Essays About Movies
Movie essays are by far the most interesting to read and write. Part of the reason is that most movie essays are based on a movie you like or popular movies. Some dwell on autobiographies by famous people that can be used as a case study. Movie essay examples can feature different topics that the writer should address from the movie. Movie essays examples can include why a particular movie is your favorite, what lessons do you learn from a certain movie, and other trains of thought.
College essays about movies will mainly dwell on notable movies throughout the century that has had a huge impact on their audience, either positively or negatively. Movies have a significant influence on society as they can be used to ridicule, criticize, or educate the masses on a specific subject. The movie franchise is quite huge and has a lot of influence in the industry, thus movie essays that talk about how to produce a good quality movie and how to go about the entire movie-making process prove advantageous.
My favorite film from our Italian film Studies class is directed by Tornatore. It contains various interconnected themes and images. One of the notable themes is the re-established importance of the bell. Whenever a character is upset or angry, a bell rings in the movie. For example, the “father” character uses his bell to show […]
CS Lewis otherwise known as ‘Jack’ wrote many children books based on Christianity and strengthened an argument that Christianity had largely forgotten – ‘The Freewill argument’. Jack argues that God wants the innocent to suffer, but many believers have lost faith because of this. Many people wonder why God wants us to suffer. In the […]
This is the first time Godzilla has been brought to out screens without a hoard of Japanese people running around like lunatics and it’s, well, let’s say it takes a different approach to the rest. This film has more twists than a country road in the mountains of Wales. Roland Emmerich has directed other huge […]
The most crucial aspect of the film’s impact on its audience is the twist in the 6th Sense’s ending, revealing that Malcolm is one of the ghosts Cole sees. Although this revelation should occur at the end, subtle hints of Malcolm’s death should be sprinkled throughout the movie. Many intriguing methods can be employed to […]
LA Confidential (1997) is a film set in the 1950s, in the suburb of Hollywood and is focused around a particular police station. All these aspects of the film have attached connotations and signifiers. Charles Peirce (as cited in Branston 2003:17) identified three different types of signifiers; indexical, iconic and symbolic, all of which can […]
Even though it was a silent movie, The Love of Jeanne Ney by Pabst shared many themes with American epic cinema but also had its own German and European techniques for mise-en-scene and camera work. To fully analyze the film’s role in cinema, we must examine the various devices employed by Pabst and their connections […]
When analysing a film, it is always necessary to consider genre. Genre is how we describe a film category or type. Some different types of genre are Gothic Horror, thriller, sci-fi, comedy, romance, westerns, period drama, adventure and fantasy. A hybrid genre is a film that has conventions from two or more genres. Other hybrid […]
The movie revolves around two boys, Gerry and Sewell, who dream of acquiring two season tickets for Newcastle United Football Club. They work hard to quit smoking, drug use, and alcohol consumption but are short on funds to achieve their goal. To attain the necessary money before the start of the season, they resort to […]
Upon reviewing our movie, certain implications could be inferred from it. From the opening scene, it is evident that our film was made on a low budget. The quality of the shot is noticeably different, as high budget productions utilize advanced camera technology resulting in clearer and sharper visuals. Additionally, lighting plays a crucial role […]
‘Ferris Buellers Day Off’ is one of the most popular teen comedies of the eighties containing quotes that were constantly repeated. It was released in 1986 and directed by famous director ‘John Hughes’.The film is a study of a charismatic teenager played by Matthew Broderick. His character pretends to be ill to get the day […]
Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissor Hands are both created by director Tim Burton, who has recently directed the film Big Fish. The two films were made back in the last millennium, Edward Scissor Hands in 1990 and Sleepy Hollow in 1999. Both films include the girls favourite Mr.Johnny Depp, also Sleepy Hollow includes the legends […]
Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic adds a unique perspective to the argument that popular film or broadcast fiction serves to comfort audiences and reinforce their beliefs and values. Rather than following a straightforward narrative, Traffic presents three distinct storylines which challenge the audience’s preconceptions and force them to engage with differing perspectives on the issue of drugs […]
The talented cast of stars of the time in both of these films are what made them stand out and is also what urged people to see them in theatres. From George Clooney’s portrayal in the recent remake of this classic you can see he took some of Sinatra’s acting style in playing Danny Ocean. […]
In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier undergoes a series of events that lead her to realize she cannot go back to her traditional female role in a male-dominated society. Similarly, in Thelma and Louise, two women break free from convention and take on male roles. Thelma is a housewife with a sexist husband who controls her […]
For the essay ‘Analysing a trailer’ we have watched and discussed a number of trailers from a video. I will be writing about trailers that I have seen and discussed about logos, scenery, music, amount of cuts in specific types of trailers, genre, which is the type of film it is based on and the […]
Since its initial rise in popularity in the 1940’s, the notion of the “noir mediascape” has been established due to the characteristics attributed to noir infiltrating into other forms of the media. Characteristics such as noir iconography, themes, narratives and character representations have been adopted by various media ventures, and these characteristics will be explored […]
The full Monty was released in August 1997 and cost £2.2 million. After six months of its release the film took £47.8 million at British Box offices. Britain’s biggest hit screen comedy, brilliantly adapted for the stage, took Broadway and the West End by storm.By May 1998 the film earned more than £140 million worldwide. […]
Terminator 2 was directed and produced by James Cameron; it was released in the US on the 3rd of July, 1991. It starred Arnold Schwarzenegger (the T-800), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor), Edward Furlong (John Connor), Robert Patrick (T-1000), and Earl Boen (Dr. Peter Silberman). Both groundbreaking and breathtaking in its day; it still stands up […]
Iconic figures play a large part in our lives without us realising it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a film star, a pop star, sports hero and so on. Television, radio, magazines, advertising and any other type of media force them upon us. We allow this because we enjoy it. We enjoy having these heroes, […]
The film I have chosen to analyse for this assignment is ‘Shaun of the Dead’, the 2004 summer blockbuster from Simon Pegg. The film is basically a parody of George A. Romero’s cult horror ‘Dawn of the Dead’, described by its makers as a ‘Rom-Zom-Com’ which stands for Romantic Zombie Comedy. The first scene I […]
‘Strangers On A Train’ is a film from the thriller genre. One of the key elements of a thriller film is the creation of suspense. Using a variety of film techniques such as camera angles, lighting, sound and music, special effects, comedy and symbolism can create this suspense.Hitchcock uses camera angles very effectively in a […]
In this film I will be discussing how the above make Blade Runner’s narrative specific and unique. Blade Runner was made in 1982 and starred Harrison Ford in the role of Decker who is a cop and has to find and stop ‘replicants’ from taking over the world.The movie begins with a starry black background […]
