Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Throughout the past four decades, the Star Wars movie series by George Lucas has become one of the most popular fantasy series around the world. The movies depict the saga of Luke Skywalker, a young Jedi warrior who is talented, ambitious, and unyielding. However, he unexpectedly vanished after he defeated the villains; thus his sister Princess Leia led an expedition to both find Luke and protect the galaxy. Although Star Wars is a space opera, but similar to the movie Pan’s Labyrinth, it blends…

outpatient therapist on a seemingly weekly basis. This therapist employs some of the features of cognitive behavioral therapy. He tries to encourage Pat to start taking his medication again, tries to help him find ways of coping with future manic episodes, and tries to help him find a purpose outside of trying to reconnect with his former…

active and female characters as passive (Mulvey). Mulvey theorizes, “pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure which is styled accordingly.” (19) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams 2015) attempts to contradict this component of the male gaze, through female protagonist, Rey (Daisy Ridley), because Rey’s character is active within the narrative…

Again, I don’t know if this is Zack’s thinking, but this is mine: What if that isn’t a dream sequence?” he asked. “What if what you saw was a Time Boom, a latent memory from the future when Flash comes back?” Oliva continued by pointing out that Bruce doesn’t…

JJ Abrams is a very popular director in today's cinema and widely considered as an auteur. He has helped rejuvenate the Sci-Fi genre in many ways. First off if you have seen any of JJ Abrams movies or TV series’s they all have one major similarity which is; whatever you think is going to happen next, something entirely different will happen, as the case in Lost. Also all of JJ Abrams work have been strongly character driven something that doesn’t always appear in movies, especially in the…

The author, D.J. MacHale, introduces Bobby’s character as a middle school basketball star with a strong sense of commitment to teammates, for his friends Jake and Courtney, and for his family. The story begins when Bobby is called on by his Uncle Press, the night of an important semifinal game, to help him with an undisclosed task. At first…

The deadly-force defense in a self-defense claim used to justify that a reasonable amount of force is necessary against another individual when that threat is deadly or may cause serious bodily harm often found in assault, battery, and homicide cases. Lisa M. Strom, 120, (2012). In other words, deadly force is a legal action taken that could potentially kill the other person who unlawfully enters a home, attempted murder, or felony action against oneself or another. Nonetheless, there are four…

George Guay 11/29/17 Development of Western Civilization Seminar Prep (Watchmen) Summary: The comic book Watchmen begins in the most dramatic way out of all the books we have read for this class this semester. The book that Alan Moore wrote starts with the murder of “The comedian”. This book starts out in New York City and the comedian’s real name is Edward Blake. The main character, Rorschach develops a theory to why Edward Blake is dead. That theory is a plot to kill the people like…

Scott Pilgrim Vs the world, a movie based on a comic and a video game. After having combined all three components together, with a genre of action, comedy and romance, we are given an amazing, interesting and fiercely thought about and put together, a well done movie. This film was rated an overall 7.5 out of 10 from over 237,823 users. The film also makes its way into the top 100 domestic grossing films of 2010. Directed by Edger Wright, who was once Director, Writer, Executive producer actor…

CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE SIGNIFICANCE IN TELEVISION DRAMA ‘BINIKU NINJA’ Keywords: Cinematography, costume, lighting, space, drama The artwork that will be discussed in this paper is cinematography as presented in figure 1. It is one of the television programs in ASTRO OASIS. This drama is an adaptation from a novel and it is inspired from a true story of a couple named Azlan and Sabatini who got married while pursuing their studies in United Kingdom, UK. Both of them loved to travel and because…