Bad and The Beautiful and State and Main are films that present the audience with an inside look into the not-so luxurious, grotesque formations of Hollywood Cinema. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minelli (1952), is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The camera work in the opening scene is positioned at a higher level forcing the audience to look below at the director at Stage 5. Here, the audience begins to intrude on the not-so glamorous lifestyle of Hollywood.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to
Socrates stuns the Symposium when he tells how Diotima showed him that “Love is neither beautiful nor good,” thus contradicting the theme of all speeches before his (201E). Diotima’s logic begins by postulating that love is equivalent to desire. This statement is supported by Aristophanes’s speech in which he describes the origin of human nature. Zeus split the spheres of the three original types of humans: male, female and androgynous; to form the two sexes. Ever since the division of spheres
If you’re not careful or if you do something bad the Fukú curse will get you. That is one of the major themes in Junot Diaz is novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”. The book title suggests that this is a story about man named Oscar Wao, but really the book is about three generations of Oscar’s family, and struggles’ and heartbreak each generation suffers at the hands of the Fukú curse. Oscar’s family originates from the Caribbean nation of Dominican Republic. In the book, Diaz weaves his
Causal Argument: Why Do People Change The Way They Look? Oscar Wilde once wrote: “It is only shallow people who judge by appearance. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible” (qtd in Davis 1). Obviously, humans have all been created differently. That is why we all do not look alike. But now, the idea of having the ideal shape and look is one of the issues everyone has to deal with. Some want to get thinner, while a few do not care about it. Others even change the color
human’s rational element as mentioned in the Republic) tries to suppress the bad horse so that he can leads the chariot “toward what is best and in control” (237e3). However, if he is unable to do so and let the bad horse take control, “appetite drags us irrationally towards pleasure and rules in us, its rule is call excess (hubris)” (238a1). If love is controlled purely by the drive toward pleasure, this kind of erotic love is bad, as Lysias rightly belittles in the Symposium. In Socrates' view, however
The beauty of blackness is a question that may be hard to answer for some people and easier for others. The beauty of blackness goes beyond the physical characteristics of a person. Things that are incorporated into answering the question is black beautiful are traditions, values, and history. This question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. The answer to this question may be different and have different perspectives. Blackness is frowned upon and shamed in the eyes of some people. In the eyes
realizing they are not so different after all. Carla, the beautiful friend, tells Bethany, the smart friend, about the trouble of being beautiful. Bethany wants to be like Carla and even thinks she would enjoy the “problems” of beauty. She only expresses her true feelings because she has the opportunity to have what Carla does. Bethany had found a lamp containing a genie and had one wish remaining. She intended to use this final wish to become beautiful, like Carla. She comes to Carla because she was conflicted
People know that it can help you out in life. But what most people don’t know is that, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning that beauty should not be characterized by what people are told it is, beauty is different for everyone, what is beautiful for you may be ugly to someone else. The characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye are confronted with the ideal of beauty and strive for it whether they know it or not. The two characters that I think were followed the ideal of beauty in Toni
re-thinking his entire speech he just made. Agathon is no longer sure if Love is beautiful and good, which was his primary definition of it before. Socrates has Agathon confirm that when one does not have the thing that he desires and loves, that is when he desires and loves it. They agree that one "loves what he lacks and has not" (96). In Agathon's view of love that he expressed earlier, love is always of beautiful things. Therefore, if one loves what he lacks, then "Love lacks and has not beauty"
good or bad, ugly or repulsive […] nature is all beautiful in its own way’ (p. 18). Positive aesthetics posits that ‘[a]ll [of] the natural world is beautiful’ and that the natural environment ‘so far as it is untouched by man’ (Das, 2007, p. 18). These untouched environments are ‘graceful, delicate, intense, unified, and orderly rather than blase, dull, insipid, incoherent, and chaotic.’ A problem for positive aesthetics is whether all parts of nature should be held as equally beautiful. Holding
“Popular Mechanics,” uses imagery, symbolism, and voice to convey that humanity is inherently bad, violent, evil and in times of darkness. One can easily destroy ones own beautiful creations, but in all it’s just a part of human nature. In “Popular Mechanics,” Carver uses imagery to reveal that one usually doesn’t have light around them, instead one has darkness surrounding them, causing one to do bad things. Carver starts off his story, by describing the scene that’s outside. Caver ends off his
Some individuals believe that meeting a beautiful woman with bad intentions is the worst thing in the world. The way they portrayed Grendel’s Mother in the canto’s compared to the movie Beowulf (2007) was completely different. They explained her in the cantos as a huge, gross, disgusting monster. In Beowulf (2007) she is portrayed as the complete opposite, she is beautiful, fit, and does not even appear as a “monster”. Grendel’s Mother, in the book, is portrayed as a horrific monster of that society’s
used to read us the fairytale story Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. We never thought about where the story came from. The story wanted to get the message of love across. But, like most stories, there was an antagonist. Snow White had to fight the bad queen from her poisonous apple fruit. The queen was jealous of Snow White and wanted the life that she had. As kids, we were not aware that the story depicted the base of Greek and Roman mythologies’ famous Aphrodite; goddess of love, sex, beauty, jealousy
Poe’s own ghostly troubled mind, more than it is about a decaying palace. See, in this poem, Poe spins out an elaborate metaphor, comparing a beautiful palace to a human head. That's right: a human head. At first the palace/head is beautiful and stable, then gradually it becomes demented and disorganized. In “The Haunted Palace” Poe describes a palace, beautiful and peaceful. In the first stanza he describes it as “Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head.” He labels it as radiant
Universal themes have been integrated into literature throughout history. From essays and articles to fables and stories, these collected works continue to baffle and inspire readers by their constant relatability to present day society with their themes, morals and motifs. One text that demonstrates this commonality of themes in literature throughout the ages in society is Daniel Defoe’s essay,” The Worst Sort of Husband”. Upon reading the essay “The Worst Sort of Husband”, written in 1707, one
Snow White is described as a beautiful woman who had “Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.”(Grimm’s, 16). The story portrays that, girls who are beautiful are “good” and girls that are bad are “bad”; for example Snow White is described to be beautiful and is good, and when her step mother poisons her she is described as a “old peddler woman” (Grimm’s ,78) who isn’t as beautiful as Snow White and is considered to be bad. A symbol that represents Snow Whites
Excite: While many people consider Mexico well a bad place to live in or visit, in really Mexico is a beautiful country with really interesting history and culture. With many states and cities as options, I’ve decided to to my informative speech on its capital, Mexico City. Launch: Interesting history, variety of foods to eat, and the spirit of celebrations are among the reason why I think Mexico City is a beautiful place, and a place I recommend you should visit. Relate: With Mexico’s borders
be compared and contrasted in the two poems She Walks in Beauty and We Real Cool. These two devices are imagery and symbolism. The poem She Walks in Beauty by Lord Lord Byron (George Gordon) is about a girl that is very beautiful. Gordon compares her to many different beautiful things that makes her seem very majestic. An example is, “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;” (Gordon, stanza 1 lines 1 and 2). The poem We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks is about a group
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The truth is beautiful, without doubt; and so are lies.” We always see the truth as ameliorating to lies, but what if the lies are just as beautiful? What does it mean to have beautiful lies? When one tells lies, they are almost always saying them in hopes to appear better than the think they are. They will make themselves out to be whoever they want, someone they would like to be but is not. Therefore, they are beautiful in the sense that they can create a persona