Essays on Film Analysis

“The Pursuit of Happiness” is a biopic that tells of a man named Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman. After investing all his life savings in buying portable bone density scanners, which what was supposed to bring him riches, instead turns into his life support as...

Mise-en-Scene Essay Twilight is a contemporary love story between a human and a vampire. They are madly in love but cannot be together. According to the movie, Bella Swan moved to a small city Forks, Washington to live with her dad that she did not...

The two films I watched by Steven Spielberg were “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindlers List” captured interesting elements of mise en scene and uses of editing. Mise-en scene, Literally means, “to put on stage” or “placing of a scene” in French, its used to describe...

This movie starts out in England in a little suburb. You see a little cat and it turns into a witch named Professor McGonagall she meets with a wizard named Professor Dumbledore at the doorsteps of a man named Dursley. The party is greeted by...

Artefacts of popular culture are fabricated and developed through popular cultures tacit connection to the political world; a concept surmised by the Contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who states, “Everything is art. Everything is politics. ” As such, it could be suggested that this tacit...

The movie Dostana was directed by Tarun Mansukhani. Dostana tells the tale of two men who fake their sexuality, and pretend to be homosexual in order to rent out rooms in the apartment of Neha (played by Priyanka Chopra). The two men, Sam (played by...

We had experienced our time of being young. We put or kept in mind lots of experiences that we had still. It would be good or bad. Some of the children use up their time of being young more comfortable and get pleasure out of....

The film, “The Martian” is a science fiction movie that premiered in 2015 under the directorship of Ridley Scott. The film is based on Andy Wier’s novel, The Martian that was published in 2011. Both critics and proponents of the film agree that it is...

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”, which translates to “It is sweet and honorable to 1 die for the fatherland”, is the phrase said by Director Dalton Trumbo at the end of the film, Johnny Got His Gun. During WWI, United States had the...

Hidden beneath makeup, fashion and jewellery, lies a unique, beautiful woman. Who would have thought that we could all be so different? Yet, society has moulded women to conform to today’s standards. Following celebrity fashion trends, latest beauty hacks, like how to get bigger, lips...

Every society has a culture that gives them an identity. Sport as a culture is ever-growing conformity and one of the universal elements that define people’s way of life and ideals. Remember the Titans is an American movie based on a true story and released...

Released nineteen years ago, Legally Blonde, a movie appeared to be about a ditzy blonde who falls right into the typical female stereotype of wearing pink, with a touch of glamour and small little dog on the side for good measure. Surely it would have...

Many movies focused around the theme of racism often show how racist characters are able to change. From start to end, racist characters grow and change their mindset to become more accepting of different races. They begin to see people for who they really are...

Introduction As the saying goes, “Beauty is only skin deep.” Elle Woods, in the film Legally Blonde, fulfills the proverb beautifully. The film debuted in 2001 during a time when feminism was not as notable as it is today; the early 2000s embodied a time...

The movie I decided to choose for this paper was called, “Remember the Titans.” I chose this movie because it depicts a great sense of moral ethics throughout the plot, for example, right vs. wrong. The movie has many scenes where it displays a right...

The quality of a film is denoted by the extent to which it captivates viewers. Some pieces may work better when performed on stage than when presented in the form of motion pictures. In contrast, some works are picture-perfect when offered as movies unlike when...

In the film, Remember the Titans, there is a poignant moment, a run through a forest near Gettysburg, where Coach Boone, in an effort to show his players the realities of fighting each other, says, “… This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg....

Violence in the media does not always make people violent. Violent films alone do not make people violent, but the combined effects of violent media exposure along with other serious risk factors that could potentially create a violent or aggressive person. Films like Reservoir Dogs...

The Devil Wears Prada film is the adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger’s novel with the same title. The story is about smart and recent Ivy League journalism graduate Adrea Sachs who is looking for a writing opportunity in New York times but happens to land...

Introduction The Sport movie I have chosen is “Remember the Titans”. It is a true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season in terms of team building technique is as a racially integrated unit. The movie...

Schooling in the 1990s During the 1990s, more emphasis was placed on schooling for young people, particularly those completing secondary schooling. This is because the labour market required students to have higher educational credentials. Moreover, parents who had completed or prolonged schooling experiences were another...

“The Devil Wears Prada” is a novel written by Lauren Weisberger talking about a young woman, Andrea Sachs, who got a job as a personal assistant to a successful fashion magazine editor, that makes her life difficult with her selfish demands and grueling schedule. For...

Introduction The movie The Kingdom of Heaven a movie directed in 2005 by Ridley Scott. The movie is basically the religion movie between Christian and Muslims. In the movie, characters are kept on talking about Jerusalem that they need to go to Jerusalem to have...

The movie The Graduate (1967) is a romantic comedy directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel by Charles Webb. The main character, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) is an early twenties college graduate. He has returned home to Pasadena, California. There he...

Remember the Titans is one of my favorite movies because it is an inspiring story about defeating and overcoming prejudice. I chose this film to show the conflict theory behind it. In this film the battle between the races for limited positions and scarce resources...

Introduction Women try to balance their lives, and as they grow in different stages, they are positioned between traditional roles and becoming modern career women. The environment they live in determines the direction they will take in their lives. Women who live with their parents...

Storytelling is central to the human condition, connecting individuals by conveying universal concepts such as female oppression, which transcend both time and social context to bring audiences to recognise the continuation of such issues. Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) explores the powerful role...

In Mexico, water instead of milk was used to make hot chocolate. Water is first heated up to boil, hot enough to easily melt chocolate that is dipped in. Similarly, in the film Like Water for Chocolate, the characters become heated up and take bubbling...

Introduction Elle Woods is a white, blonde, boyfriend obsessed, rich girl from Hollywood whose goal is to get accepted to Harvard Law School. Though she is doubted and questioned by everyone around her, she winds up winning a noteworthy case and graduating as one of...

Drawing from a semiotics approach this essay will explore the way that cinematics signs and codes convey meaning to the film Legally Blonde. Semiotics is the study of signs and sign-using behavior. It was defined by one of its founders, Ferdinand de Saussure, as the...