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The film that I have selected to examine is The Graduate (Nichols, 1967), with Mike Nichols directing and nominated for several Oscars even winning Best Director. The film has become a Hollywood classic that has stood the test of time. This is because the film had a strong screenplay and careful direction. The ensuing film examination will analyze the structure of the story from a comprehensive perspective like the characters, sequences, scenes and also analyze Nichols’ compositions, symbolisms,…

*If your a Star Wars fan, odds are you have collection of toys and memorabilia. Some of you may know that when I learned about Death Star day, I took a rough estimate of what I've spent on Star Was in my life. The figure I came up with is in the five figure range. My test tent to lye with vintage material. It took me three years to find a reasonable priced bootleg of The Holiday Special. On another occasion, when episode I came out, I saw that one of the fast food restaurants that was promoting…

English Star wars Essay The subversion of traditional value systems challenge our current and historical thinking, which is a specific focus of the culture of the hero, as such the lens of this genre clearly adds to the significance of the concept of the hero within. Both David Malouf’s Ransom, and Star-wars by George Lucas ,realign our entrenched perception of the hero and reveal that while the concept is universal, perceptions of it are far more subjected to specific contexts and value…

The Archetypal Pattern in Stars Wars: Episode 4 In many novels, there are archetypal patterns, this is shown prominently in The Odyssey. The Odyssey’s archetypal pattern consists of a returning wanderer, a waiting women, and a parent-less child. This archetypal model is reflected in Star Wars: Episode 4. The returning wanderer is Obi-Wan Kenobi, as until Luke found him, Kenobi lived in isolation. This was due to the loss of a battle with Darth Vader. Through conversation Obi-Wan Kenobi…

Luke was really bored so he decided to call his friends Tyler,Even,Sam . Luke got in his truck. A indigo blue Ram 3500 with a Cummins diesel engine. And he went to their houses and picked them up . Finally they were on the road . They stopped at taco bell “I’m getting a normal taco” said Luke. ” “Congratulations sir you are the 1,000,000th customer you won a lifetime supply of tacos” said the cashier. They’re plan was to go back to Luke’s house and make a Youtube video. They were heading…

The book Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn is a well written book about Thrawn and Eli Vanto, two soldiers in the Imperial Navy. It is a canonized twist on the story of a popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn, in the Star Wars fan base after Disney bought Star Wars from Lucasfilm. (In this case, canon means what did or didn’t happen in Disney’s Star Wars universe, not Lucasfilm’s.) Eli Vanto wanted to be a supply officer in the Imperial Navy, but on an assignment to a backwater planet, his…

The hero’s journey is usually long, hard, and dangerous, consisting of many trials and losses. Plenty of movies and works of literacy follow the hero’s journey motif, such as the movie Star Wars: A New Hope. The hero of A New Hope is a boy named Luke Skywalker, who lives on the desert planet of Tatooine. He strives to leave his baren home and see the galaxy. He begins his heroic quest to save princess Leia, and eventually destroys the Death Star, saving millions of lives. Luke is an ordinary boy…

The text by Nathaniel Van Yperen, “I am Your Father: the Villain and the Future Self” talks at length about perceiving the villain of a story as a version of one’s “future self”, as in Star Wars between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Van Yperen describes Darth Vader as a villain because Luke can see himself someday turning out like his father. The concept of the “future self” can also be applied to Junot Diaz’s work, “Fiesta, 1980.” Nathaniel Van Yperen defines a villain as someone that a…

Cameron’s Life: Episode VI a New Hope. In life there are many definite ends like finishing a bowl of pasta, finishing a 4-5 page paper your professor gives to you to finish in two days (I know, what the heck), or leaving a soccer club. At these ends, there are beginnings, eating more food because that 's all I do, starting another paper (Please don 't), and going to a new soccer club. During the intervals between a definite start, and definite ending, there are many small beginnings and…

The movie that I chose to do this week assignment on is called “Crash” directed by P. Haggis in 2004. Once I started watching this movie I realized that it was one that I had seen before and thought was a really good movie with a wonderful meaning at the end. This movie won three Oscars in 2005 for best picture, best original screenplay, and best editing. In this week assignment we are to pick an interpersonal conflict in the movie we chose to watch. In Crash there were lots of interpersonal…