Road movie

“I’ll never leave your side, my dear Clyde. I’ll ride till I die.” Bonnie Parker’s words, spoken in the 1967 film named after the infamous duo, are quite literal when studying the criminal couple genre. No matter how much they love each other, the road will always be the double-edged sword of freedom - at some point, the rest of the world will catch up with you. Starting with the film “You Only Live Once” (1937), through “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), and continuing to this day, the romanticization of crime has been too irresistible for filmmakers to pass up. Despite the shared time period of the narrative within the movies, the fact that they were made thirty years apart allowed the genre to grow and change. These criminal couple genre shifts…

Well some of the most commonly know discriminations are the treatment of people with a different skin color, religion, age, and many more but those are the main three I will talk about. In the movie Glory Road it shows the journey of the first African American college basketball team. In this movie the African American players are booed, beat up, spit, and constantly looked down upon. These fans and community of college basketball discriminated against the players no matter how good they were…

in scenes involving minor characters like Miss Hicks or Coach Byfield, and the film vastly undervalued them. In doing so, a large part of the plot is lost, such as the comments the book makes on the American dream. In particular, I found it unfortunate that the whole scene with Miss Hicks was left out, which was really profound and a part of Homer’s growth as a character. Furthermore, leaving these details about secondary characters untold made some points in the film impossible to understand…

You may have seen or read a scary, gruesome, , gut wrenching movie or novel, but nothing compares to the novel or film of “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. This horrifying fiction is above anything you can imagine. This fiction really portrays humanity as dark and pessimism throughout the whole thing. To start it off, The whole first page of the novel instantly reveals its deep and dark sense. Like one of the first sentences in the first page start out with “nights beyond darkness and days more…

Up the Road, and in Middle Age, Too”, written by Janet Maslin in 1995, showed us how remarkable the movie “The Bridge of Madison County” was. The author believed that the movie was directed successfully and performed even better than the book version. In her article, she illustrated her opinion from the following main perspectives, style, the performance of the two main characters, the opening method and the direction of this movie. First of all, distinguished from traditional American style…

Mr. Rogers, the children’s TV host, once said, “Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” When it comes to Frank and April Wheeler in the movie Revolutionary Road, Mr. Rogers’ definition is exactly right. The Wheelers’ relationship was a struggle, but unfortunately, in this story of immense expectations, hopeless reality-checks, unfortunate events, and hasty…

Robert Frost is one of the most notable American poets of all time. His style of writing borders both 19th Century Romantics and Moderns, using rhyme and common language throughout most of his works. Within these seemingly simple writings, however, Frost creates meaning beyond surface level comprehension. One such writing is “The Road Not Taken”, a short poem that if guided by supposition, tells of a man presented with a choice of two different roads to travel, and when he decided on a road to…

Texts of many genres especially dystopia can help us better understand concepts and ideas of many potentially real world situations and issues. When viewing a text, there are multiple questions being posed towards the viewer relating to them and their context of the text. McCarthy repeatedly reminds us of the desolate post-apocalyptic landscape created by a nuclear incident, and by observing this fictional world we are shown what could become of our own world through the very real threat of a…

to work on the door to try and budge it open. When that didn’t work and the snow was still rising, she started working on prying the window open. Ice had forced itself into the cracks of the window pane and wasn’t keen to the idea of leaving it’s new found home. After driving the screwdriver into the ice a few times she finally got leverage and pried it open, granting access to the house that invited us inside with promises of warm blankets, hot chocolate, and Saturday afternoon movies. The…

“Iron Road” is a Chinese-Canadian, co-production film, taking place during the 1880s.The movie revolves around the perspective of Little Tiger, and the struggles she encounters. It consists of engaging illustrations that effectively explain the push and pull factors compelling the Chinese to leave China as well as demonstrated the many struggles endured in Canada. The film displayed many different perspectives of the Chinese, through the filthy setting, and each of their individual financial…