Helen Mirren

Why watch the modern remake of a play when you could read it in the classic, original version? There are strong comparisons between reading the play and watching the movie. The play, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, is better than the movie by Julie Taymor because the play has a realistic, representation of characters and allows readers to take their time while reading for better comprehension. The play has a strong portrayal of the original characters, unlike the movie. “What have we…

the contemporary theatre and films has evolved over the years. Cross-gendering, like gender (and cross-dressing) has become multi-faceted in terms of experience and awareness for the actor, character and the audience. In that sense performance by Helen Mirren, Lisa Wolpe and Frances de La Tour is derived much out of their own experience of cross-dressing for the stalk roles of Viola and Rosalind to reflect on the instability of identity in cross-gendered roles. While plays by Shakespeare have…

The evolution of British Cinema has always heavily corresponded with other movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture. As any cultural movement, it is distinctly ingrained its social counterpart. Gosford Park, a ‘quasi-Agatha Christie’ murder mystery, observes the upstairs view of guests of a stately homes, with tidbits and plot exposition of the guests and household’s family from the servants downstairs. To a great extent, the storyline acts as a commentary…

neither language nor culture. One of the pieces in their repertoire was based on the 12th century Persian poem The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar (منطق الطیر, Mantiqu 't-Tayr). Among Brook’s international troupe of actors were a young Helen Mirren and a middle-aged Yoshi Oida, better known in his native Japan. If Peter Brook’s journey was a success, I cannot say, but the subsequent productions in New York and Paris clearly were. Strangely, however, this kind of success seems to…

When it comes to films there are plenty of aspects that are needed in order to complete a film to make it a great enjoyment for the viewers to be entertained. What helps a film would be the three elements of the film which are mise-en-scene, mise-en-shoot, and editing to get the film moving along. Mise-en-scene has elements that are a part of it that are an important factor for a lot of films such as lighting, wardrobe, and the actor movements. This is true for all works of film, yet some were…

“I think that every women in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it but if you were to take any woman back forty years and say ‘Is this a world you want to live in?’ They would say ‘No,’” Helen Mirren, the acclaimed English actress once said. The question this statement raises is why are women refusing to identify as feminists? Through common misconceptions and miscommunications, feminism has been give a negative connotation by groups of extremists who hate men and hid…

To sign, or not to sign. That is the question that hangs so urgently over the wavering title character of “King Charles III,” Mike Bartlett’s flat-out brilliant portrait of a monarchy in crisis, which blazed open on Sunday night at the Music Box Theater. Any echoes you may infer regarding a certain Danish prince are entirely appropriate to this dazzlingly presumptuous drama, set in and around Buckingham Palace in a highly foreseeable future. True, as a product of the 20th century, the newly…

The use of postfeminism and its understandings is rather complex. The word ‘post’ does not indicate that feminism is no longer needed. Dale Spender notes: “feminism is difficult to sustain, not least because so much feminist work has to be continually rediscovered by new generations” (Spender, 1982). This confirms the position of how postfeminism is hard to define and how it is deployed and understood differently within various scholarly works. As Bell Hooks suggests, feminism is about a…

L’Oréal’s goal of attracting 1 billion new customers by 2025 is characterized by expansion into developing markets and retention of its customer bases in developed markets. The company plans to achieve this goal through employing a strategy of new brand acquisitions, continued R&D spending, and brand expansions into new markets. Strategic Brand Acquisitions Strategic brand acquisition is L’Oréal’s main strategy for successful market entry and continued dominance in developed markets. L’Oréal’s…

The Queen, is a 2006 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, in which the movie is centered on the response of the Royal Family regarding the death of Princess Diana and gives a glimpse into the struggle as Queen Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) tries to balance the family’s need for privacy and the public’s demands for an overt display of mourning. The premise of the essay is that media is a powerful tool and has the ability to influence the public’s views and opinions, thus setting an agenda…