In the movie Gerald’s Game, there are three man characters in the movie Gerald, Jessie, who are husband and wife and a stray dog. My main focus will be on Jessie. Jessie is a compassionate, submissive and slight rebellious person. As the movie begins, Jessie and Gerald are on the way to her families lake house to rekindle their love life. By examining Jessies body language you can see that she is not comfortable in the car with Gerald, definitely when he puts his hand on her inner thigh and tries to put his hand under her dress. She quickly removes his hands. Just by that you can tell that she is not into Gerald OR he has hurt her and she is not ready for a sexual relationship with him. Gerald continues to drive to the lake house and they …show more content…
You can tell that she wants everything the go smoothly so she goes overboard to make sure she looked pretty. Gerald come out of the bathroom and its like night and day with his personality. He handcuffs her to the bed and starts to choking her. He demanded that she screamed for help because he knew no one would be able to hear. This was the perfect opportunity for Gerald to live out his rape fantasy. Jessie demand that her unhand-cuff her from the bed. At this point Jessie demeanor had changed she was not this submissive woman she told him that she knew he had been cheating on her for years. She could not figure out where they went wrong. This is exactly what Jessie needed. Everything that she wanted the say over they years came out. Just as that happened Gerald has a heart-attack and she is still handcuffed to the bed. No way to help him and no way way to escape. Jessie kicked him on the floor and blood started to puddle around his head. Jessie began to panic and scream. Even though she could see the blood on the floor. Her brain could not process the fact that the man she had been married to for so many years just died right in front of her eyes. She keeps calling his name as if he would wake up. Later on that day, she hears foot steps in the home and automatically believes that it is her children but in reality it is the stray dog from earlier. He sees Gerald on the floor and begin the eat his remains. Jessies does
Purvis wanted Jessie to toughen up so he would survive living on the Moonlight, which he achieved by treating Jessie as an adult, not like an infant. Purvis taught Jessie not to whine and which warned him not to show his concern towards the slaves. By being firm with Jessie, Purvis proves that he has Jessie’s best interests at heart and is looking out for him. Jessie realised Purvis's attitude towards him was Purvis’s way to show how much he cared about Jessie. Telling Jessie not to show concern towards the slaves and not to whine about his situation is evidence that Purvis and Jessie’s friendship was not sweet but instead helped by developing a friendship built on
However, Curly, the dog, has found something. Meg discovers that it is an old-fashioned silver fork. As she tries to find where the fork came from, she sees the old woman who looks like a witch staring at her. The woman gets into a car, drives away. Meg investigates the chimney on the burned out old plantation house where the woman was standing and discovers some disturbed bricks.
One movie that pertains to the family adolescent life cycle is The Goonies. Not only is this movie a cult classic, but it also gives a great perspective on an adolescent’s life cycle. This movie revolves around a group of kids in search of a way to save their home from the rich towns people. While on this search they stumble on treasure map from the infamous “One Eyed Willy”. Thus begins the adventures of the Goonies on their mission to save their homes.
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is a story about a football town. The name of the town is Odessa. It is a small town on the west side of Texas and football is the only thing that matters. Bissinger gives the reader a glimpse of what life is like at an area high school called Permian. Very few towns are obsessed with sports like Permian and Ringgold when it comes to sports programs. In this essay, Permian and Ringgold sports will be compared by their programs and values that they place on sports.
There are many stories and movies that you are able to be compared and contrasted because of there similar and different ideas. High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game have many differences and similarities that you can compare and contrast. An example would be how the characters take place in similar situations such as being hunted down. Both stories take place in the early 1900's such as 1924 and 1952. Both of these stories have differences such us the plot which brings each story to their differences. Another situation which both of the stories are similar in is the setting. The setting is set with isolation and in the middle of nowhere which gives these stories something to compare about and the events that take place. Overall each story
To conclude I believe the reader has sympathy for Gerald as his fiancé is uninterested and when explaining to the inspector and the Birling family his reaction towards the situation caused him to almost break down completely. However, I feel ambivalent to a certain degree and I agree with the statement that was proposed by Gerald. Except at moments in time I
"Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me," says Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols in 1967 is an influential satire/comedy film about a recent East Coast college graduated who finds himself alienated and aimless in the changing, social and sexual general public of the 1960s, and questioning the values of society. The theme of the film is of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, mis-directed, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, self-indulgent, and discredited older generation (that finds stability in “plastics”) that I found to be quite clear and understanding, while also capturing the real spirit of the times and allows America's youth to perceive onscreen an image of themselves which they can both identify with and emulate. The Graduate is a significant film even today due to its use of abstract camera angles, telephoto lenses, excellent cinematography, and great acting. Few visual effects were used, however, matting and numerous point of view shots were used. These characteristics and the fabulous use of mis-en-scene, great writing and the era of the film all made The Graduate what it is today, magnificent.
Being able to overcome anything in life is a great feeling. There is a special feeling in the body and the mind when the body achieves a goal, and the mind gets a feeling of satisfaction. Since, the mind chooses to go against the body's will to quit, you have to be mentally strong. In Richard Connell's short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” large game hunter Sanger Rainsford is tested in the following ways: strong versus the weak, the value of life, and becoming what he fears. To begin with, Rainsford has to pose as the weak against the strong, General Zaroff.
The Waterboy (1988) is a true underdog story where Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) plays the role of the waterboy who is a “momma’s boy” and has social issues. Bobby shows his possible skills of being a weapon on a college football team. Bobby turns his life around earning a spot as a line-backer on the football team, getting into school and meeting the girl he ends up marrying in the end. Bobby became the team’s best player and they needed him to win the championship game of the tournament.
The Soloist (Foster, Krasnoff & Wright, 2008), is based on a true story of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. who develops psychosis and becomes homeless. In the film, Nathaniel is considered a cello genius who is discovered on the streets by Steve Lopez, a journalist from the Los Angeles Times. Steve was searching for a city story and he decided to write a newspaper article about Nathaniel. Nathaniel always had a passion for music. He was a child prodigy and attended Juilliard School of Music. However, he faced many complications at Juilliard, particularly hearing voices speaking to him. Unable to handle the voices, Nathaniel dropped out and ended up living on the streets of Los Angeles. Steve and Nathaniel develops an unexpected friendship, in which Steve tries to help Nathaniel to live a normal life; having a home, treat his mental disorder, and to fulfil his dream of being a cellist again.
Have you ever thought a certain way to later have that thought process changed? In The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell was original published in 1924 and won the respected O. Henry Memorial Award in both 1923 and 1924 which goes to show that this story is well worth reading. Although this story integrates literary fiction, it is classified as a commercial fiction because it is merely for entertainment. This story has a lot of suspense and mystery behind it and will keep the reader entertained throughout its entirety.
One of the last things that were different about the movie was the ending. It didn’t end with Jessie not being able to tell the difference between the humans and the pigs. After that, Jessie took Benjamin and a few other animals with her to escape. They came back a few years later after Napoleon died. The farm’s new owners were coming and Jessie and
What turns Melinda on to the right path is when she is watching T.V. and Oprah, Sally Jessy, and Jerry all say the things that Melinda needs to hear: the fact that she was raped and that “he (Andy) attacked her” and that “It was not [her] fault” (164). Unhesitatingly, as a result of what the T.V. told her, Melinda tries to talk to Rachel, one of her ex-best friends, about Andy, who she is dating, but she responds to the talk by calling her a “liar” and that Melinda is “[just] jealous” (184). After the interaction, Melinda truly believes that there is no hope for herself now, because of her best ex-friend not believing her. It is not in till after prom that things turn around when gossip of the prom takes root. At the prom, “Andy was all over [Rachel] with his hands and mouth” and started “grinding against her” (191). Him acting like this, lets light filter through into Rachel’s brain, telling her that what Melinda said was the truth, resulting in her dumping him and telling him off. From being told off, Andy does not take it well, resulting in him going after Melinda for putting “lies” into Rachel’s head. His confrontation with Melinda leads with him trying to rape her once again but, this time she has the chance to tell him how she really feels. Melinda reacts to the confrontation by
In the end, life for Jessie had ceased to be. Her life is gone; the turmoil finally removed…a sense of relief perhaps, maybe a permanent state of rest. By committing suicide she sealed her optimum destiny and achieved closure to her life. She reached nirvana.