Essays on Movie Analysis

The Shining: King VS. Kubrick Renowned director Stanley Kubrick was a master of his time, an auteur if you will, who drew his inspiration from various literary works. He approached controversial and timely topics with his own unique spin, which became a signature element of...

The Butterfly Effect Film Analysis Personally, I have always enjoyed movies that teach audiences something or other. Especially, movies that require deep thought to unravel the plot behind it. I remember my first time watching this film, I had to rewind it because I couldn’t...

The worst genocide to have occurred in history is to be named The Holocaust. The Holocaust is described by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a sacrifice consumed by fire” or “a mass slaughter of people.” (Holocaust) The torture began in the year 1933 and lasted more...

Burton’s auteuristic style has been successfully emphasised in many of his productions. Within his films, he has demonstrated his capability of exploring important social concerns that are relevant to audiences today through effectively utilising film techniques. Burton’s 1990 film, Edward Scissorhands, is a contemporary archetype...

This research is based on entertainment which is the major part of our lives. Everyone needs a kind of story which must satisfy their desires through showing, happy ending, thrills, comedy, love and something which they all want in their lives. As Hollywood have different...

In history we can see the ideologies of Karl Marx throughout many societies and can still be seen today. This theory of Marxism was created so that the roles of society could be analyzed. With the higher economic power, this group, the bourgeoisie, is able...

Feminism is basically the belief that men and women must have equal rights and feminist theory is the extension of feminism which further aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. Gender inequality acknowledges the differentiation between men and women and also how it influences...

Summary The report looks at the contextual analysis of Dallas Buyers Club LLC and iiNET. Dallas Buyers Club is the mainstream biography film delivered by Voltage Pictures in Hollywood. IiNET is a standout amongst the most famous and the second biggest web access suppliers in...

In the movie Pan’s labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, describe the way women used to live after wars in Spain. Living with harsh man, such as Vidal, women had no right at all. In the begging of the movie, they are seen weak and powerless,...

The film “Stand by me,” directed by Rob Reiner, is a legendary film based on the novella “The body” by Stephen King. The film starts with Gordy’s narration, the writer and narrator of the film. It is a story of him and his three best...

Stand by me is a coming of age story about four friends going on a journey to find a dead body outside of their town in hopes of becoming heroes. On their journey, we get to discover the personalities of these four characters as the...

One of Stephen King’s most popular novels, and also the shortest of all the numerous written works that he’s had published and received critical acclaim for, is named The Body. Stephen King has said himself that this story is very loosely based on his childhood...

Introduction Spiderman, one of the most popular and influential superheroes ever created, the one who came from a small-town company, the one who started off in a little-known comic called Amazing Fantasy has certainly come a long way since it was first created. The company...

Introduction The comics to the movies the Spiderman trilogy is one of the most loved super heroes of all-time. The Spiderman comics started in 1962, by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. A 17 year old boy named, Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider...

Lagan – Once Upon a Time in India was released in 2001 directed by Ashutosh Gowariker and has prominent movie stars such as Amir Khan and Gracy Singh. This movie presents not only various postcolonial discourses but it also sheds light on cultural discourse, religious...

The movie On the Waterfront tells a story of a longshoreman, Terry Malloy, who intends to launch a revolt, to expose the crimes of the dock owner and to bring justices to the workers, together with a college student Itty Doyle and the priest Barry....

Introduction A gender stereotype is a vague perception or presumption of qualities or traits, or of the roles that women and men have or should have. Gender stereotypes are negative because they restrict the ability of males and females to improve their skills and abilities,...

Art is known to both reflect and influence society. The four sociological perspectives tend to manifest themselves in different art forms such as books and films. Some films easily represent a perspective at its ideal, or extreme, state while others challenge the concept that society...

Mulan is a Disney movie that debuted in 1998. The movie is set in China during the time of the Hun invasion. Mulan does not like to conform to the traditional Chinese daughter and is somewhat a tomboy. Therefore, Mulan takes it upon herself to...

The Disney studios brought us our childhood, films from Mary Poppins to The Lion King, Dumbo to the old school Treasure Planet, but more iconically; the Disney Princess line. From the OG Cinderella to the more recent Vanellope, princesses or female characters of similar status...

The film Mulan was released in 1998, where the story opens up with the Great Wall of China, where ShanYu (leader of the Huns) invades China for the sake of control and conquest. Mulan, the daughter of a famed but disabled war veteran, is set...

Regarding different aspects of sociological thought, the 1998 film Mulan provides many illustrations of intriguing social behavior. Mulan is about a young Chinese woman who disguises herself as a man in order to protect her ailing father, Fa Zhou, from being drafted into another war....

“The Disney princess has changed dramatically over the years from a victim of circumstance to a fighter and warrior . . . such as Mulan of China.” Often female characters do not play the lead in roles that express their powerful leadership skills. The movie,...

Thousand of years ago in China, there was a young woman named Mulan. Mulan’s family went to a matchmaker, the matchmaker observed Mulan’s appearance and commented that she is too skinny and not good for marriage, the matchmaker said, “Men wants girls with good taste,...

Mulan (Ming-Na Wen), was a young girl of Chinese descent, who was uninterested in anything to do with traditional womanly duties or tasks. She was further concerned about the military draft, that demanded each family send a son to serve in the battle against the...

At the beginning of the movie, during the song “Honour to Us All,” Mulan is shown being pampered with makeup and new clothes to meet the matchmaker. A few lyrics in the song that stood out were, “Men want girls with good taste, calm, obedient,...

Moonlight was directed by Barry Jenkins, adapting the unproduced play called In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Moonlight is a coming of age movie of a young African American man through three stages of his life. Barry Jenkins’s first film, Medicine...

Berry Jenkins intimate film Moonlight, follows the struggle of a young sensitive black man trying to find himself against his society’s expectations of masculinity and identity. Moonlight was loosely adapted from an unpublished play from Tarell McCraney called, Black Boys Look Blue. In Moonlight we...

There comes a moment when you have to stand up for your sexuality and identity. In the movie Moonlight by Barry Jenkins, Chiron, the main character, is presented through the three stages of his life as a gay African American male living in Liberty City,...

Abstract 300, the movie is an adaptation of Frank Miller’s fictional graphic novel based on the Battle of Thermopylae which took place in 400 B.C. It depicts a vivid story of honor portrayed by the sturdy 300 Spartan warriors led by King Leonidas who made...