Ian McKellen

The Hobbit An unexpected Journey was written by Peter Jackson. In my opinion the movie was sort of good. The Movie was based off of the book The Hobbit which was written by J.R.R Tolkien. Both the movie and the book have a genre of Fantasy. Clearly I think that if you like fantasies you should either watch the movie or read the book. The movie took place in the woods. The main Characters were Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin, and Kili. The movie is about a person named Bilbo baggins who was…

For a story to be interesting and exciting, there has to be conflicts. It doesn't matter if it is a movie or a book, there has to be conflicts, and what these conflicts must have are the amazing and iconic villains. Without them, everything will be pointless, the story wouldn't be as exciting as it should be. They simply make everything better by making the audience hate them. If people hates a specific villain’s guts in the story, then that is such a good sign. Villains are even more…

The film industry has produced awesome movies and some of it are so epic viewers beg for a second and even a third installment. Of all the famous and best trilogies in the history of cinema, 10 of the best were listed below. 10. The Jason Bourne Trilogy ("The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum") Former CIA assassin Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon amazed the viewers with action-packed scenes based on Robert Ludlum’s book series. Peter Greengrass directed…

easier for the human mind to understand something that it viewed versus something that it read. This is why plays were written as plays in the first place: “The plays weren’t written to be read, they were written to be spoken out loud and acted- Sir Ian McKellen.” A great example of this is Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A reason for this is that this play was written in a very confusing language, mainly because people do not speak Shakespearean English today, so they are not used to it. This can make…

Homophobia can have various harmful emotional and mental effects on individuals and their peers in the community. There are a number of strategies that can be put into effect to lessen the terrible effects, and to promote health and well-being. These include governmental programs, sexual education improvement and media inclusion. By including a sexual education program that includes safe sex for homosexual relationships, instead of purely heterosexual, the outbreaks of Sexually Transmitted…

Look at the way people dress. Listen to the words of music. Look closely at the plot in movies. We do not often know that some of these are often influenced by the most famous writer and playmaker, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare has influenced quite a bit of today's modern culture through tragic, comical, and love filled writings and plays he wrote in the Renaissance period. We often see remakes of his romantic play, Romeo and Juliet, or his tragic play, Macbeth. Movies such as The Lion King…

villainy” (Knight and Lund). Shakespeare’s use of Holinshed’s potentially untruthful account of King Richard popularized an image of a mean, evil, heartless villain. This, in turn, influenced modern day film adaptations done by Laurence Olivier and Ian Mckellen. Society remembered Richard exactly as how he was characterized by the numerous stories told by authors and directors alike. However, the discovery of Richard III’s body changed the initial perceptions of the public. Richard’s bones…

“I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time” (Ian Mckellen). In William Shakespeare's King Lear King Lear is a king with no power who is suffering from insanity but from his insanity comes great revelations although they come too late.King Lear is a tragic hero due to his grueling downfall, immense recovery and enduring a final tragic ending.…

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’s movie was an adaptation of the book by J. R. R. Tolkien, who believed that, at the time of his death in 1973, the Lord of the Rings book could not be turned into a film. The movie was released on December 19th, 2001 in the fantasy and adventure genre according to IMDB. Most everyone has seen this movie and we all seem to love it. This movie gives us a sense of adventure by just sitting there and watching it while Frodo (Elijah Wood), and his…