Chuck Jones

All eyes are on me. The king, the crowd, and the other participants stop whatever they were doing, but it's not as if it's my first time seeing something big similar to an eagle. I've seen a hound from hell already, so I don't think a giant eagle would faze me. By the way, where is that hound from hell? I have not heard from him ever since we left Rydia. Speaking of a hound from hell. Where the heck is Marchosias? At this point he'd be telling me "what a ridiculous farce, your gamble will only…

The film A Dios Momo takes place in Uruguay and features a young boy named Obdulio. Obdulio works selling newspapers on the street for an unfair boss and aspires to be a famous soccer player. He is illiterate and refuses to go to school. Then, after a bad day at work, a mysterious stranger leads him to a night watchman at a newspaper office that decides to tutor him. At first Obdulio is reluctant, but he soon learns to read and write as well as helping the watchman deliver lyrics for a theatre…

In the film The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, Walter Mitty (played by Ben Stiller) lives an unadventurous lifestyle as a negative assists manager at Life Magazine. After the company gets bought out, Walter’s new boss Ted Hendricks (played by Adam Scott) says there will be cut backs on employees. Most at Life start to worry including Cheryl Melhoff, Walter’s love interest/ co-worker (played by Kristen Wiig). When Walter losses the last cover’s negative, number…

Freedom or Dictatorship Who has the authority to say what is and is not moral? Should people have the freedom to do whatever they please, or should they be restricted in the name of safety? In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the culturally accepted idea of morality in 1960’s America is constantly questioned. Kesey writes the novel through the perspective of Chief Bromden, a man in the ward who acts deaf and dumb but can still speak and hear. In this institution, Nurse Ratched has…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, is a brilliantly written novel that shows his view of the world. Kesey uses a quiet and overlooked upon character named Chief Bromden, to show his point of view of the ward. The ward is ran by a Matriarchy. A Matriarchy is something that is ruled or ran by women. As you know, the book was published in the 60’s, and men and women had to strongly different views of political power. Men thought that women should not be in charge, and women thought the…

Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes…

"You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your Grande Latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your …. khakis." (Fincher 1999) David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is a movie discussing issues in modern masculinity, social stratification and relations of power. By presenting us with a character completely opposite in the extremes of his alter egos. From here he shows us the issues…

Violence is a key part of the film “Fight Club” but it isn’t the centerpiece of the action. The philosophy of the of the film begins to starts with a fight between Tyler and the Narrator with the idea that what could you really know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight. This is the beginning of a philosophy of changing the world from being a society of consumers who don't know themselves into people who can see the world as it really is. Together Tyler and The Narrator build Fight…

The movie, Fight Club is a highly rated film among critics. It includes a well-known actor like Brad Pitt, unique themes, and plot twists. It includes society’s views in capitalism, consumerism, subjectivity, rules, and conformity. Various scenes within the movies show involve these, and so do the ideas and arguments by modern theorists connect with Fight Club. I will mainly focus on two theorists, Michel Foucault and David Abram. And tell how some of their ideas appear in various scenes in the…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey demonstrates a new perspective that rules must be broken. The setting takes place in the ward which is authorized by Nurse Ratched, and her impeccable schedule. Randle McMurphy, a tumultuous, lustful, and brawl-loving Irish disrupts this everyday monotone routine. McMurphy conveys the impression of being self-indulgent by gambling, inviting girls, and drinking. Many believe that McMurphy’s role is that of a selfish egomaniac, however, I believe that…