Essays on Movie Analysis

I have always prided myself on treating people as people. Always doing my best to ignore the things that make us different and focus on the fact that we are all human beings on our paths. I believe in our day-to-day lives the ability to…

Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), one of the greatest classic movies, provides a realistic representation of the search for meaning and identity through the analysis of the term ‘Rosebud’. ‘Rosebud’ refers to the mysterious dying word of the film’s protagonist – Charles Foster Kane. The…

Co-Curricular Activity Report Documentary Fire at Sea The movie Fire at Sea is set in Lampedusa, an Italian island. The movie starts by introducing the island with facts, and it mentions that in the past twenty years, 400,000 migrants have arrived on the island and…

Introduction Group communication affects several life aspects in our day to day actions, emotions and our thinking since at certain points of our lives we have to communicate as a group. Therefore, understanding the issues that arise from group communication is important especially with focus…

Soaps The television soap opera EastEnders televised by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) on the channel BBC 1 is one of the most popular soaps viewed in Britain today. This is due to the drama possessing many traits to sustain viewers by creating a sense…

After seeing the Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, I was amazed that the protagonist, Wladyslaw Szpilman was able to survive the Holocaust. Critics and historians base his survival on many different factors, luck, Szpilman’s skills, and help from others. I believe that all these factors…

Classic love story mixed with Civil War action makes for a recipe of pure awesomeness. This movie was definitely a real tearjerker as well as inspiring. Cold Mountain, a film directed by Anthony Minghella starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger, portrays a love…

Printed below is the beginning of an essay on the novel Emma and the film Clueless. Finish the essay in your own words and thoughts to explain how the ideas in the original text (Emma) have been changed, in the appropriated text (Clueless), to suit…

Clueless Speech How has Amy Herckerling used her film Clueless to say something new about Jane Austen’s novel, Emma? One of the first things that came to mind was the use of an accepting community. While in Emma, it was common to disdain others who…

The principle job of any film should be to please the audience. To what extent do you agree with this view? It would be foolish and unperceptive to say that the chief role of films in society is to please their audiences. One need only…

Mise en scène The term mise-en-scène essentially means “visual theme” or “telling a story”. Both are shown in visually artful ways through storyboarding and cinematography. One may describe mise-en-scène as the overall look and feel of a movie. This term has two categories, design and…

Stand By Me Stand By Me is the story of true friendship and the loss of innocence. It brings all childhood insecurities, fears, and dreams intosharp, crystal-clear focus. It begins, as childhood stories often do, with curiosity. Four friends, each with his own emotional baggage,…

Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence The documentation of any historical event and the knowledge about it is consolidated by combining many different types of evidence. Testimony is one of many sources that is used in bringing about knowledge of an event, and plays a very…

Betrayal of the Military Introduction In the military, superior officers, such as generals and colonels are responsible for control over their units as one goes through its regular routine trying to protect their nation. A different set of laws is in place for the military,…

As a citizen of the United States at the age of eighteen you are given the right to vote. Without thinking twice you can register and be a part of decisions that will affect the future of our country. Unfortunately that was not always the…