Essays on Entertainment

Introduction In the play “Zoot Suits,” by Luis Valdez, tells the struggles of Mexican-Americans through the mysterious case of “sleepy lagoon.” on the story we have our modern tragic hero, Henry, and a mythical, altered ego of him, El Pachuco along with many other characters….

Introduction “You want a prediction about the weather, you’re asking the wrong Phil. I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life,” [Groundhog Day] ominously speaks the protagonist of…

Introduction In the motion picture Groundhog Day by Harold Ramis, and Danny Rubin, shows scenes which are directly concerned with the theory of having virtues and being a virtuous person. I shall argue that the movie, Groundhog Day, is connected with the theory of virtues,…

Introduction Films are one of the most incredible ways of delivering valuable messages and morals to the audience. They try to get our attention in every way possible through the use of various film techniques such as mis-en-scenes, captivating sounds, professional editing and perfect protagonists….

Introduction In production, development and contextualization of films, so much has changed over time and even movies of the same genre have their differences. With the emergence of technology as one of the factors necessitating a change in the film industry, so many other elements…

The 1993 movie Groundhog Day narrates the life of Phil Connors. The protagonist, portrayed by Bill Murray, is an egotistical weather-forecaster who is given the duty of covering Groundhog Day in a small town. What intrigued The Times about this cinema was not its extravaganza…

Banksy and Thierry Guetta The film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” by the street artist Banksy in the year 2010. Which shows graffiti as a form of contemporary art, in this way the authors of such works are expressed in an art called street art….

Exit Through the Gift Shop is a 2010 documentary, directed by street art extraordinaire Banksy, that depicts the life of an odd Frenchman named Thierry Guetta who is fascinated with street art and recording his surrounds daily with a video camera. Thierry gets his first…

The movie clarifies the economic catastrophe that happened in 2008 and what triggered it. In the U.S., the economy dove into the Great Recession marking it worse than the one in the 1930s. More than 8 million citizens were jobless with six million losing their…

After watching this movie, I can say that I have several life lesson that I learned that would be helpful for me in the future. Those lesson are the following: Take the Risk In the movie, the characters took the risk in betting against the…