Jack Nicholson

It is well known today that Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest of his kind. But Nicholson can credit Chinatown as his start as A-list regular. Even being said that Nicholson “is one of the most interesting actors now working…” (Ebert, par.6). And that “Before Chinatown, Nicholson was known, but not a bona fide star. This film, his first lead role, changed the direction of his career.”(Berardinelli, par.7). Nicholson is an actor who becomes unrecognizable as himself and is solitary remembered as the character you’re watching. His acting and personification of J.J. (Jake) Gittes in Chinatown is undeniably one of the strongest attributes in this movie. Roger Ebert pronounces in the Chicago Sun-Times this role is one of his bests (par.6). Nicolson’s…

dreamed of Hollywood stardom. Her mother had connections and got Samantha the opportunity to do a photoshoot with the director of The Pianist, Roman Polanski. At the time, he was known for films like Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown. Who wouldn’t take an opportunity like Samantha had? She wanted to further her acting career and her photoshoot was going to be featured in French Vogue. During the first day of the photoshoot, Samantha felt uncomfortable. She found it strange when Polanski made…

Bucket List all share a common story-line. In all three movies, a guy is going through life without an awareness of the beautiful life surrounding him. However, towards the end of their lifetimes, they evaluated their lives and ask themselves the prominent question what makes them happy? After figuring out what makes them happy, they decided to take action before it was too late. For example, in American Beauty and Click, Kevin Spacey and Adam Sandler quit their jobs to spend time with family,…

The Cries that Never Should have Happened, or did they? It was a typical brisk december morning in December back in 2012. Families woke up that morning like any other. The parents, woke their children up, feed them breakfast, got them dressed and packed them into the mini-van to go to school. Once, they got to school they stated their day like any other. Meet their friends in the halls and walked to class. Neither the parents nor, teachers, nor kids believed that today would be unlike any…

Batman interrogates joker scene This scene starts with the cop and the joker in a dark room, the only light lighting up the room is the door light and the lamp right where they are sitting. While the cop is listening to the joker speak only half of his face is fully visible due to the lack of light in the room. It then switches to the joker talking and behind him is very dark, only perk of his face is slightly visible, everything else behind him is not. This adds suspense to the scene that…

Freedom, and rights for that matter, is a giant teeter-totter. You never have quite the right balance to keep it even and up in the air without your feet touching the ground. I think that I’ve had times where I’ve had my rights infringed on,that my rights and my freedom had brought up debate, but I think at some point we all do. I guess a time where I saw that freedom is more defined by the person is when I chose not to stand for the pledge of allegiance last year. It was a personal choice,…

Henry David Thoreau once said, “disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” In Rob Reiner’s film “A Few Good Men,” two obedient marines were inaccurately convicted of conduct unbecoming of a United States Marine. In the middle of the night, Harold Dawson and Louden Downey, entered the barracks of William Santiago. Dawson and Downey issued a code red to Santiago, exacerbating a condition and causing him to die of Lactic Acidosis (A Few Good Men). Dawson and…

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys’ actions are a manifestation of the inner savagery of an individual that surfaces when the society that they belong to has fallen. This is shown on page 181 through Jack’s violence towards Ralph after Piggy’s death. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph”(181). Jack expresses antagonism towards…

weird inside almost like I was scared. A random face comes up to me and asks ‘’did you win your math thing James’’. I said ‘’yeah in unusual way. For a second I thought he joking or something. As I walked to the cafeteria I feel very weird inside almost like I have butterflies in my stomach. Out of no were I see a kid fly like super man straight across the room. I only see a blur. Then after he’s on the ground I could see him clearly. I could also hear people chanting like wild animals. Then I…

Jack Torrance, the main character of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson, dutifully fills his role as breadwinner to the nuclear family until the pressures of carrying the “white man’s burden” become to great for him to bear and ultimately causing him to go insane. Because a wide gap exists between Torrance’s desire (to be a creative person) and his interpolated role (which imposes breadwinning over his desire), he experiences heightened inner tension. This inner tension…