…

(“Themes”). Avatar was clearly a passion project for James Cameron, a storied director with a best of blockbuster films to wait that long to fully realize a project he had conceived so long before is not just indicative of a person who was waiting for the right technology to come by. It’s a clear indicator of a filmmaker who had a message to put out to the world. Based on my reading and research, it is widely acknowledged that Mr. Cameron intended to touch on many themes in this film. Some…

With his tenth film, the bittersweet and poignant comedy/drama A Man Called Ove, Swedish writer/director Hannes Holm has the chance to finally reach North American audiences for the first time. Not only has his work landed distribution with Music Box Films after winning three 2015 Guldbagge Awards (Sweden's top film award), but the film earned Sweden's selection to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, and some believe the film could land the country's…

Fai Jubono, a young male human, few of his kind, is searching the galaxy for treasure with his droid J6, a repurposed, round, and rusty engineering droid who now helps Fai scavenge the Yinnad galaxy for spare parts, which he then sells for credits. At this time, Fai and J6 are headed to the ocean planet Kee. This planet used to be all ice, but had melted due to Kee getting significantly closer to the sun. Now multiple boats have been submerged underwater, which so called treasure beneath them.…

The movie titled Inception was produced in 2010, and it captured many viewers as being one of the best fantasy and science fiction of the years. Christopher Nolan was the producer and director of the film. He also fully participated in its script writing. The movie's storyline and script development were Christopher Nolan's ideas from 2001. According to Christopher Nolan, the movie was themed around lucid dreaming and incubation of dreams that brought up visions of an existence whereby…

Archetypes are common themes, situations, characters, or symbols found in books, movies, or other types of media that are recognizable cross-culturally. The 2009 movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron, exhibits multiple archetypes that propel the plot through two separate subplots. Avatar is set in a distant planet known as Pandora. It is inhabited by the Native people (Na’vi), as well as humans who are after a rare and valuable metal only found on this planet. The humans develop Avatars, which…

As the sun kissed the horizon and the birds chirped, Rainsford's eyes fluttered open. He hadn’t felt more rested. He looked around and the room and was quickly reminded of what had happened the night before. There was Zaroff’s blood on the wood floor. It looked like it still hadn't dried yet. He shook his head and made his way out the bedroom door and to the kitchen. His left forearm was aching with pain. He pulled up his pajama sleeve and turned his arm over. He saw a huge gash on his forearm.…