Discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual. To what extent is this evident in the texts you have studied? Through life, individuals are faced with challenges and encounter experiences that may initiate discoveries. These discoveries can be fresh and intensely meaningful in ways that may be emotional, creative, intellectual, physical and spiritual. In Michael Gow’s Drama, “Away” and Gabor Csupo’s iconic film, “Bridge to Terabithia”, all the characters are faced with challenges and each uncovers a new discovery. In Away, Tom is able to discover his power of healing as he awaits his impending death. As Tom’s role as “Puck”, in the meta-play, ‘Stranger on the …show more content…
Leslie has helped Jesse have a self-awakening through Terabithia. She has helped Jesse use his imagination, “close your eyes but keep your mind wide open”. Jesse closes his eyes and as he opens them, the audience is welcomed to a long-shot of Terabithia which symbolises that Jesse’s imagination has awoken and Leslie discovers that she has the power to change others. In the scene after this, we are introduced to Leslie’s solique where she is referring to life after death. She speaks about swimming past the wrinkled rocks and swims into the blue sea, the blue sea being a better place, “I check my air, I don’t have as much time to see everything, but that's what makes it so special”. This is significant as it is stating to the audience that she doesn’t have much life left to make discoveries, but the special thing is that she can help Jesse with his self-awakening. The use of the solique is to demonstrate dramatic irony, as the audience now realise that Leslie doesn’t have much time left and is going to die. Due to the help of Leslie, Jesse was able to endure through a series of events that led to a self-awakening that helped him overcome the disapproval of his father, a creative discovery of his artistic skills and spiritual discovery of love with Leslie. Like Tom, Leslie was able to discover her power of healing and somewhat sacrifice herself for others and through the introduction of Terabithia to Jesse, he was able to discover a new life like
Discoveries are driving forces to our views of the world. The process requires us to think over and reconsider our ideas of the world and may be unexpected, or intentionally provoked. Ang Lee’s film, “Life of Pi”, and Isobelle Carmody’s short story, “The Pumpkin-Eater”, provides insight to the audience of renewed perspective of the world through the discoveries seen through the protagonists, self-discoveries that challenge the world they know through tragedies of loss, and reconsidering what they believe about the world. Through narration, foreshadowing and the use of metaphors and symbolism, we learn the of the nature within discovery, and change that may take place.
Discoveries can be emotionally meaningful and confronting, and can lead individuals to new values and changes. This is evident in the play ‘Away’ by Michael Gow which explores the self-discovery and transformations of differing characters. Through the constant problems and events of an iconic Australian trip to the coast, the character Tom realises the severity of his sickness and that there will be certain aspects of life he will never experience. Ed Sheeran’s ‘Castle on the Hill’ further emphasises the idea of experiencing new aspects of life and the importance of these. Both texts, ‘Away’ and ‘Castle on the Hill’, reflect on the transformations of an individual after the discovery of the significance of life, ultimately leading to new values.
Throughout Rajiv Joseph’s play, Gruesome Playground Injuries, the two characters, Doug and Kayleen, sporadically meet throughout the course of 30 years due to injuries ranging from getting “beaten up pretty badly” (Joseph 31) to going into a “coma” (Joseph 27). The play starts out with the two characters first meeting in the school nurse’s office with injuries of their own. This is the start of a relationship that is full of pain and healing throughout the years. Told in a very unique structure of five year increments, the play shows how injuries, a reoccurring image that may be self-inflicted or inflicted upon one, bring the pair together when either is in a dire situation.
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 room is silent. The only noise that can be heard are the soft inhales and exhales coming from the audience. Dazzling lights illuminate the stage. The spotlight is on Nate Parker. The writer and director of the period drama, The Birth of a Nation. That night, Nate Parker was awarded the grand jury prize and the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. As a black man in America, he defied the odds by attaining a prestige award that most only dream of. The crowd roared with excitement as Parker stood on stage with his unblemished prize. Months before its nation wide release, The Birth of a Nation was already getting Oscar buzz and was being praised by dozens of critics across the country as one of the best films
It is difficult to imagine a play which is completely successful in portraying drama as Bertolt Brecht envisioned it to be. For many years before and since Brecht proposed his theory of “Epic Theatre”, writers, directors and actors have been focused on the vitality of entertaining the audience, and creating characters with which the spectator can empathize. ‘Epic Theatre’ believes that the actor-spectator relationship should be one of distinct separation, and that the spectator should learn from the actor rather than relate to him. Two contemporary plays that have been written in the last thirty years which examine and work with Brechtian ideals are ‘Fanshen’ by David Hare, and ‘The Laramie Project’ by Moises Kaufman. The question to be examined is whether either of these two plays are entirely successful in achieving what was later called, ‘The Alienation Effect”.
Discoveries can be unexpected and sudden or they can transform from a process of careful and calculated planning evoked by curiosity, and wonder. These discoveries can lead individuals to search for meaning through a series of experiences. Simon Nasht’s documentary Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004) captures the experiences of adventurer, Frank Hurley as he explores the importance of discovery through the challenges that evoke individuals to transform through a process of journeys of discovery and exploration. John Keats’ poem ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ (1816) portrays the persona discovering Chapman’s translation of Homer’s epic poems evoking a transformative process from a passive reader of literature to be stimulated
Princess stories tend to stray away from traditional hero stories in one aspect or another. The story of Tiana and her frog husband is no different.
Religion and human nature combined tend to create a superiority complex among those who perceive themselves as having better, or more, faith. Religion is generally perceived as singular, but humans choose to dynamically express their faith, whether that be by love or war. Gandhi, depicted the movie Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough, in the face of Muslims protesting Hindus, declared: “I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you,” and that perception of himself and others influenced a mass ethnic and religious revolution that enlightened India. Gandhi opened the world to revolutionary ideas -- the strength in tolerance, the pluralism in religion, and the unification of all mankind.
Although this gave away the plot of the film it did not make the film
Jesse and Leslie show us the importance of friendship through out the novel. When Leslie first goes to Lark creek elementary she meets Jesse, her new neighbour, and friend. During her first day Leslie proves that she doesn’t act like the typical girl at lark creek, instead of playing with the girls and gossiping abut boys she joins the boys in their running competition. Leslie’s personality grows on Jesse so he helps her fit into the school and her new house. Another example is when Leslie says to Jesse,“Thanks to you, I think I now have one and one-half friends at Lark Creek School.”
One notable difference between William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Julie Taymor’s film version of the play is the altered scenes that made quite a difference between the play and the movie version. This difference has the effects of creating a different point of view by altering the scenes affected the movie and how Taymor felt was necessary by either by keeping or deleting certain parts from the play. I use “Altered Scene” in the way of how Julia Taymor recreates her own point of view for the movie and the direction she took in order to make the audience can relate to the modern day film. I am analyzing the way that the altered scenes changes to make a strong impression on the audiences different from the play. This paper will demonstrate
The movie, “Romeo Must Die”, is an action packed drama that adapts William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” into a more modern perspective with a twist that deviates from the original plot. Han Sing, played by the actor Jet Li, resembles Romeo, where as Trish O’Day, played by the actress Aaliyah, resembles Juliet. Fate causes them to meet when Trish jumps into the taxi Han hi-jacks. As Han is in search of the person that killed his brother, he learns that Trish may have a connection and begins to pursue her.
In the movie Transcendence, the Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist and prominent researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He and his group of scientist want to create the first machine with a conscience and all human knowledge. His researcher makes him famous but at the same time he becomes the target of extremists technophobes who will do everything to stop him. When the extremist group shoots Will with a bullet laced with radiation, he is given no more than a month to live. Desperate, his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) decides to upload the consciousness of her dying husband in the machine he created. It was without counting on the ability of the machine to take precedence over the man. Everything turns into a nightmare
He opens the play with a very exposing account of what life used to be