How does a movie become an all-time fan favorite? When does a movie become so enjoyable you lose track of time? The answer is simple, the movie must be memorable and entertaining. Specifically, for a movie to be memorable and entertaining, it must have action, adventure, and a good love story. One of the best examples of a movie containing all three of these components is a film called Pride + Prejudice + Zombies. Throughout this entire movie, there is an overwhelming amount of action and adventure. For example, all through the movie, the characters must fight countless of zombies as they travel from place to place looking for somewhere that isn't polluted with the smell of death. The two main characters, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, cross …show more content…
The story of Emma Cullen and her husband’s love beings in a poor town called Rose Creek when an outlaw and his army of miners take over. Emma’s husband tries to stand up against the outlaw and is shot and murdered in cold blood by the outlaw’s men. This is the being of her endless, burning love for her town and her dead husband. After Emma’s husband was murdered the townspeople became scared for their lives and left the town, but while Emma may have left the town her love for her dead husband didn’t. Emma’s love soon turned into revenge when she sought out seven gunmen to help her achieve taking down the outlaw and taking back her town. Throughout the movie, there is many gunfights and lots of action when the seven gunmen adventure to the town of Rose Creek and attempt to take it back. Using machine guns, dynamite, and anything they could get their hands on they successfully defeat the outlaw and his men. It’s the action and adventures of the seven gunmen that keep the viewers attentive during the movie. It is towards the end of the film that the love story of the movie gets some closure when Emma gets the peace of mind knowing her husband killer has finally been defeated. It is Emma’s burning love and revenge that helps the viewers connect to the
The majority of the novel is centered around the efforts of Mark and his friends Trina, Alec, and Lana to find the source of this disease and the cure, as they know that they are also probably infected. Along the way, they find Deedee, a young girl who was shot ...
Throughout the story, Taylor grows as a person and learns what it means to be part of a family. Kingsolver's choices for point of view, setting, conflict, theme, characterization, and style help support the plot and create an uplifting story with a positive message.
Have you ever experienced that feeling when your heart beat goes into hyper drive, your palms start to perspire, and your muscles tense up? Fear is an emotion that everyone has succumbed to at least once in their lifetime. Our fears are like our shadows, for they follow us around to wherever we may go. They are lingering in the back of our minds from the moment we wake up in the morning until our heads hit the pillow at night. Fears are so powerful, however, that they can even crawl into our dreams and manifest into other beings. We, as humans, like to put names or concepts to either faces or objects; we like to possess the ability to visualize what something or someone looks like. As a result, our fears are personified into monsters. Prolific essayist, Chuck Klosterman, points out how “Frankenstein’s monster illustrated our trepidation about untethered science” and “Godzilla was spawned from the fear of the atomic age.” In Klosterman’s article, “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead,” he tackles the
The zombie race is very different. It doesn't not have many abilities and is not advanced like humans. Their behavior patterns are different. They cannot stand cold or winter weather. Their behavior is very different and difficult to calculate. They usually stand around lingering and waiting to attack when they hear something. They follow noises.Some abilities that they do have is that they have excellent hearing and can walk but aren't blind.The also can smell human blood. Zombies are generally weak but don’t underestimate what they can do to a human.
...ng the underlying theme that drives the story and the movie, propels the reader and viewer to rekindle the desire to hope above all else because hope is all one has in devastating as well as dire needs. Hope overcomes despair, permits others to see your “inner light” to develop integrity which connects with honesty and trust. Hope is the inspiration to continue to live regardless of the circumstances. Red may have narrated; “Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” But, Andy Dufresne states it best: “Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
Cottino-Jones sums up love and the community in this story in her book. She says, "the lovers in this books are constantly faced with violence, death and isolation when their affairs come into conflict with society’s rigid behavior codes "(Cottino-Jones, 79). Lack of communication and social factors made everyone in the story unhappy or dead.
The side of romance that warms many hearts and sells even more movie tickets is of glamour and charm. Like the romances portrayed in the movies, Cathy and Heathcliff’s love is boundless and impregnable, proving to be stronger than a single strand of spider silk. Although many threaten to cut the strand, including Edgar Linton, it is invincible. No one can interfere, especially Edgar, because in both Catherine and Heathcliff’s mind, they love each other more than anyone could ever imagine: “If he [Edgar] loved with all the power of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I [Heathcliff] could in a day” (141). Since children, Catherine and Heathcliff have this strong relationship that fulfills the picturesque love of two souls intertwined. Even through the worst of times, the love of Catherine and Heathcliff can endure and sync themselves to feel each other’s happiness, pain, and sorro...
When Zora Hurston wrote this novel, she wanted to explain how a young women search for her own identity. This young woman would go through three relationships that took her to the end of the journey of a secure sense of independence. She wanted to find her own voice while in a relationship, but she also witnessed hate, pain, and love through the journey. When Logan Killicks came she witnessed the hate because he never connected physically or emotionally to her. Jody Starks, to what she assumed, as the ticket to freedom. What she did not know was the relationship came with control and pain. When she finally meets Tea Cake she was in love, but had to choose life over love in the end.
The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.
She wanted to give him up, because she thought he didn’t have a chance with her, because she saw herself as a miserable thief. Nurses tried to convince her to raise the baby, even if she had to do it all by herself. She grabbed Henry, looked at his sparkly and radiant little eyes and started to talk to him. Emma was smiling and for the first time in a very long time, she felt complete; but then it hit her again… she was only a thief. With grief, and tears in her face, she took her decision to give him up without any background history.
Zombies are real, but not like those in stories on the big screen. Real zombies and vampires are regular people who suffer from a mental condition called, Cotard Syndrome. Cotard's syndrome, is a rare mental disorder, those with cotard syndrome have delusional belief that they are already dead. This syndrome is also known as the Walking Corpse Syndrome. These delusions can range from believing one is dead, are putrefying, do not exist, or have lost their blood and organs. This mental disorder was brought to the attention in the 1880‘s, by Jules Cotard, who described a delusion he called “delusion of negations”. Cotard Syndrome is mostly a certain type of depression.
The men in Emma’s life are subpar: her father essentially sells her so he can live comfortably without thinking about her needs, Charles, her husband is bland and inattentive to her needs, Rodolphe, her first lover is a player and uses her for sex even though he knows she is in love with him, Leon, her other lover satisfied her only for a short amount of time and then could not keep her interested. Because of the disappointing men in her life, Emma must turn to novels to encourage her will to live. She clings to the romance shown in fiction because she cannot find any in her own life. Whenever Emma indulges herself and dreams of romance, she has just been heartbroken. The first scene is after Rodolphe breaks up with Emma, she goes to the theatre and thrusts herself into a dreamed life with the main character of the play: “she tried to imagine his life…the life that could have been hers, if only fate had willed it so. They would have met, they would have loved!” (Flaubert, 209). In order to help herself get over Rodolphe, she has to reimagine a life with another man. The second follows Emma fretting breaking up with Leon, as she no longer tolerate him. As she’s writing another love letter to Leon, she creates an imaginary lover to write to. Creating a man from her favorite novels, a man so perfectly imagined she could practically feel him.
To mention Harry Potter, and I’m sure everyone is familiar with that name. Harry Potter films are based on a series of books, and the last film in the eighth series was written by Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J.K. Rowling. Movies are seem to more popular than book series. The reason is that some people think the books are too long and boring. Since the release of the first Harry Potter film in 2001, more people have known Harry Potter. Harry Potter series has been seventeen years in the making, which features the epic saga of childhood temptation, danger, and adventure. This film's exclusive selling point is that eminent story coming to an end. The title itself makes people want to watch the production already. The audiences
cannot imagine what my life would be like if all of my teenage curiosity had been forced to be satisfied by nothing but Danielle Steel romance novels. Emma strove to better herself and her situation. She wanted to reach the upper echelon of society; she wanted what we in this country refer to as the "american dream." She wanted more than her parents had.
... no place in a realistic society, and being such a romantic, Bovary is doomed to unhappiness. So, just like the symbolic blind man who reappears at the moment of her death, Emma progresses through life, and eventually dies, blind to the real beauty around and within her because of her romantic notions.