Stanley Kubrick

The 1968 film 2001 Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is an intense piece of work that frustrates and questions the audience due to the perplexing storyline. It is highly regarded as a film that accurately portrays space, has incredible special effects, and obscure concepts. Technology, in the artificial intelligence form, plays a prominent role in this film due to the futuristic elements of space, themes of existentialism, and evolution. HAL 9000 is introduced in the film as one of the most…

One instance from Stanley Kubrick’s film “A Clockwork Orange” that clearly demonstrates the criminological theory of Development was the part when the main character and his gang come upon the homeless man in the alley. Alex makes the statement that he hates homeless old men…

Though primarily known for his novel A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess was accomplished in many literary pursuits. Besides being a novelist he was also a poet, composer, playwright, and a critic. With a literary career that spans over three decades he has published dozens of literary pieces and hundreds of musical composition. Much of the influence for these writings came from his early life and his experiences as a young adult. A Clockwork Orange was the first non-school assigned novel I…

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In Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play Othello, we hear a soliloquy of Iago. Soliloquies are essential in a play as it is the only time the actor is able to explain their thought process to the audience. In typical soliloquies, the character is not acting for someone else. The character, in essence, is able to portray his/her true self. Through Iago’s soliloquy, the audience is able to hear his malicious intentions. The audience is introduced to his evil mind though his appalling tone,…

Psycho Article Summary With over a hundred years of watching movies, audiences have come to expect a certain formula their films should follow, and when they don’t there can be some unseen outcomes. One film that is famously known for breaking this formula is Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. When Psycho first released film goers and movie critics alike were shocked and (for many cases) appalled by the twist shower scene in Hitchcock’s movie. Although it is no argument that Psycho’s shower scene, and…

Are you for/against The Assassin, and why? One thing is indisputable regarding the film. It is gorgeous visually, with astonishing cinematography, costumes and in general, production values. However, I think it is lacking in terms of script, and in combination with the scarcity of action scenes, it can be rather tiresome, especially to the viewer expecting the exact opposite from a film of the genre. Actually this is a question regarding if one enjoys art-house films or not, because The Assassin…

The Shining was released into theaters in1980 and became a horror movie classic, but what scenes in the film helped build suspense towards the climax where the main character is attacking his family? The film overall storyline involves a man named Jack Torrance who getting a new job as a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to…

The film Dr. Strange Love or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, was hilarious. It really gave insight on our values as Americans and played fun at the American mentality during the Cold War that we can apply to America today. The overlying commentary on America is that we are proud nationalists that have no regard for others, so long as we can get ahead. Throughout the movie, multiple characters showed that they had irrational paranoia towards communists--specifically Russians.…

Steven Spielberg is an American film Director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1946 in the United States. He is well known as a public figure, considered a pioneer of Hollywood, and a popular director in the film industry. He directed Hollywood blockbuster films such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Jaws (1975). Spielberg also directed science fiction films such as, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and War of the Worlds (2005), (IMDB, 2016). In this analysis, I am going to argue that…