Fun with Dick and Jane is a movie centered mainly on economics. It begins with Dick Harper, a hardworking employee at a corporation named Globodyne. Dick Harper has just gotten a promotion to become the Vice President, but realizes the next day that it was all just the CEO’s ploy to make him the scapegoat of the criminal activity the company had been involved in. Everyone at the company loses their jobs along with their pension, and the company’s stock drops drastically. Now Dick is jobless and unable to make money to support himself and his family. He spent months on a job search and could not find anything, after he and his wife , Jane, could no longer take it, they resort to a life of crime in order to keep the comfortable lifestyle …show more content…
they had. They begin by stealing from small stores, and end with a big payday by getting back the money Globodyne’s CEO stole by selling all of his stock right before the company went under. You could talk about plenty of economic topics when regarding to Fun with Dick and Jane. Among these topics would be white-collar crime, diversification, exploited illegal immigrants used by monopsonys, tough competition in the job market, unemployment and one of the biggest ones being externalities. White-collar crime is defined as being a financially motivated crime that is done by a business or professional in the government and is nonviolent. The general public was not always aware of how serious corporate crimes really were until relatively recently. This awareness was brought about by the collapse of the seemingly unstoppable energy giant, Enron. Enron was an energy corporation that was worth over 100 billion dollars in the early 2000s. Rumors began to circulate saying that it was involved in illegal accounting. Enron had assembled an accounting team to hide billions of dollars of debt terrible reporting of financial matters and loopholes. The company’s stock went down to pennies, and that led to the investigation of the SEC. The SEC exposed Enron and brought to light the severity of the crimes they had committed. I believe speaking of crime committed by corporations would be a great topic to touch on in Econ 277 because it is quite possibly the worst crime that can be committed when using the economy as a medium. This movie keys in on why exactly it is important that there is transparency in the financial on goings of corporations. It shows the audience a bit of behind the scenes action of something that may seem hilarious in the context of the movie, but is actually a serious matter. Unemployment is obviously one of the big topics in throughout this movie, but what I would like to talk about is what unemployment brings out in Dick Harper. Because of unemployment, arises a persona inside of Dick that will do anything to maintain his standard of living. It can be seen in the movie. When he reaches the last straw and can no longer take it he goes crazy, and starts acting demented, again, it seems like its all fun and game, but what you see in the movie is not everything there is to it. That is something that would happen in real life, because person’s need during a crisis to maintain their standard of living at a level that they can no longer afford is a real thing. People when dealing with the fact that they have gone down in the economic food chain have trouble coping, so they resort to things they would not do under just any circumstances. Another thing that results from Dick’s unemployment is him having to work jobs he is way over qualified to do. He ends up working construction, as a store greeter and even as a fruit picker. When he works as a fruit picker and construction worker he is pictured with plenty of illegal immigrants that all wait in a crowded street for people that need them to pick them up. In one scene a man drives up and asked for some workers, at which point everyone starts running towards the truck, fighting for a spot Dick gets punched and thrown off the truck. In this scene they depict a fierce competitive job market. In the scene where Dick is a fruit picker, he is seen with plenty of other illegal immigrants, a scene that could be showing a monopsony. Huge companies hire hundreds of illegal immigrants and have them work very long hours for very little pay because they know the immigrants can do nothing about it. They control that labor market, and do as they wish with it. This would be important to Econ 277 because it is something that goes in today’s society that can relate to the Great Depression, another topic we discussed in class. When people migrated to the west during the great depressions companies did what they wanted as far as the hours they made people work and how much they paid because the people didn’t have a choice. That is something we see now with illegal immigrants just not to that magnitude. Diversification is another economic topic highlighted within this movie.
Diversification is a risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. In Fun with Dick and Jane there is a scene where Dick and Jane find themselves stressing when all of their belongings start to get repossessed. They discover that after the crash of Dick’s company they would owe more to the bank than the house is worth. Right after they find this out, Jane points out that both of their savings and pensions were in Globodyne stocks. The company failed and they basically lost all of their retirement and lifesavings because Globodyne stock was now worth pennies. This shows the importance of diversification in a saving and investment portfolio. If you diversify your portfolio, your investment performance should be subject to less fluctuation because the gains of some investments will cancel out the losses of others. Therefore, the risk is less if you don’t put all of your money into only one type of investment. I think talking about diversification would be important in Econ 277 because there should be a real world section. Where students could be taught about useful parts of the economy they could use to their advantage even if they do not choose to follow a career path that has to do with
economics. Externalities are huge when it comes to Fun with Dick and Jane, this is because the externalities are caused by the greed shown by corporations, and this greed to enrich their institution is what actually leads to corporations doing what they do.
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.
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
Incohesive, long, and dialogue-heavy, Inherent Vice has all the potential to flounder. Yet under the steady (or rather, wild) hands of director Paul Thomas Anderson, the film becomes a psychedelic, incredibly enjoyable ride brimming with wit and melancholy. The film follows Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello (played in routinely magnificent fashion by the now ever-reliable Joaquin Phoenix), and his exploits to help his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fey (Katherine Waterston, also exquisite) investigate a kidnapping of notorious real-estate billionaire Mickey Wolfmann. From there, the plot descends (or ascends, depending on your perspective of the film) into sumptuous lunacy; a mystery involving the coveted and secretive
For my final essay, I have chosen the movie “Fatal Attraction”, and I will focus on Alex Forrest and her mental disorder. Borderline Personality was displayed in the movie and Alex had almost every symptom of this disorder. Throughout this essay, I will be discussing Alex’s characteristics, intelligence, motivation, stress, social influences and/ or personality theories, treatment, and if the depiction of the disorder and treatment is consistent with what was discussed and read in the course.
It was incredibly difficult to not to pick one of my favorite films for this project, such as A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Jaws. However, I went out of my comfort zone and picked a genre of film I’ve never become familiar with- Western. The 1974 film Blazing Saddles was a hilarious frontier/Wild West twist about road worker named Bart, played by Cleavon Little, becoming part of character Hedley Lamarr’s (Harvey Korman) evil plan to out-run the small town of Rock Ridge by appointing an African American sheriff to the massly single-minded small town of racist’s. With the plan to destroy the town to make way for a new railroad, Lamarr is convinced that they town would be so appalled that they wouldn’t stand having an
poster typically has the white cowboy large, presented front and center, with the antagonists and co-stars all behind him. An iconic western, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, has a poster picturing the white cowboy alone. Clint Eastwood stands there tall, stoic, and singular. Typical of most other westerns, the white cowboy is the center of attention. Here, however, there are two non-white figures presented: Bart, the Black cowboy, and a large Native American chief. This movie poster has the same style as other westerns with the color and layout, but is unique in the fact that a black man is presented where a white man would normally be dominating. Once again, this makes a statement about racial improvements. Previously having a black man at
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
“The Help” is a white mock feel good movie, which seems to feature amnesia of racial conflicts in the South as its primary theme (Stockett, 2009). Author Natasha McLaughlin suggests that ‘The Help’ focuses upon the home and the relationship between African-American domestics and the laws of Jim Crow’s neglected ‘other half’: Jane Crow (McLaughlin, 2014). The American Civil Rights Movement mainly accommodates the public with a view concentrated upon a male dominant perspective but appreciations to Stockett and her moving interpretation of the relationship of Caucasian housewives and their African-American maids the public gets a rare white-washed version of events dealing with the civil rights movement going on within the interior of the households
"The Breakfast Club" begins with an old dramatic standby. You isolate a group of people in a room, you have them talk, and eventually they exchange truths about themselves and come to new understandings. William Saroyan and Eugene O'Neill have been here before, but they used saloons and drunks. "The Breakfast Club" uses a high school library and five teenage kids.
After watching the movie “The Break Up”, I can say that the protagonist Brooke Meyers and Gary Brobowski are a couple that live together in a condo where they share everything and care about each other. From the beginning to the end of the movie the couple experience different changes in their relationship, which start when they met in a baseball game, and end up when they decide to break up. This movie have clear examples of the different stages of interpersonal relationships, and how they affect us and our lives.
My Mise-en-scene analysis is on American Beauty on page 217: number 1(The dinner scene). The frame itself is a very closed, tight shot; there is no way for the characters to escape and they're left with only confronting each other in this very little space. The shot of the camera isn't necessarily far away or close either. It's neutral, and we can see the full action of the family's dinner conversation happening right in front of us. My eyes were immediately attracted to the bright, white table and then my eyes focused on the faces of the family. The scene's texture is slightly fuzzy, and is not very detailed. But the character's faces are still recognizable. The foreground of this scene is the table with the man and woman sitting at each end; the middle is the girl-who is
The film Jack and Jill primary ideas throughout the film evolves around the conflicts and differences between both siblings. The conflict between siblings was the primary reason why I did not find this film funny or saw any humor to it. Firstly, the film’s cheap humor is portrayed through Jill where the standards of a female persona were lowered. This is evident as Jill is often needy, helpless, likes to be the center of attention, and has no filter in which she speaks her mind out. I did not agree to this, as this is not an ideal or pleasant image to give to a woman. In addition, she shows her neediness and helplessness as she longs spending sometime with her twin brother; however, she over exaggerates things and wants to do things with her brother that they use to do when they were kids. I personally think that it is ok to hug your siblings and show them some affection however; Jill takes this affection to another level and wants to cuddle in bed with her twin brother like old times. Cuddling while being adults in their forty’s is just a creepy imagine to see and not funny at all. Moreover, Jill has no filter when she talks
The film Family Weekend was not given a fair shake. Family Weekend is story of a dysfunctional family. Eldest daughter Emily comes up with the plan of kidnapping her parents in order to save her broken family. Emily is a driven girl who is an accomplished jump-roper. Her siblings consist of her older brother Jackson (Eddie Hassell) who is openly gay, her younger sister Lucinda (Joey King) who is movie obsessed, and her youngest brother Mickey (Robbie Tucker) who has the perfect memory. Along with Emily’s crazy siblings she also has two self-absorbed parents, Samantha (Kristen Chenoweth) and Duncan (Matthew Modine). The bases of the film story are surround by the problems that go along with Emily kidnapping her parents. Critics
The Modern portfolio theory {MPT}, "proposes how rational investors will use diversification to optimize their portfolios, and how an asset should be priced given its risk relative to the market as a whole. The basic concepts of the theory are the efficient frontier, Capital Asset Pricing Model and beta coefficient, the Capital Market Line and the Securities Market Line. MPT models the return of an asset as a random variable and a portfolio as a weighted combination of assets; the return of a portfolio is thus also a random variable and consequently has an expected value and a variance.