A Comparison of Blue Remembered Hills by Denis Potter and Hope and Glory produced by John Boorman There are many significant similarities and differences between the two extracts I have studied. A common similarity being the era they are set in; during the Second World War. Although the two pieces of drama are set in the same time period, they offer a great contrast in terms of their setting. Blue Remember Hills, set in 1943, is a naturalistic play situated in the countryside. Whereas Hope and Glory very much displays the effects of war in towns and cities, particularly the suburbs of London. In addition Blue Remember Hills follows the life of a gang of children who are played by adult actors where as Hope and Glory used child actors. The time span for the two pieces also differs as Blue Remember Hills lasts for a few hours where as Hope and Glory is more episodic. Another difference is the audience the pieces have been produced for, Hope and Glory is a cinematic piece of drama which has a film rating of 15, and contai...
In basketball, the National Championship game is the dream of every kid that plays basketball in college. NC State’s basketball team wasn’t well known in 1983. Jim Valvano was the coach and he knew he had a great group of kids. When they won the ACC tournament against the great Ralph Sampson and Virginia, people thought that the win was just luck and they probably wouldn’t make last when they got into the tournament. Throughout the tournament, NC State kept surviving and advancing. In Johnathan Hock’s documentary “Survive and Advance”, Hock uses stock footage of the games that were played during the tournament, different points of view from the players, and the sequence of the documentary to prove that NC State’s basketball team were the underdogs during the whole tournament; however they were able to win despite their adversity
The poem was set in the summer of 1943 and there were 5 boys and 2
Beginning the mid 1920s, Hollywood’s ostensibly all-powerful film studios controlled the American film industry, creating a period of film history now recognized as “Classical Hollywood”. Distinguished by a practical, workmanlike, “invisible” method of filmmaking- whose purpose was to demand as little attention to the camera as possible, Classical Hollywood cinema supported undeviating storylines (with the occasional flashback being an exception), an observance of a the three act structure, frontality, and visibly identified goals for the “hero” to work toward and well-defined conflict/story resolution, most commonly illustrated with the employment of the “happy ending”. Studios understood precisely what an audience desired, and accommodated their wants and needs, resulting in films that were generally all the same, starring similar (sometimes the same) actors, crafted in a similar manner. It became the principal style throughout the western world against which all other styles were judged. While there have been some deviations and experiments with the format in the past 50 plus ye...
Baldwin, James. "Sonny's Blues." Miller, Quentin and Julie Nash. Connections: Literature for Composition. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. 984-1006.
Imagine you’re confined to a wooden box where you’re only allowed tiny amounts of movements but your arms and feet are free of clutches and there is a few holes on the top surface of the box so you are allowed to breathe. How free are you? In the short story, “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and the novel “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison we are spectators of ‘Black Oppression’. Where the Blacks regardless of the abolition of slavery, are still mentally enslaved and physically limited to any kosher manifestation of success without the sway of the Whites. Consequently, of reading these written works I only now realized the gap of history that I’ve forgotten to see. When I was sixteen years old I remember telling myself, “Oh hell to those who
Stories having similar characteristics are very common nowadays. While reading “the Lesson” and “Sonny’s Blues” it was apparent that the story was alike in many ways. I wonder how two separate stories could be so parallel, so I did some research on the authors. While researching the author of “The Lesson”, Toni Cade Bambara, I found out she was born in Harlem just like the main character, Sylvia, in her story. Like Bambara, James Baldwin, the author of “Sonny’s Blues”, was born in Harlem as well.
..." And The Studio System: A Re-Evaluation Of Hansberry's Original Screenplay Of "A Raisin In The Sun." Literature Film Quarterly 37.3 (2009): 184-193. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
Thus, the reason why British Westerns have an unconventional tradition of being sympathetic towards Native Americans is clear. Although directors certainly bring their own personal artistic vision to their projects, mainstream film production is still ultimately governed by commercial interests, as both Nowell-Smith and Neale attest. In order to make a profit at the box-office, movies have to meet the expectations and desires of their viewers, ensuring positive reviews and word of mouth endorsement. With government approval high in the United States during the 1950s, there was very little incentive for production companies to release a movie which challenged the dominant myth of the nation’s founding and its virtuousness, as it is unlikely that audiences would have been open to these ideas. Consequently, during the “Golden
Schuster-Craig, J. (2011). The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of
Over the years, musicians have composed songs exploring political matters that serve as anthems to the cause. Artists such as Bob Dylan and Clint Black have utilised their influence in the music industry to speak out against war and violence, with songs such as “Masters of War” by Dylan and “Iraq and I Roll” by Black, which both take on polarising perspectives on wars and acts of violence, the Cold War and Iraq War, respectively. Without explicitly stating their respective opinions, both songs use musical techniques to highlight their points of view. Their differing stances on war are manifested through bias, dissimilar styles of music and the different references expressed through imagery in both songs.
In the stories, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” written by Leo Tolstoy and “Sonny’s Blues” written by James Baldwin these representative narratives lead their readers to conclusions about the thematic/values issues they have raised. At the end of both these stories, they both have that same theme and meaning of what both authors are trying to tell the readers about life, and how much people should appreciate the time that we have, and whom you are spending the cherished moments together. Each of these stories come to a reasonable conclusion on all the problems the characters had no choice to face the hardships of their lives that made them all realized and glanced back on how thankful they were.
"After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain" (332). This last line of the novel gives an understanding of Ernest Hemingway's style and tone. The overall tone of the book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in The Sun Also Rises seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. Nevertheless, Hemingway's style and tone make A Farewell to Arms one of the great American novels. Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These are all good words they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--combinations of lefts and rights coming at us without pause. As illustrated on page 145 "She went down the hall. The porter carried the sack. He knew what was in it," one can see that Hemingway's style is to-the-point and easy to understand. The simplicity and the sensory richness flow directly from Hemingway's and his characters' beliefs. The punchy, vivid language has the immediacy of a news bulletin: these are facts, Hemingway is telling us, and they can't be ignored. And just as Frederic Henry comes to distrust abstractions like "patriotism," so does Hemingway distrust them. Instead he seeks the concrete and the tangible. A simple "good" becomes higher praise than another writer's string of decorative adjectives. Hemingway's style changes, too, when it reflects his characters' changing states of mind. Writing from Frederic Henry's point of view, he sometimes uses a modified stream-of-consciousness technique, a method for spilling out on paper the inner thoughts of a character. Usually Henry's thoughts are choppy, staccato, but when he becomes drunk the language does too, as in the passage on page 13, "I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you
The short story Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin is written in first person through the narrator. This story focuses on the narrator’s brother sonny and their relationship throughout the years. This story is taken place in Harlem, New York in the 1950s. The narrator is a high school algebra teacher and just discovered his brother in the newspaper. This story includes the traditional elements to every story, which consist of the exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and the resolution.
The reclusive film director Terrence Malick has to date, only directed a small number of films. His twenty year hiatus between directing Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), may provide the explanation for such a sparse back catalogue. Malick’s refusal to talk with the media, has led to hearsay, as to how he occupied his time during the hiatus. Malick’s directing debut Badlands (1973) is a collection of concepts, all carefully moulded together to create one iconic piece of film. This process draws in and also alienates the audience. Malick’s style is positively noted by critics to be influenced by European philosophy. This is clearly due to Malick’s study of philosophy at Harvard and Magdalen College Oxford. There is no given explanation to the mindless violence featured within the film, mainly due to the films resistance to the straight forward approach. The familiar and the unknown are carefully merged together. The only way of gaining an understanding into the hidden meanings within Badlands is by breaking down the film, by looking at the characters, the use of sound, the visual setting and the films genre. The illusionary effect of Malick’s style means that all is not as it seems.
Intertextuality is the relationship between texts, writers and directors use this technique to reference other text all the time. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff’s The Lion King uses the intertextuality technique of allusion of the play The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark written by William Shakespeare. There are lots of similarities that connect the two together but also a lot of differences that keep them there own separate texts. The context, plot and characters all have some sort of intertextuality.