Kenneth Branagh

live their uncaged lives, running in the wild, soaking up the heat of the Gibson Desert, living each moment carefree with Tanned Skins! Life seemed usual and blissful for Molly and her sisters until A.O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh); The Chief protector of Aborigines in the state, learns about the three aboriginal girls. Though the title A.O. Neville holds seems to be a profession that maintains the standards of Aboriginal culture,…

He did a great job portraying the character Iago and gave me a better view of how manipulative he was. In the film Kenneth Branagh’s facial expressions and the music that plays in the background helps let you know when Iago is up to his manipulative ways. A difference between the text and Oliver Parker’s 1995 version of Othello is in the first scene when Roderigo says…

Much Ado About Nothing Response Question: Describe what happens in a visual text you have studied and explain what this text made you think about. Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a film adaption of William Shakespeare’s original play. In this film we watch a humorous drama unfold regarding the love lives of our main characters, which uses element of confusion and deception to . This film brought to light the different approach that the people had towards marriage and…

“Ghosts” is a stage play written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The stage play was written in 1881, and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. (Mulyani, 2014) It was starred by Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh, Freddie Jones and Natasha Richardson. Ghosts begins with a conversation between Mr. Engstrand and his daughter Regina. He tried to convince his daughter to come back home, and leave Mrs. Alving’s orphanage, which was built for Captain Alving’s, her husband, 10th…

riches, gangsta and hood life, and segregation. When African American actors are portrayed in different roles, they seem to receive many negative reviews. In recent years, actor Kenneth Branagh was cast as a Idris Elba, a Nordic god, in Thor. There was debate about whether or not a man of color should play the character, but Branagh defends himself by saying that Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra and other white actors played people of color, yet he gets hate for being a man of color playing a…

The Prince in Cinderella 2015 and Ever After play a key role, and the role of prince is pervasive in other versions of Cinderella. Prince’s role is to save Cinderella from the stepmother and to marry with her. Because of his role, princes in many different stories have very similar characteristics that are kindness and generosity and fall in love with Cinderella. Although many different actors played a character prince, this is what most people know and care about a prince in Cinderella stories.…

Kurt Wallander is the lead character in the Kurt Wallander series of novels created by Swedish crime author Henning Georg Mankell. Mankell published the first novel in the series Faceless Killers in 1991 before he went on to publish nine more titles culminating in the 2010 published The Troubled Man. Kurt Wallander is a small town detective working in the coastal town of Ystad in Sweden. He is a very dedicated cop who has a knack for getting the smallest but most important of details from any…

Review various sources for the Dunkirk incident that occurred during WW2. Dunkirk is a seaport in northern France on the North Sea and was the scene of what in simple terms could be called the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II but in reality, was so much more. More than 300,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk and the surrounding beaches in May and June 1940. At the time the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said it was "a miracle of deliverance". The “miracle”…

I will be discussing the transforming effect that the literature I have read has had on me. I will outline the discrimination in Freak the mighty and The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. Also, in Much Ado about Nothing I will outline the immaturity of Claudio as well as the horrific manner in which Claudio treated Hero throughout the film. Furthermore, I will also outline how the aspect that people should never give up is shown in the short story The Fly. Finally I will discuss…

Though they adapt the same source material, through the skillful use of setting and cinematography, the openings of Joss Whedon’s and Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing present vastly different moods. Both contain sequences not featured in the text that add to their vision of Shakespeare’s original work - a triumphant and frenzied entrance in a bucolic setting for one, and an intimate abandonment in the other. Branagh’s production is a show, choosing to downplay the darker aspects of the…