Sarah Khattab
Mrs. Jenkins
ENG 1123 RY70
28 March 2018
Bullying Horror Stephen King films are known for horror, terror, and suspense. The film Carrie (1976), tells the story of a young seventeen year old girl who gets bullied at school especially after getting her period in the shower at her high school. Later, Carrie uses her supernatural abilities to seek revenge. In this film, one of the important themes is bullying. Bullying is when someone takes advantages of someone else using force. Carrie’s classmates used their superior strength to intimidate and harass her. The theme of bullying is clearly illustrated through the use of various film devices in several important scenes from Carrie. First, film devices and techniques in the scene
Bullying uses someone putting others down in order to emotional better themselves because they feel better about themselves causing pain and distress to someone else. This can be traced back to the novel as Andy feels better about his unfortunate predicament the more he hurts others. This hurting people to heal yourself is what the main theme of this novel stems from in a philosophical viewpoint. The many brushes with philosophy in the novel harmonize with the underlying theme of deception and using others to heal oneself. Conclusively, the main villain and theme within the novel weave together with the many philosophical points and issues with morality in order to create a concise and alluring
Films and movies are a composition of elements that make that essentially come together as one to form a piece of art. Although a film is not complete with missing elements, some elements when used out of place can break a movie. Some of these elements include, but are not limited to, a character’s costume and makeup, lighting, camera direction, acting, special effects, and, sound effects and music. In some films one element may be the overriding factor but when put together, these elements work together to please an audience.
For example, in the second shot of the film, we see that the camera
Bullying can drag people down in the dumps at school, especially when their friends have betrayed them to join the ranks of the bullies. People can rise up from these incidents with their family and friends encouraging them, like the protagonists
In Bully, Lee Hirsch focuses on five different families in four different states that are have specific situations that have to do with bullying. It is clear that the subject is the movement to abolish bullying, but the speaker of the movie can be broad. In Bully, Lee Hirsch uses as rhetorical questions and imagery as well as appeal to pathos, ethos, and logos. In Bully, Hirsch uses rhetorical questions throughout the movie to provoke the emotions of the viewers, which forces the audience to reflect on the cause of bullying. It also makes the audience associate themselves to the victims of bullying and ask themselves what they would do in that situation. Overall, strengthening Hirsch's argument that bullying is a universal issue and it needs to be recognize our actions as a society and accept everyone for who they
A variety of camera techniques are used throughout the beginning sequence to enhance the mood and involve the audience. Camera techniques are harmonized with lighting effects to culminate this dramatic scene. I will begin by discussing examples of this. In the village, many close-ups and long shots are used to enhance facial expression and to set the sombre mood.
Bullying is an aggressive behavior where someone is repeatedly and purposely causing someone else injury making them feel uncomfortable. It can be physical, hurtful words, or just certain actions. According the article “Bullying and Suicide,” it states that nearly 30 percent of students are bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of bullying (Word Press, Par. 1). In this essay I will
The Carrie film slightly differs from the 1974 Stephen King novel of the same name on which it is based. Both the novel, the original 1976 film, and it's two subsequent remakes in 2002 and 2003, as well as the 1988 Broadway musical, all agree on some basic things. A 17-year old girl in her senior year of high school, who is psychologically abused at the hands of her devoutly religious mother. She's shy, lacks self-confidence, and is typically mild mannered and shy. However, the girl has a gift, telekinesis, and is often picked on at school, which pushes her buttons, and her power begins to be exposed when she's angry or upset. Her power increases over the progressing school year to her mother's dismay.
In the 1976s first adaption of Carrie of the classic horror novel directed by Brian De Palma. Carrie White is a dull withdrawn thin plain Jane, having all her classmates hate her, and having a mother who is a major religious fanatic. Upon unexpectedly having her first period, she gets bullied and teased by her fellow female classmates in the girls locker room. The gym teacher punishes the girls for their actions towards Carrie. One of them named Sue Snell feels particularly sorry for her actions; and asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to take Carrie to the prom instead of her.
In New Spain, the Bourbon monarchies in 1808-1810 encouraged some creoles leaders to strike for total independence under the cover of Ferdinand. On July 1808, Napoleon’s capture of Charles the VI and Ferdinand the VII, and capture of Spain reached Mexico causing intense debate between Mexican elites. Creoles and Peninsulars prepared to take power and ensure their group would have power over the other; New Spain, like other Spanish colonies, went through the crisis of the Bourbon monarchy from 1808- 1810. Yet, in Mexico what pushed for independence from Spain would be the elite’s race for power.
“Tuesday of the Other June’’ by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction genre about a girl named June and how her life gets affected by bullying. In the beginning, a girl named June goes to swim classes. Another girl named June, is mean and also goes to swim class. Mean June tells nice June not to have the same name as her (June). Mean June gives nice june a nickname called fish eyes. Soon, mean June starts to pick on nice June. Mean June pinches her, ties her braids together, steps on her feet, hides her clothes and calls her names. In the end, nice June and her mom move to a different house. Nice June thought she got rid of mean June until she saw her standing at a house on the way to her new house. Nice June slouched down in her seat, hoping mean June wouldn’t see her but she did! This story shows that being bullied affects nice June’s life in many ways.
Bullying is an emerging issue that many teenagers and children experience, they endure harassing behaviours from their peers, primarily at school. Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters and Bully, directed by Lee Hirsch are both effective in their own ways, as they display the causes and effects of being taunted. Although there are many similarities in the messages of the films, they differ in delivery. Mean Girls shows a less conspicuous perspective of bullying, on the other hand, Bully educates the more expected definition.
Stephen King and Carrie Post WWII, horror authors began to deviate from traditional gothic style, and began to disturb readers with science fiction and fantasy mixed with modern dramatization. Such components of new age horror included rising interests in parapsychology, manipulation of the reader’s mind, and true events to add some sickening reality to fictional events. Stephen King applied his unique philosophies on his personal styles of writing his first hand knowledge of the 1950s-1970s and bullying, and personal experiences to create a masterpiece in his novel, Carrie. The very existence of Stephen King is gothic in itself; his mother was deemed infertile, doomed never to birth a child.
During the beginning years of film and video production, cameras where large and bulky machines that had
The movie Carrie is Like Roger Ebert claimed in his review, a spellbinding horror movie. In the film, Carrie is the school outcast who happens to have telekinetic powers. Carrie is quite strange and it causes her classmates detest her for her strangeness. After witnessing her in the locker room panicking about her first period you get to see her naiveté and when you see how her classmates react to the late bloomer you get a feel on how she’s treated at school. Even though it is dubbed as a horror movie it isn't exactly frightening till it gets to the end of the film.