Ben Nicholson Essays

  • Non-Objective Art and Spirituality

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    The following paper will look at non-objective art and at how Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian viewed the relationship between this type of art and spirituality. Specifically, while it is evident that both men saw the important ways in which intellectual and cognitive transcendence could be achieved through non-objective art, Malevich seems the more explicit of the two men when it comes to linking non-objective artwork with western, organized religion; for his part, Mondrian favors a more diffuse

  • Film Analysis: "Scarface" vs. "The Departed"

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    of previous works and puts a spin ... ... middle of paper ... ...l Higher Education, 2009. Print. 2. Bergan, Ronald. Film. New York: DK Pub., 2006. Print. 3. The Departed. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson. Warner Bros., 2006. DVD. 4. Derschowitz, Jessica. ""The Departed" Has Connection to James "Whitey" Bulger - Celebrity Circuit - CBS News." Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment & World News - CBS News. Web. 17 July 2011. . 5. Durks

  • Textual Analysis Of Chinatown Movie

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    Trevor Brown Professor Gigante 3/29/17 COM 221 10 Shot Assignment - Chinatown The 1974 film Chinatown (U.S 1974, Roman Polanski) is about a private investigator, J.J Gittes, who was hired by a women impersonating Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray to investigate leads connected to her husband having an affair. J.J ends up meeting the real Mrs. Mulwray in the movie and learns about the sudden death of Mr. Mulwray. Once learning this, J.J quickly begins to realize that this case will be far different than his usual

  • The Shining Film Analysis

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    “Do you have the slightest idea what a moral or ethical principle is?” Deontology, or the adherence of one’s actions to a certain moral or ethical principle of operation, stands as an intruiging philosophy by itself. The opening sentence of this essay clearly possesses relevance to deontology. However, the quote does not originate from any philosopher, but instead from Jack Torrance of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film, from a superficial point of view, stands as an atmospheric horror film

  • The Film Chinatown

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    The film was released in 1974 and the main characters were portrayed by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston. Chinatown was Polanski’s return to Hollywood five years after the Manson family murder of his wife, Sharon Tate. I believe that this experience influenced scenes of the film. In the opening scene of Chinatown, it is revealed that the main character, Jake Gittes; portrayed by Jack Nicholson, is a private investigator. The narrative takes place in the 1930s and begins when

  • Chinatown Film Noir

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    Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noirmystery film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The film was inspired by the California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century, by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley. The Robert Evans production, a Paramount Pictures release, was the director's last film in the United States and features many elements

  • Chinatown Film Noir

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    Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Town, starring Jack Nicholson and Dunaway-Fi. The film is inspired by the California water wars, a series of conflicts over water of Southern California at the beginning of the 20th century, whose interests Los Angeles securing water rights in the Owens Valley. And Robert Evans production, Paramount Pictures and was released, another film director in the United States, and includes many of the

  • Comparing On the Road and Easy Rider

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    Parallels in On the Road and Easy Rider Released more than a decade apart, Kerouac's On the Road and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider are replete with parallels. Both depict characters whose beliefs are not quite uniform with those of society; in both cases these characters set out in search of "kicks" but become part of something larger along the way. More importantly, these two texts each comment insightfully on the culture of their respective times. But all these similarities become superficial

  • Violence, a theme in the Movie "The Shining"

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    Technical Essay Director: Kubrick, Stanley Movie: The Shining Sources: “Understanding Movies” For my technical essay I am going to talk about the movie "The Shining". I will explore in this essay I am going to set to prove that Stanley Kubrick is trying to prove that violence can happen when you are lefted alone and isolated. I use a screen from 1:43:44 to 1:53:08 to prove this point. This scene is about when Wendy looks though Jacks work and is scared though the whole

  • Reclaim Your Time

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    If you are looking at personal time management as a way to run yourself down even worse than before, this is not your booklet. The author believes that life is about stringing together a series of high quality experiences, one of which might be work, but the point is to get your tasks done and be free to enjoy the rest of your life too. Why learn a few new tricks for shoving more things into an hour? The idea is to manage your personal time so well that you never feel rushed again –even in high

  • Chinatown Film Noir Essay

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    Chinatown is the essence of a neo-noir film, it captures everything a noir film would encompass, just in a different era. By 1974, the year in which Roman Polanski’s Chinatown was released, the era of film noir had long passed. The film is sure to make the relation obvious to past films, including Evelyn Mulwray’s double - Ida Sessions to parallel Miss Wonderly in The Maltese Falcon (1941). In further contrast, Jake may be financially more stable than Sam Spade, but he is not quite so capable at

  • Jake Gittes: A Brief Analysis Of The Film Chinatown

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    Analysis of Chinatown Upon viewing the film Chinatown a discovery can be made within a sequence of events that can be traced back to the beginning scene of the movie. This particular film is a movie of the private eye genre. Such films are made to where they convey the viewpoint of the detective and place the viewer in the mindset of the detective as the mystery unfolds beforehand. The evidence is clear throughout the film but you are only able to piece it together once the film has ceased. The

  • Film Weir's Pessimism In Chinatown Film Noir

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    Chinatown also reflected the time period in which it was made. Released in 1974, the movie was made in the final years of the Vietnam War and after the Watergate scandal. These two scandals, one focused on the disingenuousness of the government in reporting the war effort, mixed with the lack of purpose in actually fighting the war, and the other dealt with a spying campaign that tried to undermine democracy essentially, which lead to distrust of the government. You get that sort of distrust within

  • Reading an American Identity in Niagara Falls

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    Reading an American Identity in Niagara Falls Occupying the centre of a vast array of paintings, postcards, books and plays, Niagara Falls has become a national icon. Since American independence, Niagara Falls has “assumed nationalistic meaning as the search for cultural/national symbols fixed on nature for America’s identity” (Irwin, xiv). Those select few who had the opportunity to view the falls in the eighteenth century pointed to its majestic beauty and transcendental nature as proof

  • Anger Management

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    and didn’t know what they were doing. I often wondered what that must be like. I, being a very passive person, have never lost control when I’ve become angered. I’ve always had total awareness of my situation. In the movie “Anger Management”, Jack Nicholson so nicely stated: “Your temper is the one thing you can’t get rid of by loosing it” I’ve probably come close at times, but never gone over the edge to uncontrollable rage. I remember there was one time it came close. It happened one late Sunday afternoon

  • A Portrait of Modern Life in Carnal Knowledge

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    A Portrait of Modern Life in Carnal Knowledge T. C. Boyle's "Carnal Knowledge" is a very funny, and at the same time truthful portrayal of some of the things which are going on in the world today. His description of the narrator and the way he thinks, as well as his portrayal of Alena Jorgensen, leaves the reader wondering if they have ever believed so strongly in something or acted the same way to help reach their goal. What makes this story so unique and is that takes place in our world, in

  • Techniques Used In The Movie Gremlins

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    The movie Gremlins is a 1984 comedy with horror mixed together to create a funny and scary movie. Some of the characters include Hoyt Axton, Don Steele, and Dick Miller just to name a few. This movie was set around 1950 with in Chinatown and the United States. In this movie the boy’s dad find a mogul named Gizmo that came from china town, he thought of his son to give gizmo as a gift but, with the strict rules from the owner's son who sold the mogul to the man for $300 tells the man there are rules

  • How Is Chinatown Different From The 1940's

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    Chinatown is a highly appreciated 1974 revision of 1940’s film noir detective movies. It adds its own 70’s spin on the hardboiled detective genre by using mild nudity, gruesome blood spurts, and tweaks to archetypal character types. However, one big difference in this film compared to those in the 1940’s, is the addition of colleagues for our detective hero, J.J. ‘Jake’ Gittes. In previous films, our detective hero is normally seen working alone with the rare exception of a secretary at their disposal

  • Jake Gittes In The Film Chinatown

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    The scene from the movie Chinatown that I decided to analyze is when Jake Gittes follows in vehicle Evelyn Cross Mulwray after their conversation in to a mystery house. While Evelyn Cross Mulwray showers, Jake Gittes goes to her car, breaks the left light back and later she leaves. Although she told Gittes to stay and wait for her, he disobeys her. He carefully follows her in the dark by sneaking outside and kicking out the red cover from her right car taillight. He takes her husband's car and

  • How Does Popeye Doyle Use Editing In The French Connection

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    In The French Connection, two New York detectives, Popeye Doyle, played by Gene Hackman, and Cloudy Russo, played by Roy Scheider, are trying to stop a heroin shipment coming from France. (TMC) The film is well-known, not only for being a favorite crime movie among many, but also for the awards and nominations it received for cinematography and editing. (IMDB) The cinematography and editing in The French Connection gives the film almost a documentary feel and helps to establish a contrast between