Do you know that different genre movies may focus on different elements which made them unique and appealing? They can be segmented into action, comedy, historical and so on. In this essay, I am going to compare two different movies with share the same movie genre, which both of them are horror movies. The first movie I have selected to compare is “I know what you did Last Summer” directed by Jim Gillespie. The movie “Orphan” which is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra is my another option for doing this compare and contrast essay. “I know what you did Last Summer” is a horror movie which released in 1997. This movie is about four high school seniors attempt to cover up a hit-and-run accident and how the victim hit by them come back and take …show more content…
For the movie “Orphan”, a big twistor happens when it comes to the ending part. Everything can be explained why a nine years old girl can plan so well to kill the people around her when her secret is revealed as she is actually a thirty-three years old woman. And most of the audiences thought that the Coleman Family may be killed by her especially the mother because Esther wants to replace her. But the mother, Kate is not killed by Esther and Kate has become the one who save the whole family because she battles with Esther after knowing her secret. The story ends when they end the fight and Kate successfully to get out from the door but Esther can’t. Esther then pretend to be an innocent child by saying “Please, don't let me die, mommy!” but she actually holds a knife behind her back and prepare to kill Kate. However, Kate does not trust her anymore and kick her head hardly and Esther sinks into the pond. The ending of “I know what you did Last Summer” is an ending with make the audiences curious. When Julie finds out that the person that they hit is not David but Ben, she decides to tell Ray, one of the four teenagers. But she misunderstands that Ray is the murderer and runs off. A fisherman suddenly stops her and put her on his boat. The fisherman is actually the murderer and he is planning to kill her! Luckily Ray manages to save Julie by chopping down Ben’s arm. One year later, Julie’s friend passes her a letter, she fears that Ben is coming back again but it is only a pool party invitation. As she goes to take a shower, there are words on the door which read: “I still know” and Ben crashes through the glass shower door and the ice pick now embedded in the stump of his missing arm. No one knows whether he kills Julie. This movie ends like this because there is a sequel of this
Summary: Brady finds the lifeless body of his 3 year old neighbor Ben, in the river in the middle of the storm. After he pulls Ben into the boat he drops his cell phone over the boat into the water. Brady must then drive his boat and attempt CPR on the lifeless body. Brady must make an extremely difficult choice when he finds out that his two best friends, J.T. and Digger, are the direct cause why little Ben is now dead. Brady’s father assisted him in dredging up the Red Kayak. When Brady see’s that holes are drilled into the bottom, he breaks down and tells his father what his friends J.T. and Digger did. Brady decides to turn in his friends only after the stress, torment, and sadness began to seriously affect him. His friends are charged with murder and the story revolves around his coping with the boy's death, assisting Ben’s own mother with her grieving, and reliving the death of his infant sister years
Horror genre conventions are evident in both films and the way they are directed has given me obvious indications on the effect the horror conventions can have on a film when used well, and the adverse effect when not used well. Both Japanese and American society are evident in these films, and the style of the films are similar to the nationality of the two directors. Horror conventions are used in both films, but the way they are used are quite different, and these contrasting styles are key in how effective the two films are to their audience.
Throughout the span of the book, Esther Greenwood slowly descends into madness. The first sign is her uncertainty with her future. Though she dreams of going to graduate school or traveling to Europe, Esther realizes that she doesn’t know what she wants to do; a discovery as shocking as meeting “some nondescript person” who “introduces himself as your real father” (Plath 32). Later when she’s at the UN, she realizes that she will lose all of her abilities once she leaves college, as she believes that the only skills she has is winning scholarships. She compares her current place in life as that of a fig tree, wanting all life paths given to her yet not taking any of them. Later, Esther goes to a country club where she has a rough encounter with Marco, a Peruvian man who attempts to rape her. Regardless of this instance, she continues to wear his blood afterwards viewing it “like a relic of a
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Adam wakes up in a full bathtub and when he gets out of there he finds out that he is chained to a pipe in a large old bathroom. Gordon was chained up across the room to another pipe. In the center of the room lied a corpse, holding a pistol and a recorder. Not knowing what to do, Adam managed to get his hands on the recorder in hopes that it will tell them why are they located in an old bathroom chained to pipes. When Adam got his hands on the recorder, Gordon was instructed to kill Adam by six o'clock or his wife and daughter will die. Using a clue from the tape, Adam was able to find two handsaws, but unfortunately they were not meant to cut the chains. Instead they were meant to be used on their feats. That's when Gordon realised that they are dealing with Jigsaw, a known killer, because he was one of the main suspects. It was proved that Gordon did not have anything to do with the
... and negative associations within the genre. Even with the obvious differences, both styles have borrowed concepts from the other, enriching each of their popularity in cinema.
In the end of the novel, Esther at last, comes to terms with reality. She has got to stop living her life according to what others expect of her. She needs to start living her life for “her”. After Joan commits suicide, Esther believes that unless she turns her life around, she will also commit suicide. Esther saw so much of herself in Joan, that when Joan ended her life she was frightened that she would follow in her footsteps, due to the fact that she had throughout the entire novel. Once Joan was gone, Esther was truly free. The part of Joan that was reflected in Esther vanished. The “bell jar” that had been suffocating her was finally lifted.
Film scholars around the world agree that all genres of film are part of the “genre cycle”. This cycle contains four different stages that a specific genre goes through. These stages are: primitive, classic, revisionist, and parody. Each stage that the genre goes through brings something different to that genre’s meaning and what the audience expects. I believe that looking at the horror genre will be the most beneficial since it has clearly gone through each stage.
For this project, two films were viewed. The first one is Annie, a film made in the early 80s about a girl in an orphanage. She is then brought to live in a mansion for a week with one of the richest men in this world. He doesn’t like her at first, but he learns to love the little girl, and adopt her. The second film, Cinderella man, is about a boxer who loses his job after he breaks his hand during a match. He is then left to fend for his family. He begins to slowly rise up as a boxer and fight again, much to his wife’s distaste. For this project, I will discuss the similarities and differences between the films, and the time period, setting, and characters. Annie is the first film.
After this event when Julie falls through the floor and almost dies, the novel’s main conflict is resolved as well. This event in the story is also the resolution because her fall wraps everything up. This fall is the overall resolution because the gems found left for her in Italy were safe along with Julie being able to be with her “Romeo” Alessandro. This in total is a satisfying ending because it lets the main character be with the main love interest along with the original mysteries of what was special about Julie’s family and what was in the safety deposit box are solved. This ending is demonstrated when Julie narrates “Alessandro did not say anything… Whether or not we had truly been cursed, and whether or not we had paid our dues, he was my blessing and I was his…”
Think about your favorite movie. When watching that movie, was there anything about the style of the movie that makes it your favorite? Have you ever thought about why that movie is just so darn good? The answer is because of the the Auteur. An Auteur is the artists behind the movie. They have and individual style and control over all elements of production, which make their movies exclusively unique. If you could put a finger on who the director of a movie is without even seeing the whole film, then the person that made the movie is most likely an auteur director. They have a unique stamp on each of their movies. This essay will be covering Martin Scorsese, you will soon find out that he is one of the best auteur directors in the film industry. This paper will include, but is not limited to two of his movies, Good Fellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street. We will also cover the details on what makes Martin Scorsese's movies unique, such as the common themes, recurring motifs, and filming practices found in their work. Then on
The events in New York introduce us to the beginning of Esther’s psychological transformation. The story first inaugurates with the executions of the Rosenbergs, where the Rosenbergs were electrocuted to death. They were believed to be supporting communism. The executions of the Rosenbergs deeply affected Esther’s mental state because of the way that they were executed. She believed that electrocution was unconstitutional and should have not been applied to them. According to Esther in chapter one, “I knew something was wrong with me that summer, because all I could think about was the Rosenbergs and how stupid I’d been to buy those uncomfortable, expensive clothes”(Plath 2). This quote emphasizes how Esther is becoming unable to control her mind mainly because of the events surrounding her. Based on Freud’s theory, a person’s mind is composed of both unconscious and conscious thoughts. When these thoughts interact they create a state of repression, where the person becomes unaware of conflicting problems that they be having. According to Rashmi Nemade author of “Psychology of Depression- Psychodynamic Theories Esther”, repress...
The beginning of the novel introduces the reader to Esther O'Malley Robertson as the last of a family of extreme women. She is sitting in her home, remembering a story that her grandmother told her a long time ago. Esther is the first character that the reader is introduced to, but we do not really understand who she is until the end of the story. Esther's main struggle is dealing with her home on Loughbreeze Beach being torn down, and trying to figure out the mysteries of her family's past.
At the end of the novel, Esther finally see’s a light at the end of the tunnel. She finally realizes that there is hope for her to become healthy again. Once Esther realizes that she will not always feel as bad as she does, she also comes to the conclusion that all the negativity and questioning in her life have made her into the person she has become. Esther finally realizes what her true identity is and she is okay with who she has become.
The most eye catching and thrilling movies seen throughout class easily would be the 2 part films of Kill Bill. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 came out in 2003 while Vol. 2 came out in 2004, only six months later. (IMBD) It was nominated for 1 golden Globe and won 27 awards for picture, quality and sound. Uma Thurman who plays the Bride is the main character throughout the film she is on an endless quest to find and kill Bill. The director Quentin Tarantino is the reason this movie is what it is by the way he filmed and portrayed every aspect of the film. (IMBD) This essay will be focusing on just the first movie, breaking down the character traits of the Bride, the storyline and why it wasn’t in