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A journey is known as a movement from one place to another, so ultimately an inner journey is a movement of states of minds, either resulting in a positive change, or negative. Though an inner journey is a journey of the subconscious, it allows the individual to reflect on their progress and development in the light of encounters which challenge and inspire them. Concepts of inner journey can be seen in Matt Cameron’s Contemporary Australian theatre and drama Ruby moon and Gus Van Sant’s Good will hunting. Ruby Moon challenges the conventions, forms and styles of traditional theatre in order to engage and inform the audience with the social and personal concerns of the characters. Good will hunting Good Will Hunting is a poetic story
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Cameron manipulates Australia’s fear of child abduction and couples it with suburban paranoia to create a thrilling, tense play that makes the audience question the identity of both Australia and their innermost selves by using only two actors to play multiple roles. Dawn states “I am not a real person yet. But I’m going to become one” The play uses the structure of a fairy tale to create a story-like form, using Absurdist themes to heighten the audience’s reactions and levels of engagement. This is also done with the use of silence throughout the play to either create or expose tension. From the very beginning of the play, the character of Ray asks his distraught wife Sylvie for the kiss that never comes. “These nights are getting colder, I swear… Do I get a kiss?” this exposes the cracks within their relationship and exposes the thick layer of tension that exists in that …show more content…
In “Good Will Hunting”, Gus Van Sant presents the characters’ state of mind and emotions through the use of their facial expressions and body language, allowing the responders to analyse and be part of the characters. This is evident in the scene where Shane McGuire, Will’s psychologist gets Will to repeat, “It’s not my fault”, which helped him to break through his childhood scars and enabled him to cry. Will’s facial expressions show his fear of admitting his desires to embrace his new opportunities in life, as it would be betraying his friends and class status. In the scene where Will and Skylar break up and he says hurtful things, Will is pushing her away because he doesn 't think he deserves her. The composer shows this by the use of Will and Skylar’s body language, reluctant to let their partners go but expressing the opposite physically. The utilisation of close up camera techniques is effectively used in illustrating the details of the characters’ body language and facial expressions, for the responders to analyse and gain greater understanding of the
The play, “Riley Valentine and the Occupation of Fort Svalbard”, by Julia- Rose Lewis is an exploration of the resilience of teenagers. The play is heavily symbolic and supports the dramatic meaning of the show. Throughout the Queensland Theatre Company’s interpretation of this play, the director, Travis Dowley, expresses forms of dramatic elements to articulate three types of manipulations. These manipulations include the manipulation of body and voice, space and the creation and manipulation of dramatic mood. Through these types of manipulations, it portrays the dramatic meaning towards the performance. Although, the use of space throughout Travis’s performance allows the audience to identify this dramatic meaning.
The play, These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich can be summed up just as the main character, Catherine entails. It is “not a fairy tale, though it starts like one, and it is not a tragedy, though it ends like one” (Scene 1, p. 9). Truly, this is an accurate depiction of what the author intended to convey to her audience. It is remarkable how the author was able to twist and spins the words to form the messages she desired. Be that as it may, not everything is splayed across the ink bound pages as precisely as the stars littering the night sky.
Although the nursing profession has emerged tremendously since the 19th centuries and many great accomplishments and changes has taken placed over the years, however there were presented issues from the film “Sentimental Women Need Not Apply” that were striking to me as they are still very relevant in both the nursing field and in our society.
Film Thrasher compares and contrasts the difficulty of two men, and one young boy. Boyhood
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.
The sociological perspective examines the hidden reasons for one’s actions and identities that people have. It stressed how they are influenced by their society and most of all their social location. Social location predetermines all aspects of one’s life and there are rules that come with social location, and with rules come social control mechanisms and social stratification that keep people in line. With social location also come institutions that provide roles which form one’s identity. In the movie, “Good Will Hunting,” the main character Will Hunting is a young deviant what grows up in a rough neighbourhood and has the intellect of a genius. Role theory and other concepts from the sociological perspective explain Will Hunting’s actions and identity.
This paper will discuss the relationship between Will Hunting and the psychologist Sean Mcguire in the movie Good Will Hunting. The struggles that occur between these main characters will be analyzed and their meanings found. A basic outline of the movie will be included to give the larger picture and its influence upon the two men.
(Erikson, 1980) Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development theory are in my opinion one of the best ways to look at Will Hunting’s changing personality and behaviour in the movie. Will’s avoidant and defensive personality is due to his abusive foster parents, he never received sympathy from his foster parents which made him accept the abuse as well as him becoming the abuser, as we see in the film when Will fights a former classmate that bullied him in kindergarten years ago. Another example of abuse is in the form of psychological abuse towards the marriage of Macguire and his deceased wife in which Will continually insults. Will seems to fluctuate stages throughout the movie, due to being an orphan and abuse from his foster parents he is fluctuating between the stages of basic trust vs. mistrust, and Initiative vs. guilt. Then when he meets Skylar (Minnie Driver) his development shifts to intimacy vs. isolation. (Erikson,
Good Will Hunting is the graceful tale of a young gentleman’s struggle to find out where he belongs in the world, by first finding out who he himself is. In this film, Matt Damon takes on the role of a disturbed genius that has a keen understanding of the deepness of human character. The film is a voyage through the mind of Will Hunting as he is required to undergo psychotherapy as an alternative to serving jail time. With the assistance of a psychologist, played by Robin Williams, Will learns about himself and recognizes his individual worth in the world by comprehending what is most important to him in his own life. This motion picture serves as a source of superb example for film technique. Gus Van Sant’s directing ability joined with the writing skills of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also plays Will’s best buddy, Chuckie, is a vibrant mixture of technical features used to induce sentiment and compassion amongst the viewers of this heart-warming film. Characteristics of the color, angles, shots, camera movement, editing, and distortions are all each particularly noteworthy to the general composition of Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting.
Released in 2012, Ruby Sparks is romantic comedy directed by the award winning directors, Jonathan Daytona & Valerie Faris. After the success of Little Miss Sunshine, the two never did any film for 6 years until actress/writer of the story, Zoe Kazan, approached them. The film went on to get nominated in several awards across Europe. The story tells a fantastical tale of love between a novelist and his imaginary story character who comes to live.
In Italy, post-World War II, a new film movement emerged amidst the collapse of the Mussolini regime, the desecration of a city and its historical landmarks, changes to social order and significant loss of life. Italian Neorealism embraced the harsh, impoverished and oppressive conditions being experienced by ordinary people trying to return to some normality (Film Reference 2015). Seizing an opportunity to discard popular Hollywood formula movies directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Vittoria de Sica and Luchinio Visconti shifted focus to ‘lower-class characters and their concerns, using nonprofessional actors, outdoor shooting, (necessarily) very small budgets, and a realist aesthetic’ (Criterion, 2015). While the Italian Neorealism movement
The purpose of this report is to analyse the personality of the character, Will Hunting from the film Good Will Hunting using the psychodynamic and humanistic theories of personality. The main characters discussed in this text and their relationship to Will can be seen in appendix 1.
Good Will Hunting is a movie about a guy with a high IQ called William Hunting. He loved to read books on different subjects, and was a genius in mathematics. He did not have a formal higher education but was a dedicated autodidactic person. Although he could work in any company, he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a janitor. Will had no respect for authority, mocked people when felt threaten, continuously got legally in trouble, and had little professional aspirations (Bender, 1997). On the surface, he was content with his life, however, he had some emotional issues worth exploring. I will explore Will’s environment, family history, and personality traits that might influence his daily life and possible outcomes and how
I watched Good Will Hunting on June 13, 2016. It was two hours and six minutes long. The main character Will Hunting is a janitor at MIT. Professor Lambeau at MIT posts a mathematical problem on the chalkboard outside his classroom. Will solves the problem but doesn’t tell anyone that he was the one that solved. Professor Lambeau see’s that Will was the one that solved it and tracks him down. Will is facing jail time, but professor Lambeau get’s Will out if he agrees to work him on mathematics and receive therapy. Will challenges many therapists and they won’t work with him. Finally, professor Lambeau asks an old college friend Sean Maguire to help. When Will tries to push Sean it doesn’t work. Sean asks about Skylar a girl who Will likes.
12 ANGRY MEN, is basically a story play written for broadcast on CBS in 1954 by an American playwright Reginald Rose. In 1957, Rose finished the screenplay for the movie version, which was co-produced by him and Henry Fonda (Juror#8). The movie was directed by Sydney Lumet. This movie was nominated for many awards like Academy awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best writing, Screenplay based on Material from another Medium, and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay from Mystery Writers of America.