The Grand Budapest Hotel By Wes Anderson

Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’ is a biographical drama depicting the story of Cecil Gaines, a man who escaped a life of slavery and oppression to serve for eight presidents as a butler in the White House.

There is no flowing current throughout Spielberg’s filmography quite like the Lost Boy; the ultimate lost boy being Steven Spielberg himself. As a result of moving often in his formidable years, he was always the new kid. His father, who he described as a workaholic, was often absent. The absence only grew after his parents divorced. Considered a nerd by many of his classmates, even called ‘Spielbug’ behind his back, he found solace in the world of film. In 1958, to satisfy the quest for a merit badge in Boy Scouts, he made a nine-minute video entitled the Last Gunfight. The rest, as they say, is history. Beyond divorce and a less than cool persona, he also struggled with anti-Semitism in the largely WASP neighborhoods he grew up in. All

Good morning/afternoon, today I will be analysing a scene from Steven Spielberg’s master piece film Schindler’s List. Movie extraordinaire Steven Spielberg, who is a world renown director of countless memorable films, show cases his incredible skill and compelling power towards the audience, without using any dialogue in the most pivotal character development scene in Schindler’s List. Referred too, by the audience as ‘The girl in red’.

Advising the female lead to disregard the onslaught of male harassment, Jason Robards quote covers many facets dealing with the overarching theme of the mythical West throughout Sergio Leone’s film, Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969. Through in depth analysis of our course materials, I attempt to highlight the films usage and portrayal of sound and music, gender roles, and incompatible desires of the main characters in order to demonstrate the importance of these themes and how they relate the stereotypical confines of the Hollywood Western genre.

In 1983 Spielberg released E.T. the Extra Terrestrial a film about a small boy befriending and saving an alien became the highset-grossing film in history. A second Indiana Jones film “Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom” was followed by “Poltergeist”.

Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry found the perfect, fragmented form to simulate memories in the non-linear storyline of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). The thematic elements of the film helps this simplistic story of love found, lost, and found again develop into a complex pattern, much like the workings of the brain. Each character is everything you would expect them to be in real life – down to earth, imperfect, and hopelessly searching for the love someone can only dream of. We can relate to them because we all long for more than we are, and want the best of us to be shown to someone else. Memories make up who we are, they define us. Life teaches us lessons which shape our memories, and in turn, we learn from them. What if those memories were gone? Are we still destined to be the same person? The protagonist of the movie is Joel, and the story surrounds his relationship with Clementine. The antagonist can be seen as Patrick, who tries to destroy their relationship, or Lacuna Inc., whose purpose is to make them forget their relationship. Charlie Kaufman has created a beautiful story that incorporates so many valuable forms in cinema, and leaves viewers on the edge of their seat until the very end. My goal is the show the class concepts of this narrative, as well as demonstrate how the way the film’s story is told

Postmemory affected Art throughout his life because of his father’s dramatic life experiences. Marianne Hirsch describes Postmemory with some hesitation because she thinks that it may imply that we are “beyond memory” and she doesn’t want people to think that’s what she means. Postmemory is different from regular memory because it is caused by generation gaps, like the gap between Art and Vladek. It is “a powerful and very particular form of memory precisely because its connection to its object or source is mediated, not through recollection but through an imaginative investment and creation...Postmemory characterizes the experience of those who grow up dominated by narratives that preceded their birth, whose own belated stories are evacuated by the stories of the previous generation shaped by traumatic events that can be neither understood nor recreated” (Hirsch, 1997: 22).

The main protagonist Alvy Singer is a neurotic Jewish comedian who has been getting the psychoanalysis. He frequently looks into the past events to explain his present feelings and actions. Alvy is an unadaptable person who doesn’t change much throughout the film. Another protagonist Annie Hall is a singer. She is a dynamic character who is opposite to Alvy. When Annie sings at the bar, in Annie’s point of view none of the audiences bother to care. The camera keeps changing from Annie’s point of view and audience’s point of view to show the contrast. This symbolizes the struggles in a relationship.

In Stanley Kubrik's, The Shining, Jack Torrence takes a job as a ski hotel caretaker and moves his family to the resort for the off season. Their son Danny, seems to possess a power called "the shining" that allows him to see into the past and the future. Through a series of complex scenes and excellent plot twists, the audience sees Jack Torrence slowly lose his mind and begin to try to satisfy what seems to be a metaphoric thirst for blood.

Movies and novels deal with many serious real life issues these days, people with disabilities are no exception, and this is all fine but it all matters if the issue is accurate and non-offensive. Well despite what many people think, most media representations of disabled people these days are accurate. There are numerous amount of films and novels that feature disabled people and here are some reasons why they are accurate.

The movie Schindler’s List (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg is a powerful and overwhelming film. Schindler’s List is based on the true story, Oskar Schindler was a man who saved over twelve hundred thousand Jews during the holocaust. This movie demonstrates an accurate description on the holocaust. The movie was “de-sacralizing the taboo on imagining the Holocaust”. The most discussed scene in any holocaust film for the past 20 years is the shower scene. This scene is a very emotional scene and will be the focus of this discussion.

Should we bury our past in order to move on into our future or is it impossible to do so without remembering past tragedy? In fact, the way that the film raises more questions than answers can somehow explain its enduring resonance and deep effect on its audience. We can attempt to explore this key question through the French woman. We can tell that she would like to forget her past but her subconscious won’t allow her to. It is only the stark similarities between the German man and the Japanese man that she begins, without wanting to at first to remember her tragic past.

The movie Lincoln by famous producer, Steven Spielberg, is a newer film based upon the life of Abraham Lincoln and his endeavor to pass the 13th amendment giving the right to free all slaves in their entirety. (1. How does this film relate the material to this course?) As we are currently going over the 19th century discussing slavery and the civil war, the movie deals directly with president Abraham Lincoln and his attempt to abolish slavery indefinitely through the act of the 13th amendment leading up to his inevitable assignation by John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and confederate spy having never served with the confederate army. (2. What did you learn from the movie you did not already know?) There were many intriguing parts, being interested in the Civil War, that the film shined a light on, that I had never taken interest into before. I never realized that while Lincoln was pushing for ending slavery first and foremost it seemed he and his contemporaries debated diligently the pros and cons of choosing to first end slavery or ending the war. While Lincoln was gaining and losing votes citizens took the approach to look at the situation that if African Americans are giving the right then women will be next and so on causing controversy on when it will end. (3. Were there any inaccuracies in the film?) I found the film very accurate in part but at the beginning of the movie I recalled back to something we have talked about in class that does not correlate properly

In spite of the countless benefits of having an area or city in a movie for the tourism and advertisement, it could be as well a disaster for the local environment or the investments. Undeniably each production is different and nowadays predominates a higher concern about natural preservation than before so we can’t merely judge them by the same yardstick.

Have you ever been in a situation where you either have to make a decision to stay in for the day or go do something fun and exciting? Have you ever just got the urge to be spontaneous and do something so far out of your comfort zone? In the movie, The Bucket List produced by Rob Reiner, two grown men who were complete strangers to each other, had to make the decision to either live the rest of their lives moping around in a hospital or actually do a series of spontaneous things to make their lives that much richer in exciting experiences. Edward is a billionaire, who one day was in court defending his hospital while another group was fighting against the ways he ran his hospital. But suddenly, he collapses and finds himself actually staying in his small, two people to a room, crowded hospital. Carter is the other man, who how been a mechanic his whole life and has lived a normal life, until one day he got a call with test results saying he needed to come in. The two older men find out that they both have cancer and have to be treated for it right away. Edward and Carter are stuck in the same room with completely different personalities but carter is so laid back that this does not cause problems. One day Carter writes a list called “My Bucket List” and puts many things he wants to do before he dies, they are all things that will help people or that he wants to go and see. Edward finds this list one day and reads it, Carter sees his reading it and gets very upset. But