Dennis Hopper

Furthermore, Francis Coppola similarly critiques the values of his context at the end of this text through Dennis Hopper, a creative minded, drugged up photo journalist broadcasting the atrocities of war Vietnam. Hoppers sporadic costume design of multiple cameras dangling from his neck as well as the low angle shot and dialogue to Willard “I’m an American” illustrates the emphasis Coppola had on showcasing the dominance and impact media had on the war which consequently formed the anti-war…

African American cinema, white directors are continue to be favor over black directors. It is every clear on how differently not only the black actors are portrays, but also how the directors are portrays as well. In this paper, I will be comparing Dennis Hopper’s movie titled Color, and Charles Stone’s Drumline. I will compare and contrast the two by showing how the black community is represented differently from the white community. The movie is an American police procedural action crime…

Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969) established the cornerstone of a new perspective of the West in the countercultural context. As John Ford used the literature for some of his productions, the counterculture gets some influences from the beat generation with authors and works such as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). The counterculture’s cultural products share the same fascination for the movement and express a general dissatisfaction towards the traditional community values. This new…

„One American citizen will effectively choose the next President“ - the scenario in which the main characters, alcoholic unemployed factor worker Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) and his bright and idealistic daughter Molly (Madeline Carroll), find themselves in in Joshua Michael Stern's new movie is at first difficult to accept. If one is able to look past this, „Swing Vote“ delivers some satirical moments as well as heartwarming scenes – though it can't really decide if it's aiming to be a family…

In the 1980’s American was going through a number of large changes. President Jimmy Carter signed a bill requiring 19 and 20 year old males to register for the military draft. AIDS is announced as a new plague, and finally street gangs begin growing rapidly and terrorizing the streets of America. Not just any street gang had as much notoriety as the Crips. The Crips, a gang of young men that specialized in a wide array of crimes. They would steal everything, terrorize neighborhoods and kill…

police officer, takes him on the trail of the nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), with whom he soon takes on a sado-masochistic relationship. Quickly Jeffrey realizes, that Dorothy was abused and blackmailed by a perverse (Dennis Hopper) The movie looks for contradictions, and the contrast to the obvious. A contrast that Lynch seeks to explore visually as well as content. The green front gardens and colorful flowers of the opening sequence stand opposite the dark night.…

become the other and both can be showed simultaneously in American theaters while award winning blockbuster films have often started as independent. Dark dramas like “Precious” directed by Lee Daniels, Counterculture films like “Easy Rider” by Dennis Hopper and teen comedy-drama “Election” by Alexander Payne are all examples of independent films picked up by large studios becoming blockbuster hits. Originally independent film signified films made outside of the studio system, and in some ways…

Apocalypse Now is produced and written by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written with John Milius. It stars Martin Sheen who plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard as well as a U.S. Navy patrol crew that are set out down the Cambodia river on a top-classified reconnaissance mission to assassinate a rogue colonel after the Vietnam War. Apocalypse Now is based on and mirrors the novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness” it implies that the separation of people from…

1. The film I have chosen for my final is a film directed by David Lynch in 1986 called Blue Velvet. The film’s main actors are Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper. They play the roles of the a college student named Jeffrey Beaumont, the role of a detective’s daughter named Sandy Williams, the role of crazy singer named Dorothy Vallens, and the role of a homicidal maniac called Frank Booth. Frank has a couple of screws loose, you can clearly tell he’s not sane…

graphic scenes of sex and violence, which was unheard of for public display at the time. To further compound on the changing motion picture landscape, the so-called Hays code was also removed in 1967. An example of this is the movie Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper, which depicted the drug use of the era. It also demonstrates the volatile hippie movement, along with the social tensions at the time, through a depiction of the American road trip that made the movie highly popular (Rielly). Another…