Death of a Salesman

Mamma Mia! is often judged as a Greek tragedy full of drama, heartbreak and simplicity. This misconception could not be more wrong. It is, in fact, a fiendishly difficult musical. Quite a few people still make this assumption, and of those people, almost all come out in the end exuberant and enthralled in the disco era vibes. Mamma Mia is first and foremost a Greek comedy about a silly messed up wedding. Despite being a comedy, it is difficult to find much to laugh at in this production. This…

The poster of North by Northwest (1959) depicts one of the surprising twists in the film’s plot: the apparent shooting of Cary Grant by his co-star Eva Marie Saint. The poster also uses Hitchcock’s name as a selling point by placing it above the title, a form of billing that was granted to only a few top directors (Adair 118). It was an added privilege. As in Rear Window the light touch that makes North by Northwest so entertaining disguises deeper concerns. The entire story of the film is…

The Latin word “errata” is a notation in writing or in a print to mark mistakes into a correct structure. In the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin mentioned the Latin word errata instead of just English word “mistakes” perhaps to emphasize a part that he would like for his son to pay special attention to or perhaps use another language to hide the meaning inside this word, but make it so that his son would eventually figure out about the hidden meaning. There are four important times…

At the beginning of the film, Walter Mitty is a character who is disappointed with what he has. He lives a dull life working as a negative asset manager, not having seen much of the world besides Nashville and Phoenix, and is too shy to talk to his coworker Cheryl Melhoff, whom he has feelings for. He wants to make his life more exciting, however he is too afraid of taking risks whenever the opportunity arises. Instead, he escapes from situations like those by daydreaming. However, when Mitty…

While the film may have lacked development of the men’s relationship with one another and how it grew to become what it was, it allowed for a different development of Ennis and Jack as individual characters. In the film, Lee expands on Ennis’s life with Alma and Jack’s life with Lureen. The story by Proulx is told primarily focusing on Ennis’ life; Lureen, Jack’s wife, is barely mentioned. In the film we get the entire backstory to them meeting and their relationship. Lureen comes from a family…

He was fuming. He couldn't stand it. How could that happen? Technology betrayed him. Todd is an advertiser, or he was until he lost his job from a technology mishap. He was a strong believer in all things Microsoft. He only ever used things by Microsoft, whether it be his web browser, his search engine, or his phone. He created ads that helped kickstart many companies. Everything was perfect. Until one day. He was fulfilling his dream, writing an ad for Microsoft itself. The ad was for their new…

This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff Set in the post-World-War Two era, in the mid 1950s, the central character Toby and his mother leave Sarasota, Florida for Utah with the eager and ambitious plans to become economically prosperous, on uranium. Toby changes his Christian name to Jack, after Jack London as he feels it will charge him with “strength and competence,” and these acts are done also out of spite and betrayal to his father, as they were abandoned. He feels unworthy of his life and feels too…

keeps congratulating my initiative all the time, Pop” (30). Even after admitting to have stolen a football from his coach, he talks highly about his football reputation that he achieves from his coach, which is similar to how highly Willy values his salesman reputation. This shows how much he values his football career and how excited he is to play football, as he went as far…

In the animated movie Monsters University directed by Dan Scanlon, there are many overall helpful lessons in life twisted into the dialog of the characters. For starters, the little green monster that is named Mike isn’t the scariest looking monster but he is very determined and puts his heart into scaring. When Mike is younger he goes on a class field trip to Monsters University, While on the trip he sneaks into one of the doors with a scarer and watches the scarer scare a child. After they…

American author, Laura Hillenbrand, is the author of two best-selling nonfiction books: Seabiscuit: An American Legend and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Hillenbrand’s writing style is considered to contradict from the New Journalism style, drawing a compelling target from readers. In my opinion, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, was by far the most excellent out of the two books. Hillenbrand’s book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, was about an improbable…