Julia Roberts, Richard Gere starring movie “ runaway bride” is reviewed by a lot of people. Many of these reviews are acceptable though a lot more are very much out of context and have no sense of understanding for the multi starer movie. Review One such review came across my sight. This review is by Cynthia Fuchs Pop Matters Film Editor taken from http://popmatters.com/film/reviews/r/runaway-bride.html. The lady has no doubt reviewed the movie but the review, which comprises of around 9 paragraphs, has more than 5 paragraphs containing nothing but her sympathies and care for Julia Roberts, the main lead of the movie. I am not stopping her from liking some one and expressing her concerns for that particular person, but all this can be done in any other article exclusively written for Julia. There is no doubt that the movie was an average and was just meant for the fans as after watching pretty women people were expecting more from Roberts-Gere duo but alas! I personally liked the movie my self as I m a huge fan of the duo and I love to read reviews before and after watching a movie as this gives me more insight to the film. This habit of mine is just like any other average American or for that matter any other individual as people want to read reviews to get to know more about the movie, its cast, how they are performing, the technical aspects of the film, the sounds, the songs and last but not the least the story line and rating of the movie. But after reading this particular review one felt as if a whole biography of an individual is written and instead of knowing the technical, visual, graphical style of the movie one gets to read the writers sympathies for the lead character. Thus, all in all the review is scrawny and vulner...
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...g through the motions, her eyes tearing up, her lip quivering, the music swelling. It's too much and I resent it, but it makes me worry. I'm certainly not worrying that the plot will not go exactly how I know it will go. I worry, instead, that it will go that way. I worry that she'll stop running, that she'll move to New York to be with Her Man, that she'll say she's sorry for whatever shortcomings she might have displayed during their brief and apparently enchanting courtship, that she'll change herself to fit his idea of what she should be. She has to do it and I know she will. But it still makes me sad, knowing that she has to do this to make everyone else feel secure — again and again, in movie after movie — that they're also making the proper apologies and the right choices, because any other choices are unimaginable for Pretty Women and their gonnabe mates.
She is fairly new to the work world and has lied on her resume’ to get hired, and realizes that the job is harder than she first thought. All hope is not lost because Violet assures her that she can be trained. She ends up succeeding at the company and telling her husband she will not take him back after he comes back begging for her love again.
Worried about being the perfect mother, wife, and balancing her job with family life at home.
The Princess Bride is a film that is a framework tale about a young boy with a cold, who is visited by his grandfather. His grandfather reads him a book entitled “The Princess Bride” in order to brighten the boy’s spirits. This book unfolds a comedic, yet heroic, journey experienced by a man named Westley, which follows Joseph Campbell’s archetypal Hero’s Journey model.
The film that I chose was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The movie is a romantic comedy about a 30-year-old single woman Toula living in Chicago with her family. As a Greek girl, being raised by a very traditional Greek family she always wanted to be like the other girls instead of going to Greek School she wanted to attend traditional public school and eat American. She was looked down upon by her family because she was supposed to be married to a Greek man, have Greek children, and feed people, which she had not yet accomplished at 30. She was constantly made fun of by other females both Greek and non-Greek because of either the way certain things were pronounced, the foods she ate, or what was viewed as a cultural norm in society. Toula was fluent
She thinks that if she vandalizes his precious “souped-up four wheel drive” it will stop him from being unfaithful- to teach him a lesson. However, in “perfect” the thoughts haunt her mind as she realizes she serves no purpose to her boyfriend. “ I hear you talking 'bout her in your sleep”, she feels as if he’s distancing himself from her; as if he has lost the love he had for her; it can make any women feel defeated wondering what the other women is doing that has such of an effect on them. “I can taste her lipstick, it's like I'm kissing her, too”. She has reached a turning point in the relationship; she knows he is being unfaithful from the way he acts towards her, tasting her lipstick as she kisses him, when he says her name in his sleep. She knows he’s being unfaithful yet she still stays- she stays hoping he will change when he does not. While in “Before He Cheats” she does not stay another second to an unfaithful man; she leaves the relationship. Secondly, in “Before He Cheats” she keeps thinking about her ex, thinking back to the memories they had and insulting his new replacement how she is nothing like her and how she believes she is much more better than who he preferred to be with. “He’s
Satire criticises and makes fun of the norms of human society. It adds an intellectual humour along with the archetypes that is present in the story. In The Princess Bride, by William Goldman, satire is in a wide variety of parts in the story from the communication between others to the character themselves including the Spaniard, Inigo Montoya. The author portrays Inigo as a Spaniard who becomes a fencer to seek revenge on the six-fingered man for the murder of his father, Domingo Montoya and he becomes a henchman to the criminal Vizzini. He is a very caring man to people he cares about, but he can only act on vengeance since he truly loves his father. With his attention only on reprisal, it can blind him from achieving the results he wants and that can significantly affect his personality as he is driven by it. When he finds the six-fingered man, he prepares after many years of training with famous fencers and even has a saying that he plants in his brain so that it is the driven force of vengeance. He is the ‘evil figure with an ultimately good heart’ archetype as he is a part of Vizzini’s group with Fezzik, but he has a change in heart that he needs Westley’s help to storm the castle. Although Inigo is a prestigious fencer who only cares about revenge, the author plays with satirical devices that portray the faults and weaknesses of his characteristics while maintaining his status as the best swordsman in his generation.
Writers have all taken diverse perspectives in drawing understanding of the story. Strategic analyses between reviews will aid in establishing not simply the good or the bad points of the novel, but also, the critic’s take on the message being imparted by the story.
We will now look at the last twenty seconds of the film, where the happily ever after setting is topped off with the promise that our dreams will too come true. Portraying Hollywood as the land of dreams, Edward rides in on his 'white horse' to rescue 'Princess Vivian' from her own personal tower, resulting in our involvement in the manipulation of the myths delivers to us. This shot also serves purpose to distract us from the devious way that consumerist culture moulds our conceptions. We may blind ourselves of viewing the real issues of the film, but we can not erase the fact that in pleasurably consuming Pretty Woman, we have participated in reinforcing constructs from a culture that subjects women, a culture that degrades women - a culture that is anything but pretty.
The review also does a great job providing enough background to the story without actually giving away to much as giving plenty of other pop culture references within the film.The writing still is effective in such a way that the reader can tell it was meant for some sort of magazine. It is able to present a sense of being informal and yet professional at the same time. On another note I personally think that the comparisons and the contrasts presented about the characters of Bella and Katniss and each of her respected films is extremely helpful. This can be said with the idea that a lot of individuals may have had or do have some reserves about seeing the movie because it could be to similar to Twilight because although both had good box office success, Bella as the heroine of Twilight failed to impress audiences in a lot of ways. With this being said, a compassion done between the two may have assisted the reader in trying to make the choice to see the film and could have proven to be very
Elle is more of a fashion chick and does not take importance of other things like studying hard; this is why Warner broke up with her in the first place. But she is not a girl with a high IQ, so she was not easily accepted to Harvard. Her incentive is to convince the admissions advisor through the importance of love, and so, she gets admitted. Elle is happy to see Warner but she discovers that Warner has a serious girlfriend just like he wanted. Unhappy about what she discovers, Emmett brings her hope, A Chip on her Shoulder, and makes her believe that by studying more she will have what she wants. Surely, Elle studies plenty enough that it impresses all her classmates including the teacher. Warner proposes to his new girlfriend in front of Elle. Shocked of what Elle has observed, she becomes very disappointed. Like always, Emmett is there to help her, so he gives her the list of the students admitted to the internship and Elle’s name was present. She is again delighted and forgets about Warner. Yet, she does not earn Warner back, but what she does earn is respect and a higher
I have just finished watching the Princess Bride and will be giving my opinion on the film. The Princess Bride is a fairytale movie that has princes, princess, mythical creatures and your typical villains. It is a action movie with lots of twist and turns the princess bride will keep you on your toes the entire time. It is a romantic comedy fantasy film directed and produced by Rob Reiner
Finally, Katya’s story ends with the same way that it begins. With Katya dissatisfied with her situation and feeling alone. Her American lover never cared for her past but only wanted to her an entertaining time wasting story. Her first sexual encounter ends with her mother locking herself in the bathroom wallowing in her own self-pity instead of focusing on how to deal with Katya. Her mother needs to try to help support Katya instead of thinking about how this is going to hurt herself. Then when she finally feels beautiful and begins to show signs of having some self-confidence and feeling beautiful, she is not looked upon as gorgeous but instead as a tool.
Great Expectations is based on a novel written by Charles Dickens, directed by David Lean. The story follows the development of a blacksmith's apprentice named Pip into a fine young gentleman. Due to the efforts of an unknown benefactor, young Pip is taken from his working-class roots and set on a course of social advancement in London. All the while, he dreams of marrying the man-hating Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, the beautiful Estella.
One popular cultural myth about the mentally ill is the archetype of the "Sexy Crazy Girl", which we've seen in movies, comic books, and music. Losing your grip with reality is not a glamorous subject, but that's not what you get from Girl, Interrupted. It is apparent that all the girls in the movie had some type of dysfunctional personality, and bad things happen to some of them, but it just did not seem realistic. First off, most of the patients prtrayed were young, which made the care facility look like a youth home rather than a mental institution. but only the main (well known) stars, (Jolie and Ryder) were focal piont. I'll also note that about half the young girls in the movie, Ryder and Jolie included, simply don't look like girls in the 1960's. Maybe that's a difficult statement to explain, but it has to do with that certain look each time and generation seems to have; and Ryder and Jolie don't look like girls of the 1960's. Of course, one could easily say that their displacement is part of their condition... but I didn't buy it. To finish this paragraph about this film's inconsistent appearances, I'll mention how convenient it seems that with the exception of one extra, nearly the entire cast of patients in this ward are under the age of 25 or so. Mental illness strikes women of all ages, so it was a bit perplexing to see it portrayed as a thing of youth. This also feeds into my prior statement about making "going crazy" look cool... this movie ...
(Chad Michael Murray). She makes a mad dash back to reality, leaving him clueless as to who she really is. While trying to cope with all the hardships going on in her life, she is forced to find the courage to be herself and claim the life that she has always wanted.