Analysis of Mice of Men book vs. Movie The book “Mice of Men’ by John Steinbeck is very different from the movie “Mice of Men’. The movie came out way later than the book did. The movie came out 55 years later than the book in fact. Like every movie that was a book they are never the same. The movie is usually very different than the book. The book and movie “Mice of Men” take place during the great depression. This was a hard time in life because the economy just started to crash and people…
Screen and stage entertainment are very different; although, they seem to have strikingly similar characteristics and have many comparable features that some do not even realize. Stage provides live entertainment that creates a bond with the audience that can be the same plot but performed so differently each time. Screen is filmed entertainment that can have special effects and captivate every single detail but has no real connection to the audience. Usually, how a person feels about stage…
The Real, the Bad, and the Ugly by Cassie Heidecker is an interesting example of analyzing the reality TV epidemic and in addition to the people that view it. The author starts out by listing things that go into a reality TV production and things that happen in real life in order to state that these are two different things despite the idea that reality TV is supposed to be “real”. The mundanity of real life is emphasised here vs. the idea that reality TV is scripted and has a lot of extra work…
love and hardships between mother and daughter while juggling the tasks of work, love, and personal problems. The french term mise-en-scene is shown throughout the film in many different ways through the camera angles, the setting of the movie, props, lighting, staging, makeup, and costumes. These elements play a huge role in this film and help show little details about not only the characters, but their life lessons and the specific ways that they learn them along the way. Mise-en-scene is the…
In the book Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, Tandoori Angel, also known as Tandy, is a whip-smart teenager who lives in New York City. She has three brothers: Harry, Tandy’s twin brother, Matthew, Tandy’s famous football star brother, and Hugo, a ten year old with an uncanny strength. Her parents Malcolm and Maud, own a company called Angel Pharmaceuticals, and are one of the most well known people across the world. One night in their penthouse, her parents…
DOUBT: DOUBTING THE HIGH GROUND Like the work says, “Doubt is a thing that can sustain us…” And throughout the parable, as it were, Doubt sustains us not only with brilliant powerhouse performances from some of our times greatest actors, but additionally with the ponderance of our own certainties on, well, everything really, but especially our own morality. What better place to question people’s place in the world than in a Catholic elementary school right after Kennedy’s assassination? In…
From books and TV shows to movies and plays, the contrast between light and dark is found everywhere. Typically, light indicates something good, while the dark is something to be feared and is bad. For example, most people have this notion that Heaven, which is an unquestionably excellent place, is all light, while Hell, which is atrocious, is completely dark. Even little kids assume something bad is going to happen in the dark, but if they have a night light, then everything will be okay. This…
Title: “The Westing Game” Author: Ellen Raskin Report by: Ethan Keating Warning! Contains Spoilers! Genre: Mystery Plot Summary: Sunset Towers is a 5 stories tall apartment building with 6 apartments. The people in each apartment were specially chosen to get each apartment. They were chosen because they were heirs to Mr. Westing a wealthy man who disappeared after a car accident. Finally on the night of Halloween Turtle, one of the tenants, went into the Westing House on a dare and found the…
Dawn: Interior Droning Writing for Interiors Journal on the subject of interior design in Expressionist film, Architectural Designer, Mehruss Jon Ahi states, “These films focus on a reality that has been invaded and plagued by the irrational and cynical thoughts of its characters, and consequently, the sets in these films resemble their distress.” (Ahi, IntJournal.com) No other Expressionist film represents this stated distress better than Robert Weine’s 1920 classic, The Cabinet of Dr.…
We watch movies and read books with many characters in them. We watch how these characters act and sometimes we try to act like them. Sometimes we see characters that are extremely similar to us and it is absolutely awesome. I found that I am extremely similar to Almanzo from the book “Farmer Boy.” I keep reading and seeing his characteristics and I could not believe how similar our characterics were and I realized that his life and mine are extremely similar. I am extremely similar to to…