Essays On Entertainment

“I remember growing up and feeling there is not a lot of room for acceptance. You are taught at a very early age to conform to certain things. It is a situation that is very prevalent and starts from day one at school: this person’s smart, this person’s not smart, this persons good at sport, […]

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a film of many themes and symbols that are significant to the events that occur. The title is used as a statement because while it covers the life of Gilbert Grape after the death of his father and his older brother leaves, it is also telling the audience the actual […]

The two films “The Others” written and directed by Alejandro Amenabar and the “Turn of the screw” directed by Tom Mc Loughlin based on the novel by Henry James, are both psychological horror films that consist of a haunting plot and make you think as they are full of suspense and have a moody and […]

Clint Eastwood’s Invictus tells you many things about Nelson Mandela; that the highly revered ex-South African leader is a great statesman, a generous-hearted visionary and healer of an injured nation. This movie will give all audiences a challenging, emotional experience but it does have a happy ending. The film is centred on South Africa’s separation […]

“Brief Encounter” dealt with the issues of sexuality and desire by using a lot of different techniques. Some of the main ones included the lighting that was used, which would always heighten the facial expressions of the characters that were in the scene (inevitably it was Laura and Alec). This then led to the viewers […]

Frank Abagnale Junior, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, flees his childhood home in turmoil after his parents’ divorce. He embarks on a remarkable journey as a con artist, a story brought to life in this film. Based on true events, it reveals how Abagnale Jr, before reaching the age of 19, successfully deceived countless people and […]

The film that I watched is ‘Edward Scissorhands’. Tim Burton produced it in 1990. Johnny Depp plays the main character. Johnny Depp has starred in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The main genre of the films Depp has featured in is Neo-Gothic fantasy. In this essay I will be illustrating […]

Released in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s ground breaking summer blockbuster ‘Jurassic Park’ contains many themes, such as parenthood, money and greed, and the ethics of science. In this essay I will explore these themes and show how the director illustrated them in this film. In the film, Jurassic Park’s owner John Hammond is being sued millions […]

This essay sets out to examine Richard Dyer’s claim that the musical generates a utopian sensibility by comparing Howard Hawks’ ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ (1953) with Baz Luhmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge’ (2001) This will firstly involve an assessment of Dyer’s general argument concerning his view of the musical’s ability to generate a utopian sensibility. The essay will […]

As Naomi Zack details in “The Island of Dr. Moreau: Confused Images of Race and Specie,” there is a racial subtext to all three film versions of H. G. Wells’ novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau. After analyzing and comparing these three versions, Zack details the various ways that the characters in the story are […]

“Stand By Me” is an extraordinary film directed by Rob Reiner, based on one of Stephen King’s novels called “The Body. ” It is about four boys going on an adventure to find the dead body of a boy their age. The film focuses on two of the main characters, how the experience of the […]

In 1944, shortly after the Second World War, a flood of American films could be found in France. The critics noticed many recurrent images throughout these B-movies, which were smaller films shown before the main feature. The films became known as a genre: film noir. Film noir is French for ‘black films’. We tend to […]

If the work of Jean Vigo had to be categorized into a particular aesthetic movement, it would be that of Surrealism. P. E. Salles Gomes wrote, “I would not be surprised at all to find the combined influence of Junghans and Bunuel among the sources from which Vigo’s own personal style grew”. French Surrealists such […]

The Zapruder film, recorded on 8mm tape by Abraham Zapruder on November 22nd, 1963, captures the entire assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. This controversial footage has sparked extensive discussions and is considered one of the most notable pieces in recent history. Recently, I viewed a documentary that delved into the film’s background and included interviews […]

Born on November 17th, 1942 in New York, Martin Scorsese has had a mix of success and failure in the global box office. His films have made significant impressions on critics and the industry and frequently appear on Top 100 Movies of All Time lists. However, some of his critically acclaimed movies have not fared […]

In her essay “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Mary Louise Pratt discusses the power of language use. Pratt discusses how language use plays an important role in the world. She shows how language is used to describe a community’s identity. She states that language is a key factor in the term transculturation, which she describes […]

The Film I will be analysing will be “American Pie 2”. The 10 minute sequence will be at chapter 15 and starts at 1hour and 14 minutes and 58 seconds. The meaning of Montage is the connection of the images in terms of how each shot is edited, and the syntagmatic relations. This may create […]

Motion pictures, created in 1895 by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, are a beloved art form in the twentieth century. Cinema is widely adored, and movie posters serve as tangible representations of these extraordinary films. Movie posters are often said to convey the essence of a film. In certain instances, the poster and film are closely […]

In this essay I will compare the similarities and contrast the differences between two crime film openings. I will be comparing ‘Sin City’ and ‘The Bone Collector’. I will analyse the two film openings and see how they establish their own crime film genre. Genre is a way of categorising a film. From genre, producers […]

The Wrong Trousers welcomes us back to Wallace, the eccentric, cheese-loving inventor and his faithful dog Gromit as they star in their second motion picture. The Wrong Trousers is about a penguin, called Feathers McGraw, that poses as a guest in Wallace’s home but is really a fiendish criminal. He uses a pair of hi-tech […]

“This is Spinal Tap” (1984) chronicles the American leg of Spinal Tap’s World Tour to support Tap’s latest album “Smell The Glove”. This “Rockmentary” tells of all the struggles that a band can face whilst on the road. From drummers spontaneously combusting on stage to an eighteen-inch Stonehenge monument that was in danger of being […]

The concept of the ‘auteur theory’ in relation to film refers to a director who imbues their own unique style in a film. This theory originated with French critics at ‘Cahiers Du Cinema’ in the 1950s, with Francis Truffant being one of them. Author Andrew Sarris further popularized and analyzed this theory, garnering respect for […]