Laurence Fishburne

Art and emotion, often times, go hand-in-hand with one another due to the generalistic idea that emotions are what fuels the artist drive to produce such wondrous masterpieces. Poetry, is one such art that allows its creator to call upon a variety of emotions. Whether those emotions are a sense of delight, anger, contempt, sorrow, etc, all are forms of emotion and are easily seen throughout the many poems written by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Paul Lurance Dunbar. When these poets fuse…

idea that civilization often imposes labels, and roles onto us- and often, without thinking twice about it, we adhere to those roles. This book then allows us to explore how we react to society’s impositions. Text Name: “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896) What it's about: I found this poem to be hardest to explain concisely what it is about. Essentially, the poem is about how African Americans used a “mask” to hide their true feelings at a time of severe explicit inequality.…

Since Othello has been written, the protagonist, Othello, has been played by many different actors. These actors have been white and black. However, there is controversy around the play and it has been questioned whether black actors should continue to play Othello. Some people believe that black actors should not play Othello or act in any Shakespearean plays. Thomas Gregory believed that African Americans should only act in “plays written by African-Americans” (Shakespeare in Black and White)…

What is the matrix? In the movie, actually the name Matrix means the overall mass all ´´the overall surrounding mass´´ so that is the question of the movie: What is the surrounding mass? What is it all and good? Matrix means a virtual world to hide the truth. The main character of this movie is Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer by day and a hacker named Neo night. Has spent his entire life sensing that there is something more, that there is something wrong and that doubt…

popular movies. He mentions various instances where some of the most relevant actors play these roles of the “magical negro”, such as Danny Glover in Legendary, Cuba Gooding Jr. in What Dreams May Come, Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance, Laurence Fishburne…

“Boyz N The Hood” is a 1991 American crime drama film by John Singleton and starring Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Laurence Fishburne. The storyline revolves around a group of three young male adults raised in the Crenshaw slums of Los Angeles and details the various difficulties that they face in their daily lives as they try to make in life despite being from the ghetto. The themes of race, violence, love, and future prospects are prevalent throughout the film, and Singleton…

about if they actually know their wife is an appeal to emotion. It’s meant to trigger sadness in people when they realize that they don't actually even know those that they think are closest to them. (STEWE 2) The man pictured in the meme is Laurence Fishburne. He’s an actor who plays Morpheus in the Matrix. This makes this an appeal to authority. (SIP 2) This meme uses ethos and pathos to get its point across.(STEWE 1) The appeal to authority is ethos. Using an actor gives the meme authority…

blaxploitation films lasted from about 1970-1975, but the impact of that era extended much longer. Black audiences established that they mattered, and that in turn gave rise to many African American celebrities like Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Laurence Fishburne, and Billy Dee…

Introduction The title of the Series is Hannibal, meaning “grace of Ba`al”. Having Hebrew origins, Ba`al can contemplate Satan himself or demons in general. Being in a psychological thriller, the characters in Hannibal find themselves at higher risk of mental damage than physical. In a psychological thriller, the focus is on the psychology of its characters rather than the plot. The producer, writer and developer of Hannibal is Bryan Fuller. He jobs as a scriptwriter and television producer,…

figure of the well-rounded black man, what he should look, act and feel. There are several aspects of cinema the director relies on to deliver his message to the audience. In the opening scene the viewers are introduced to the lead male actor Laurence Fishburne who plays Dap. The first longshot captures from overhead,…