One Thousand and One Nights

The Thousand and One Nights is a story about a king named Shahrayar who finds out his wife has been cheating on him. Because of his hurt from his wife’s acts, he chooses to never love a woman again. He retaliates by getting a bride nightly, and killing her the very next morning. Shahrayar senselessly kills a myriad of women, leaving the kingdom in anguish. Shahrazad, the daughter of the King’s vizier is brave enough to marry the king, which turns out to be a brilliant idea. Shahrazad distracts…

Weinger as Aladdin, Robin Williams as the Genie, and Linda Larkin as Princess Jasmine. The story of Aladdin is derived from the Thousand and One Nights, which is a large collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. There is not a ‘based on the book’ statement; however it follows some of the original plot. In the Disney production of Aladdin,…

Throughout generations kings are portrayed as admirable and successful. Despite their mistakes kings have always been respected. In these two stories, Antigone and The Thousand and One Nights, there is King Creon and King Shahryar. During the beginning of the stories there are similarities between these kings. However, each story has a woman that helped them reflect on their decisions and see how wrong they were. Antigone and Shahrazad are both were strong and believe in justice. King Creon and…

We all have that point in our life when we know things are about to change. That one memory that always reminds you of where your path changed. Sometimes for the best and sometime for the worse. What we do with the path is up to us and the choices we make. I am reminded of mine daily and the choices I made to continue the path to where I am now. It was the summer of my 11th birthday. About to be a preteen, the time when you are growing and learning. SO many things changing emotionally and…

offered a source of relief in the Depression-era to the audiences throughout the 1930s and 40s; especially relieved them after the Hays Code was put into effect. The screwball comedy was a mixture of sarcasm, comedic relief, and a social satire all in one, making it wacky but highly sophisticated. Rather than focusing on the romantic relations of people, screwball comedies focused on the upper-class. The focus was a hero’s life being somehow disrupted by a heroine. The hero and the heroine were…

the upkeep of morality according to those in favor of censorship. In Capra’s film ideal America cracks with screwball humor, pointing out the absurdity of grown adults behaving in such a restrained manner. It Happened One Night is a classic screwball comedy; however, Capra goes one step further with a film that acknowledges the ongoing state of the nation with the presence of the Great Depression in the film. The two main characters behave differently, usually based on their different social…

One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

anyone in the land. Then came the Seven Warriors. Seven humans born with extraordinary powers over the elements. Fire was born first. Then came Earth, Sky, Water, Industry, Nature, and finally Ice. The Warriors saved the human race, and peace spread across the land. The seven Warriors then lived out the rest of their days as peace keepers keeping a healthy balance between the elements. As each of the Warriors neared the end of their days a replacement was born. Generations of Warriors continued,…

Our generation is the first generation where it is considered acceptable to sleep around with a different guy every week. Sure, they might get called a “slut” or “whore” but the depressing truth is most of them are okay with it because the ones calling them that are just as guilty as the person being labeled. For this reason, it seems as if girls do not care if they are getting called provocative names. Personally, females need to hold themselves to a higher self-worth, which talks “about who…

3 hours passed by...I know that’s not one of Quetz’s abilities so she must of some time warping ability. It would explain why she could move so fast without any real change in visual movement. Honestly why would Quetz choose her as his “insurance”. Everyone knows that no one really know’s….. well anything about her! She’s a complete enigma, and most people don’t even know she exists. If I remember correctly the symbols on her stomach are similar to the ones in the archives, first I’ll go and…