Spirited Away Sociology

The book Queenbees and Wannabees inspired Tina Fey to create a film which soon became Mean Girls. Fey called and pitched her idea to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels who then contacted Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures then bought the rights to the book. Although the book was nonfiction Tina Fey wrote the plot based on her own high school experiences. As far as casting goes Lindsay Lohan first read for Regina George but feared that the "mean girl" would ruin her reputation and the producers also saw her better fit for the part of Cady.

From watching the 2006 film titled “The Departed”, I argue that the social message of the film is not just identity but the changing of identity through socialization. This can best be described through the symbolic interaction theory. Like the main characters of the film, people give meaning to their behavior based on the meaning they impose on objects, events and other behaviors (Anderson & Taylor, 2009). The film’s main protagonist Bill Costigan and main antagonist Colin Sullivan both share similar backgrounds and culture. Costigan “being born into a family with criminal backgrounds”, rebels against the social norm like his father and instead becomes an undercover state police officer. Sullivan on the other hand “with influence from

In the movie Split the first scene is a party for a girl who is young adult name Claire. Claire had invited Casey because she had felt bad for her. When the party ends Casey’s ride had broken down and she offered to take the bus. However Claire's dad offered to take her home a moment he will treasure as his daughter would be buying her own car. Casey had a reputation for constantly getting in trouble in school and is rubs off to others as a delinquent .

CBS aired the television show “Criminal Minds” in 2005, involving a team of seven intelligent and unique individuals. It is running strong into its seventh season and continues to gain popularity from people of all ages. This elite group of individuals makes up the leading team of profilers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Behavioral Analysis Unit. These men and women find themselves in violent and dangerous situations all the time in their career with the FBI. The drama immerses viewers into the world of crime and violence that most people do not experience. The job of these FBI agents is to profile criminals and figure out their next move so they can stop them from committing another crime to innocent people. This show not only

If Sociology is the systematic study of human society, then sociological imagination is what we perceive or think about how people work and or think in a more personal and bias matter. C.W. Mills believes that merging two different theories of social reality of the “individual” and “society”. Mills challenges readers and learners by arguing many basic terms and definitions from what “we” believe are right. Chapters one and two talks about how society portrays what we know rather then the facts. Our bias opinions and beliefs often go against what science has proven.

Many individuals argue that Good Will Hunting is one of the most sociologically diverse movies out there. The amount of references that can be drawn back to concepts studied in sociology is incredible. Good Will hunting is about a 20-year-old, rambunctious male, Will, that tends to stick himself in positions that are not suitable for him. Wills tendency to get himself into trouble attributes to him ending up living on the south side of Boston as a janitor at MIT. His life suddenly takes a positive turn when will reveals his gift for others to see. A math professor posts a mathematical equation on a board outside of his room that had previously been unsolvable by a student in his class. That following day while will was cleaning the hallway

The movies “Spirited Away” and “Ponyo” show audiences how conflicted the lives of the main protagonists, Chihiro, Ponyo, and Sosuke were between love and family. In both films, there were several similarities between the main characters where they all tried to fit into their current world, were trying to save their family, or wanted to be with a loving family. Director Hayao Miyazaki illustrated in both films how negatively the perceptions of the protagonists were perceived because they were seen only as children. That people should not rush to judge someone because of their age or what they look like and that people should be judged based on their character, even children, and that age should not be used as a measure of a person’s capabilities.

Mainly the idea behind the movie is hauntingly simplistic, though an undefined entity known as the Blair Witch, leaves viewer on the edge of their seats. The story begins with three teenagers going to the woods to find the mysterious “Blair Witch”, and through a slight introduction of whom or what the “Blair Witch” is from the town’s people; they decidedly embark into the woods. This slight introduction of the “Blair Witch” gives the viewer a feeling that the stories are old made up tales or legends to keep people out of the woods, and even admitted by some of the town’s people, but never really defines what the “Blair Witch is, and can do. As the movie progresses, weird things begin to happen, but it is unknown if it is the Blair Witch or

The way Hayao Miyazaki entices his viewers to accept his idea about a new relationship between nature and humanity was never really talked about or discussed in the past couple of years. The film ‘My Neighbor Totoro,’ with all the religious elements and the social impact it had established the director Miyazaki as one of the best animators not just in Japan, but around the world. What really gives this film power and fame is not just the mysterious and magical world it has or the cute character that Miyazaki created, but also the film’s way of influencing the audience by conveying an unfamiliar message about this three-layered relationship between nature and humans. Comparing both Miyazaki’s childhood memories and the story depicted helps him connect the audience’s feelings with the characters and making this realistic representation of human emotion in the film believable and realistic not only to children, but even to adults. What also makes the world more familiar to the spectators is the director’s use of a common fear from many people’s early years in this unknown and magical world. This common fear is clearly illustrated when the girls meet Susuwatari, a black spirit in the old empty house that stays in dark spaces and prefers to be left alone, and only children can see it. The introduction of this spirit is a good transition between the world of magic and reality. It confirms and insists about the existence of the unknown, and introduces a world of illusion and

In the film, Inside Out directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen it talks

In Asian culture, people usually give priority to the religion. Shinto was the state religion of Japan in the past. Shinto means Kami Way in Japanese. Kami is term to describe sacred spirits, or something that possesses superior power (Earheart 6). Japanese people believe that there are spirits in everything. All beings can be called Kami such as river, woods, or even human beings (Ono and Woodard 6). Japan has been called a land of Kami. They regard Kami as an object of worship in Shinto religion. Throughout the film, it can be seen that many elements of Shinto aspect is subtly embed. Just the name of this movie “Spirited Away” tells a lot about the beliefs of Japanese toward the supernatural

As does every society, this society contains its own set of values and norms, yet these vary widely across the valids and invalids. Invalids are held to very low expectations are they are seen as the minority group for not being genetically superior as the dominant group. Taking

business, business” (128). Shimaura does not reciprocate Komako’s interest and love, he only desires an “affair of the moment” (22) as Komako desires to escape the normalities of geisha culture like “she [runs] out” (128). She cannot escape this role in geisha as she continues to perpetuate it by “retouching her face in the mirror” which is established to be a pure fantasy of man. Through Komako’s continuation of her duties as geisha, Kawabata asserts that institutionalized roles placed onto an oppressed class (geisha and women) restrict that class from freedom of choice that do not coincide with their established

Despite his low IQ, Forrest Gump leads a truly charmed life, taking part in many of the most memorable events in his lifetime. Without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as his life goes by, Forrest never forgets about Jenny, the girl he loved since a

Miyazaki’s childhood was short as he was born January 5, 1941 during World War II, thus without exception, his films main characters are children, deal with growing up and often consist of one young female lead and one young male lead. This is evident in My Neighbor Totoro (1988) as the two main characters are young girls who, unlike adults, can see and befriend the spirits of the spirit world. In Spirited Away (2001), the leading character Chihiro is a young girl who must deal with growing up, similarly to Kiki in Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989). Princess Mononoke (1997) also features these stock characters in the form of young San, adopted daughter of the wolf goddess Moro and Prince Ashitaka, a young girl and boy. Hayao Miyazaki has expressed strong feelings about childhood, saying that it's a paradisiacal time when, "you're protected by your parents and unaware of the problems around you". Miyazaki’s upbringing during World War II would explain another unique mark of his films, that being his interest in flight.