Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Men” and “Mr. Smith goes to Washington.” These movies are culturally significant because they portray American politics in a negative light. They consist of storylines that illustrate the unfavorable side of the nature of our government by making it seem as though there is corruption within it. While both films have been deemed controversial in a sense, it is important to look at the messages they are trying to convey, how they get them across, and why they are…

September 3, 1991 at the age of 94. He was a leading director in the 1930s and 1940s and made many memorable movies like the popular Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Other classic movies included “You Can’t Take It With You” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. Frank Capra didn’t come into this world in California. He was born in Sicily on May 18, 1897. His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was a little boy and settled in Los Angeles. He graduated from the California Institute of…

of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were all popular movies that brought in over $1.5 million. Not only did The Wizard of Oz bring in plenty of money, but it…

Mr. Smith goes to Washington 1. How does Jefferson Smith become a senator? Also, compare his characteristics with the other candidates. Given the difficulty of finding a suitable Senator, just mentioning the name of Jefferson Smith, a young idealist full of innocence and American ideals of democracy, a subject that seems easy to handle and deceive. If Smith already is quite naive, the young man also relies heavily on his colleague, Senator Paine, since he and his father were close friends from…

The economic struggles of the 1930’s left the biggest influence on political debates, and in the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), a young man takes on a governmental apprenticeship to address several political ideas. The American people have understood for a long period of time the various corruptions within government and shorty before the release of the…

same, unique recipe spanning the elements of story, directing, and editing that survive the test of time. Most, if not all, of Frank Capra’s films follow the exact same storyline, just with different characters in different situations. Each film goes something like this: The…

Mother goes to get tea, when she gets back she tells Mattie that Polly had died, Mother told Mattie and Eliza that she had the fever and there was no doctor around. More people were getting the fever. Rumors start spreading and people begin staying away from the shops by the river. A lot of people start leaving town. Mattie and Grandfather see a man pushing a wheelbarrow with a body in it. He dumps the body in the street, and they realize its Mattie’s mother. She isn’t dead. Grandfather gets…

Following the introduction of sound in the late 1920’s, the film industry flourished, and multiple genres took their place in the forefront of the industry, including gangster, horror, and western films (Dixon & Foster 90-91). One genre of film that started in the early 1930s and became popular until the late 1940s was the “screwball comedy”, which contained elements consisting of comedy and romance (Dixon & Foster 99-100). It was “characterized by social satire, comedic relief through zany,…

In the modern world of medicine, there are patients who can no longer be helped with any type of treatment. They may also be in a physical and mental state that prevents them from being able to recover ever again, such as Mrs. Jones, who is left in a vegetative state. In such situations, there is a tough choice to make with only 2 options: the patient can either be left on life support with no chance of doing independent tasks, such as talking or even breathing, ever again, or be euthanized. The…

Cinematic Depictions There are a few films create a perception of inefficiencies of government as well as how these inefficiencies can lead to harmful if not deadly consequences. In Bryon Howard’s 2016 film, Zootopia, we can use the classic Department of Motor Vehicles (“DMV”) scene to illustrate inefficiency. In the scene at the DMV a rookie cop gets the help of a DMV employee depicted as a slow-moving sloth. The rookie cops need to run a license plate quickly, to track down a lead but due to…