Mike Nichols

Producer, Mike Nichols provides us with a powerful look into the life of an American nuclear plant worker in the 1983 movie “Silkwood.” Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher, “Silkwood” depicts the true story of Karen Silkwood, a chemical technician and union activist at Kerr-McGee nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. Knowing that the plant is three months behind in meeting a contract’s deadline, Silkwood suspects that their work is being compr0mised in order to meet the deadline.…

foundation, and actually lies in the personal image of America. The extreme possibility of Donald Trump getting into office is now a reality. Trump has a crazy past of discrimination with people of color. An article by the Huffington post’s, James Nichols blast that Trump has a, “Long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2016.” Not to even mention the new vice…

actual world in imaginative ways, magnifying certain conflicts and intensifying various emotions.”(Nicholas, 2010). The type of genre “Gerald’s Game” posits is horror, as “fear, suspense, horror, shock, surprise, disgust, repulsion, [and] relief” (Nichols, 2010) are all shown within the film. “Gerald’s Game” is an example of horror film with such profound psychological and emotional scope. The disgust of horror was shown at the end of the film. It presents how Jessie extricates herself from the…

It is not uncommon for newly graduated college students stepping into the world to experience a heavy dose of reality. It also is not unusual for college students to feel an overwhelming sense of loneliness when faced with reality. Directed by Mike Nichols,” The Graduate ”, a film that observes a newly graduated college student, Benjamin, played by actor Denis Hoffman, dealing with reality and all of the disconnection it might come with. By highlighting and focusing on Benjamin’s social…

children as having a disorder that they will grow out of, in spite of the medical community believing just the opposite. Recently the Vice President-Elect has been quoted saying he would rather funnel money from HIV research into conversion therapy. (Nichols) conversion therapy,…

filling more of the top CEO and executive positions at large companies it could sometimes seem as though this statement is very true. Many political feminist activists work hard to create an equal playing field for women in the business world. In Mike Nichols’ 1988 film Working Girl, the statement “it is a man’s world” and the overall social norm/cultural value of women being inferior to men in the workplace is challenged by the protagonist Tess McGill in many different ways. The cultural values…

and lost in the world, he starts an affair with an older woman, who is also the wife of his father’s business partner. This film is about sex, secretes, betrays and dreams that are forever lost. The film was released in 1967 and it was directed by Mike…

The Search for One’s Prerogative to Power How would one go about proving oneself; proving he/she is worthy of respect and attention? Students listen to their teachers, interns listen to their supervisors, employees listen to their bosses. In our society today, there is an order; an order in which the members of this society regulate importance and classify superiority. In Margaret Edson’s play, Wit, the characters are not only trying to find their place in this societal order, but they are…

The film “Wit,” directed by Mike Nichols is narrated from the perspective of an English professor, Vivian Bearing, after she is diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. She explains her experience with the doctors, other health professionals, as well as the institution, and the side affects the treatment has had on her both mentally and physically as she goes through her intensive chemotherapy. She explains feeling neglected and isolated. At one point, she makes a comment about how…

preference; without question. What are the moral rights of cancer or terminally ill patients? Should heath care professionals be able to step in and take over a patient 's wish or request on their own death? In Wit written by Margaret Edson, directed by Mike Nichols and Emma Thomson, Emma Thompson plays a 17th Century poetry professor named Vivian Bearing; she is diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. This movie raises the question of a patient making a morally right decision for…