Queen of Hearts

This piece that really stood out to me was “The snow.” The snow stood out to me because of their bizarre moves and tempo of the music. As seeing the nutcracker as someone who never been given the opportunity to watch my ballet production, I somewhat enjoy the production. It was very confusing cause i didn't know what the nutcracker storyline was about. Though the production Act, instrumental background help set the mood of the performance. In this Act of the snow was part one, it had mice and…

In My Neighbor Totoro, Mei and Satsuki Kusakabe explore the wild woods and let their imaginations run wild. Seeing magical creatures like a kind majestic beast, to a cat bus that has headlights as eyes seems too surreal. The movie takes you to a whole new world where you can find adventure through the eyes of two imaginative girls. Director, Hayao Miyazaki made this anime movie one of the best children’s movie I’ve ever seen. This movie had so many different morals behind it. The first moral I…

When most people think of Tim Burton, the first thing that comes to mind is something of creepiness, or with a grim undertone to it. This is a widespread perception when taking into consideration the sense of wicked otherworldliness built up in his films. Many different stylistic characteristics contribute to this feeling through the use of different cinematic techniques. One common idea throughout Burton’s films is the misfit. The main personality is always considered strange and different from…

The Queen of Hearts The queen of hearts is based in Wonderland a story tale land created by Lewis Carrol for Alison in Wonderland, the story is not particularly based in any time frame but to guess it would probably around the medieval time observed through the clothes worn by characters, this is most likely used by the author to pursue the common theme match up of medieval fantasy this also matches up with the original time frame or maybe earlier of Alison Wonderland. The Queen of Hearts…

contrast/battle between good and evil in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. [Ensure that your focus is on filmic elements] Alice in Wonderland heavily weighs up the idea of good and evil, this contrast is brought under the spotlight by the White Queen and the Queen of Hearts and their areas of dominance. This battle between good and evil employs a wide category of film techniques to show this struggle such as; setting, costume, soundscape, actors’ ensemble and performance, and camera angles. A…

Archetypes are elements of certain emotional complexes found in the unconscious minds of all human beings, charged with the potential for good and evil. This very theory is depicted in literature which expression and form pertain formal patterns of meanings from dreams, myths, and legends. A theory that comes up in stories that we read or movies that we have seen highlights the components of a good tale through the use of character development, setting, and moral lesson. Critics and proponents…

White, Gold Tree and Silver Tree. In these stories, some characters such as the Queen and the Silver Tree show their selfish and inhumane personalities. In Little Snow White the Queen, who is the mother went insane with jealousy and decided to kill her daughter and wanted to eat her. Also in the Gold Tree and Silver tree, the Silver Tree decided to engulf her daughter’s heart for personal gains. While both the Queen and the Silver Tree are two divergent characters, they have more in common than…

In the retelling of Snow White called “Snow, Glass, Apples” by Neil Gaiman, the author reversed the good and evil characters of the story. The stepmother queen is now the heroine and Snow White is now this evil bloodsucking vampire. The story is in 1st person being narrated by the Queen who is afraid of Snow White which shows in the quote “I had been frozen by her, owned and dominated.” (Gaiman). The sad part of this story is how it all comes back to this quote at the end with the stepmother…

Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the…

The Snow Queen Recently, I had the chance to see The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson at Park Square Theater. The play presented itself different from the time the viewer walked in. When walking in, viewers were greeted with a friendly staff, whose goal was to make each persons view easier and more enjoyable. At first glance, the stage looked different from what most would come to expect. The theater itself appeared clean and prepared for an audience expecting something similar to…