You’re Brett. Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, “associates of your business partner, Marcellus Wallace”, enter your apartment while your friends stiffen. Jules, flashing the silver handle of his gun, towers above you and reaches down for your cheeseburger, a Big Kahuna Burger. “This is a tasty burger.” Jules comments as he chomps down into the juicy half eaten burger. “Do you mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?” He asks demandingly, gulping your Sprite down. This illustrious scene from Quentin Tarantino’s movie, Pulp Fiction, demonstrates how Jules Winnfield, played by Samuel L. Jackson, uses his devouring of Brett’s meal to establish his dominance in the room. Controlling when and what you eat is an almost human …show more content…
For example, in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, at dinner, Belie divulges to her children, Lola and Oscar, that “the doctor is running more [cancer] tests on me”(63). Ignoring her mother’s vulnerability, Lola, while “Oscar looked like he was going to cry,” “looked at her and said: Could you please pass the salt?”, causing her mother and Lola to “jump[] on each other” as “the sancocho spilled all over the floor”(63). Since meals allow for family intimacy and openness, Lola’s ambivalence towards her mother’s heartfelt message to her kids infuriates Belie and intensifies the enmity between them. While food brings people together through intimacy, a disregard for intimacy generates a bitter relationship. Just as Lola neglects the intimacy of a family meal, Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby leaves the “luncheon in the dining-room” to telephone his mistress, Myrtle. This vile corruption of a communal meal with his wife and her friends increases tempers between the groups and causes Gatsby and Daisy to be more open about their affair. Yes, Tom’s cheating on Daisy already exhibits an immoral behavior, but his tarnish of an intimate moment with his family intensifies Daisy’s hatred of him and is the impetus behind Daisy publicly showing her love for Gatsby. The ignorance of the closeness food creates by Tom drives his wife away from him to the point where she tells Gatsby “that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw”(119). As Tom disrupts the togetherness of meals, David Foster Wallace, in “Consider the Lobster”, sends shock waves through communities who eat lobster by questioning the morality of the methods of preparation. He terrifies the reader through outlining how, when thrown into the boiling water, lobsters “cling to the containers sides,” and the cook hears “the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push if off”.(Cite Lobster) This barbaric imagery used to describe the
The meal, and more specifically the concept of the family meal, has traditional connotations of comfort and togetherness. As shown in three of Faulkner’s short stories in “The Country”, disruptions in the life of the family are often reinforced in the plot of the story by disruptions in the meal.
Jules starts off his speech to Ringo by telling him, “Normally your asses would be deader than fried chicken
Some may see the interaction between Mariam and Laila in A Thousand Splendid Suns as no more than a cup of tea, but after reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor, it is evident that it is much more powerful. In chapter 2 of his book, “Nice to Eat With You”, Foster addresses that in literature, a meal scene is not always just a meal scene. For
Steel Magnolias is a movie about the lives of six southern women and the drama that unfolds during a difficult period in their lives. As you can probably guess, there are tears, laughter and drama galore. The move is set in Chinquapin Parish, a small southern town in rural Louisiana. During the opening credits it draws you into the peaceful small town charm: beautiful homes, lush landscapes, blooming trees, shrubs and people lounging on their front porch. A young woman walks across a town that appears to be pulled straight from a Norman Rockwell painting, then gunshots! It’s the wedding day and there can be no birds pooping on the reception. You just got on the roller coaster; hang on! This movie will bring about every emotion you have
The second scene of the film opens up to Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield drivi...
The first thing we see is Christian Bale’s almost surreal beer belly, similar to an overdue pregnant stomach. He stands in front of a mirror and adjusting one of the most complex comb overs I have ever seen, which includes artful interweaving of glued hair extensions. Add to this a pair of smoked colored pilot glasses and a sophisticated outfit that screams out our worst nightmares of the late 1970s, and it is dangerously tempting to expect a continuation of a hard groomed freak show, populated by thoroughly ridiculous people who make and says ridiculous things. Especially as the second thing we see is one of Amy Adams countless, magnificently deep necklines. But if that's what we believe will happen, we will become thoroughly
The popular dancing movie, Footloose, was directed by Herbert Ross in 1984. Craig Brewer, produced a remake of Footloose in 2011. Both of the original Footloose and the remake, have multiple differences that split them apart. Although they follow the same theme, the sequence of events that took place happened in different orders and well as some characters were not present in the remake as they were in the original. The acting, dancing, and setting were varied slightly but it followed the same trend as the original. Directors Herbert Ross and Craig Brewer, directed the same film, while Craig Brewer made the film more modern, while keeping the film following the same trend.
The film “Goodfellas,” directed by Martin Scorsese, is loosely based on the true story of mobster Henry Hill’s career with the mafia. The main characters in this movie are Henry Hill, played by Ray Liota, who was part of the mafia, James Conway who was a stickup/hit man, played by Robert De Niro, and Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, who was another gangster. At the beginning of the film a young Hill is seen admiring the gangsters who spend time across the street at one of their establishments. Hill can be heard talking about how much he admired gangsters, and that all he ever wanted to be was a gangster. Throughout the movie the audience gets a sense of what life as a gangster in the criminal underworld might have been like.
In the novel, Curt said, "And french fries... Yes. French fries and ketchup. Lots of ketchup. Oh, man."
The camera is more still and focused on Jules as he intimidates the men inside whereas before when it was casual, the camera is loosely following the two down the hallway. This brings a whole new level of tension to the scene and Jules draws out what the men in the apartment know and what we as the audience know to be inevitable; that the men were going to be killed. For a lack of a better term, Jules was shooting the shit, taking bites out of the man’s burger and it really makes him seem like a confident and cool gangster, that this wasn’t his first time nor will it be his last. But he mentions something in passing as he eats the burger, that his girlfriend is a vegetarian and that by extension, he is as well. This humanizes Jules by hinting that within his relationship, outside of his work as a gangster, he has a normal life with a partner. More so, he isn’t in control of his relationship like he is of the situation at hand. We feel the tension rise as Jules delivers his speech, a verse he has taken from the bible that he recites every time before he executes someone. The verse ends with, “And I will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger, those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee” and they shoot two of the men in the apartment. The scene begins to pulse with a red glow, adding to the chaos of the scene, symbolizing almost a heartbeat stopping and eyelids closing in death. However, by chance, a man that was hiding in the bathroom pops out and unloads a clip at both Jules and Vincent but misses every single shot. Jules is convinced it was divine intervention and that his existence was deemed important enough by God to have
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.
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.
Personality is a branch of scientific discipline that studies temperament and its variation among people. It is a dynamic and a set of characteristics possessed by their atmosphere, cognitions, emotions, motivations and behaviours in various things. Personality conjointly refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments and behaviour consistently exhibited over time that powerfully influences one’s exceptions, self-perceptions, values and attitudes. It also predicts human reactions to different folks, problems and stress.
A genre is a type or category of film (or other work of art) that can be easily identified by specific elements of its plot, setting, mise en scène, character types, or style. (Goodykoontz, 2014) The gangster film is a sub-genre of the broader genre of crime film. A genre main objective is to classify the depiction of entertainment. The genre of my movie is a gangster film. My movie I chose was Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma.An update of the 1932 film, Scarface (1983) follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. (Scarface, 1983a)
‘Our interest in the parallels between the adaptation inter-texts is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form,’