After watching the movie, I can say, that “FIVE EASY PIECES” is the movie that relay to part of my lifetime and the struggle I experienced facing the “stone wall of the society”, back in Bulgaria, during the 1980 -1990. I felt that the character Bobby (Robert Eroica Dupea – greatly performed by Jack Nicholson), try really hard to find solution for his situation in life, unfortunately he kind a “hit the stone wall” so do speak every time he makes an effort or attempt. The great work of the director Bob Rafelson is presenting the viewer with realistic portrait of middle class America during that period. From the very first frame of the movie portraying the hard work of middle class American at the oil-rig field, the way, the movie opens with …show more content…
It helps to establish the atmosphere familiar to all of us who had and have firsthand experience with middle class American style of life, to make the viewer feel “like at home”, so to …show more content…
…. I can't stand this goddamn freeway.", then he glimpses ahead in the traffic an open-bed truck transporting a piano, and here is the moment we see for first time the other “face” of the main character. Bobby (Jack Nicholson), his past or maybe his other life if he chooses the path approved by his father and family, he run and claim in the truck open the piano cover and started joyfully like small child to play “Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49 concerto” - blending the classical piece with the noise of the traffic and honking car horns. Even after the truck start to move and exit the freeway, Bobby (Jack Nicholson) continue to play like he is in a different world distant and not connected to the reality. Furthermore, the “Chicken Sandwich scene” where Bobby (Jack Nicholson), tries to get a waitress (Lorna Thayer) to bring him a side order of toast with his breakfast, is not only signature for the time period but also very much actual and relaying to all of us today, it is the “NO SUBSTITUTE”, regardless of the logic, moments of our
long shots. high-angle shots, and a lot of fun. spherical camera lens. These particular devices provide a glimpse at the realities of the oppression, poverty and despair of many of the American people during this time. From the start of the film it is apparent what time frame it is taking place in and the differences in the social stratification through the lack of colors.
The overall appeal of the cinema to the masses was particularly evident during the interwar era. Audiences worldwide wanted to watch the variety of films, particularly American produced films, and they always went back. The visibly attractive and glamorous Hollywood movies often depicted the success of the underdog over unjust authority. Values of cash over culture were often a theme in the early American films and societies with restricted social mobility, such as those in Europe, could dream of such a triumph. The working class and unemployed could fantasise about wealth, fame and freedom which America as a country was portrayed as offering.
Lewis, J. (2008). American Film: A History. New York, NY. W.W. Norton and Co. Inc. (p. 405,406,502).
The documentary by Lockdown: Gang vs. Family by Gail Mitchell (2007) interviews gang members that are in the Utah State Prison. The state prison has more gang affiliated inmates than non-gang affiliated inmates. The goal of the prison is to stop or reduce gang violence in both the prison and the surrounding cities. In this film, the young lady they are interviewing is living proof of a sociological theory.
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.
Stand By Me is a movie based on a novel by Stephen King. It tells the story of four preteens, who during a boring summer day, embark on a journey to find the body of a dead twelve year old, who has been missing by news accounts, but known to them, to be lying in the woods near a river bank. The story is told as an historical narrative about the lives and relationships of the four main characters in this movie, Gordy, Chris, Teddy, and Vern. In this essay, I will discuss how communication, and self-concept, affects the characters, and their interactions.
McCrisken, T. B., & Pepper, A. (2005). American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
When Truman comes out of his house we realise that through the use of an extreme long shot and low angle shot that the houses are perfectly the same and white picket fences represent that we are in 1950’s America culture. The way that Truman dresses also indicates that he is of a middle class world. The most important feature about this film is that Truman does not know that he has been filmed and also is surrounded by actors who formulate the Truman Show. The thin...
Friedman, Lester D. American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations. Oxford: Berg, 2007. Print.
Sklar, Robert. Movie-made America: A Social History of American Movies. New York: Random House, 1975. Print.
life that has potential just like the American Dream. The “Fast movies” (p.9) and the “telephone” (p.12) symbolise the Twentieth. – century technological environment. The growth of cinemas, cars, boats. is recognised by the twenties as a decade of mass media and mass production in America.
About Schmidt is a comedy-drama film starring Jack Nicholson as the main character, Warren Schmidt. It chronicles as the character deals with a number of issues that arise during the late stages of one’s life. The film analyzes several topics such as marriage, widowhood, and retirement in such a way that it captures and entertains the viewer’s attention. There are several light hearted comedic moments in the film that, while viewing it in class, caused the audience to burst into a roar of laughter. However, the film has a matching share of somber scenes where the audience was quiet and tense. Well known actors such as Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates with the help of a great script give an outstanding performance that helped make the film flow especially well. There was no doubt when selecting the film About Schmidt when writing my final analysis paper. It truly is an exceptional film.
Before understand the film, Modern Times, we needed to understand the time period while the film made. America had the Industrial Revolution in 1840’s. It was little later than Europe, but America had abundant natural
Classic narrative cinema is what Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson (The classic Hollywood Cinema, Columbia University press 1985) 1, calls “an excessively obvious cinema”1 in which cinematic style serves to explain and not to obscure the narrative. In this way it is made up of motivated events that lead the spectator to its inevitable conclusion. It causes the spectator to have an emotional investment in this conclusion coming to pass which in turn makes the predictable the most desirable outcome. The films are structured to create an atmosphere of verisimilitude, which is to give a perception of reality. On closer inspection it they are often far from realistic in a social sense but possibly portray a realism desired by the patriarchal and family value orientated society of the time. I feel that it is often the black and white representation of good and evil that creates such an atmosphere of predic...
The film “Modern Times,” directed by Charlie Chaplin, is set in the mid nineteen thirties. This time frame places the characters in the middle of the Great Depression and the industrial revolution. The film depicts the lifestyle and quality of living for people in this era by showing a factory worker who cannot take the monotony of working on an assembly line. The film follows the factory worker through many of his adventures throughout the film. The film’s main stars are Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard.