Thelma & Louise

Prometheus directed by Scott Ridley, who is known for Blade Runner (1982), Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). Ridley has been nominated for 3 Oscars for best director for such films as Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and Thelma and Louise. The name of the film itself echoes Greek mythology of the Titan Prometheus who is known as “the creator of mankind,” and thief of fire from Zeus which advanced the human race. Additionally Prometheus is also referenced to as “the…

Blue Ridge cropped You tie your hiking boots in perfectly snug knots and gently stand up, brushing the pebbles off of your left knee. A deep breath of fresh air fills your lungs as your first step leads into the wilderness. The warm breeze smells like dirt, nature at its finest. Leaves crunch beneath your powerful feet and pebbles fling off the trail, scuttling to a slow stop. You march on. Thoughts of the office vanish from your mind and Thanksgiving stumbles in. Certainly, something you 're…

Neither will friendships such as Thelma and Louise. Back then, all form of communication was done face-to-face, there was no getting around it. And of course, I understand the incredible benefits that cell phones and social media networks have to offer! They allow us to maintain a social life…

serve primarily as either fulfilling a traditional stereotypical role, or that of eye candy. Even in movies where the main characters are female or when there is a heroine rather than a hero such is the case in the Alien series and the film Thelma and Louise, the endings are not happy. Instead, the women are driven off the edge into some sort of oblivion, meeting their death as the conclusion is that there is no place for a female of empowerment to exist in this world. According to statistics…

Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969) established the cornerstone of a new perspective of the West in the countercultural context. As John Ford used the literature for some of his productions, the counterculture gets some influences from the beat generation with authors and works such as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957). The counterculture’s cultural products share the same fascination for the movement and express a general dissatisfaction towards the traditional community values. This new…

The film is an art to be watched, which is not the lack of a variety of female image. But for thousands of years under the influence of male culture, women are the object because of the desire of men. The male culture has been as the center of the film system, however the location of women only for "being seen” and do not have independent spiritual personality. Fortunately, this phenomenon is gradually improving in the 21st century. Film are basically describe male superiority, heroic beauty…

Let’s be honest – not all celebs have talent. Some just get to be famous because of their families but that doesn’t mean they have any real skills. It just means that they were born under the right star, or in the right place at the right time. Paris Hilton is a fine example! Can Paris act? No – but she has enough influence to land herself the occasion film role. Not because she’s a good actress but because people know who she is. Then, on the other side of the spectrum, you get people who are…