I've been in love with Giallo's ever since I saw my first Dario Argento film, Tenebrae. Since then, I've got my hands on several other Giallo films, such as Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace, which was a beautiful and colourful thriller. No matter how bad or terrible a Giallo is, there is usually something worth seeing in the film. La Bambola di Satana is one such film, in that it isn't the best Giallo out there, but there are moments worth checking out. The movie was directed by, well, a few people actually, none of them the actual directed listed in the credits. You see, much like first time director Buddy Cooper (The Mutilator) was a fan of slashers and wanted to make a movie, Ferruccio Casapinta was a fan of Giallo's and wanted to make a stylized slasher as well, but he was missing the most important ingredient, talent. …show more content…
A rich uncle who owns a castle has recently passed away and the inheritance of the home is going to his niece Elizabeth, played by the beautiful Erna Schurer. However, the "frumpy" governess, Carol, who is another equally beautiful woman (Lucia Bomez), wants her to sell the place for reasons unknown. There is a potential buyer who lives next door, but Elizabeth is hesitant on selling. In order to convince Elizabeth, Carol along with a mysterious man by the name of Stephan, start drugging Elizabeth, resulting in her having some erotic nightmares. Elizabeth starts to believe the place is haunted and thinks it might be time to sell. Her fiance, Jack (Roland Carey), on the other hand, wants her to keep the place and gets busy investigating the sale and why Carol is so eager to get Elizabeth to sell. In the meantime, we have yet another beautiful woman (Aurora Batista) who is stalking around the place at night and investigating the catacombs. Oh, and there is also a dog by the name of Black, who is howling all night and hanging out by the cemetery. Trust me, the movie is even more confusing than
Which was sister souji who is a psychologist or someone who comes and preached and gives advice to those in trouble , in need of some good advice she is well known in new york . Winter gets introduced to sister souji who takes her in even though winter gives her a fake name . She asked sister souji if she knew her cousin midnight she said “yes” . Winter had lied and said that her mother was very sick and her mother wanted to see midnight which was her cousin . she asked if she could stay there which sister souji let her for a few weeks till midnight came to get her . Sister souji introduced her to her little sister lauren which who also liked to party and was a bit sneaky . Then the doctor who works down stairs and has her little clinic which winter seems to keeps an eye on because she make 300 dollars each patients . Sister souji gets invited to her friends party who most likely her boyfriend on the low but things don't seems to workout at the moment with his career and lifestyle as a rapper . Which winter sees a big opportunity to snatch and if she sleeps with the rapper she can make him fall in love with her body which is not true at all because the moment she gets a chance to go back to the mansion and gets picked to go up stairs . She gets played out. who she really sleeps with is the bodyguard .
Carolee comes across as unaware and quiet at the beginning of the story, which she also appears to be alright with. She comes up with ideas about how to find out what is happening, but does not use these ideas which she comes up with. Once Carolee realized what was happening, she debated with herself about whether or not, “… she should go out just to find out what on Earth was going wrong.” (148) She ultimately ended up staying indoors, which caused her to remain unaware of her surroundings. This makes the reader want to know what is happening, and why Carolee is alright with being so unaware of her surroundings. Carolee continues to look out her window, and listening to what she can hear, but none of the information she is hearing about is telling her what is happening in her front yard. She chooses to let the information come to her, rather than finding out herself. When she hears the police officers mention a house to house search, the narrator says, “If one of those policemen standing about on the street would come to search the house, Carolee could at least find out what was going on.” (149) The character traits given to Carolee furthermore relate to the theme, because of her unwillingness to find out what is happening in her
As she got older, Jeannette and her siblings made their own life, even as their parents became homeless. Jeannette and her older sister Lori decide to run away from their family in Virginia and go start a new life in New York City. However, after a few months, the rest of the family moves to New York and settles down. While in the City, Jeannette gets a job as a reporter, which was her life goal, and one day on her way to an event she sees her mother rummaging around in a dumpster. While the rest of the family gets along, Maureen, the youngest of the family goes insane and stabs their
Esperanza meets up with 3 elderly sisters at a wake. One of the older women affirms Esperanza’s secret wish to leave Mango Street, but makes her promise that she will come back one day. Esperanza tells Alicia that she feels like she doesn’t have a home but Alicia convinces her that like it or not that Mango Street is her home and no matter what she will have to come back to make Mango Street a better place because the mayor is
Esperanza wishes she could change where she lives. Even though Esperanza moved to a nicer house, she still does not like the house on Mango Street. Esperanza’s parents made the house they were moving to seem luxurious. Upon arrival, Esperanza realized “the house of Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath” (4). Even though the house on Mango Street is an improvement, it is still not good enough for Esperanza. Esperanza says, “I knew I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t. the house on Mango Street isn’t it” (5). She dreams of one day having a bigger and better house. The new and improved house will be a place for others to come and stay, “some days after dinner, guests and I will sit in front of a fire. Floorboards will squeak upstairs. The attic grumble. Rats? They’ll ask. Bums I’ll say, and I’ll be happy” (87). Dreaming of moving to a new house not only gives Esperanza the feeling of control and independence, but makes her
There was a man in the beginning who’s father dies. His father's last wish was that his ashes be spread across the guy's mother's grave. So throughout the movie he's trying to find out how his mother died and where her grave is. He ends up going to stay at somewhat of a bed and breakfast place. The owners didn't want him to stay since the lottery was coming up but their daughter convinces them to let him. And throughout his journey they get closer together. Well it just so happens the girl's mother was the one chosen to be stoned to death. Once the lady was killed the mayor set the man free. But the cops didn't… So they began chasing him… along with the other men they set off for him. While he's running a car pulls out in front of him and it just so happens to be the girl. She saves him and then takes him to the bus station and lets him go. In the book none of this happened… And I think if they were to add all of this it would be much better.
To start off, first, the narrator thinks that the house her and her husband John are renting for the next three months is haunted or it wouldn’t be as cheap as it is for being such a beautiful place. Another thing is that she unhappy in her marriage. Her husband doesn’t listen to her, tells her she’s wrong and laughs at her. She is feeling very unwell and all he says is she has temporary nervous depression and only tells her to stay in bed and do nothing. The way she describes things is very bleak, dark, depressing. She keeps going back to thoughts of the house being haunted and gets anxious. She becomes angry with John for no reason sometimes and thinks it’s from her ‘nervous condition’. Something the reader may not catch onto when she talks about how she doesn’t like her bedroom is how she took the nursery, so right away, we know she has a baby. She feels trapped with the barred windows and not being able to go anywhere, having to just lay down and look at the most revolting yellow wallpaper shes ever seen. Writing the story alone makes her extremely exhausted and she says that John doesn’t know the extent of her suffering. Eventually, it’s made known that she can’t even go near her own child and it makes her increasingly nervous. She has unwanted thoughts throughout the entire story of the terrifying ugly yellow
Anelle Dupuy, played by Daryl Hannah, is a young woman straight out of beauty school and trying to start over in a new town after her husband mysteriously disappears, along with most of her belongings. Last but not least, we have Ouiser Boudreaux, played by Shirley MacLaine. She is abrasive, eccentric, rude and “richer than God”. She also happens to be my favorite character in the movie. The chemistry between these great actresses is what makes this movie one of the best, if not the best I’ve ever seen.
A minor character in the film and a more prominent character in the novel was Nurse Carol.
Following careful thought on which director to study, I chose Francis Ford Coppola. Although he has directed more films than I have had the opportunity to experience, I have viewed enough to understand his progression and style of his work. Over almost forty years of work, Coppola has directed about twenty-five films, produced near forty-five, composed two, and acted in eight. He is known predominantly for Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather I (1972), II (1974), and III (1990). However, he has worked in other genres, such as Horror/Romance, Musical, and even Comedy.
In the beginning the film is immediately set up in the film noir style. Under the opening credits a shadowy backround image is shown kaleidoscopically. Couples dressed in elegant ballroom gowns and suits waltz together dizzyingly as the "Merry Widow Waltz" plays. The scene has nothing to do with the drama to follow (until Charlie's crimes are revealed.) The titles dissolve in to a panoramic view of a bridge, further dissolves take us first to junkyard and then to a scene of children playing in the street. The city is shown as a dirty, dark place. We are taken to a Philadelphia rooming house (shown with a number 13 on the door.) Inside we are introduced to "Uncle Charlie" (Joseph Cotten). He is reclining stiffly in bed during the day in a seedy room. . He plays with the phallic cigar that he is smoking, seemingly bitter and cynical. On the bedside table next to seemingly indifferent and fatigued man is and an open billfold with a carelessly strewn pile of bills on top (some of the bills have fallen to the floor and lie strewn around). The overweight, middle-aged landlady knocks on the door and enters, identifying him as Mr. Spencer and informing him that two men have been asking for him. As per his instructions to not disturb him, she didn't let them in, however, they have not left, instead they retreated to the street corner to stake out the boarding house. Noticing that he looks exhausted and depressed (he passively remains on his bed during their entire conversation), she suggests that he should get some rest. Then she notices his money cluttered all about and hurries forward to straighten it ...
... woman who comes from a very rich family. She has plenty of friends and money and she is a good student at Julliard, a school for music. Andrea is not satisfied with what she has and yearns for more. She wants to find out who Goddard is and steal all his money. Just when she has almost fulfilled her dream, she is shot, and left without even her life.
In the period between 1943 and 1950 Italian cinema was dominated by Neorealism which became the most significant film style of post-war Europe. Formation began back in 1936 when propagandists opened modern Cincitta studios and the film school name ‘Centro Sperimentaledi Cinematografia’. Along with the opening of schools such as this was a movement that placed a group of cinematographers under full-year contracts, among them was Carlo Montuori who used his classic techniques in creating ‘Bicycle Thieves’ (1948) one of the most well known films produced during the Neo-Realism movement. Perhaps also one of the most influential directors was Roberto Rossellini who directed Rome Open City at the end of WWII. Many directors and influential films such as this began to change and shape the way Italian films were made and what their relation to society was like.
The major character Briony in many instances misinterprets what she has witnessed and these misunderstandings ruin the lives of the people she cares the most about. The first misunderstanding took place in her back yard where she finds her elder sister played by Kiera Knightley undressing and jumping into a fountain in front of her garden taker Robbie played by James McAvoy. Briony’s wild imagination allows her to believe Robbie and Cecilia are having a lover’s quarrel. When, actually, Robby just broke the most expensive piece of china they owed, Cecilia jumped in to the fountain to retrieve the broken piece. This is exacerbated when Briony later intercepts an erotic letter written by Robbie, intended for Cecilia’s eyes only.
Her worse fears came true after she saw what was behind the doors of the forbidden room. The worst thing imaginable would be that her new husband was either abusive or a murderer and the latter seems to have been Carter’s choice for the Heroine. The Heroine realizes that her innocence has been taken from her from Marquis and she will now find herself in the same fate as the previous wives. “Nothing in my life of family love and music had prepared me for these grown-up games and yet these were clues to his self that showed me, at least, how much he had been loved, even if they did not reveal any good reason for it. But I wanted to know still more; and, as I closed the office door and locked it, the means to discover more fell in my way.” (Page 15). The Heroine herself admits that her experiences before her marriage to Marquis could not have prepared her for what she may find in the chamber or find out about Marquis. Her referral to “grown-up games’ in itself proves that even the Heroine believes that she may have been a little naïve going into this marriage and that she is not ready for the total package that may come with her new