Natalie Portman

Today I would like to propose a film adaptation of the poem, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. There have been very few adaptations of the work since its creation, and none within the film industry, so it would be a perfect, new medium for the story to be told. With the recent successes of films like Gone Girl and Nightcrawler, there is a clear public desire to witness passion, egotism, and sociopathology unravel; the narrator from “My Last Duchess” would provide a new archetype for these…

Abstract The purpose of this assignment was to analyze the film The Black Swan and the main character, Nina. As a group, we used the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V to find a proper diagnosis. We chose Borderline Personality Disorder as the diagnosis. In the film, we see how Nina transforms from an innocent and calm White Swan to a seductive and wild Black Swan as the film progressed. As a group we will examine the disorder as well as the symptoms presented to find…

They are inspired by the beautifully enhanced models in magazines and the filtered celebrities they follow on their mobile phones. While the famous are beautiful, the average person does not resemble their features, even if they want to. From Natalie Portman to Tyra Banks, cosmetics companies employ fresh, famous faces to promote and advertise their product. But do cosmetic companies prey on the innocence and the income of the young through these celebrities? Celebrities certainly have an…

In his essay, “Interrogating the Manipulation of Fear”, Andrew Schopp claims that Chief Inspector Finch (Stephen Rea) is the V for Vendetta’s “moral center”, partially because of the way he “voices [the film’s] most crucial ideas, including the central question of whether we would even want to know if our government caused the deaths of thousands of its own citizens to create the kind of fear that would lead the populace to elect a new administration” (272). For a character to be a film’s moral…

estimated 300,000 (“The Biological Weapons Threat”). In the movie, V for Vendetta, England is set during in a dystopian future where a totalitarian government has been established. The film stars Hugo Weaving, who plays a freedom fighter named V, and Natalie Portman, who plays Evey, a young woman who gets herself intertwined in V’s operation. With Evey’s help, V tries to start a rebellion against the government through various acts of terrorism. Leading the mission to take down V is Eric Finch,…

The United States of America was founded on the principle of religious freedom. However, the American people are becoming less and less religious. According to the Religious Landscape Study, in the last seven years the number of religiously unaffiliated United States citizens has increased by nearly seven percent totaling 22.8% as of 2014 (Cooperman et al.). Fewer people are looking to religion as a source of direction. Instead, they look to the media for role models. One such role model is…

passage for girls transitioning to teenagers. They are inspired by the beautifully enhanced models in magazines and the filtered celebrities they follow on social media. But while the famous are beautiful perfect, the average person isn’t. From Natalie Portman to Tyra Banks, cosmetics companies employ fresh, famous faces to promote and advertise their product. They prey on the innocence and the income of the young through these celebrities who have an influence over consumers and what they buy.…

Disorder in Black Swan Black Swan is a psychological movie that tells features the life of Nina Sayers who struggles in the life of a ballerina, who is played by Natalie Portman. The Black Swan’s repulsive hallucinations of claustrophobia and power are the film’s main themes. It taps inside our biggest fear of failure and carries out our most primitive desires to be better than others. It forces us to question how hard we work to be successful and makes us realize that if we lose sight of what…

Film & Character Garden State is coming-of-age comedic drama that attempts to capture the multifaceted transitions often experienced by young adults. This film, released in 2004, was directed by Zach Braff, who also stars in the movie as the main character and focus of this paper, Andrew Largeman. This paper will attempt to more deeply explore Andrew’s development using the postulates of Object Relations and Psychosocial theories (Braff, Sher, Shamberg, & DeVito, 2004). This film portrays…

Hazel 16 years old and has had cancer since she was 12, and more particularly lung cancer. She spent a few days at home with her mom and read as much as her heart for her, until her mother persuaded hazel to a cancer support group. There, she met a 17-year-old boy named Augustus Waters who has leg amputated. Augustus have expressed interest in carrying oxygen tanks, lung cancer has, and embarrassment Hazel Grace Lancaster community. For Hazel and Augustus began to approach, pushing Hazel…