A plunge into the city of fish and the lives they live, Shark Tale revolves around the life of Oscar, a little fish with big dreams of hitting it big. The character Oscar, played by Will Smith, with his big dreams lands in some hot water when Frankie ( Michael Imperioli ) a great white shark connected to the mob is accidentally killed. Lenny (Jack Black) is Frankie’s friendly and sensitive vegetarian great white brother, who in a frenzy about his brother’s death, goes along with Oscars plans. When Oscar lies about the death of the great white, convincing the city that it was his doing, he becomes an unlikely hero within the fish community. In his fame and fortunes, Oscar leaks the truth to his most beloved friend Lola (Angelina Jolie). Grief
In his story, "Martin", Nick Vaca, explains how an experience with the new kid on the block left a lasting impression on him. Vaca recounts this memory to convey how his initial perceptions of the new kid caused him and his playmates to act harshly and untowards. Through the use of imagery and symbolism, Vaca details how this experience caused him to realize that he should never judge someone based on their appearance.
Even though it is most commonly known as of the first modern horror films that has made its way on the top ten highest grossing films of all time, Steven Spielberg’s classic 1975 film, Jaws, illustrates the unquenchable human desire for purpose and wholeness which advocates that adopting the belief of “anatta” or “no-self” is the way to be liberated from this “fragmented state of unelightenment” (Sluyter 97-98). In the bigger picture, the main antagonist of the film, the shark itself, reflects us as individuals according to Sluyter. To be more specific, the shark is meant to symbolize our “fragmented point of view” we have of our lives and our constant search to remedy our emptiness by “trying to concretize ourselves” with impermanent items
"Oh Hazel! This is where it comes from! I know now—something very bad! Some terrible thing—coming closer and closer" (Adams, 1975, p. 21). This quote at the beginning of Watership Down is the first of Fiver's amazing forewarnings, that helps him to demonstrate both of the themes of "trust" and "survival" in the rabbit world. Trust and survival are two key components to the rabbits lives, and they cannot live without either. Because of his ability to sense danger around him, Fiver exemplifies the related themes of trust and survival in Watership Down.
The novel Big Fish, written by Daniel Wallace, contains many themes that are an important aspect to the story. Forming the father-son relationship between Edward and his son, William, was the key theme to Big Fish. William believes that his father’s stories are fictional stories and do not establish the truth, which frustrates him. In an interview with New York Times, Tim Burton said, “"Big Fish is about what's real and what's fantastic, what's true and what's not true, what's partially true and how, in the end, it's all true.” At the end of the movie, William finally starts to understand his father and the stories that have been told. After his father died, William keeps his father’s legacy alive by replacing himself as the storyteller and by retelling his father’s stories.
The film Sharkwater is a documentary directed and produced by Rob Stewart. Rob is an underwater photographer and a biologist that has a fascination with sharks, and their behavioral aspects. His way of studying these creatures he is able to learn about life and how to survive on this earth. This film showed the characteristics of reflexive documentary, this is because of the attention drawn into the sharks, their behaviors, and how we are affecting them. A statement that really stuck the documentary is people are taught their whole entire lives that sharks are dangerous but when you finally see it underwater your whole life can change in a flash. Rob made a very valid point as well, which is believed to be his thesis statement.
Based on Peter Benchley's bestselling novel, 'Jaws' centers around the fictional North Atlantic resort island of Amity, which finds itself terrorized by an enormous great white shark. Our hero is Martin Brody, a New York cop who took the job as Chief of the Amity PD to get his family out of the city and then finds himself in the midst of an unprecedented crisis none of his prior experience has prepared him for. The remains of young Christine Watkins are found on the beach, the apparent victim of a shark attack(Chrissie Watkins' death scene at the opening of the movie is one of the most legendary in the history of film). Chief Brody wants to close the beaches, but is refused permission
Throughout Daniel Wallace’s novel, Big Fish, Edward Bloom encompasses the meaning of the title. He is immortalized through the many tall tales he has shared with his son, Will. The stories are a depiction of a man who is larger than life, someone who is too big for a small town. Edwards passion for being remembered and loved followed him to his deathbed, where he passed on his stories to his son. The term “Big Fish” is used to reference the magnificence of Edwards life, and is an embodiment of the larger than life stories that he passes down to Will.
A motherless tiny clown fish named Nemo who was born with a birth defect, and was raised by his overprotective father, is for the first time allowed to go to school. His friends dare him to swim into the open sea and touch the "butt." Meaning to spite his dad and fit in with his new-found friends, Nemo swims all the way out to the “butt” and touches it forever changing his life. Giving into the peer pressure resulted in a series of unfortunate events that shapes young Nemo’s character forever.
A fisherman sits in his boat on the open sea, alone save for the fish below the water’s surface. The calmness of the ocean is disrupted by something underneath, something big. Fear seeps through the fisherman’s heart as he sees the shiny gray dorsal fin pierce the sun-glinted surface of the ocean. The creature stops its ritual and pulls its head out of the water, revealing the face of a great white: scars from countless battles in the ocean’s depths, a mouth full of lethal daggers, and dark, savage eyes.
“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
Slung from tornados, having been scooped up from their ocean home, the mountain of sharks featured in the film hardly even look like sharks. In fact, they spend as much time in the air as they do the water.
However, O’Rourke perfectly depicts his point of view from the simple juxtaposition of scenes from shark calling in action, to church scenes of children learning and singing in English, not in their native tongue. Some of the best segments of the captivating documentary feature the shark callers speaking intimately and closely to him in lingo about their traditional beliefs while paddling in their narrow and small canoes. These scenes are contrasted with what is happening in the island community, where O’Rourke shows preaching from the podium and the cultural irrelevance of the classroom, which some believe threatens the survival of traditional customs within the tribal village. Many also believe that when the men in this film are no longer alive, the unique practice of shark calling will most likely go to the grave with
I chose to write about the very famous movie Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975. Beginning with Act I, is what we call the set-up. The very first part of the set-up is the characters. The protagonist in the movie is Martin Brody, who is a police chief. Chief Brody’s wife is Ellen, the Shark hunter is named Quint, and the oceanographer is Matt Hooper. The mayor of Amity Island, Larry Vaughn, is also a significant character in the movie. The antagonist is Jaws, the great white shark. The relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist is not a good one. The protagonist, Martin Brody, is on a hunt for the antagonist, who is a sea monster and has gone on a killing spree, attacking many of the innocent victims on Amity Island. Next, the inciting incident sets up the central conflict in a movie. The story is set into motion with the attack and death of Chrissie Watkins. Chrissie is a young girl who was skinny-dipping with a boy after a party. This results in her getting brutally attacked and eaten. Her remains are found the next morning on the beach, by police chief Martin Brody. The town declares her death a “boating accident.” The film’s tone is frightening and definitely scary. The first turning point in the film is when a young boy, Alex Kitner gets eaten by the shark, while swimming with his friends. This leads to the decision of the police chief closing down the beaches for the safety of the residents on Amity Island. Alex Kitner’s mother issues a three-thousand dollar reward for the person who finds and kills the shark. This attracts many shark hunters from nearby cities to Amity Island.
Not all fantasy stories start off like fairy tales. Watership Down is one of them. The characters in the book resemble living beings struggling to survive and find shelter, with nature being the rising conflict against the characters. The symbolism in this book, along with the characters and the type of conflict occurring are all factors that tie together with the setting that greatly resembles 1939 Germany.
Writers are for the most part very much alike because they tend to follow the same styles and organizational platforms. The Great Electrical Revolution is a short story that demonstrates the effects of moving to a new country, as well as the different struggles that people are guaranteed to face when doing so. In the story the main character moves to Saskatchewan for the opportunity to farm but discovers that he has agoraphobia, which is the fear of wide open spaces. He is forced to live in the city because of his condition, and as a result of this he picks up the hobby of stealing the city’s electricity. Whale Rider is a film that demonstrates the difficulty of being a women and constantly not being good enough for her elders. This film