far more inviting. It was almost cozy with it’s big cushioned seats and spacious environment. It was like sharing a carriage with a hundred others, all strangers to me. We might have been strangers, but one thing made us all alike. The railroad. The wonder in the eyes of the children I saw, I was sure it matched my own. I felt almost giddy with excitement and nerves when I first sat down. I’m sure the adults who saw me must have thought me strange, that or they hid their own enthusiasm behind a…
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: WONDER BOY (40’s), a famous magician, tells his daughter, ELIZABETH WONDER (18) that he must do one last outside performance. Elizabeth tries to tell her father that he has a head injury and that there’s no way he can do another magic performance. Wonder Boy decides it’s time to tell Elizabeth the truth about who he really is. Wonder Boy tells her that one day, back in 1955, a space capsule fell from the sky, right through the roof of the barn belonging to THURL WONDER II and…
News comes today comes in many forms from a twitter update on your phone to the more traditional newspaper delivered right to your house each morning. Some news we find intriguing, while other articles we just skim over and think nothing of it. So why does some news catch our attention? Is it the shock factor, something interesting or is it just so horrifying you have to read it? Today one of the most controversial topics flooding the news is gun violence and gun control. It seems we cannot go…
“I Can’t Swim” by Elliot Moss composed in 2015 outlines mental illness in a lyrical way. Throughout the song, the narrator illustrates how mental illness has affected their overall wellbeing. The mental illness being illustrated within the song is depression and enables the listener to comprehend that depression is not constantly displayed outwardly. Hence, allowing the listener to see that within one’s mind there is a great internal conflict due to depression. Elliot Moss’s lyrics to “I Can’t…
The true power that any hero holds is the inevitable ability to overcome great trials that no ordinary man or woman could successfully accomplish. The hero is put up against a menacing evil that terrorizes the common people. Then is put to the test to see if his or her strength and bravery is enough to defeat the great evil he or she is presented with. The story of Beowulf is a perfect example of this. Beowulf goes through three death defying trials to which he escapes only two with his life,…
Kim Basinger and Mighty Wind Inc. are the defendants and appellants and Main Line Pictures is the plaintiff. Kim Basinger, a relatively famous actress, was sent a screenplay of “Boxing Helena” in December of 1990 by Main Line Pictures. Basinger showed interest and excitement in being the female lead of the movie. Barbara Dreyfus, who was Basinger’s assistant and Mighty Wind’s director of development, set up a meeting for her to meet with Main Line Pictures. Mighty Wind was the company through…
Hermione Granger: The Badass Heroine We All Want To Be Let’s face it. Without Hermione Granger, Harry Potter would be a footnote in Voldemort: Rise to Power, and we muggles would be little more than subservient house elves to our magical overlords. Hermione Granger, for anyone who’s been living on Mars for the past two decades, is one of the three central characters in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. If you haven’t read them/seen the movies and plan to, stop reading now and instead check out…
Wonder Woman as an Image of Feminism Who said women cannot be smart, strong, and sexy? Female characters throughout cinematic history struggle to find the balance between the three feminist traits. In 1941, feminist Moulton Marston is able to crack the code with his creation of the Wonder Woman comic which follows Diana Prince, the lead character which mirrors the trajectory of the women’s movement in America (Dockterman). Almost 35 years later, Lynda Carter appears in Douglas S. Cramer and…
actually be considered a superhero. Then of course their is superman. The first women superhero was not created until the 1940s and she was a minor character, named Fantomah. The first serious role of a women in the superhero world is that of course Wonder Woman. Her first appearance was in 1941. Superheroes affect everybody in many ways due to how long they have been around. However, they have changed over the years becoming more violent. Dressing different and having different types of…
Introduction, Roger Sabin describes women in comic books as ‘‘invariably either plot devices (there to be rescued) or sex symbols (all plunging necklines and endless legs)’’. The author describes that Wonder Women was created as a sex symbol to appeal to male leadership by her creator, William Marston. Unlike Wonder…