Morgan Freeman

Only a few weeks ago, the stars aligned for the release of director Eli Roth’s long delayed horror flick, The Green Inferno. The film was about what you’d expect from the deviously perturbed mind of Roth – but it, like Hostel, packed a serious punch in terms of toying with the psychological mindset of viewers. This time around, Eli Roth is back behind the camera for the 1977 Death Game remake – simply titled, Knock Knock. In this horror-thriller, Keanu Reeves stars as Evan Webber – an…

As American author John Piper, once said, "Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections." In Charles Dicken's novel, A Tale of Two Cities, the themes of resurrection and redemption are displayed to show that suffering will lead one to be recalled to life. Throughout the novel, Dickens mainly focuses on the idea of resurrection and redemption existing as opportunities in life. Alexandre Manette, a known doctor, was living a life with his family and job when his…

The movie Shawshank Redemption is a film that was about a banker named Andy Dufresne who was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for murdering his beloved wife and her lover. He knows that he did not commit the crimes, he was being accused of something he did not do. While his stay at prison, he made some friends and lives through the harsh life in prison. This movie has shown what he went through. It shows his difficulties and experiences throughout his many years of confinement in…

He Got Game follows Jake Shuttlesworth, a prison inmate convicted of killing his wife, and his journey to reestablish a relationship with his son Jesus Shuttleworth. Jesus is the top basketball player in the nation, and the pursuit to recruit him by top schools as begun. Jake is released on a ‘special government program’ in order to convince Jesus to sign to Big State. During this process Jake must confront his past and the mistakes he has made, while Jesus attempts to fight outside influences…

You Reap What You Sow Everyday people do wonderful things to make the world a better place, and others do horrific actions that serve only themselves. No matter which route you choose to go, good or bad, you will reap the consequences of your actions. Life is like gardening, if you sow good seeds you will in turn be rewarded with good crops, and if you sow bad seeds your crops will be bad. Your past actions will determine your future karma, one cannot commit wrongful actions and expect…

In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, Capote follows the stories of both a murdered family, the Clutters, and their murderers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith. Over the course of the novel, Capote reveals that Hickock and Smith met in prison and reconnected once they were both released (161). The pair’s target in invading the Clutter household was money in an alleged safe; murdering the Clutters would just ensure no witnesses could identify them as the killers (Capote 161). Eventually…

Arising the nineteenths century the English poet Lord Byron was the first model for a Byronic hero. He gains the status as a Byronic character throughout his life with the different characteristics due his personality. In general, a Byronic hero is a person who isolates either physically or emotionally from the world. Furthermore, a Byronic hero characterize himself for example as intelligent, arrogant and emotionally and intellectually tortured. A Byronic hero is also a person who just appears…

A Man Reborn They say that hell has several levels. I have no doubt in my mind that the Texas prison system is one of those levels. Jon Wayne Nobles went to prison plagued by his own demons, and what better way to exercise them than by joining the Dominican Order of Preachers? That must have worked for him too, because Nobles is even able to show compassion and learn forgiveness, which he shows Earle before being executed. I have no doubt in my mind that before Nobles dies, he was re-habilitated…

O Brother, Where Art Thou? was made in 2000 and is about three escaped prisoners on the hunt for some buried treasure. These men experience a great deal of adversity during their hunt including being returned to prison, a Ku Klux Klan mob, and a flood. Unlike many of the other films I have watched during the course of this class, this movie possessed a large amount of diegetic music. The type of music seemed to fit the movie well because of the comedic tone throughout. The first song heard in…

The films The Count of Monte Cristo (CMC) and Shawshank Redemption (SSR) share the theme of a man who is unjustly imprisoned for a severe crime; however the two films are truly quite different. Between the films there are a few basic elements that contribute to the theme, such as; the crimes that the protagonists Edmond Dantès and Andy Dufresne are imprisoned for, what the two men wish to do when they escape prison, and the life that they lead after they gain their liberty.…