The movie Unbroken revolves around the life of US Olympian and athlete Louis "Louie" Zamperini. The film opens showing Louie flying as a bomb aimer of a United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber, during an April 1943 bombing mission against the Japanese-held island of Nauru. The plane he is abroad becomes seriously damaged resulting in many of the crew members becoming fatally injured. The hydraulics of the plane are shot and damaged, but the pilot, Phil, manages to salvage the plane at the end of the runway due to a flat tire.…
One of my favorite movies is Dances With Wolves. Dances With Wolves is a 1990 American epic western film directed and produced by Kevin Costner. Kevin Costner plays the star character, Lieutenant, John J. Dunbar. He is wounded in the American Civil War. He chose to try to commit suicide over having his foot amputated by taking a horse and riding it up to and along the confederate soldiers’ front lines. They failed to shoot him. The Union Army attacks the line while the confederate soldiers are distracted and the Union Army wins the battle. Dunbar survives and is allowed to recover properly, receives a citation for bravery, and is awarded Cisco, the horse who carried him, as well as his choice of posting. John Dunbar requests a transfer…
The movie I chose to review is the Lone Survivor. Lone Survivor was released on…
After the civil right movement, films such as Unforgiven, Posse, Silverado, and even Django Unchained paid tribute to a 1970’s Blaxploitation era. Still movies like Unforgiven, Silverado, and Posse had black leads dying, but they died in a more heroic form. The 1993 film Posse reversed the skin color of the actors from the film The Wild Bunch. The film is basically a re-vision of the film The Wild Bunch. The film Posse is also a contemporary western settings, classic west themes, classic firearms, and ideas, but staring black actors now. Also to note, rapper Big Daddy Kane’s character Father Time soon posing as Ku Klux Klan member, to rescue his group from trouble. Father Time may have got this scene from another famous film from the…
In the movie Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie, there are many obvious differences from the actual factual events that took place. A lot of important details about Louis Zamperini’s life were left out in the movie. There are many reasons for this, which are arguably very important. The three biggest things that were left out of the movie are, the realization that Louis came to about his faith in God, Japanese guards actually treated Louis very well when he first was captured, and Louis actually came face to face with Adolf Hitler. All three of these things were left out of the movie for specific reasons, which Hollywood thought would boost ratings and amount of viewers.…
Jon Krakauer, born in 1954, was introduced to mountaineering by his father at the young age of eight. Following his graduation from Hampshire College in 1976, Krakauer worked as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman to support himself. However, for the following two decades, Krakauer's life was dedicated to the serene yet thrillful ‘sport' of mountain climbing. In 1996, just four years after the death of Chris McCandless, Krakauer climbed Mt. Everest. However, a disastrous storm took the lives of many, including four out of the five teammates who summited with him. Krakauer's background as an investigative journalism combined with his skills as a born writer makes him an interesting writer. His work shows the tenacity of a journalist…
This is a very inspiring and touching movie. The Awakenings is an American fiction drama film that was release December 12 in the year 1990’s directed by Penny Marshall. This movie is based on a true story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist in America who has the heart of researching/discovering medicine that helped a lot of people to cure their diseases. According to Andrew Clapper (n d), the film is based upon the book with the same name, which was written by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks recommended that his name be changed, and so we follow a fictional Dr. Sayer through the summer of 1969 in the Bronx, New York. Robin Williams portrayed Oliver Sacks as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. In the events of the summer of 1969, there is a pandemic disease…
Another difference between the movie and the book are the animals that attacked Brian while he was in the wilderness. In the movie the bear attacked Brian and destroyed his shelter and he wrestled and injured the bear. Also in the movie Brian got attacked by a raccoon. While in the book Brian sees the bear but doesn’t have any physical contact with her. In the book Brian got attacked by a moose and a skunk. In this event I discovered some differences but also some similarities like the wolf, porcupine and the mosquitoes attack.…
The theme of deeply ingrained values is also present in A Nightmare on Elm Street…
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein. For example when Hushpuppy got connected to nature she would hear a heartbeat or her mother talking to her. Another example is when Janie’s husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. The movie “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin and the book , “Their Eyes Were Watching God” written by Zora Hurston published in 1937 are both natural disasters. The film “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” have some critical similarities. These include the characteristic of the protagonists, each protagonist’s relationship…
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and The Inevitable defeat of Mister and Pete written by Michael Starrbury and directed by George Tillman Jr. show similarities in poverty and family but also differences. Poverty is represented by food, shelter and money. In the book and the movie, family is something that keeps the main characters going. A memoir and a fictional film are similar but different in certain ways.…
Issues of discrimination to transgender also occur outside of detention centers. Kit Yan shared the social injustices he experienced as a queer, transgender, and Asian American in his performance Queer Heartache. He became aware of the unacceptance of transgenders in the US when he expressed his newfound queer identity through rainbow stickers on his new Jeep Cherokee. As a result, his lights were smashes and tires were broken. Like transgender detainees, Yan was out casted and assigned to a secluded dorm on college campus. Similarly to how detainees are told to silence when assaulted and rape, Yan was recommended that for his own safety he should remove the stickers which expressed his pride and identity. The treatment of both Yan and transgender detainees illustrates the degree of unacceptance the transgender community has received in the US society.…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” King was referencing the injustice of racism not only in the United States but all around the world. His theory that being a racist to one group is hypocritical, and that being judgmental to some is being judgmental of all. Many minorities face the fact of stereotypes that hinder their ability to live as any other free American. The “American Dream” is often soiled for those who are a part of the minority race. Screenwriter Paul Haggis depicts these racial issues in the film Crash. Some writers and poets also testify to the injustices such as Robert Jensen, P. McIntosh, and Langston Hughes. All of these great writers speak of how minorities abilities are doubted and that they are looked upon with all the connotations attributed to the color of ones skin. According to many writers, minorities in the United States today are singled out for the worse because of their race.…
I believe that HATCHET does a better job of telling the story than the movie “Cry in the wild”. I believe this because in the movie “A Cry In The Wild” it doesn’t give us much information about Brian and what he’s going through.Whereas in the book,it gives the reader more information about the crash. that Brian’s Mom and Dad are going through a divorce. In the movie it doesn’t tell us the SECRET.…
Have you ever had an idea, that you thought would make the world an easier place to not only live in, but to also clean and take care of your family. If so then you are exactly like the main character Joy Mangano in the movie Joy. In this movie, Joy faces many problems at home and with the people she works with for producing and wholesaling the mop she makes to make cleaning up after her family easier. The movie starts when Joy is working at a normal job with a big lower middle class family to support. Her dad in the beginning get divorced to his second wife and starts dating this rich lady named Trudy. As a welcome to the family, Trudy had everybody on her sailboat for a day. While they were on the boat, Joy dropped a bottle of wine and while…
