Narrative poetry

As a filmmaker, I want create stories that criticize and analyzes the construction of the human experience. By applying my personal experience, especially adolescence, femininity, and sexuality to my current concentration in screenwriting. My strongest motivations to write has always been about depicting my observations of world and captures the unique aesthetic found in each moment. The themes that heavily influence my work stems from what I feel are two main components to our identity that…

The movie begins with a police officer seeing a car wreck. He goes to the scene to find nobody is hurt. While questioning the people, everyone is bickering with each other. The bickering stops when an outside voice says, "Cut!" We learn that the scene is just a scene on a movie set. In the middle of the director's speech, the stage doors open. The six people, or the Characters, are looking for an author that will tell their tale. The Characters includes the Father, the Widow, the Oldest…

“The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. The audience is also the toughest critic - a good story that exists in your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can.” Those were the words spoken by director Steven Spielberg when he talked about his life as a film maker. The film making industry has changed since the…

In The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, the narrator of the book meets a few different people. One of those people is the Curate in the story. The narrator meets the Curate and learns about him. The Curate’s take on the apocalypse is to turn to God and depend on God to take care of him. He believes that if he stays true to his faith that everything will be okay and that he will still be able to live a normal life even though the world is crumbling around him. The Curate wants to help…

“The Pie” by Gary Soto is a short story about the author reminiscing about himself as a six year old boy stealing an apple pie at a German Market. Then, later on in the story feeling he committed a sin when he stole and ate the apple pie. Soto recreates the experience of his guilty six year old self – in a guilt written autobiography- through the use of personification, symbolism, and allusion to effectively describe his worst sin. Throughout the story, the use of personification is presented…

There were several scenes in Vertigo that movie could have served as the conclusion. In Vertigo, there were screen blackouts that made me think, and maybe other viewers, that the movie was ending. One blackout occurred after the death of “Madeleine”. Because the viewers were brought back to the opening scene by what happened prior to this scene, an ending here seemed appropriate, especially with the idea of ending at the beginning. Another scene seemingly fit as a conclusion was after Midge told…

almost 200 years apart, the similarities in each story can mirror the ideas and concepts each, author or producer, trying to get across. Many television shows and film ideas are drawn from key historical writings, produce a spinoff of a specific story, or use similar ideas to help convey a fresh new story. Goethe’s Faust, for example has very similar ideas to those contemporary ideas of “Breaking Bad”. The similarities between such a contemporary story, like “Breaking Bad”, as a form of the…

What makes it unique in comparison to Speak is that the narrative authority is given to the narrator of the story which is the main character of the story 15 years later. The lessons Gene gives us is also made in the present day, but does not apply to when he was in high school. An example of this would be his…

While watching the movie “Chronos” There is a certain message that it is trying to convey. This ranges from the the themes that can range from mystery, nature vs technology and other themes like that. Moreover, the movie demonstrates great cinematography. While the movie has no dialogue in it. There is however a message that is being portrayed in this movie. This movie being abstract, of course has different meanings that can vary from person to person. Furthermore, there truly may not be a…

The films The Adventures of Félix and Tomboy each cause the viewer to question the identities of the characters within the films and their own identities. Due to similar styles of self-discovery and a variety of equivalent identities, connections can be found between both of the main characters, Félix and Mikäel. Additionally, varying styles of narration communicate numerous complimentary ideals of identity and self. Through the creation of personal quests for Félix in The Adventures of Félix…