Jedi

Moonrise Kingdom, I see how cinemography and mise-en-scene can make a movie great. Visual aspects can be so breathtaking and I decied to focus on that more for my next viewing. Though it wouldn’t weigh heavy because even a beautiful movie like The Last Jedi cannot replace great story telling and development. So, I watched InuYasha the movie 2 again with no sound, and then with the sound again. Before this class: My thoughts on this film was it was amazing. It held the heart of the whole show and…

In the book Everything’s An Argument written by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz, a discourse community is defined as “a group of people who share common interests, goals, values, assumptions, knowledge of a topic… and discursive patterns.” In this paper, I’ll explain how I successfully became a member of my high school’s football team by building a strong relationship with my team mates, paying attention to detail, and going the extra mile throughout practice. I will also be able to…

Villians Almost every story follows a similar formula, beginning with an exposition; the story shortly leads to the rising action, then promptly the climax appears, followed by an eventual wrapping up of the scene and the conclusion. As the story plays out, characters are created including a hero that we are supposed to love and admire. While on the way the hero meets new characters who provide context and clues that are important in the story. Typically, the hero is courageous, passionate,…

English actor, Andy Serkis is best known for his portrayal as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films Trilogy. His other notable works include The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Planet of the Apes reboot series (2011–17). Andy Serkis is married to actress Lorraine Ashbourne. He has three children from his marriage. His net worth is $28 million. He has received an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards in his career. Andrew Clement Serkis was born on April…

At their essence, all stories are the same; from George Lucas ' Star Wars and Grimm 's fairy tales to The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Homer 's The Odyssey. Granted, at face value, there might seem little common ground between Luke Skywalker and Cinderella, or between Dorothy Gale and Odysseus. However, every story plays towards certain experiences-- a progression of trials, triumphs and occasional failures that allow the hero to develop and overcome adversity. This process, called the Hero…

In the early 2000’s, several companies were investigated following accounting scandals. These companies included Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. According to Gary Giroux (2008), most of the scandals involved fraudulent earnings and/or fraud related to stock. It was because of these scandals that new legislation was created, with old legislation being revised. These scandals came as a result of lax regulations, and regulations that were not properly enforced. While the scandals did result in…

son, which will likely become his path to redemption in future film installments. Magneto’s character arc is similar to Darth Vader’s in the Star Wars saga in that Darth Vader redeemed himself by saving his son in Star Wars: Episode VI- Return of the Jedi. Therefore, the theme of redemption continues to be a relevant theme in American culture today. Like the many superhero movies found in the postmodern era, X-Men: Apocalypse and Guardians of the Galaxy both deal with the theme of good versus…

Collins in an article about the representations of female supers in popular culture, “women are often sexualized—typically by showing them in scanty or provocative clothing” (Collins), which the Star Wars series had previously done in Return of the Jedi. In the film, Princess Leia wore a slave bikini at one point, as seen in Figure 1. Rey’s costume contrasts this, as it is not sexual, as seen in Figure 2. It is practical clothing for someone who lived on a desert planet. Obviously, clothing does…

a series of team building events. The team building events not only worked on our team building skills, getting acquainted with each other, but loosened everyone up to be comfortable enough to build relationships. The following activities included, Jedi Numbers, Mingle Mingle, The Human Knot and Group Juggle. One of my favorite exercises was Mingle Mingle: It was a short and quick, fun, easy way to quickly get all of the students acquainted; also, the first thirty second exercise was to greet…

The sickness of manipulation In Hamlet this playwright of “william shakespeare 's” ,Young Hamlet is a man surrounded by deceit and must choose to give into the manipulation or make it his own path. Shakespeare had a sun named Hamlet who passed away who theorist say this is the main point as to why he wrote this dramatic tragedy. In this play King Hamlet is murdered by his brother claudius and it is up to young prince hamlet to end cladiouse raine. Hamlet 's mother and Ophelia also experience…