Essays on Entertainment

It’s seventh period, your last period of the day, and you decide to open up Instagram because your teacher is reading the PowerPoints verbatim. You click on the icon with several different colors and a camera showing on the front. The app opens up to…

People view or glance at many ads everyday of their life. Ads are created by companies to visually pull in their audience to convince them to buy their product. Every detail is there for a purpose in order to appeal the audience. The diet coke…

I, Tonya is a movie based on the figure skater, Tonya Harding, and life during fame. Tonya was seen, to the skating world, as a low class redneck instead of a wealthy, classy, figure skaters. She was judged unfairly at the beginning of her skating…

During the agrarian era, the color of one’s skin created a social superiority for America, which developed into a slave system organized by gender, class, and status. White slaveholders made exorbitant investments in the intensive labor of slaves, which provided the economic foundation in the…

In the Star Wars franchise there are many different forms of multimedia that fans can access. There are books, comics, games, and movies. In all of these, we get to see a large variety of characters. Particularly, in the movies, the audience is introduced to…

I believe that the protagonist’s name Beckett refers to the play Waiting for Godot (1948) by Samuel Beckett. This play is one of the most relevant and ambiguous plays of the past fifty years. Waiting for Godot is the story of Vladimir and Estragon, two…

‘Ki & Ka’ is a romantic comedy film directed by R. Balki which aims to break the gender stereotypes imposed by the Indian society. It portrays a man, Kabir, who aspires to be a housewife like his mother, and a woman, Kia, who’s a ‘Corporate…

Laika Studios, producer of Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, was formerly Will Vinton Studios, a computer animation and advertising studio. It was acquired by an outside financial contributor, Phil Knight, and under his leadership became Laika Studios. Since 2009, they began to animate…

In Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love”, the artist is attempting to convince his significant other to hold on to a relationship that is seemingly fading away. The song makes the argument that while one of the lovers is making a tremendous effort to keep their relationship…

The film, “Prince Among Slaves” written and produced by Andrea Kalin, retells the dramatic life story of a stoic leader named Abdul Rahman. The film begins with Abdul Rahman, a 26-year-old Muslim prince, leading a military campaign for his father who ruled over the West…