The 1956 movie The Searchers is set in Texas during the Texas Indian Wars in the late 1800’s. The main Character of the film is Ethan Edwards played by John Wayne. Edwards is a civil war veteran who fought in the confederate army and is fiercely racist, he also hinted to have a somewhat dark past from his rejection to take an oath and become a Texas Ranger to the large amount of mysterious gold in his possession. Debbie is Edwards’s niece and is a child when he comes to her family’s home after the war. She is later kidnapped by Comanche Indians and taken as a wife by Scar, the chief of a Comanche tribe. Martin Pawley is the adopted brother of Debbie and joins Edwards on his quest to find Debbie; he is also of Indian heritage and is not accepted as family by Edwards. Martin has a romantic interest in a woman named Laurie who lends him a horse when Edwards’s leaves him in favor of traveling alone. Martin writes letters to Laurie over the course of his journey with Edwards. The main conflict of the film is Ethan Edwards’s quest to find his niece Debbie who was taken by a Comanche tribe...
The film Good Will Hunting starts by giving us a glimpse into a rather bleak moment in the life of Will Hunting, a college-aged janitor at the prestigious university called MIT. He lives the typical college life in many respects, from regularly meeting his friends at the bar to getting into a relationship built upon lies – with the glaring exception that he is not a college student whatsoever. In fact, he is portrayed as an undiscovered genius…at least until getting into trouble with the law leads to a bail out that eventually turns around his life for the better.
Ken Kesey's award-winning novel, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", was adapted into a film in 1975 written and directed by New York City native Bo Goldman and Czech director Milos Forman. Towards the end of the novel and film, Chief Bromden escapes from the ward. This scene is conveyed differently in the novel and film; however, there are evident similarities between each form of media. This scene is important to the plot because it wraps up the entire storyline. In the film and novel, similarities within Chief Bromden’s escape from the ward include the way Chief escaped, how he couldn't hear anyone in the ward due to being deaf, and how McMurphy assisted Bromden with gaining his confidence to lift the panel and throw it through the window. McMurphy essentially changed Bromden to help him break out of the asylum and back into the real world.
How do fiction storytellers reveal a character’s actions and or characteristics? Fiction storytellers use things like conflicts, diction, and imagery to add a better description to a book. Most of these examples also hook the reader to want to learn more. The mood of a story is also revealed when using this examples. In The Looking Glass Wars Beddor uses conflicts and challenges to inform the reader about Alyss’ characteristics.
Melvin Udall is a successful novelist living in New York City. In the beginning of the movie he is an irritable, obsessive-compulsive man who alienates himself from those around him. To add to his alienation, he works from home and does not allow anyone in his apartment. His routine consists of going to the same restaurant, being served by the same waitress and eating at the same table every day. His mental disorder is also displayed in several different obsessive-compulsive actions such as turning the locks five times and doing the same for the lights in his home. One day, Melvin’s homosexual neighbor is assaulted and put into the hospital. Due to the misfortune, Melvin is forced to watch the neighbor’s dog while he recovers from the assault. At this point in the movie, Melvin develops an emotional attachment to the dog and his attitude begins to change for the better. Melvin decides to help the waitress from the restaurant by paying for her son’s medical bills. This gesture comes after him having a meltdown when she did not show up to work to serve him. Near the end of the movie, Melvin makes a trip to help the neighbor and invites the waitress to come along. The trip does not go as planned, but the experience helps him to learn to communicate and have better relationships with people. In the end, Melvin falls in love with the waitress and is willing to learn to overcome his obsessive-compulsive lifestyle to be with her.
Incohesive, long, and dialogue-heavy, Inherent Vice has all the potential to flounder. Yet under the steady (or rather, wild) hands of director Paul Thomas Anderson, the film becomes a psychedelic, incredibly enjoyable ride brimming with wit and melancholy. The film follows Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello (played in routinely magnificent fashion by the now ever-reliable Joaquin Phoenix), and his exploits to help his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fey (Katherine Waterston, also exquisite) investigate a kidnapping of notorious real-estate billionaire Mickey Wolfmann. From there, the plot descends (or ascends, depending on your perspective of the film) into sumptuous lunacy; a mystery involving the coveted and secretive
The film The Searchers directed by John Ford, featured actor John Wayne. The setting of the film takes place in 1868 in the frontier of Texas. The main character, Ethan Edwards was an ex-confederate soldier, who had return home from the war. The question of “Was John Wayne’s character, Ethan, an Indian hater?” can be answered through the use of examples found throughout the movie. Ethan can be depicted as an Indian hater because of the dislike of his 1/8 Cherokee nephew Martin and other natives, his view of captured women by the Natives and his urge for the killing of the Comanche natives. During 1868 you have an expansion of the western frontier. People are going out west, to make a better future for themselves. The western frontier was a
A certain level of maturity is essential in order to acknowledge and strengthen the graces given by the Holy Spirit. In the movie Hancock, directed by Peter Berg, the main character went through the process of maturity in which he recognized and strengthens the graces that were given to him. Hancock is an immortal being who is destined to save the world; he demonstrated four of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. The first special gift that grows in Hancock’s understanding is where he eventually admits his faults while he was staying in jail. Second, the gift of right judgment was shown when Hancock chose the right thing by not escaping from prison even though he had the chance to. Third, Hancock presented the gift of courage when he saved
The Searchers, is one of the most popular representatives of the classic western genre film. Directed by John Ford in 1956, the film embodies all the definitive characteristics of a Western from the time period in which it was made. Ethan, played by John Wayne, is an ex-Confederate Army soldier who returns home to his brother in Texas three years after the war’s completion. From the start, there is an air of mystery surrounding Ethan and his whereabouts during the last couple years. He has continued to wear his uniform and reveals to have made a fair amount of money while gone, contributing to his appearance of a rough, suspicious cowboy. The obscurity that these factors create around Ethan is important because they allow for the essential seed of wonderment to be planted in the minds of the audience. The audience will then be able to sympathize with Ethan and allow for the creation of the film’s hero.
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
Backroads begins with Harley being questioned by the police for a crime that the reader knows not of. He delves into the story that has brought him up to this point, beginning from a year after his mother shot his father. The events in the course of this are breath taking.
Forrest Gump and the Blind Side both have strong characters, inspirational moments, and incredible hardships. The movies show two very smart people who are misunderstood by many.
This paper will include the analysis of the movie Hope Floats. It will start with a short summary of the movie describing the characters and the plot. It will then discuss the family dynamics that are shown in the movie based on the class discussions and the readings. It will also include a variety of issues that are shown throughout the movie. This paper will discuss three key family system’s issues that includes the family concepts, assessing one from Bowen’s concepts, one from Minuchin’s concepts, and one from General Systems Theory/Anderson and Sabatelli concepts. There are many different scenes and examples in this movie that will give a better understanding of the many different family dynamics, family issues, and family system concepts.
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
Many different movies have characters with different types of disabilities, in my essay I would like to focus on one particular movies. The movie I chose is “The Fault in Our Stars” from 2014, directed by Josh Boone.
Based on a true story, the movie ‘Lone Survivor’ features four Navy SEALs that set out on a mission to Afghanistan with orders to capture and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. The Navy SEALS are detected by villagers and the mission was compromised. Ultimately, the mission had been discovered and the men found themselves surrounded by dozens of Taliban soldiers. One of the Navy SEAL soldiers managed to dispatch to base and retrieve assistance but the Taliban shoot down the helicopter. During battle, three of the Navy SEAL soldiers were killed leaving one still alive.