Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Importance of Friendship Friendship is, by definition, a relationship between two friends. Some believe that friendships are a necessity for human life. Joseph Conrad was a man who grew up not having many friends. As a young child he had missed school quite a bit from illnesses (Kathleen Wilson 200). This made it hard to have close relationships with other children. He did however gain a love for literature and the sea from his father at a young age (www.notablebiographies.com). This is…

Jingnan Zhang English 3: Block Ms. Bunosky February 15, 2017 Archetypes in Toy Story One doesn’t usually watch movies and critically think about what is happening in it, but when one analyzes thoroughly, the audience can find some impressive things in the plots of these films. In the movie, Toy Story 3, the audience can clearly see a set of archetypes through the characters. Woody would be considered the hero, Buzz can be seen as the innocent person, and Lotso can be seen as the ruler/dictator…

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian filmmaker whose films are so uniquely his they are in a genre of their own. Smart and profound films that offer many polysemic viewpoints and are full of ambiguity. Throughout his career there have been many different techniques, styles, and changes Kiarostami has tested and implemented. His movies all have a certain distinctive quality to them, but starting with his 1987 film “Where Is the Friend's Home?”, he settled into a style that is now uniquely his own.…

Design In regards to intertextuality, Teddy from my picturebook is the Humpty Dumpty used in the television show Playschool. This served two purposes: Humpty is known to be an incredibly unlucky character, creating doubt in the readers mind even at the beginning of the story that Teddy is the lucky one; and it also creates a connection to Australian children (and even adults) that watch Playschool. Salience and colour were used hand-in-hand in my picturebook through the colour red: it is one of…

Wes Anderson is a movie director who has created eleven movies some include Fantastic Mr.Fox , Moonrise Kingdom , Rushmore , etc. Anderson has been known to use some of the same actors in many of his movies, Bill Murray is one of many actors that continues to reappear in Anderson's films. Murray plays many diverse roles, some include Mr. Bishop in Moonrise Kingdom, Badger from Fantastic Mr. Fox, Herman Blume from Rushmore, and M. Ivan From Grand Budapest Hotel. Any character Murray plays he…

Both Tim Burton, director of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and the anonymous writer of ‘About School’ examine the complications that people face living in a society that is not willing to accept difference. In ‘Edward Scissorhands’ Burton creates a character whose physical deformity and isolated up brining make it impossible for him to fit into ‘normal’ society. The anonymous poet of ‘About School’ describes someone who doesn’t fit in but seems happy in his own world. Society however, requires…

he communicates the idea that this should be the status quo in our society. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton uses color contrast to state how the abnormal is the new status quo. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the main character Charlie lives in a plain, old, and nasty town. Tim Burton presents the town with sad grayish colors and…

When I was six years old, I read Lior’s Magic Glasses by Shula Modan, a children’s story about a boy who sees two pairs of glasses at the store: a pink pair and a black pair. When he puts on the black pair, he sees the world negatively. Yet with the pink pair, the world is filled with joy. However, when the worker at the store tells the boy that “not everything is black or pink, there are a lot of colors in between”, the boy realizes that he can’t wear the pink glasses all the time and needs to…

Nathalie Ramprashad July, 28, 2015 Bayside High school English Summer Reading Assignment The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier is essentially about Jerry Renault, a freshman at Trinity all boys’ school who was assigned to sell chocolates at the school sale by the Vigils, a secret organization at Trinity that keeps everything in the school “under control”. Jerry refuses to sell them because of what the Vigils are doing to harass the other students, giving the Vigils…

Style Analysis In Tim Burton's movies he has a specific style that he portrays in everyone of them. Tim Burton's style can be viewed as uniquely horrific. The movies that he directs has one character that usually stands out from the rest. An outsider and how that outsider will never fit into society. He uses cinematic elements to portray his style, like lighting, diegetic and nondiegetic sound, and camera movement. Lighting is a good element used in movies, it can show that someone is happy,…