Charlie Wilson's War

My interview was with a woman named Miss Norma. She was born during WWI (1917) and will be 100 years old in February. It was interesting how I met, I was a cashier at Walmart when she came through my line. She saw my name tag and asked if I had ever been to the Shekinah festival in Amish country. I told her I had never been and that I wasn’t from Columbus. She then asked where I was from and when I told her New Albany Indiana luck might have it, she was born and raised in my home town and from…

of the silent era knew how to express their feelings through gestures and facial expressions in such a manner that their feelings could be easily communicated to the audience. Indeed, the international success of such silent cinema performers as Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo attests to the universal appeal of film acting. As expressed by these performers, such basic human emotions as sadness or happiness…

Ryan Scopio Music 306 – 11:00am Mon/Wed Term Paper – The Bebop Era Bebop was born in the mid 1940's. During that time, the popular, dance-oriented swing style jazz was in mid demise. World War II and cabaret taxes had pushed musicians to shift from a big band formats to a small band formats and the bebop style musicians were given an open door. It was developed not from the creation of a new style, but because the old style could no longer work. Many older players, such as Armstrong and…

It is commonly believed that the only purpose comedy serves is to make people laugh. While that aspect of comedy is always enjoyable, the humor in these films usually have a deeper message. The restrictions that movies in the past have are no longer an issue for the films of today. This freedom has allowed movies today to take the social and political aspects of comedy to a whole new level. Films such as The Interview and White Chicks have taken the social and political implications from The…

Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener” and Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” share the same theme, which is the despair of the working class under the upper class. Bartleby and Chaplin respectively represent the working class in their stories, and they both undergo hardships due to the tedious tasks they are given to perform. Both characters eventually rebel against their managers (which represent the upper class) in their own ways; Bartleby constantly rejects the lawyer’s order of proofreading…

Train robberies, the Civil War and a damsel in distress. These are the major plots of Buster Keaton’s The General. The General premiered in 1926 and was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. The film stars Keaton as train-loving, everyman, Johnny Gray and Marion Mack as Gray’s sweetheart, Annabelle Lee. The General monopolizes on the success of chase films such as The Great Train Robbery to create a film that seamlessly combines drama, action and comedy. In fact, these three…

In Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann,” the viol that Erich Zann loves to play is a symbol for a drug because Zann becomes addicted to playing his viol. The story begins with a university student, who is the narrator, telling of the time he visited Paris and had to stay in lodging that he could afford, which is where he met Erich Zann, the protagonist, who plays otherworldly music with his viol. The college student stays in an apartment on Rue d’Auseil street, which is in a part of the city he…

Nate Parker Nate Parker is an American actor in movies and a director for his movies. He also produces movies as well as write them. Some movies that he starred in were Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, Arbitrage, Non-Stop, Felon and Pride. He was born on November 18, 1979 and is 37 years old. He was born in Norfolk Virginia. Parker wasn’t always an actor, in his earlier days he was a wrestler. He wrestled at Great Bridge High School and also went…

Modern Times illustrates how in the pursuit of technological and industrial growth the factory owner, who subjected his staff to cruel and unfair conditions, lost his humanity out of greed. The movie opens up with the text “humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness” across the image of a clock ticking away, which shows that time dictates progress and everyday life within the factory (Chaplin). The clock also symbolizes the idea that “time is money” and that efficiency -- the greatest amount…

The film, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," directed by Michel Gondry, is a critically acclaimed science fiction/romance. This film follows Joel Barish's and Clementine Kruczynski's separation after a miserable, two-year relationship. They both separately undergo a procedure performed by the Lacuna Company. The company's technicians have the technology that allows them to erase people's memories and certain past experiences, in which the procedure takes place while the person is a sleep.…