Gone Girl, an American thriller film released in 2014, is about the story of Nick, the husband, who became the primary suspect in the murder of his wife, Amy. It ended up that Amy is revealed to be alive, and apparently, she is the one who had faked everything. It seems like a typical thriller film; however, there are a lot going on beneath the surface plot involved in the heterosexual imaginary. First of all, this film shows how heterosexuality is institutionalized in our society. While Amy has been missing, people in the town all blame Nick because he failed to protect his wife, who has been a perfect child for her parents and a perfect wife externally. This shows that those people tend to regard Amy, the wife, as a property of her husband, Nick. Moreover, everyone in the town thought that Nick is the assailant, and Amy is the victim at the beginning of this film, and nobody did not even think of the opposite, even a police officer. This is because heteronormativity is a very influential mechanism that guaranteed the …show more content…
Women who have a higher socioeconomic background than their spouse tend to be judged by others that they are manipulative, pursue perfectionism, and care their reputation at most. This is why people tend to consider that stay-at-home dads must have lost their job because of their inability, or their spouse is a workaholic, perfectionist, and controllers. Also, people easily conclude that those men are incompetence, so it is natural if they have a broken relationship with their spouse. This is the reason why the heteronormativity is applied on this film because it depicts Amy as someone whining about her helpless and aimless life to her husband and blaming everything on her husband’s incompetence, and Nick as overly reacted to his wife and ended up abusing her to deny the fact that he’s the one causing this
Gimme Shelter is a documentary film that captures the events of the Rolling Stones Tour and the concert at Altamont in 1969. The Rolling-Stones are a very popular band that helped define Rock n Roll music for generations. Member Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been an inspiration and adapted into other films, characters and performances for actors and filmmakers over the last few decades. Gimme Shelter has been known to be one of the greatest rock n roll documentaries ever made. The events that occurred during the Rolling-Stones tour in 1970 made headlines and showed the world the impact and chaos music can cause when a murder occurred during the events at the concert at Altamont. Gimme Shelter was an opening track on the bands 1969 album
The highly anticipated Tv series Scream Queens, premiered on September 22nd. Scream Queens genre is a horror story with minimal comedy. The storyline takes place on campus at Wallace University, in the Kappa Kappa sorority house. The story revolves around the Kappa Kappa pledges and a serial killer loose on campus. The sorority sisters are in danger and determined to find out who the killer is.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
The Hollywood movie Pretty Woman (1990) is about a prostitute in Hollywood, marrying an extremely rich businessman, in spite of her mutual distrust and prejudice. The movie contains the basic narrative of the Cinderella tale: through the love and help of a man of a higher social position, a girl of a lower social status moves up to join the man at his level.
In today’s society, pre-existing assumptions and stereotypes of other ethnicities and individuals play a large part in the way we see others. This social construct of stereotypes has placed restrictions on many people’s lives which ultimately limits them from achieving certain goals. In this sense, stereotypes misrepresent and restrict people of colour to gain casting within the Hollywood film industry. The issue of how casting actors to certain roles and how these actors are forced to submit and represent these false stereotypes is one worthy of discussion. White Chicks (2004), directed by Keenan Wayans, illustrates this issue through the performance of Latrell, performed by Terry Crews, and his performance of the hyper-sexualised “buck” will be a prime example in this essay to discuss the racial politics and stereotypes in Hollywood casting.
On Saturday July 29th, 2017, I was able to catch one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a while, Girls Trip. I was able to view the movie with four of three of friends of mines at the Regal Moorestown Mall Stadium 12 & RPX, located in Moorestown, New Jersey. My experience started with the aromas of popcorn. I am one of those type who has to have popcorn with lots of butter while enjoying a movie. After I purchased my popcorn and bottled water I was ready to enjoy this night with my friends. However, I wasn’t the one who purchased the tickets so the seats choices where horrible. They were floor level, on the very far right and third row. Still trying to make the best out of it I reclined my see as far back as possible so my neck would bother me the during the movie. The theater was packed, mostly with women.
In the film ‘Lars and the Real Girl, the director Craig Gillespie reveals Lar’s healing process but also challenges the idea of normality through the distinctively different character of Lars and the people who surround him. Lars is a slightly deluded 27-year-old who lives in his bother Gus’s garage. Lar's healing process is portrayed through the use of film techniques such as design, editing, camera work and acting. The audience witnesses Lars before Bianca and the change in Lar’s character during and after Bianca, which help him to heal and develop as a character.
Throughout her entire life Amy, the main character in Gone Girl’s movie adaptation, was faced with unobtainable standards that were impossible to reach. This is enough to drive even the strongest of people mad. Due to her parents novel of “Amazing Amy”, she was forced to play the part of the cool girl, and never truly was able to express herself throughout her life. The only part of the novel that truly occurred was that both versions of “Amy” were married. She would go to great lengths to express herself as an individual.
When it came time to pick a stage of development, I chose the stage of middle childhood. The movie that best depicted this stage of development to me was the 1991 movie “My Girl”. In this movie, you see a 11-year-old girl named Vada Sultenfuss going through a lot of psychosocial and cognitive changes in her life. She has grown up without her mother due to instant death when being born and she blames herself for her mother’s passing. Her dad is very absent in the upbringing of Vada, as he focuses most of his time and energy into his work as a mortician. Vada is surrounded by death due to the fact that they live in the house where her father constructs his business which is why her view on death is demented. When her dad becomes involved
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The movie “Girl, Interrupted” is about a young woman named Susanna who attempts suicide and consequently checks in to a mental hospital called Claymore. When she gets there she’s diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. There she meets many people but mainly focuses on Lisa, a proud sociopath, and Daisy, an implied incest victim who seems to have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Susanna leaves Claymore with Lisa to go see Daisy and after Daisy’s suicide she returns to Claymore where she is later released.
Hidden Figures is a movie based on the true story of three pioneering African American women whose calculations for NASA were helpful to several historic space missions, including John Glenn’s successful orbit of the Earth. The Movie was set in 1960, where a lot of historical events were happening, such as the Space race between two initial rivals of the Cold War (The United States, and Russia). Also, Women and African-Americans were discriminated Against during the 60’s, but that did not stop Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan from advancing and accomplishing what they accomplished. After all they did not only help themselves advance, they helped America advance. Hidden Figures was a very accurate film of how it was in the 1960 and how these three women went with their intelligence rather than their ego.
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
When it comes to David Fincher’s adaption of Gillian Flynn’s novel, Gone Girl, it’s important to remember the famous quote, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” When I first watched the movie I experienced very odd emotions. For example, I went from wanting to find Amy’s “kidnapper”, to wanting her husband Nick Dunne prosecuted for her murder, to finally rooting her on for the hell she made him go through due to his infidelity.
White Chicks is a popular American comedy that was released in 2004. This unforgettable movie depicts the lives of two black FBI agents, Kevin and Marcus, whom havent had any success in their careers or personal lives. As they reach rock bottom, the agents decide to take matters into their own hands. They devise a plan that requires them to diguise themselves as two famous white sisters, who are being used as bait for a local kidnapping, for the weekend. Although they reach minor and major setbacks in their strategic and risky plan, they ultimately discover the culprit of the kidnappings and return to their normal lifestyles. This film recieved outstanding but unkindly reviews but it is undoubtfully one my favorite movies.