Hope and Glory

saga of films loved by just about every person in the United States. From middle-aged Sci-Fi nerds to middle school jocks, you’d be hard pressed to find somebody that “just didn’t get the hype.” The first Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was released in 1977 and the last film of the series (so far), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was released in 2005. Though the original movie was a pop culture phenomenon and has changed film forever, the physical fallacies are…

The Matrix: A movie making Revolution The Matrix is a movie released in the year 1999, and it is considered a cult classic by many moviegoers. In terms of science fiction movies, it ranks highly on many lists and represents what critics consider to be a pioneering way of storytelling. It tells the narrative of a dystopian future. In this new reality, machines rule the world and are harnessing humans as an energy source. The humans are plugged in to a virtual reality which is popularly referred…

It’s 1997, the new movie ‘The Titanic’ came out into theaters. This movie was known as the first billion dollar film. The movie, based on a survivor of this tragedy who somehow found love in all of the disaster and sadness, changed the view of the movies’ audience to not just the sad aspect of the historical devastation, but as well as a view into the smaller aspects like the ballroom dancing, the lower class area, and the lives of the rich. It brought happiness, as well as anger and sadness. In…

A Hard Days Night its celebrating 50th its anniversary this year which enhances my reasons for choosing this film. In this paper, I will argue its historical and cultural significance, its influences on modern films, particularly the music video and demonstrate how Richard Lester’s techniques paved the way what seems the norm in the industry. I will also look at the other elements that make the film so iconic today. My Paper will cover concepts such as the influences of ‘The New French Way’…

mortal wear’” (13,299, 454-457). Athena helps protect Odysseus by changing the way he looks and dresses, so the people on the island don’t know his true identity. Athena helps guide and protect Odysseus on is journey back home. In Star Wars; a New Hope, Ben Kenobi mentors Luke Skywalker on his journey to becoming a Jedi and fighting against the empire. The empire has taken over the galaxy and the rebels are…

“The 1970s marks Hollywood’s most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating story telling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood” Name of the dude who said that An era that started off by breaking new ground and later become what would be a profitable era of block buster entertainment, New Hollywood is recognised as a period where some of the most revered directors rose and some of the most memorable films ever to come…

Set prior to the events of the third installment of the Star Wars series, A New Hope, Rogue One tells the story of the behind-the-scenes heroes that acquired the infamous Death Star’s blueprints essential to its destruction. Set in a variety of locales, the most notable being Jedha, an Imperial-held desert moon, Eadu, housng an Imperial research facility, and Scarif, home to the Imperial data bank. With atmosphere as varied as location, there is always an underlying tone of hopefulness laced in…

Throughout the beginning years George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, made this a series of three films entitled: “A New Hope”, “The Empire Strikes Back”, and “Return of the Jedi”. Audiences connected with the saga because it dealt with the power struggle between good and evil. Luke and Darth Vader were the main characters who symbolized this power struggle that often determined…

One of modern society’s favourite pastimes is watching and comparing films. Films have the ability to make us laugh, cry, or even think while touching our hearts no matter what the genre is. Contemporary media genres have dramatically changed since classical literary times, which divided theatrical and literature into groups of drama and comedy, giving birth to genres. Films have become difficult to place into a specific genre, as “any theme may appear in any genre” (Chandler 1997, p. 1)…

The movie titled Inception was produced in 2010, and it captured many viewers as being one of the best fantasy and science fiction of the years. Christopher Nolan was the producer and director of the film. He also fully participated in its script writing. The movie's storyline and script development were Christopher Nolan's ideas from 2001. According to Christopher Nolan, the movie was themed around lucid dreaming and incubation of dreams that brought up visions of an existence whereby…