John Bonham

The Comparison of Alice and Odysseus’s Heroic Journeys “Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.” (James 1:2-4.) As in the first chapter of the book of James, battles are found in both Homer’s The Odyssey and Tim Burton’s film, Alice in Wonderland. The similarities between the characters’ experiences in…

articles, I learned that the outcome of the review is dependent on the audience the reviewer is trying to appeal to. Cinderella as directed by Kenneth Branagh which starred Lily James as Cinderella, Cate Blanchett as her wicked stepmother, and Helena Bonham Carter as her fairy godmother stuck to the original theme from 1950 in which Cinderella won over Prince Charming, but it also presented a somewhat magical approach in empowering young girls. Ella’s dying mother encouraged her to have courage…

The Art of Tim Burton Creepy, eerie, dark, and weird are all words that describe Tim Burton. Tim is known for hits like “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and my personal favorite “The Corpse Bride” all very successful movies that are favorites to many people. In my opinion, Tim burton is an amazing and talented artist who puts amazing and insightful twists on stories that the average Joe wouldn't see or understand until looking into one of his films. His inspirational and…

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,’ Ophelia’s life seems tragic, but for her death to truly be tragic, she had to realize her powerlessness without the men in her life. Ophelia does not have many options as a woman in a patriarchal society, and Helena Bonham Carter’s juxtaposition of Ophelia’s childlike nature with the…

Dead Sexist Fish Crap: A Film Review of Tim Burton’s Big Fish Big Fish shows Will (Billy Crudup) trying to discern whether his father’s fantastic stories are true, or if he was having an affair on his mother. Throughout Will’s life, his father, Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney) has told him absurd stories from his life. While Will was enchanted with these stories as a small child, he now holds an extreme amount of resentment towards his father and suspects him of having an affair…

Statement of Intent My first piece is a creative writing that shows a character being present in a slum similar to, from the characters present in the poem ‘The Blessing.’ Through this I have shown his struggles. My second piece of writing is a film review on Tom Hooper’s ‘The king’s speech’. It shares my thoughts about the film. Creative writing The drops from a leaking container fall on my face and awaken me. I wake up laying on the ground and I’m unable to recognise my surroundings. In my…

definitely sets Burton aside as an auteur is his unapologetic attitude towards featuring the same actors. It seems as though Burton likes to hire actors that have no vanity, hence why he has a famously known recurring cast consisting of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham…

4. Discuss the contrast/battle between good and evil in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. [Ensure that your focus is on filmic elements] Alice in Wonderland heavily weighs up the idea of good and evil, this contrast is brought under the spotlight by the White Queen and the Queen of Hearts and their areas of dominance. This battle between good and evil employs a wide category of film techniques to show this struggle such as; setting, costume, soundscape, actors’ ensemble and performance, and camera…

The two versions of Shakespeare's Hamlet that I will be contrasting today are Zeffrelli's Hamlet film from 1990 and Gregory Doran's Hamlet film from 2009. These two films, while the same script couldn't be any more different then they are. While Zeffrelli's Hamlet is set in a historically accurate Denmark, with elaborate costumes, elegant castles, swords and horse drawn carriages; Doran's Hamlet is set in modern 21rst century Denmark, with T-Shirts and jeans, guns, and cameras. Beyond the time…

Throughout the multiple Tim Burton films I have seen, is that in just about every movie or short film made by him has a unique directorial style that you can tell the movie is by Tim Burton. In the movies Alice In Wonderland, The Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands all start off with eerie music that engages you into the movie immediately along with the incredible imagery and appearance/makeup of each character throughout the films. In the films Alice In Wonderland, The Corpse Bride, and…