women in 'Some Like It Hot' and 'Alien 3'. 'Some Like It Hot' was made in 1958. Marilyn Monroe starts in the comedy as Sugar Cane who is a very feminine musician. 'Alien 3' on the other hand was made 40 years after and is a sci-fi horror. Sigourney Weaver is the star of the film and plays the character Lt. Ripley. Unlike Sugar Cane, Lt. Ripley is a very tough and manly character. 'Some Like It Hot' is about two musicians. They witness a massacre and try to find a way out of the city before
H.R.Giger's Alien "Hollywood's conception of extraterrestrial life was pretty much limited to either whimsical little green men or clumsy bug-eyed monsters. In a gritty future, Scott brought to life Swiss surrealist H.R.Giger's terrifying biomechanical beastie: an acid-bleeding, razor-toothed, overgrown cockroach with an ugly practice of gestating its offspring in human hosts……. Suddenly, space was a pretty scary place to be." (Schwarzbaum, 27) In 1979 an alien was born. Before 1979 the movie
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Alien (1979): Feminism In the thirty years since its release, Alien has become a film of various debates amongst film theorists. Academic analyses of the film draw attention to many differing themes, most popularly with feminism. Most critiques, academic and otherwise, ultimately conclude that Alien is a feminist film because of its representation of the workplace as a home to equality and a place where traditional gender roles have been obliterated. What is ultimately revealed by Alien is the anxiety
Dana Abou Abbas English 1C May 18th , 2018 Avatar Race Distraction Avatar, a tremendously successful movie produced by James Cameron, Jon Landau. With its popularity and mass appeal, it has also acquired a considerable amount of disapproval from a variety of sources, pointing at a variation of topics of the film, from its demonstration of alien natives and a colonial corporate military, to race problems and a representation of cigarette use. The movie Avatar can be analyzed in many different
Warfare Work” shows that these negative aspects of technology also exist in the real world. In all three connecting sources, as technology is used to gain personal power, it is ultimately ... ... middle of paper ... ...ington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver. 2009. Twentieth Century Fox, 2009. DVD. Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2004. Print. Hods, Jon. “The Cyber War Turns Physical.”Jerusalem Online.Jerusalem Online, n.d. Web. . 1 Dec. 2013. Quora. “How Does
It is in the situations that challenge us that we are truly able to achieve our full potential. It is inevitable that at some point in life or another, everyone will face challenge. It is the response in the face of these challenges that truly makes or breaks individuals or societies, for what is a society but many individuals. The greatest feats of mankind have come upon in the wake of these problems. It is in the human nature to surpass any challenge; it is only the question of how we deal with
Plot The movie is set about 700 years into the Earth’s future. The Earth was shown to be completely contaminated so that no more plant and animal could survive, and the last of the surviving human population were safely taken into the spaceship Axiom, where they were originally planned to live for 5 years until Earth becomes habitable again. WALL-Es, which are cleaning robots were tasked to perform the clean-up operation. However, the clean-up operation was unsuccessful and the supposed five-year
Once upon a time, a 18 year old named Juan was going to work in his father’s vegetable market. Juan always goes to help out his father no matter what. Him and his dad moved to Jerusalem from a village in Jordan. His mother had passed away from a wound infection. His father didn’t have enough money for medicine, so that’s why she died. They moved so they wouldn’t struggle anymore, and so they can live a different life. Juan is a very helpful, nice, intelligent, and had a very prodigious heart . Everyone
Avatar is a movie that takes you to a world beyond imagination with it special effects. The movie won a lot of awards, a couple of which is Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects. Avatar was first aired in 2009, Jake sully, an injured marine who is paralyzed from waist down, gets recruited to join a mission to explore the world of Pandora to search for a precious mineral that could save the earth. However, Pandora natives the “ Na’vi” ( 12 feet tall , blue creatures ) live
The movie Avatar showed great meaning. The movie sent a message about deforestation and protecting nature. Avatar contained a variety of science themes, such as carbon footprint, sustainability, and biodiversity. The movie was a great success, it was entertaining and educational at the same time. James Cameron did all his research and pulled together a great movie. The theme developed vs developing nations was depicted in the film Avatar. The main character in the movie named Jake
From the choices I was presented with, I chose the movie Avatar to watch and compare to our current unit. The plot of the movie Avatar begins with a man named Jake Sully; he’s a paraplegic Marine that went with a crew to the moon, Pandora, to obtain natural resources that are highly abundant on said moon. Sully is tasked with taking control of a Na’vi “avatar” to convince the Na’vi that they should leave their land so the Marines can mine the resources without harming them. Whiles in his avatar,
The film Avatar, directed by James Cameron is a twenty-first century example of the portrayal of the prevalence of alienation in culturally significant media. One may assume that Avatar, is just a film and the story should be taken for nothing more than entertainment value but the thematic implications in the film hold a greater importance . The narrative framework, presents a telling reflection of the collective cultural views of society, revealing anxieties and fears about economic relations
The world is at war. Genocide is committed and people live in fear that their homes and lives will be taken. An individual destined to protect and save the world from turmoil is nowhere to be found. The world suffers from the wrath of a cruel leader for a hundred years until the prophesized protector is found. This leader, a twelve year old boy named Aang is the main protagonist of the television program Avatar: The Last Airbender. In the show, Aang and his friends go on a journey to train Aang in
The American science fiction film ‘Avatar’, directed by James Cameron is about Jake Sully, a paralysed former marine who becomes an avatar to take his place on a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There, he meets the Na’vi people and gets attached to living in harmony with nature, where he must save their land when being attacked by humans. The story line of Avatar follows closely with ‘The Hero’s Journey’ which focuses on how the main character is experiencing a change from his ordinary world
Avatar is centred around Jake Scully, a former marine who is paralyzed. Jake is taking the place of his dead brother in the secret Avatar program on the distant planet of Pandora. It is set in the year 2154 and the Resource Development Administration, is mining a rare mineral called Unobtanium on Pandora trying to get to the bottom of the Earths energy disaster. On his arrival in Pandora, Jake meets Grace Augustine, who manages the Avatar programme pretty well. It is explained that the air in Pandora
In Rachel Ghansah’s profile of Dave Chappelle “If He Hollers Let Him Go”, she is looking for an answer as to why he would walk away from his show and turn down fifty million dollars. Though Ghansah has never interviewed Chappelle, she speaks with his mother, Professor Yvonne Seon, as well as Neal Brennan, who worked alongside Chappelle as a co-writer/creator. Chappelle’s mother, Seon, speaks with Ghansah about a few different things. The biggest topic they discuss is how Seon traveled to Congo
Often people don't see connections to the real world from movies and books that are right in front of them. The storyline of the movie Avatar is explorers from earth being on a planet called Pandora; Pandora has many indigenous people animals that have strong cultural and appearance differences. The travelers from earth intend to learn about the land and culture while also on the search for a mineral that had been found on one of the expeditions that held great value on earth. Although Avatar is
The visual narrative of Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise, a graphic novel and sequel to an animated series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008, relies on the setting of an Asiatic fantasy world divided into four nations. They are the Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. The population of each nation consists mostly of those with the ability to bend a respective element—with the exception of the Avatar, the mediator with the ability to bend all four elements, act
met for the first time a creature as deadly as beautiful, the Alien. This creature and it’s environment, created by the talented Swiss artist H.R. Giger, were the main antagonists from the movie « Alien », directed by Ridley Scott and featuring Sigourney Weaver as the only survivor of the Nostromo crew when the Alien penetrated it. This movie was the first chapter of a cult saga still active these days. From the four movies featuring the Aliens, the third one is considered as the worst one. Even though