Tom Shadyac

My Thoughts On I Am I Am is a documentary by Tom Shadyac the director of such comedy movies as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, Patch Adams, and many more. In 2007 he had a biking accident and suffered post-concussive syndrome or PCS. He was in very severe pain and even thought about killing himself to escape the agony he was enduring. Eventually the symptoms lessened and he began to feel better physically. But both spiritually and emotionally he still didn’t feel right. He began to realize that even with all of the success he had in the world of movies and all the money he had gained did not bring him happiness. He felt empty and wondered what was wrong with himself and more importantly the entire world. Why was the human race so concerned…

everything we do. Love is a constant theme in the life of a typical human being. In Tuesday’s With Morrie, Mitch is a hardworking business man who hears one of his favorite college professors has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He decides to go visit him after being out of school for many years. Mitch then becomes obsessed with going to visit Morrie. In the beginning of the film Mitch is cold hearted and cannot make a commitment to his long-time girlfriend. After his sessions…

My View of Capitalism Several years ago, Tom Shadyac was a role model for success. Hollywood blockbusters Tom directed such as Bruce Almighty and Liar Liar made him a very wealthy man. He had the life that most people dream about: having a luxury house in Beverly Hill, travelling with private jets, and owning vacation homes all over the country. However, this luxury life did not bring him any joy. "I was standing in the house that my culture had taught me was a measure of the good life," Tom…

The film I AM follows director Tom Shadyac as he goes on a scientific, social, and spiritual journey to answer two difficult questions: “What’s wrong with the world?” and “What can we do about it?” Watching this film, I felt more connected and obligated to the world as I am part of it. Throughout the film, Shadyac argues that the ability to sympathize and to love is one of the main traits that allowed us to develop as a species. The term used throughout the film that stuck with me the most was…

reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.” (16) But ironically Mark Twain chooses such a character to be the narrator and main character of his novel. As seen at the end of the book, Tom and Huck reunite and Tom hatches a plan to help Jim escape from the shed. Tom says that their plan needs to be like the ones in the books. “Why, hain’t you ever read any books at all?—Baron Trenck, nor Casanova, nor Benvenuto Chelleeny,…

Huckleberry Finn, he wrote in 1884 (Samuel). Mark was born in Florida on November 30, 1835 to John Marshall and Jane Clemens. Twain grew up in Hannibal along the Mississippi River, which held “some of the happiest moments of his childhood” he stated (Samuel). Mark Twain was said to be an “American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with short stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man’s shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, often bitterly, the roots of…

Discussion Questions for “Run, Lola, Run” 1. Why do you think Tom Tykwer’s film was so extraordinarily popular, not only in Germany but throughout the world? I think the film was popular because it was a fusion of the fast-paced nature of American films with the artistic elements of German film. That makes it appreciable to several markets, worldwide. 2. The film tells the same story three times. Which elements are exactly the same each time? Which elements change? Are there any elements which…

important role as one of the themes throughout the entire novel titled, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by one of America’s greatest writers in all of its history, Mark Twain. As the novel acts as an extension of Mark Twain’s other publication, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it goes on in the point-of -view of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures after trying to leave his “incarcerating” establishment and his drunk and abusive father, who in fact…

with a piece of iron. Hannibal inspired several of Mark Twain’s fictional locations. Twain became one of the best storytellers in the West. Twain became somewhat bitter in his later years. In 1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote, “ All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”, making an interesting point. Huck Finn took years to perfect and write, and often Twain pushed it aside, but it was finally published in 1884. After seven years of starting to write the…

Module A Within our daily lives, we are provided with an abundance of visual images from a variety of sources. From daily television shows and commercials, to the billboards seen on the way to school or work, by using prior knowledge and background experiences, ideas start forming. Visual messages are also conveyed in traditional forms such as films, novels, picture books and more. This is displayed in the film ‘Run Lola Run’ by Tom Tykwer and the picture book “The red tree” by Shaun Tan,…