Film Essay Examples Page 2

I had Suzanne Collins’ novel fresh in my mind when I put The Hunger Games into the player. I could remember the key phrases and actions that signified the end of the first two acts in the novel as well as several more events that happened within each of the sections. I had watched the…

In 2015, one has to wonder just how many tales of a dystopian future can be told. In each of the works we’ve read for the class, it’s the same set-up: a war sometime before the novel destroyed civilization as we know it and a group of people felt it best to cast off those…

Superheroes have long been the fictional idols that men and women all around the world have looked to for inspiration. “Superhero stories present and explore many important and pressing concerns such as ethics, justice, crime, punishment and social responsibility.”(Sharp, 353). These superheroes are often thought of as cultural icons (Pearson, 142). However, there is so…

When it comes to most movies or plays, the settings usually aren’t something people look into because no matter where the story takes place, it’s still the same story with the same outcome. Although that happens for most story lines, that isn’t the case for A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. A Street…

The playwright, Tennessee Williams, achieves many different effects with the structure of A Streetcar Named Desire. Firstly, I will discuss how the general structure of the play (the layout and positioning of the scenes) affects the reader. I will also explore why it is structured the way it is – eleven scenes with no act…

“Blanche’s tragedy is that she is caught between two worlds – the world of the past and the world of the present – unwilling to let go of the past and unable to come to terms with the present.” Do you agree? Blache DuBois is portrayed as a character who is unable to let go…

Sophia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides follows the lives of five young girls- the Lisbon sisters-as they deal with puberty, their parents, and suicide. The movie is told from the perspective of five neighborhood boys who go to school with the Lisbon sisters. They tell the story from their perspective, sharing with us their confusion and…

In the play Macbeth the main character Macbeth is a tragic hero despite the large number of people who would argue that he is not. Macbeth is a noble and highly renown which is one of the five characteristics of being a tragic hero. One example of him being highly renown is that at the…

In the original text of Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Scarlet, Sir Arthur Doyle opens up a brand new universe where crime is solved in many ways people couldn’t imagine at the time. The crime scene investigators still use these techniques in the modern day. It wouldn’t be possible without the creation of the fictional…

How often does ones nature change? Jane Eyre is a novel that was written in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte and it was significant because it the one of the first diary-style books to be published. The book is about a girl named Jane who lived in a household with her aunt and cousins and was…