Uma Thurman

Introduction This essay will look into the movies “The Seven Year Itch” and “Kill Bill” to elaborate on the impact that different American films can have on gender among other issues. The Seven Year Itch is an entertaining film where the protagonist is Marilyn Monroe known as “the girl” in the movie. She is a blonde bombshell, stunning and attractive. The film tells a story about a married man who faces a lot of temptation from the neighbor, “the girl” (Hayssen, 2016). The girl in this…

about the idea of science and technology in the late 20th century, that created an imaginary and futuristic society based on genetic engineering. Gattaca features the actors, Ethan Hawke (Vincent Anton Freeman), Jude Law (Jerome Eugene Morrow), Uma Thurman (Irene Cassini), and Loren Dean (Anton Freeman), to relay the story of a young boy who was conceived outside the eugenics program, and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination and fulfill his dream of traveling into space. In Vincent's…

Caitlin McGregor English 1010-005 20 November 2015 Professor Lupo The Unorthodox, Violent Film of 1994 The Miramax film, Pulp Fiction (1994) is considered a crime drama directed and produced by Quentin Tarantino, this label does not even begin to describe this outstanding, unorthodox film. From the beginning and in the end of Pulp Fiction it does a fundamental job with the same scene which includes: Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, and guns. In this scene, the viewer gets a little bit of…

It is impossible to think of a list of great films without including Pulp Fiction (1994). With its striking cinematography and its non-scored soundtrack, Pulp Fiction was a revolutionary motion picture because it popularized non-linear storytelling in film, and borrowed elements from postmodernism, genre films, and arthouse films, and blended them into something completely unique to Tarantino’s personal style (Berg, 2006). From many influences of foreign and niche films, Pulp Fiction was born,…