Hong Kong

Australian director George Miller’s 2015 blockbuster, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, is an action filled, post-apocalyptic film. The Mad Max universe is a set in a stark, desert landscape filmed in Namibia, with an oil and water crisis, which forces humanity to revert back to a state of war and isolation. One of the main characters, Max is captured by the “war boys” who live in the Citadel run by tyrannical Immortan Joe, and eventually finds Furiosa and her rig. In the ‘Furiosa’ scene, he attempts to…

Andreas Gursky was born on January 15, 1955 in Leipzig, Germany. He is a German photographer and a professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, which is as well in Germany. This photographer is best known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs which portray various aspects such as consumer culture and busyness of modern life, resulting in dramatic images that mark the line between the representation and the abstract. Gursky began photographing in black and white with a hand-held…

Boba is a popular ingredient for many desserts in Asian countries. However, in the United States, boba is rarely used in foods that people consume on a daily basis. Boba is not usually eaten by itself; it can be added to tea or smoothies. It can also be used as the main ingredient for a sweet soup. Having grown up in Taiwan, the country where boba milk tea was invented, I love boba and have eaten boba for many years. It is a treat that I often crave in America, but I have discovered that boba is…

A. Why does Jing-Mei feel different when her train leaves Hong Kong and enters China? Jing-Mei feels like she is becoming Chinese. What does Jing-Mei’s name mean and what does her name make the essence of? The beginning part of her name means pure essence and the other part means younger sister. Her name makes the essence of her two sisters. Who found the abandoned babies? They were found by a peasant couple who raised them. How does this novel relate to Tan’s life? Tan visited her half sisters…

not. People were discouraged so they turned to opium for relief. The Chinese began to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. The Chinese wanted peace and for poverty to become abolished, so the people started the Taiping Rebellion, which was led by Hong Xiuquan. Hong Xiuquan and his army successfully rebelled against the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Imperial troops and British and French forces attacked the Taiping. After this the Taiping government was brought down by these attacks and many people died in…

depressed world. The audience could identify with the otherness or characters within the film because the world they lived in was similar that on screen. What makes King Kong so brilliant is the depression begins the film and the viewer “is immediately immersed in a particular, then-current socio-economic circumstances," but King Kong (1933) does not linger in this depressed world; it instead takes the viewer into fantasy (Stymeist 400). The films venture into fantasy will ultimately lead to a…

Not So Old As Time In the 1933 film King Kong, directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack create a fantastical horror rendition of the classic Beauty and the Beast tale. Ann Darrow, a beautiful but poor woman, gets noticed by a movie director and travels to a mysterious island where she gets captured by a giant gorilla who falls in love with her. However, Ann does not warrant these advances, and in a final chase through New York City, King Kong falls from the Empire State Building.…

I was 7 years old when I watched the movie the Iron Giant for the very first time. The movie is about the friendship between a boy and a robot and at the end of the movie the robot is faced with the choice of sacrificing himself to save his friend or letting his friends town and everyone that lives there be destroyed by a bomb. The Iron Giant chooses to sacrifice himself in order to save everyone else, but more specifically his friend. That was the first time I had ever seen someone take their…

the uncertainty of the monster’s origin and motivation. Where is the monster coming from? Why is the monsters destroying the society we live in? These questions always remain in our head. In Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong and the Japanese original version of Godzilla, King Kong and Godzilla are reminders to people’s action and they also contribute to the improvement of the society. Admittedly, most monsters…

was a legendary piece of pure cinema - simultaneously a terrifying monster movie, epic fairy tale, tragic love story, and deeply resonant cultural myth. His name is King Kong.” (Morton, 2005) This research essay will be analysing the film(s) King Kong 1933 directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack and the remake King Kong 2005 directed by Peter Jackson. The essay will compare and link each style of films, the narrative, genre and aesthetics. Throughout the discussion the essay will…