Kiss Me Like A Stranger: Gene Wilder's Life And Work

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In the essay, Stranger in the Village, James Baldwin talks about his experience as an African American visiting a small village in Switzerland who has never seen an African American before. In the small village Baldwin is seen as something magical and so unusual to them because of the color of his skin. Even after going back to the village several times he still feels like a stranger. To portray his experiences of racism Baldwin strongly uses pathos throughout his essay. He describes the sense of never belonging whether in America or in a small village of Switzerland. Baldwin uses pathos to argue that there is a way to stop racism in the village with the children but America and the adults in the village have too much history to have the same innocence as the children of the village.

All of us live and all of us die. All of us experience joy and all of us experience pain. As human beings, we have a fair amount in common. Since our lives are similar, it is easier relate to each other and to understand what the other person is going through. In the same way, most of us can connect to the characters in Our Town because we have likely experienced similar situations as they have. Most of us can dream with Mrs. Gibbs of a trip to Paris, rejoice with George and Emily on their wedding day, and sympathize with Emily when she regrets her lifestyle. However, we can primarily relate to the story of Our Town because of Thornton Wilder’s cleverly penned title, sets, and act titles. In this essay, I will be exploring these three aspects of Our Town through which Wilder made his play applicable to us.

Richard Pryor: Although considered an infamous stand-up comedian and actor ('Toy') of the silver screen; he felt those horrific episodes of drug abuse, tempting relationships, and painful illnesses.

Film Noir is a fairly self-explanatory name. French for “Dark” or “Black Film”, this style (not genre) of film is pretty much summed up in those two words. These films started being made in a 1940’s, Post WWII paranoia, with the threat of nuclear missiles looming over the heads of all United States citizens, Hollywood included. This paranoia led to disillusioned attitudes and existential feelings, which in turn were reflected in Film Noirs through things such as characters, with the two most prominent types being hardened male protagonists and femme fatales. Also, the “Darkness” of Film Noirs was not just a metaphor for the content of the film, but also a fairly literal description of the visual style was like. Taking influence from

Albert Camus creates a series of characters in The Stranger whose personality traits and motivations mirror those that are overlooked upon by the average man. Camus develops various characters and scenarios that show true humanity which tends to have been ignored due to the fact of how typical it has become. Camus incorporates abominable personality traits of the characters, variety, consistency, and everyone’s fate.

The images of Frankenstein are so vividly burned onto our collective consciousness, so universally recognizable, that it’s hard to view their original visual offering as a true masterwork of artistic expression, rather than simply a piece of parodied pop culture. And yet James Whale’s original 1931 film—adapted from author Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel­—not

On September 8th, 1960, the iconic movie thriller Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock was released. A tale of a young woman who flees town after stealing money from her boss. A major storm causes her to stop at the vacant Bates Motel, where she falls victim to the twisted, Norman Bates. Hitchcock’s slasher film was the perfect balance of thrill, suspense, blood, and shock. Its significance was that it truly redefined the horror genre and paved the way for future horror films.

When you think of Comedy Film History you think of the beginning, Silent films. You think of the man with a funny mustache and clothing a couple sizes too big. You also think of the man with a straight face when he should be crying in pain. Those men are Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, these aren't the only two but these are the two that are widely known in the Silent Comedy Film industry. This is a very competitive business and everyone wanted to be in it.

Herbert Frank was an ordinary, 17 year old boy. He was not very popular and he had barely any friends. He knows it’s because of his geeky, slicked back hair, big glasses, and braces. Herbert works at Texas Steakhouse in Dallas,Texas as a waiter. After school one day he went straight to work where he saw his best friend, Jackson, sitting at a table waiting for Herbert to wait him. He walks straight up to him and asks “why are you here?” Jackson has a confused look on his face and gives back a meaningful smile and said “Miss me?” Herbert says “yes I have where have you been!” Jackson then replies saying “I have been in Nashville visiting my big brother.” They both look at the door as Jasmine Henson Walks through the door. Both of their mouths hung open as she walked by wearing a red tubed top and black combat boots. As soon as Jasmine sat down, Herbert jumped up to go take her order. He walked up nervously dropping his notepad and pen while doing a nervous smile. He quickly stands back up and says “Hey Jasmine what can I get for you?” Jasmine looks up with a disgusted expression and turns to her left and sees Herbert’s working partner, Axel. He’s has baby blue eyes and a blonde man bun, with the darkest tan. She says to Herbert “ummm, what are you doing speaking to me? Get me him.” while pointing at Axel. Herbert moseys along and asks Axle to go wait that table to him.

The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder and staring the main characters of Norma Desmond, Joe Gillis, and Max Von Mayerling is ideal example of how important film making techniques help depict a movie's core theme intentions with vivid clarity. Classic Hollywood is the first thing that comes to mind when one speaks about this film's style. This signature category combined with the visual style of realism and it's continuity editing; detailed mise-en-scene and all of its characteristics; and lastly the use of reoccurring motifs with formalistic qualities make the audience grasp the central theme of just how vicious the actual motion industry can be to the individuals that keep its

Harold Crick is an IRS auditor who lives an extremely predictable lifestyle dictated by routine and numbers. In the beginning of the film “Stranger than Fiction” Harold is depicted as boring, routine, and shows signs of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with his endless counting of everything he sees. He lives his life to the minimum as he has no wife, social life, no real friends, and in fact, his wristwatch seems to be his only friend as he depends on timing everything down to the second, to save time. Harold continues to live every day just like the last, simply slaving through the rest of the workweek, until he hears a mysterious voice, an omniscient voice, narrating his every move day in and out. Karen Eiffel “Kay” is an esteemed novelist known for writing amazing tragedies. She has been working on her latest work but is suffering from writer’s block, and can’t figure out how exactly she wants to kill her main character, Harold Crick. During her narrations she announces Harold’s “sudden imminent death”, and he hears this with an overwhelming fear of what this means for him. The “sudden imminent death “creates an issue of time sensitivity for Harold, and is a huge part of Stranger than Fiction’s theme. Harold was completely content with his mundane life full of routine based tasks all programmed by his wristwatch. The issue of when he will die is a huge motivator for both Harold and Karen as she needs to find that perfect ending for her book. The plots are difficult

During the time Everyman was written the Roman Catholic Church was in control of the medieval world and shaped the views of the people. Theater at this time wasn’t used solely for the purpose of entertainment, but rather to deliver a moral message. Everyman is about a man who faces the end of his life and represents the whole of humanity in the view of the medieval Europeans. The allegorical elements of the play and characters reveals that people during the medieval time thought in more abstract terms. When Death comes to take him, Everyman seeks out companionship and as he does so he begins to realize what matters most in life. The philosophy, religious beliefs, and values of the time compelled people to strive to do good in their life because wealth and beauty were only temporary. Regardless of who you were and what you had achieved in your life the only thing that would matter in the end is your good deeds, however, even those wouldn’t matter unless you sincerely repented of your sins first.

Thornton Niven Wilder was born on April 17, 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin to Amos Parker Wilder and Isabella Niven Wilder. The Wilder children grew to see success. Amos Wilder, Thornton’s older brother, became a Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, an American poet, a founder in the field of theopoetics, as well as a nationally ranked tennis player. Charlotte Wilder made her success as an American poet. Janet Wilder Dakin, the youngest sibling of Thornton, received a Ph.D. in zoology and became a zoologist as well as a philanthropist. Thornton was noted at an early age for his intelligence and was unfortunately teased during his childhood. He would seek sanctuary in his schools’ libraries and would write plays. Eventually, he received an education from the universities of Yale and Princeton. Afterwards, Thornton became an accomplished novelist and playwright.

Gone with the Wind has been labeled to be a historical romance novel, although many argue that it does not have all of the elements to be considered as such; thus, making this novel to simply be a historical novel. On the other hand, the majority would agree that the 1936 survival novel by Margaret Mitchell is considered to be one of the quintessential works of American literature (bannedbooks.world.edu). Unfortunately, this novel has been accused of historical revisionism, criticism for glorification of slavery, martial rape and finally the use of profanity (Wikipedia contributors). Moreover, it is agreed that this book should be accused of the reasons which were listed with the exception of historical revisionism because there are rules one should follow when writing a novel.