The musical Funny Girl, created and popularized in the 1900s, is about a young woman named Fanny Balice and her journey to become a well-known snowwoman. The musical begins with Fanny and her struggles to fit the stereotypical image of a snowwoman with her body and acting abilities. As the musical progresses, she improves while gaining confidence and meets a gambler, Nick Arnstein, with whom she falls in love. They even married and had a child, but they experienced many problems in their relationship. At the end of the musical, Fanny and Nick decide to separate and go about their own lives. Overall, this musical was quite enjoyable and was interesting to watch. Starting with the acting in Funny Girl, the musical was entertaining to witness each actor and actress individually and collectively. Each performer made their roles realistic as the story progressed. Throughout the musical, there were serious-toned scenes, such as when Nick Arnstein expressed grief over money loss, as the late actor Darius Campbell made his performance convincing and realistic because of his body language and tone. Along with Darius, the performers that stood out were the three older ladies, Mrs. Bertice, Mrs. Strakosh, and Mrs. Meeker, portrayed by Rachel Izen, Myra Sands, and Zoe Ann Bown. Their interpretations of these characters, …show more content…
The main goal of the main character, Fanny Balice, was to become a world-famous entertainer by improving her skills and getting more gigs. Additionally, after she becomes a professional actor and marries her husband, she wants to be a supportive wife to him, even by partially supporting his gambling tactics. These two goals are realistic and symbolic as they relate to the goals people want in self-improvement for themselves and their loved ones around them. I relate to Fanny Balice at the beginning of the story, when she struggles as an actress to fit
curses, and humor in the movie. Another example for the change in genres would be the horror genres, the audience of this decade would find it funny watching the 1920s horror movies, but in the years of 1920s, the audience would be really scare of this type of horror that the movie brought to them. Perhaps, the audience in the next generation will find it funny watching 2018 horror movies too, we cannot know! The same way fashion and makeup change so do genres because people see, taste, like, and dislike
Passage to India involves a girl named Bhagawahndi P., who is a 19 year old Indian girl. She suffers from a fatal brain tumor. Day to day, she has dreams and visions of her returning to India and enjoying a normal teenage life. The Dog Beneath the Skin is about a young medical student who had a dream he was a dog. Since her had that dream, he has incredible sense of smell and he can recognize every street, shop, and food by his smell. In Murder, a man killed his girl under the influence of PCP
shape my personality and views on life. Equally important are more recent movies and experiences that I can relate to my childhood favorites. Whether I’m looking back to my past in Schaumburg, or remembering moments as recent as last summer, by analyzing what it is I like about specific visual texts, I can learn a lot about myself. They are all representative of the kind of person I am, and the kind of person that I have always wanted to be.
Introduction: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, After the Old Rogue’s Tale, Set for Large Orchestra in Rondo Form is a tone poem written by Richard Strauss. A tone poem is a "one-movement orchestral genre that develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene, or creates a mood" (Cole). Therefore, by definition, Till is a piece that tells a story. To what extent does Richard Strauss effectively use music to narrate the stories of Till Eulenspiegel? Strauss uses multiple aspects of music to convey not only
Women Portrayed in Horror and Film Noir Films Works Cited Not Included Horror films have always been more attractive to the male viewer than to the female viewer. Why is that? Usually horror films mainly present the audience with very graphic mutilation and the raping of females, more so than their male counterparts. Horror films have always depicted females as either objects or as the victim of a horrible act. In Linda William's essay 'When the Woman Looks,' she says that 'there is not that
Lolita: An Analysis of Obsession Through the Decades "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov created two of the most unrelenting characters in the history of literature: Humbert Humbert and Lolita Haze. His narrator's voice and main character, Humbert Humbert, explains the complex story of a man and his obsession. To set