Stanley Kramer

Gore, ghost, and evil is what most people think of when describing horror films. The Shining is a thriller/ psychological horror film from 1980 that focus on a family that moves to an empty hotel for the winter. Creepy twins in a corridor or a mad man running around trying to murder his family is just some spin-chilling events of the film. What makes the shinning a great horror film, and is still well known today, has to be the actors, plot, and effects. Jack Nicholson does a magnificent job playing

arguments, between her prideful, abusive and masculine husband Stanley and her conceited, judgmental, and superficial sister Blanche. Both of these characters display many antagonistic qualities, an antagonist being someone who creates an obstacle or opposes the protagonist in the story. Many critics believe that both show negative/antagonistic qualities, meaning it can definitely be argued on who is the ultimate antagonist. Both Stanley and Blanche portray antagonistic qualities throughout Streetcar

Williams is a play script written in 1947. It is a story filled with love, abuse, and most importantly, desire. It has received a Pulitzer Prize and has been featured on Broadway. Blanche DuBois, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, and Harold “Mitch” Mitchell are the main characters. Mitch and Stanley are roughly twenty-eight to thirty years old. They are, “roughly dressed in denim work clothes” (Williams 2301), and “they are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as

A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams is about a girl named Stella who lives with her husband Stanley. Her emotionally unstable sister, Blanche comes into town and stays with them. With her visitation she brings up family drama as well as lies and deceit to who she is and her actual purpose of visiting is. This causes a rift in Stanley and we get to see the true emotional stableness of him. His constant need for power becomes evident as the play continues and it is shown through

husband Stanley treats his wife Stella like a slave. Most guys can be either alpha or gentleman in the story. Now American audiences would mostly agree that there are struggles of marriage, abuse, mental health, and most guys are imperfect in this world. I do agree play A Streetcar Named Desire will work for the modern American audiences because most people can relate to it. I would not change anything about the marriage of the struggles. There are struggles in marriage. For instance, Stanley and Stella

‘Full Metal Jacket’, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a multi-layered film which is particularly effective in developing motifs through mise-en-scene, dialogue, and symbolism. This engrossing film is set during the horrific Vietnam war and is structured in two halves which do have linking motifs and ideas, despite having contrasting plots. The first half is set in a boot camp and the second half is set on the battlefields of Vietnam, however, this film is famously said to ‘not be a war film’. Instead

portrays relationships and conflicts between his characters in A Streetcar Named Desire, and how this has an impact on the audience's first impressions of Stella, Blanche and Stanley in the first scenes of the play. Williams introduces Stanley and Stella as a traditional couple who are deeply infatuated with one another. Stanley, in particular, demonstrates a sense of pride in being Stella's partner and isn't hesitant to announce this to anyone who's listening; '(bellowing) Hey, there! Stella, Baby

to visit her sister she expects people to respect her and fawn over her but what she gets is drastically different. Stanley is quite disrespectful to Blanche and is very rude to her, yet she ignores it to focus of his manly sexuality. Blanche’s main goal with Stanley was too gain compliments from him and make sure he notices her womanliness. “I was fishing for a compliment, Stanley” (William, Scene 2). When the men in her sister's life do not immediately do as she expects she becomes somewhat frantic

Both novels express the theme of oppression in two different ways. ‘A Clockwork Orange’ reveals a very broken world in which chaos is rampant in the streets and gang fights are normality; yet in’1984’ the people are controlled by intense order. Burgess believed that “the freedom to choose is the big human attribute”. Burgess believed that having the capability to choose between good and evil defines us as human beings. This provides Burgess’ main focus of the novel and provides the debate to whether

Tennessee Williams's legendary play A Streetcar Named Desire presents the audience with a multitude of diverse characters and complex, intertwined relationship between those characters. The character that stands out as being the most essential and complex, however, is Blanche DuBois. Blanche looms as the sole character to look past the simplicity of life and long for something beyond her daily mundanity, and all other characters in Streetcar are contrasted against her to help illuminate some quirk