Bill Murray Essays

  • Analysis Of Bob Wiley In What About Bob

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    In the film, What about Bob?, Bill Murray Plays Bob Wiley who has a major anxiety disorder. Bob Wiley is a divorced man who lives in New York by himself with his fish Gil. Bob Wiley definitely displays an abnormal type of anxiety disorder because everyone naturally feels fear and anxiety every once and awhile, but Bob takes it to a whole new level. One article states, “They can cause such distress that it interferes with your ability to lead a normal life”(p. 1). Once anxiety changes the way someone

  • Lost in Translation

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    relatable and genuine emotions. Too often, Hollywood seems to tell the audience what to feel, instead of using film properly: to show emotions. Both the young and the old are captured by this candid and unexpected story of a friendship. Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a washed out, middle-aged actor doing a $2 million commercial in Tokyo, develops a strong friendship with Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) who has accompanied her new husband on another one of his posh photo shoots. Both characters find themselves

  • Examples Of Existentialism In Groundhog Day

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    Zack Kozlik Period 2 Bice 1-30-14 Existential Essay Groundhog Day is a film starring Bill Murray who plays Phil Connor’s, a news anchorman, who gets stuck on the repeating Groundhog Day every day. He is a man who does not appreciate things around him but he expects others to look up to him. He lives the same day while time goes on; he does not make an effort to reach out to others. Phil follows the same daily routines and does not attempt to change anything and accepts his life as it is, even though

  • Ideology In The Movie Rushmore

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    Often today, people see themselves as much more lofty and better than everyone else or feel as though they are much worse than other people around them, both of which are exaggeration. Human’s ideology can go either way, from “Wow my life is so boring and I am so poor!” to “Oh, I can associate with these people, I am almost, if not, as good as they are.” The 1998 film Rushmore, directed by Wes Anderson, shows the influences one can go under to see a different ideology rather than their potential/actual

  • What Is The Meaning Of Chuck Close's 'Bob'?

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    The artwork "Bob", 1970 by Chuck Close has a very strong meaning. "Bob" has a clear message due to the ideas that are represented, the use of Elements and Principles in Art to create a clear idea to the audience and it also depicts significant cultural events that happened at the time. Therefore, Chuck Close's "Bob" does have meaning. An idea being communicated through Bob by Chuck close is that you should always be yourself. In an interview done with Close, he stated “I had taken a break and

  • Rushmore Movie

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    The movie, Rushmore, was directed by Wes Anderson about a teenage boy Max Fischer, who is obsessive and controlling in order to get whatever he wants. Due to his narcissistic personality, he only has a few friends and his relationship with them are uneasy. The film mainly takes place around a school since Max practically lives on campus. This movie is both a comedy and a drama where they over exaggerate Max's attitude. By doing so they then make his issues humorous but also keeps the audience on

  • Bob Burger Stereotypes

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    Bobs Burgers is a cartoon series that really breaks away from the mainstream cartoons of the past. Although it breaks past the mainstream it still portrays numerous gender and racial stereotypes. While being Modern the show is still not ahead of its time to say the least. The cartoon series “Bobs Burgers” tells a story about a guy named Bob who owns a Restaurant with his family. Bobs restaurant his dream put into reality as he has always wanted to own a restaurant from a young age.

  • What About Bob Sparknotes

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    Movie Summary “What About Bob?” is about a man named Bob Wiley, who has “problems.” Bob is referred to Dr. Leo Marvin by his colleague because he is leaving his practice and getting out of town, probably due to Bob and his neurotic nature. Dr. Leo Marvin is a well established psychologist who has a book coming out called “Baby Steps.” When Bob goes to his initial session, he is given this book, which he takes very seriously. For the first time in his life, Bob feels like he found someone who can

  • Lost in translation

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    there. It is skillfully written, well directed and it boasts of a solid cast not very spectacular but full of good actors. Jointly, this eventually results in an enjoyable and interesting movie. The important thing is that it has a message to it. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson play two individuals lost in the new and unfamiliar surroundings, restlessly moving around a Tokyo hotel in the middle of the night, who fall into talk about their marriages, their pleasure and the significance of it all.

  • Catholicism V. Rangers: Catholicism Vs. Protestantism

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    of the 2,000 spectators at the game could have guessed that they were present at a historic occasion, for that evening marked the first of what was to become the most famous, long-lasting – and bitter – sporting rivalry in the history of football" (Murray 4). Almost a hundred years

  • Ken Wolf's Personalities and Problems

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    Ken Wolf's Personalities and Problems Ken Wolf, a professor of history at Murray Sate University and author of Personalities and Problems, wrote with the intent to illustrate the varied richness of human history over the past five centuries. He took various personalities such as adventurers, princes, political leaders, and writers and categorized them in a way for readers to draw lines between them to create a clearer view of world history for himself. Beginning each new chapter with a specific

  • Arizona SnowBowl

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    can deliver. With all the advantages that a snow machine could bring to Northern Arizona, there are some people who do not want to see the Arizona SnowBowl join the ninety-one percent of ski areas who make their own snow on National Forest land (Murray, p.3). These people have raised great controversy in Northern Arizona because they would like to see the mountain stay as pristine as possible. The only problem with their point of view is that there are more advantages than disadvantages to installing

  • Dracula

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    SLITS THE COUNT’S THROAT. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THIS, QUINCEY DRIVES A BOWIE KNIFE INTO THE VAMPIRE’S HEART. THIS NOVEL PORTRAYED MANY CONFLICTS BOTH MINOR AND MAJOR. ONE OF THE MINOR CONFLICTS IS WHEN JONATHAN SECRETLY PASSES A LETTER TO HIS LOVE MINA MURRAY OUT THE WINDOW TO ONE OF THE THREE GYPSIES WHILE THEY WERE LEAVING THE CASTLE. THE GYPSY WHO RECEIVED THE LETTER BROUGHT IT STRAIGHT TO THE COUNT. AS A RESULT THE COUNT HAS A TALK WITH JONATHAN. HE SAYS, “A VILE THING, AN OUT RAGE UPON FRIENDSHIP

  • Murray Siskind: Wise Man Or Raving Mad?

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    Is Murray Siskind a raving lunatic or a wise, but somewhat eccentric man? Does he ever have a point, or is he just mindlessly rambling? He’s neither of those things. The first impression he gives is of someone who’s in between, but that proves not to be the case. He’s actually a very cunning man, one who has become the “devil” voice of Jack Gladney’s conscience. Eventually he’d like to become Jack. He covets not only his position and standing in the university, but also his wife, Babette, and he

  • Henry A. Murray: Personology

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    A. Murray: Personology Personology is the science of people. It is used to interpret and organize the lives of humans. The central ideas of the science must be to “understanding of what we mean by the concept “person,” and for development of methods of understanding the lives of persons as the “long unit for psychology”” (Barresi & Juckes 1988 pg 1). It is important to take accounts when studying personology from first person perspective instead of a third person perspective. Henry A. Murray believed

  • Antigone - The Tragic Flaw

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    Antigone - The Tragic Flaw Antigone, Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy, presents tragic flaw as the cause of the destruction of Creon, the king of Thebes. This essay examines that flaw and the critical perspective on it. Robert D. Murray, Jr. in “Thought and Structure in Sophoclean Tragedy” gives the perspective of the Greek audience, and thereby the reason why there has to be a tragic flaw in Sophoclean tragedy: “A Greek of the fifth century would, of course, have felt. . . . that moral

  • Structure in Sophocles' Antigone

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    this essay will reveal. Gilbert Murray, professor at Oxford University in England, cites structure as one of the reasons why he chose Sophocles to translate. Then he elaborates on this structure: ?But Sophocles worked by blurring his structural outlines just as he blurs the ends of his verses. In him the traditional divisions are all made less distinct, all worked over the direction of greater naturalness. . . .This was a very great gain. . . .? (107). Murray here refers to Sophocles? modification

  • A Wrinkle In Time

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    This love takes the characters on the trip of a lifetime, for the sole purpose of finding her father. This love in the background is not known by the reader until the last few pages, and ends up encompassing and explaining the whole novel. Meg Murray, the protagonist and the person from whom the reader gets their point of view, is the main character. She has a little brother, Charles Wallace, and two twin brothers, Sandy and Denny. Her mother is a guiding figure within the story, and serves as

  • Still Life

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    idol. "You know, looking back, I'm beginning to realize...those characters were assholes! How did we like them?" "Maybe they were but...I dunno. I just see something in Charlotte that's so...'I am trapped here, and I don't know it.'" "But Bill Murray! What a fuckin' dick!" "I don't see that. I just...Maybe this rings to me in a way it shouldn't." "I'm not trying to make fun of the movie, I liked the movie too, but you've got to--" "I know. You're very even-handed, Josh, and I'm putting

  • Hypertext as a Rhizome

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    comparing hypertext to a rhizome system is to understand just what a rhizome is. The philosopher Gilles Deleuze came up with the idea and Janet Murray applied to hypertext. A rhizome is a tuber root system in which any point may be connected to another point. “Deleuze used the rhizome root system as a model of connectivity in systems of ideas” (Murray 132). One simplified example of this is the prewriting technique of making a web. There is one central idea and then several thoughts that branch