Movie Essay Examples Page 30

The wind was blowing through my hair, the sun was shining creating a shadow behind me. With no clouds in the sky and birds flying high it felt like the perfect summer day. My dad had told me twice already to come and sit at the table, but being the stubborn kid that I was,…

World Trade Center was released on August 9, 2006 by Paramount Pictures. It is academy award winning, full color film detailing the events and survival of Port Authority Police Sergeant John McLoughlin and Officer William Jimeno after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The film follows the officers and their families throughout the…

West Side Story is a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare’s classic, Romeo and Juliet. Set in the late 1950s in the west side of New York, gang rivalry and love story all in one. To todays standards these two gangs are more likely to be compared to a chess club than a gang. The two rival…

Watching “Baraka” was both a worthwhile and painful experience. When I say painful, I don’t mean it was physically painful for me to sit there but I mean that it was hard for me to process a lot of what was going on in the film because of what it meant to me. The scenes…

Peter Wier’s film, “The Truman Show,” is the depiction of the villainous immorality of using one’s life without their knowledge as a purpose for entertainment for the mass population. It is a popular television show that takes the setting of a stereotypical 60’s hometown where everything is too perfect as it seems. The protagonist, Truman…

I was only a kid , when I first watched a special presentation of The Wizard of Oz on T. V. the next day i went to the school library and picked up L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Years later when i became a mother, I began reading The Wonderful Wizard…

In the movie ‘The Truman Show’ (Peter Weir, 1998) the character Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is turned into the main character of a worldwide successful TV show without knowing it. He had been an unwanted child and was adopted by a company, thus becoming the first child in the world adopted by a company. The…

Since Pixar’s release of the groundbreaking blockbuster, “Toy Story” (1995), computer animation has become hugely profitable and popular with audiences. The 3 dimensional cartoon platform engages audiences in a variety of ways. At first glance they act as an unworldly ‘kidified’ visual spectacle, however once you dig deeper you understand a true care and precision…

Titanic appeals to everyone in a certain age group. This is known as a tent pole film. A tent pole film is a four quadrant movie that attracts all four of the general quadrants of the movie going audience. According to an article on film website Indiewire, the four quadrants of the audience all have…

The film Gattaca explores the possibilities of future technology development, and the way in which these advances would affect society. For example, would a society composed of two distinct social classes, and the inequality between them really be an advance? Those who are not genetically manipulated to so –called perfection in a lab, but naturally…