Film Analysis Essay Examples and Topics

Men are seen active through traditional films and women treated as a passive object in which they are the prize or reward for male characters point of view. It states that ’Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked…

The film Mean Girls directed by Mark Waters and written by SNL star, Tina Fey, debut in 2004 and captured a large audience for its comedic storyline. However, the film used comedy and satire to display an important message to the men and mostly women…

Analyse of the film ‘saving private Ryan’ concerning the use of sound and how the sound has helped to portray the war. As a case study, we will look at two movies from a different era the 1962 film ‘The Longest Day’ and 1998 ‘Saving…

  A film that is approved by the united nations as a world heritage. That is considered as the most influential film in the film history – Metropolis . It is the very first sci-fi movie existed. The background of this film set in a…

In the films, Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, there are various similar stylistic traits due to Baz Luhrmann’s personal style of filmmaking. The films are a reflection of his vision and purpose, which employ the auteur director to use specific filmic techniques. The techniques…

Titanic won best picture in the year 1997. It is a film directed by James Cameron. The lead actors are Leonardo DiCaprio who played Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet who played Rose Dewitt Bukater, and Billy Zane who played Cal. Since Cameron has a dictatorial style,…

This Romeo and Juliet is a rich visual feast, powerful with the intensity of its acrobatic camerawork and dynamic staging and its mind-bending story line, using these techniques Baz Luhrmann develops a modernized 20th century Romeo and Juliet. To begin with, the film’s language remains…

The movie starts with the crowd of people in the cafe and with the close-up scene, the audience/ viewers can see that people are emotional. Then, the camera moves to the protagonist where he makes his way towards the counter to order the coffee and…

 The infamous black & white film by Roberto Rossellini’s in 1945, Rome Open City is a very misinterpreted film in history. Although Rome Open City is fairly quite good. Unlike ‘pure’ Neo-Realism, it has many sets, two of Italy’s most well known actors from the…

The movie It All Happened in One Night is one of the most popular comedies in the mid-twentieth century. The movie involves a spoilt girl, Ellie Edwards, who is caught in the nightmare of marrying the right man with the influence of his father. The…

American Sniper is based on a true story based on an ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Chris is a man from Texas who sees the damage that people in al Qaeda are causing and instantly decides that he wants to become a SEAL and go make…

The Galaxy is in the midst of a Civil war. Spies from the Rebel Alliance of stolen plans to the galactic empires Death Star, a heavily armored Space Station of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is…

Milk of Sorrow Claudua Llosa’s film Milk of Sorrow, takes place in Lima, Peru after the period of extreme violence that occurred between 1980 and 1992. Because of the uprising of the Maoist group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), paramilitary, and state armed forces, the city…

Casablanca, by Michael Curtiz 1942, Shows the sides of love and sacrifice in the context of World War Two. These themes are propagated by the selfless actions of Rick, a cynical night club owner, and Ilsa, who must suppress her love for Rick in order…

In this essay, I will be discussing how my Vertigo and Rear Window represents the overall divide of masculine and feminine within the films and portrayal of female desire and sexual objectification. The films I have chosen to discuss in this essay are Vertigo and…

The films Pulp Fiction and Vertigo, are very similar in the way in which they use homogeneous film techniques in order to communicate to their audience their messages. The use of these formal choices are what help develop their unique cinematic style which in turn…

Alfred Hitchock is a director with high attention on his movies. Many story lines and techniques within cinematography of Hitch are common standards for films today. Hitch films are known for being mysterious, cynical, as well as suspenseful and they are all similar, but different…

For the movie The Birds I chose to look at it through a feminist lens. In the movie unlike Hitchcock’s other movies, there is a lot of female representation throughout the film. The main character Melanie is a very important role in the movie. Not…

Another example of amour fou can be observed in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. While Plath’s “In Plaster” and Hitchcock’s Vertigo both trace the singular notion of amour fou in their works, the difference in the nature of their artistic media make the manifestations of amour fou…

Shutter Island is a movie portrayal of mental health. It is psychologically thrilling and an intense movie which leaves me guessing. There are hints, but what’s, in the end, is a surprising one. Shutter Island is an island comprised of patients with mental illness that…

Yesterday a new mystery, thriller movie came out called Shutter Island. This movie is about the implausible escape of a brilliant murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels played by Leonardo DiCaprio and his new partner played by Mark Ruffalo to Ashecliffe Hospital. I’m here with…

Shutter Island is a mind-twisting rollercoaster that was written by Dennis Lehane and then put on the silver screen. This movie interpretation does me no justice for putting it into words. Teddy Daniel (DiCaprio) is on a case with his new partner Chuck Aule (Ruffalo)…

In most films today, a full-size setting is not always built. Instead, miniature buildings are used to both cut costs or create fantasy scenes. This is exactly what Shutter Island also makes use of. New Deal, a design studio, created more than 120 shots containing…

While watching and taking notes on the main character of “Teddy Daniels” I have diagnosed him with standard schizophrenia. I have diagnosed him with schizophrenia because his symptoms have been happening for around two years as well as it seems that he will never succeed…

Water is essential forever, similar to Teddy’s longing for reality. Water in the film is utilized contrary to fire, it is utilized to speak to Teddy’s rational soundness, reality, reality. Water for this situation regularly hinders Teddy from finding reality. The reality of what is…

After watching the SiCKO film, I felt many different emotions. Regarding our country and the way things are in the healthcare system. I am utterly appalled. I came into so much new information about our county that I had no idea about before. It shocked…

Before John Glenn orbited around the Earth, or Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, a group of hard-working women known as ‘human computers’ wrote the base equations for launching rockets and the well-known astronauts into space. They were some of the most potential minds…

Hidden figures are likely the best movie that talked about the nature of the dim woman of concealing who went past the dreams about women to exhibit that they can achieve past what men can do. In 1960 there was a fight between the Americans…

The United States Southern border has always been quite a mess. In the year 1836, Texas gained independence from Mexico and became its own State. However, this led to border disputes and issues between the two governments. Ten years later, in 1846, a similar issue…

Metafiction and metafictional techniques are utilized in a variety of mediums to help blur out the line between fiction and reality. Metafiction helps create a larger understanding of the film between the audience and can also help add more appeal to the different mediums. In…

In Alan Moore’s Watchmen, he and artist Dave Gibbons reformulate the genre of superheroes. Illustrating an alternate reality that closely reflects the world of the 1980s, in which superheroes exist, Watchmen rewrites significant historical events from the war in Vietnam to Watergate. In this setting,…

Run Lola Run is asking the question of how much control people have over their lives. The movie tries to trick us into thinking that we have a lot of free will, but really we might not have control over everything. For example, she caused…

In spite of it being a superhuman story, inside the graphic novel Watchmen there is no unmistakable attestation of who is to be viewed as a hero and who is to be viewed as a vigilante. Or, maybe there is a set of different ethically…

For every mythology, book, or movie in existence about Wall Street, most Americans remain unfamiliar with the inner workings of huge banks and the motivating factors for workers in these institutions. The nebulous lifestyle on Wall Street, in addition to fabled huge incomes, make it…

After watching Watchman, I felt that the movie was very faithful to the book, with only a few changes. The film is also compact, showing a lot of details from the comics. This movie is quite different from other hero movies. Many heroes have different…

“That which a person did not burn for in his young days, he will not easily work for as a man.” This thought is a foundation of various education systems including those in nordic regions, where many Fairy tales originate. While “Into the woods’ is…

Introduction Maleficent, a 2014 American fantasy movie directed by Robert Stromberg, is about the untold story of Disney’s most notorious villain from the classic Sleeping Beauty. Starring Angelina Jolie as the protagonist, the movie explores the elements that turn Maleficent from a kind-hearted fairy to…

The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich, is an old-fashioned disaster film that uses modern-day special effects to illustrate an apocalyptic end of the world due to global warming. The film details the unforeseen disasters that arise from global warming and the detrimental effects…

A.O. Scott’s review of Blade Runner 2049 emphasizes the film’s visual richness and constant encouragement into deeper thought of its meaning; its “shrewd” storytelling making it unique in the fact that it can’t be spoiled. This makes the film ideal for post-viewing discourse, but few…

Not knowing what is a lie and what is the truth. Thinking of noir films, in Bronfen’s Gender and Noir, the femme fatale supports Bronfen’s claims of how the Maltese Falcon sets a generic tone regarding the sacrifice of a woman who knows how to…

There are many versions of the same story that powers A Star is Born, which has seen three remakes up until now. The original 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March was remade in 1954 and 1976, and with its third remake, we see…

HUMSS-11 FACTS OF THE CASE: Private William T. Santiago, a Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba was not that good of a soldier as he was always left out during trainings, performed badly due to his health issues, and did not care…

Amelie is a french film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the film was released in November of 2001 and the genre is a Romance/Comedy. Amelie’s clothing choice, hairstyle, and her makeup have a very 1920’s/30’s inspired style, but with a modern twist to it. Amelie’s clothing…