The movie that I will be analyzing for this paper is Home Alone. The movie was directed by Chris Columbus and released in 1990. The film follows the dramatic progression of exposition, complication and dénouement. The movie begins with an exposition and tells the audience the location and characters. Kevin McCallister, the main character, and large McCallister family are the first to be introduced in the movie. Other key character also introduced is old man Marley: rumor says that he is a murderer, and the two wet bandits Henry and Marv. The film took place at the McCallister home in Chicago and the neighborhood near the McCallister home. The family is going on a Christmas vacation to Paris the next morning, but the mischievous Kevin caused a milk mess after struggling with his older brother who ate all the cheese pizza. Kevin’s mom then sends Kevin to spend the night in the third floor in which Kevin wishes his family would disappear when he wakes up.
The movie was built from the numerous complications throughout the film, but has two main points of complication that made the story of the movie how it is. Although the focus of the movie is about Kevin, the movie first crucial complication of the McCallister family waking up late for their trip to Paris played a big role for the plot. The family did not realize that Kevin was still asleep in the third floor in the midst of chaos to get to the airport before the flight departs. When Kevin’s oldest sister did a head count, a neighbor boy was present during the count and is mistaken for being Kevin. This first complication is what led to everything else that happened the way it did in the film. If it wasn’t for the family waking up late and forgetting about Kevin, the...
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... was there. I continue to see this technique used over again in many of more scenes in the movie, and I’ve never realized it like that before until learning about the various techniques of edits and shots.
The movie Home Alone follows the dramatic progression of exposition, complication, climax, and dénouement and does a great job building the many complications and main complications that led to the climax of the movie. The film uses both objective and subjective shots, but while watching an audience would subconsciously miss the fact that there are subjective viewpoint in the film. Aside from knowing that there are many conflicts in a movie to make a movie because how can a film story progress if there is not conflict. From doing this assignment, I think I can group the many conflicts in a film and point at one or two major point that construct the movie.
The movie Neighbors (2014) is about a family, Mac, Kelly and their new born daughter, who are settling into a quiet neighborhood until a fraternity moves into the house next door. The fraternity keeps the couple up at night because they are being to loud which ultimately leads to a ‘war’ between the couple and the fraternity. Each of the main characters are trying to prove that they have more power and establish their male dominance over one another. This paper will highlight the masculinities and place emphasis on the main male characters in this movie, the father, Mac, and the fraternity president, Teddy.
In this documentary by The National Geographic, The New World: Nightmare in Jamestown captures what it must have been like for the settlers of Jamestown. It takes place in an archeological site which is owned by the APVA where they found remains of the original men who first arrived to the New World and who set up the colony at Jamestown. They were sent by the Virginia Company in hopes of being able to bring home gold and other riches that the Spanish had already been taking advantage of. Unfortunately, in the process, they faced disease, death, hunger, and hostility from the Indians.
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
The movie Stand By Me based on the book The Body written by Stephen King, is about a group of four boys who go on a journey to find a body of a dead boy. It’s a flash back that one of the main characters, Gordie, is having after he reads that his best childhood friend gets stabbed. He is writing a story about this experience. This movie was filmed in 1986 directed by Rob Reiner. The functionalist theory, the conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism are all good sociological ways to analyze this movie. There are also a few other concepts that are present in the film, agents of socialization, mechanical solidarity, deviance, and the control theory.
A town with a secret Goal of this essay will be to describe the meaning of the epilogue where Joanna has become another Stepford wife gliding through the local supermarket, having given up her career as a photographer, while Ruthanne, a new resident in Stepford, appears poised to become the conspiracy's next victim. This scene is highly pro-individual and symbolic of what we are now experiencing in western democracies - what with robotic call centre staff, girls who dress and look like fake barbie dolls with fake nails, hair extensions, cosmetic surgery, and businesses that are replacing people with machines to save costs. The Stepford Wives is a highly pro-individual movie that shows one of many problems of our society. The film was not perfectly, very pro-democratic and anti authoriarian, including that it is more than forty years old, but the subject is absolutely genius. The main idea of author was to make the viewers deeply question themselves: what do
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
In 1971 on June 17, President Richard Nixon delivered a special message to the Congress on drug abuse prevention and control. During the presentation, Nixon made it clear that the United States was at war with this idea of drug abuse. What baffled Americans then, and still baffles Americans today, is that we are at war with our own nation with drugs; it is not some foreign affair like the media tends to focus on with Mexico. Nixon stated that at the time of his speech, what was implemented to control drug abuse was not working…“The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency. I intend to take every step necessary to deal with this emergency, including asking the Congress for an amendment to my 1972 budget to provide an additional $155 million to carry out these steps. This will provide a total of $371 million for programs to control drug abuse in America.”(Wolleey and Peters) Since the publicizing of the term “War on Drugs” in 1971, it has been used by many political candidates in elections over the years. In the movie, it was stated, “ every war begins with propaganda …[and] the war on drugs has never been actually on drugs… [Additionally] drug laws are shaped less by scientific facts, but more by political [reasoning].” (Jarecki) The movie, The House I Live In, directly relates to certain themes and terminology that were discussed in Martin and Nakayama’s Intercultural Communication in Contexts book, that have been used in class. Through the analyzing and comparing of The House I Live In and Intercultural Communication in Contexts an individual can begin to localize the ideals behind this everlasting war on drugs; some ideals focus on terms from the text like ethnocentrism, diversity training, and culture while ...
“Do you have the slightest idea what a moral or ethical principle is?” Deontology, or the adherence of one’s actions to a certain moral or ethical principle of operation, stands as an intruiging philosophy by itself. The opening sentence of this essay clearly possesses relevance to deontology. However, the quote does not originate from any philosopher, but instead from Jack Torrance of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film, from a superficial point of view, stands as an atmospheric horror film. However, instead of providing audiences with just a technically proficient film, Kubrick weaves the grounds for a foreboding subtext throughout his film. This essay examines The Shining by examining Robert Tonkin’s distinction between religion and
Lorie Myers begins the film Halloween as a normal, happy teenager and everything in life is fine. Michael is the brother of Lorie and he is locked up in an insane asylum for murdering his older sister Edith. He eventually escapes and decides he wants to murder his sister Lorie. Lorie is unaware that she has an older brother because she is adopted by another family when she was an infant. On Halloween night, Lorie is babysitting and her friends are being murdered. Lorie losses everything and she had done nothing wrong. Michael blames Lorie for the situation because of her relationship to him. Lorie is traumatized from Michael terrorizing her, but she makes it out alive. As the Halloween series progressed, Lorie becomes successful, but the fear
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n Milos Forman’s movie One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest demonstrates the inhumane mistreatment of patients within a psych ward. Nurse Ratched, a very controlling and power-hungry nurse has demoted all her patients to sheepish submissive beings. Randle McMurphy shows up and creates chaos in Nurse Ratched’s order. This causes Ratched to resort to the only solution she sees feasible, abuse and eventually lobotomization. As the film portrays, the mentally ill weren’t receiving proper treatment until mental illness was taken seriously by doctors and deinstitutionalization occurred. Unlike McMurphy’s treatment, deinstitutionalization in the 1960s impacted mental illness treatment positively and created a more societal acceptance of people with mental illness.
After reading the directions and topic for this paper, I was extremely eager to get started. Adolescence is a stage of life that is very critical for a person. Speaking from my own experience, I know that the teenage years are a difficult part of life and during these years, one experiences a rollercoaster of different emotions, obstacles, and decision-making. Aside from the topic of Adolescence, I was glad that I could choose which movie I wanted to watch, and that was an easy decision. I decided to watch Sixteen Candles. The last time I watched this movie was when I received the DVD as a gift, which was when I turned sixteen. Watching the movie then, I obviously did not realize that most of the problems and events that occurred in the movie
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Based on a true story, the movie ‘Lone Survivor’ features four Navy SEALs that set out on a mission to Afghanistan with orders to capture and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. The Navy SEALS are detected by villagers and the mission was compromised. Ultimately, the mission had been discovered and the men found themselves surrounded by dozens of Taliban soldiers. One of the Navy SEAL soldiers managed to dispatch to base and retrieve assistance but the Taliban shoot down the helicopter. During battle, three of the Navy SEAL soldiers were killed leaving one still alive.
Determine all of the story's conflicts. Determine the major conflict and state this in terms of protagonist versus antagonist.