Screenplay

Lorrain Hansberry was born in Chicago during 1930 to a middle class, African-American family. While growing up in Chicago, Hansberry’s family moved to an all-white neighborhood. After residents attacked their home, the state ruled that the Hansberrys had to move. In the appeal to the U.S Supreme Court Case, Hansberry v. Lee, the Hansberry family won. In 1957 Hansberry wrote the play, A Raisin in the Sun, which follows the Younger family as they navigate poverty, racism, and economic hardships…

Tennessee Williams captures New Orleans perfectly through his play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Imagine walking through the heat of the summer with the Louisiana humidity, the steam of hot baths coming through the kitchen as you are trying to cool down in a two bedroom apartment, the loud sound of the downtown streets breaking through the windows, or even the spiral staircase that portrays the ionic “Stella!” scene. I never understood the truth of this play, until I was walking through New…

Initially I had planned to interview Kunal Savkur, but after he did not respond to my attempts to contact him, I had to get a bit creative. I reached out to several people on LinkedIn and I received responses from three of them. Two agreed to respond via email, and one agreed to a phone interview. I conducted the phone interview with Zel Anders and I am still awaiting the email responses from the other two women I contacted. Zel Anders has worked as a producer, screenwriter, and director.…

The Great Debaters, was an eye-catching, thrilling, and riveting movie that had me stuck to the edge of my seat. It consisted of unique subplots, dialogue, and actors. It’s the ideal movie for those who would like to learn more about the brutal discrimination towards African Americans in the 1930s. The film included many great actors such as Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, and more. These performers did a phenomenal job at playing their roles with such compassion and…

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is considered as the best American movie of the 20th century. The film was the second to win every five main Academy Awards that include Best Picture, Actor in a Lead role, and Actress in a Lead Role, Director and Screenplay after It Happened One Night in 1934. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is measured to be one of the greatest American films as it is culturally, historically, and aesthetically momentous. The movie is notable for its exploration of life inside…

A literary work exists because of society. Literature is a written work and relates to the society, they cannot be separated. Through literature, we could see how the author depicts the society and their social circumstances. Therefore, literary work is the reflection of the real life. It can describe the events in our life, and also contains the stratification which indicates that literature and society is closely related because literature expresses the situations and problems existing in…

Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer demonstrates how various film techniques integrated within an action and science-fiction film allow him, through the journey of the Curtis Revolution, to expose the the flaws of capitalistic systems. Joon-ho’s ability to clearly outline the the high inequalities embedded within social rankings is a testament to his unconventional critique on the layout of the system itself. The use of specific settings, color, camera angles, and props in Snowpiercer allows the director…

versions. Verily, A New Hope is a Star Wars play, it is written in Shakespearean. The movie is the original 1977 film produced by George Lucas, A New Hope. For the final Star Wars comparison, the radio drama. The radio drama, much like the movie/screenplay, involves a newer, more easily understandable conversations. These three texts have unknown differences that come together to evidently share the same interesting story. The similarities between the texts are evidently expressed as you…

It is perhaps the first movie to explore the theme of interracial romance between Indian Americans and African Americans in the USA. The movie won the Best Original Screenplay as well as the Audience Choice Award at the Venice Film Festival. “Monsoon Wedding”(2001), written by Sabrina Dhawan, is set around the preparations of a last minute arranged Punjabi wedding in the midst of the monsoons in Delhi. As is the general…

Fight Club is tangible proof that movies don’t need to smash box office records or take home a multitude of awards to find a place in the public’s memory. Despite not doing exceptionally well at the box office or with the Academy, people still talk about Fight Club with unbridled affection. To test this, just ask someone what the first rule of Fight Club is. All this talk is not without founding, as Fight Club is a mostly entertaining film. This David Fincher movie follows a man identified…