Before our hero’s journey can begin,she first learned her martial arts from her mentor Pai Mai. Pai Mei is a legendary martial arts master. Pai Mei ridiculed Beatrix non-stop for being a Caucasian American woman and for also not being able to use chopsticks. Once she gained his respect he taught her numerous martial art techniques including: punching through thick panels, close up and the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. This technique is one that Pai Mei had not taught any other student in his day. Now knowing this the hero’s journey may begin.
Kill Bill starts off at our hero, Beatrix Kiddo, is attending her wedding rehearsal in El Paso, Texas. Before this Beatrix was in an assassin group, known as the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad (DVAS) that consisted of six members. These five members are highly elite and some of the deadliest assassins: the lead Bill (Snake Charmer), Beatrix Kiddo (Black Mamba), O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth), Vernita Green (Copperhead), Elle Driver (California Mountain Snake), and Budd (Sidewinder). Kiddo left the DVAS to start life over and have a child. While she is at the little chapel in El Paso Bill arrives with the DVAS and performs an all out massacre upon everyone that resides within the chapel, they even kill the pianist. At the end of the massacre the assassination squad hovers around Beatrix and send a bullet into her head, thinking that she will be killed. This is where our hero’s journey begins.
After being shot in the head by her fellow ex-assassins she is not able to take her sweet, sweet revenge upon all of them since she is in a coma. This her Beatrix Kiddo’s refusal of the call. While she is in her coma one-eyed Elle Driver is sent in to put the final end to Black Mamba, but she is i...
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...as taken two of the members of the DVAS leaving three left.
Bill warns his brother Budd or Sidewinder that he will be Beatrix’s next target. Knowing this he prepares for her arrival. Beatrix scopes out the area up on a rock mountain overviewing Budd’s trailer out in the middle of the desert. Beatrix then slips up from beneath his trailer. Trying to ambush him she bursts through the trailer door and gets a double-barreled shotgun black of rock salt to the chest. After this Budd call up old DVAS member Elle Driver to sell her Beatrix’s Hattori Hanzo sword for a million dollars. Afterwards he seals Beatrix within a coffin and buried her alive. To escape this inevitable death she must use the technique she learned at Pai Mei’s temple. Beatrix after numerous times of punching the top of the coffin to finally break through and escape her death and pass one of her tests.
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
Enzo’s beloved owner, Denny, is a very talented racecar driver and works at a high-end car garage. Halfway through Enzo’s life, Denny marries a woman named Eve. Denny and Eve have a child named Zoe. Just when life seems to be perfect, Enzo senses that there is something wrong with Eve. As it turns out, she has brain cancer. After six months, Eve passes away.
...er comes back, Mayella panics and screams because of the fear and shame of being seen tempting a black man. Since she knows it is unacceptable and still does it, Mayella should be prepared to hold responsibility for her actions.
she uses her brains to mastermind a plan to cleverly sneak her way behind enemy lines and
mother and her husband after her mother’s death. But Eudora Welty deliberately includes a selfish character of Fay in the family to shows the important of the memories they have. Laurel discovers the significant meaning of the memories and past to her, yet she could not survive in staying fully attached to it.
...In her death-throes, she lands on her brother, causing him to die of fright. The narrator escapes only to see the entire
In a crucial scene in Jaws, chief Martin Brody must use his mistake as guide for to him complete his goal of saving the town from the antagonistic shark. After catching a tiger shark, the local town fishermen all celebrate their victory together with Brody and the mayor believing they have solved Amity Island’s problem. Soon the mother of the deceased child who was killed by the great shark appears on the boardwalk. Her costume, a solid black dress appropriate for a funeral, contrasts with the bright sunny day on the beach that is represented with high-key lighting. The dress also symbolizes the mother’s multiple feelings of mourning for her child and her anger towards Brody, which again juxtaposes the feelings of success among Brody and the fishermen. Her conversation with the police chief is executed through a shot-reverse shot sequence but she catches Brody’s attention with a smack to his face. She goes on how Brod...
Introduced by the Duke of Ferrara, the late duchess herself is denied the chance to present herself to the agent herself. However she cannot do this since she has passed away, for reasons unknown to the agent. The late duchess’s voice is silent now forever. The runaway slave is also silenced. There is no say in whether or not she was allowed to be with the man she loves, nor does she have a say in the matter about her rape, or giving birth to a lighter skinned baby. Neither have a choice with the ways men dictate their lives and suffer as a result of it, but their voices resist the oppression forced down upon them.
Like a contemporary Dorothy, Romancing the Stone's Joan Wilder must travel to Columbia and survive incredible adventures to learn that she had always been a capable and valuable person. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984) is part of a series of 1980s action comedies that disrupted previous expectations for female heroines. These female protagonists manage to subvert the standard action narrative and filmic gaze, learning to rescue themselves and to resist others' limited vision of them. Not only did these action comedies present strong female characters, they also offered a new filmic experience for female audiences. The commercial success of comic action heroines paved the way for women to appear in serious action roles--without the personal sacrifices required of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley. Figures like Joan Wilder serve as an important link between previous strong yet feminine screen personas and current female stars.
no help to Electra and refuses to help in the murder of her mother and
This fieldwork aims to sociologically analyze gender roles and expectations within the movie White Chicks. In this film brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, play the role of two black FBI agents looking to get back into good graces with their superior after they accidentally ruined a drug bust. They are assigned to escort two rich white females, Brittney and Tiffany Wilson, to the Hamptons for Labor Day festivities. While traveling they experience a minor car accident, leaving the girls with a single scratch each on their face. Because of their socialite status, the sisters no longer wish to continue their trip in fear of humiliation. The agents fear losing their chance of redemption, so they decide to disguise
Mark Salzman was perfecting his calligraphy skills and as weeks had passed he began to make progress. He was getting tired of the models and wanted to try something new. When he told Hai Bin,(his teacher), he frowned and said,”Some people spend their entire lives researching a single model. You should be willing to spend a year on this one.” This is an example of the dedication and perseverance these men have towards their chosen artform or skill. Another example of this theme, was Mark’s Wushu teacher, Pan, who punched a fifty pound plate of steel up to ten thousand times a day. Mark’s relentless practicing of the many forms of Wushu was influenced by Pan.
Mazvita becomes mentally unstable as she continues to repress her memories. She subsequently continues to live as though it...
Women have made progress in the film industry in terms of the type of role they play in action films, although they are still portrayed as sex objects. The beginning of “a new type of female character” (Hirschman, 1993, pg. 41-47) in the world of action films began in 1976 with Sigourney Weaver, who played the leading role in the blockbuster film ‘Aliens’ as Lt. Ellen Ripley. She was the captain of her own spaceship, plus she was the one who gave out all the orders. Until then, men had always been the ones giving the orders; to see a woman in that type of role was outlandish. This was an astonishing change for the American industry of film. Sometime later, in 1984, Linda Hamilton starred in ‘The Terminator’, a film where she was not the leading character, but a strong female character as Sarah Connor. She had a combination of masculine and feminine qualities as “an androgynous superwoman, resourceful, competent and courageous, while at the same time caring, sensitive and intuitive” (Hirschman, 1993, pg. 41-47). These changes made in action films for female’s roles stirred up a lot of excitement in the “Western society” (Starlet, 2007). The demand for strong female characters in action films grew to a new high when Angelina Jolie starred in ‘Tomb Raider’ in 2001 and then in the sequel, ‘Tomb Raider II: The Cradle of Life’ in 2003 as Lara Croft. Her strong female character was not only masculine, but was also portrayed as a sex object. Most often, strong women in these types of films tend to fight without even gaining a mark. At the end of each fight, her hair and makeup would always be perfect. The female characters in these action films, whether their role was as the lead character or a supporting character, had similar aspects. I...