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Jean-Jacques Annaud directed the film Seven Years in Tibet. Mandalay Entertainment was the studio that produced the film. The two main stars are Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufshnaiter. Brad Pitt plays Heinrich Harrer. Peter Aufshnaiter is played by David Thewis. The fourteenth Dalai Lama also stars in this true film. Harrer starts a five thousand mile journey by train to the Himalayas from Austria. He travels with several other men hoping to climb to the top of Nanga Parbat. They are put in prison because they land in a town that doesn’t welcome foreigners. Harrer’s pregnant wife sends him a letter about divorcing him. In September, the men successfully escape prison and head back home except for Harrer and Aufshnaiter. A kind homeowner in
Lhasa invited the men into her home because she liked helping those that were in need. A tailor came over the house offering new clothes to the two men because their clothes were nothing but rags. Soon after, Harrer receives an invitation to visit the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is amazed by Harrer’s intelligence. Harrer explains that he feels filled with the deep presence of life when surrounding the Dalai Lama. The Chinese attack Tibet. Harrer and Aufshnaiter help the Tibetans with artillery. In 1951, Harrer returns to Austria to meet his son. Harrer provides his son with the present, a music box, which was given to him by the Dalai Lama. The film ends with Harrer and his son climbing in the Himalayas. The film had beautiful scenery including mountains, villages, and valleys. When the men were climbing to the top of Nanga Parbat, the music was intense because of low and loud sounds. The music helped to explain the emotions of the men when they began to fall. There was a lot of raining during the time the men were in prison. This is ironic because rain usually relates to peacefulness and prison is the furthest thing from peace. By the end of the film, the sounds are uplifting and happy because Harrer is reunited
The film Jindabyne, is a story about death, marriage, and race in an Australian town in New South Wales called Jindabyne. In the film, four men go fishing, and one of them discovers the dead body of a young indigenous girl. Instead of reporting what they found to the police immediately, they decide to stay and continue fishing. They decide that there is nothing they could do for her, so they tie her legs to a tree and continue with their fishing, reporting the death only when they return home. After they are done with their weekend of fishing and report the incident, conflict starts, as the men are criticized for not respecting the dead. Through the story of the town’s reaction to the four fishermen’s response to the dead girl, the movie shows Australia to be fragmented and divided over white-indigenous relations.
On October 14th, 2016 in class we watched “Two Spirits” by Lydia Nibley. Basically the film explored the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder of the main character. Fred was part of an honored “Navajo” youth who was killed at the age of sixteen by a man who bragged to his friends that he was nothing but a “fag”. While walking home from a carnival he was chased by one of his friends. Once his friend caught up to Fred, he pulled him down from a mountain and smashed his head with a heavy rock. Fred laid there for five days straight where two young boys found his body lying there. He was labeled as a “two-spirit” who was possessed of balancing masculine and feminine traits. In the film, there are two parts that are put together effortlessly like the people it discusses. Most of the documentary focuses on Fred’s murder, but the real issues in the film were those of the lesbian, gay, and transgender community and how its members were viewed in a
The novel Siddhartha and the film Seven Years in Tibet are both comparable. They have similar plots and can relate to each other in many different ways. There are many characters that almost have identical personalities. In addition, both the novel and the movie are based upon ideas of Buddhism. Throughout both the novel and the movie there are many connections that can be made to show how both of these stories relate.
How would mankind communicate to each other without names? Names are what describe people in terms of personality, traits, and association. That’s why names are immensely important and thus, used in films such as Bound, in order to create a deeper meaning in a character’s actions and personality. The film Bound is written and directed by The Wachowskis. The film is about two lesbians: ex-convict Corky, and lesbian prostitute Violet who is in a relationship with mob money-launderer Caesar but decides to escape from Caesar after meeting Corky for she fell in love with her the moment she sow her in the elevator. So Violet wants to leave Caesar for Corky, but that’s not all. She and Corky come up with a strategy to steal two million dollars from the mob and blame it on Caesar. "Your name defines you," says Gregg Steiner, a Los Angeles talent manager (Parenting). In the film Bound, characters’ names have a lot of significance in which some have more connotations than others. Each character’s name holds symbolic meaning to the character’s role in the film and this is very apparent among Corky, Violet, and Caesar as well as the supporting casts: Gino and Johnny Marzzone.
1 Geoff Childs Tibetan Diary From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) 41.
A little before 2000 a mysterious virus spreads rapidly at creates chaos in Taipei. The authorities order the evacuation of the city and warn that the supply of water will soon stop. The massive exit leaves the city almost completely abandoned apart from but some decide to stay.
Philosophy questions many ideas or statements. For example, the Examined Life asks, does life have meaning? This idea was analyzed, experienced, questioned, discussed and concluded in many different ways. There was a common thread between the Philosophy film, the Apology, our class discussions and the video, Examined life. We often ask ourselves, are we obligated to other people?
Tibet has long been a mystical land, a place that not many have known about. However this has changed. The celebrities have come out in force in making Tibet the center of attention. Even now, most people don't know more about Tibet than its location, somewhere in Asia. So, while the popular support of the struggle of the Tibetans has become well known due to the involvement of celebrities spreading the word, has it really helped the cause or simply let people know what is going on there? Even more importantly, is the information that the celebrities are passing on always correct?
Tung, R. J. (1980). A portrait of lost Tibet. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Within the German Democratic Republic, there was a secret police force known as the Stasi, which was responsible for state surveillance, attempting to permeate every facet of life. Agents within and informants tied to the Stasi were both feared and hated, as there was no true semblance of privacy for most citizens. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the movie The Lives of Others follows one particular Stasi agent as he carries out his mission to spy on a well-known writer and his lover. As the film progresses, the audience is able to see the moral transformation of Stasi Captain Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler primarily through the director 's use of the script, colors and lighting, and music.
In my movie, “Seven Years in Tibet”, we follow the journey of an Austrian man named Heinrich Harrer. This movie was based on the true events of his life and on the book he wrote detailing the events. In the early (enter date here) Heinrich left behind his wife and kids to climb the Himalayas. While there in the mountains he is captured and put in a prison camp. On his 3rd escape attempt he finally succeeds and finds himself in the company of the young Dalai Lama. The two grow to be great friends and Heinrich tutors the young boy. The movie stays fairly accurate to the history, messing up on just a few points that were really hollywoodised either for time or drama purposes. Nevertheless it gives a very accurate portrayal of Heinrich Harrer's
The film Hero depicts one of the most culturally rich and diverse country, China. China is one of the largest countries in the world with the long profound history. It is also the most diverse country in terms of language, religion, rituals, traditions, and beliefs. The film Hero has an unusual movie theme, it repeats similar events through flashbacks and with different outcomes. The tale is about the nameless warrior and the triumph of Qin’s idea of unifying China. The king invites the warrior to honor him for defeating his three most dangerous enemies, who are often proclaimed as the unbeatable warriors. The film is a cultural description of Chinese traditions. It has expanded my understanding of Chinese culture by portraying the spectacular
What does it mean to give yourself completely to your vocation or life? We find in a fictional story from Wes Anderson, his eighth feature presentation, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” What it means to be completely giving of oneself. Even though Wes’s movie is fictional, we find many deep and underlying themes, tones, and values. these are values are applications that anyone male or female that one can implicate in ones life to any situation. The main values we can find in the movie are simple, but can improve life ten-fold. Three easy steps to improving ones life are as stated: gratitude, positivity, and you must contribute yourself 100% of the time no matter how hard the road in front of you is going to
The world before her is a film of hope and dreams for Indian women. We examine two girls with different paths but one goal in common, empowerment. This term conveys a wide range of interpretations and definitions one of them being power over oneself. Both Prachi and Ruhi manifest a will for female empowerment but both have distinct views on how this is achieved. Prachi believes the way to achieve empowerment is through her mind and strength, while she still confines to tradition views of Indian culture. Ruhi desires to achieve female empowerment by exposing her beauty in a non-conservative way while maintaining her Indian identity.
Mulan seems to be a feminist film which encourages individual women to take care of themselves. However, the film is not free from traditional gender roles. While the film may be progressive by removing the "damsel in distress" plot, further analysis shows it isn’t a feminist film at all. Disney’s Mulan reinforces a black and white societal role of gender that privilege men over women. In contrast the poem is incredibly progressive, it shows a woman fighting just as well as men and men accepting her as a powerful warrior not being jealous of her power. The poem removes gender roles whereas the Disney movie reinforces them.