American drama films Essays

  • War Room Analysis

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    Alex Kendricks War Room is an inspirational American Christian Drama film much like Fireproof. War Room is about a family that’s being torn apart due to a strained marriage but mended back together through the faith of God. It is emotionally relatable, charming, and can be seen as influential. Watching War Room for the first time I immediately found the film emotionally relatable from the story line to the characters. To start, the

  • Forrest Gump Film Analysis

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    It is really hard for me to choose only three films out of my favorites. After a thorough selection, the three winners of my favorite films are Forrest Gump (1994), Memento (2000) and Shutter Island (2010). Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic romantic comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. In the film, Gump is a man with a low IQ but interestingly has appeared i (The Script Lab, 2011)n many historic moments. The story begins with Forrest picking up the feather

  • M Butterfly Summary

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    While reading M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang there were some interesting questions that arose from the story. What if there is a deeper meaning than we are seeing? Some specific points are going to be dug deeper into are: how does Gallimard show his masculinity and why he feels suicide is a better choice rather than admitting that he fell in love with a man. The play is about a man from the civil service in china that falls in love with an oriental actress. They have an affair and his wife leaves

  • Educating Rita - Love Story

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    Educating Rita - Love Story To answer the question whether or not Willy Russell actually wrote a love story as he intended to do, I consider certain aspects. I find two totally different main characters in Frank and Rita and therefore will be dealing with completely different ways of behaviour and reaction. By interpreting their statements and actions it might be possible to find some kind of conclusion. To begin with it is possible to say that Educating Rita does not seem to be a love story

  • Mama Day

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    The entire structure of Mama Day is fitting to the telling of multiple love stories entertwined. Like the most heartfelt episode of Seinfeld ever Gloria Naylor doesn’t tell a love story, but rather lays out in detail the events of everyday life for all of the central characters. In the process the love stories of the characters are all told at once. The most obvious example is the relationship between George and Cocoa (arguably the main love story). Through the book we see them meet, fall in

  • Relationships in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

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    My opinion of Much Ado About Nothing is that it is a love story even though it is supposedly a comedy. I thought that all the "funny" bits of the play were hidden and hard to understand and the play seems to centralise greatly on relationships. There are two main relationships in the play, that of Benedick and Beatrice and that of Claudio and Hero. Which of these couple’s relationships is more interesting? Throughout the play Beatrice is shown to be unhappy with the way women are treated in this

  • Isolation In Eveline

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    “Eveline,” by James Joyce, is a story about a woman who is all alone and can’t escape the life that she is living. She is naïve and wants to move on to have a better life but has many things holding her back. The main thing being her promise to her mother. The whole story she sits in the house alone in a chair surrounded by dust. Eveline is isolated from the rest of the world but can’t leave when she has a man right in front of her that she thinks she loves. Eveline is isolated from the world:

  • How to Tell a True War Story

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    War can be defined as “an active struggle between competing entities. It’s truly hard to tell who is right or wrong during a war. Both sides are fighting for what they believe in and what is true to their heart. In the end there is always two things promised – destruction and death. These two objects can explain the result in every facet of war from the physical to emotional. In “How to Tell a True War Story” O’Brien explores the relationship between the events during a war and the art of telling

  • James Schamus’s "The Ice Storm"

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    Genre in film theory is bespoken from literary genre scrutiny as well as founded on a film’s organization and its sequential events. Similarly, films are more often than not categorized according to its mood that is an emotional tone, setting which is its locale, and theme topic that is the issues in the film. Likewise, all these fundamentals come into consideration for the appointment of the film to be properly categorized in a genre. The moment we look narrowly at a film genre, we typically

  • Romeo and Juliet - A Great Love Story?

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    Romeo and Juliet has been known as the best love story to hit the face of the earth. It is the most known and most talked about Shakespeare play and has become the ultimate classic love story. But is it even all that great? No, I do not think Romeo and Juliet is all that great of a love story. I think that the public who were exposed to the play at the time, which was around the 1600's, had not seen too many other tragic love stories, so they of course loved it. Everybody loves new and original

  • Major Life Event Essay

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    A major life event is bound to have a strong impact on our person, hence the “major” part. These major life events can change how we deal with society and even change the way we once perceived ourselves as part of society. A major life event that I went through was the death of a close friend while we were at a social event. I was a teenager at the time and did not make the best decisions during high school. This happened to be one of them. It was a Friday and my friends and I had decided that we

  • Elements Of The Film Ripple

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    fundamental elements of drama being role, character and relationships, situation, voice and movement, focus, tension, space and time, language, ideas, dramatic meaning; mood and atmosphere; and symbol and audience (Dinham, 2014). These foundations shape the drama to captivate the audience so they comprehend the meaning and purpose of the dramatic action (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2015). After viewing and observing the short dramatic film Ripple (Viddsee, 2014)

  • A Short Story Is About Love But Not A Love Story Analysis

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    In the introduction to 100 Years of the Best American Short Story, Lorrie Moore says, “A short story is about love. It is always about love. And yet it is not a love story.” Explain how this statement holds true in one of the stories we have read. How, specifically, is the story about love, but not a love story? The quote from Lorrie Moore says, “A short story is about love. It is always about love. And yet it is not a love story.” Means that even though there is love of some kind in a story

  • Frozen Essay

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    Frozen is about sisterly love. It plays with Disney's well-worn messages of be true to yourself; follow your dreams. Frozen is possibly family entertainment for a new generation, frosted with a few suggestive themes it remains a sweet and heartwarming film.

  • Theme Of Love In The Dream Of Red Chamber

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    It is interesting to note that The Dream of red Chamber from the first chapter is presented as a story of enlightenment. It is described by Vanitas as a love story, but that is only a vehicle used to stimulate enlightenment through love. In the novel, Zhen Shiyin and Jia Zheng both become enlightened through their deep-rooted love for their children. However, characters such as Adamantina and Jia Jing illustrate contrasts to them. Neither of these characters attempt to achieve enlightenment through

  • Analysis Of Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived By Cupids Kiss

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    In 1787, Antonio Canova sculpted a masterpiece crafted around a love story; Psyche Revived by Cupids Kiss. A king had three daughters, his youngest, Psyche, the most beautiful of them all. Venus, the goddess of beauty, was jealous of Psyche. She ordered Cupid to avenger her and eliminate Psyche so she would once again be the most beautiful. However, when Cupid saw Psyche he fell in love with her. Every night, Cupid made love to Psyche without ever revealing his identity until one night she lit a

  • The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water

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    The narrator of the story “The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water” by Dave Eggers illustrates how people force themselves onto other people and/or things when it is easier to just simply surrender. Throughout the story the contradictions of force vs. surrender reveal how you have to let go sometimes. An obsessive forced relationship compared to a healthy relationship. Trying to fit in opposed to accepting yourself and your capabilities. Wants and desires in contrast to needs and necessities. Letting things

  • Creative Writing: Grounded To The Kitchen

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    Grounded to the kitchen When you were a teenager, did you ever dream? Did you ever dream of washing the dishes for 10 people, 24/7, day in and day out for months on end? Fellow Toastmasters, don’t worry. It’s not too late. You too can be grounded to the kitchen for the rest of your life! Come back with me to my 13th year, and I’ll show you how it happened. As I spent my time stuck the kitchen, washing dishes when it was just a chore, before I actually got grounded, I had occasion to listen to a

  • A Comparison Of Two Movies From The Movie

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    picture was released in 1890’s. From that day till now Films are known as the one of the best entertainment. I think making films is a way of telling a story, which you know, and you want other people to know that story too. The world is full of different mindsets. The audience likes different kind of movies. This is how different genres were introduced. There are eleven main genres in the film. - ACTION - ADVENTURE - COMEDY - CRIME - DRAMA - HISTORICAL - HORROR - MUSICAL - SCIENCE FICTION - ROMANCE

  • The River Merchant's Wife Analysis

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    Life of the Merchant’s Wife Every love story has its own beginning, and every love story has its own character. Let’s go back in the 19th century and imagine a living as merchant’s life, it must be hard at some point. According to the poem “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound is about a young Chinese girl who was a merchant’s wife, the speaker describes her feeling while writing the letter. At the beginning she described her first meeting with her husband, than she writes,