For the next few days Butch and Sundance
For the next few days Butch and Sundance
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is a spectacular feature film directed by Frank Darabont who adapted Stephen King’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons collection). First things first, the poster of the movie has these words “Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free” on it. This quote clearly explains the power of hope freedom. Now moving to the movie itself, there have been many amazing prison dramas in the past so how does Shawshank Redemption filled with so many clichés differ from them? The movie is spread across a long period of time letting the simplest things take a fuller meaning the smallest details have their importance. This is what makes the main difference. In a place where everything has…
In a scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the title characters are holed up inside a building discussing their plans for future bank robberies while the audience is shown the entire Bolivian army gathering…
Twenty-five years after Billy’s experience in Dresden, he boards an airplane, knowing it is going to crash, to a convention in Montreal. Billy’s wife’s father was on board with him. The narrator explains that Tralfamadorians claim that every creature is a machine. Outside of the plane, his wife, Valencia waves goodbye to Billy while eating a chocolate bar. Also on board, is a barbershop quartet called the “Four-eyed Bastards.” They sing humorous songs about the Polish. Billy is then reminded about the public hanging he had seen in Dresden, in which a Polish man was hung. Knowing that the plane is about to crash, Billy drifts into sleep and awakens in 1944. Roland Weary is shaking him, but Billy Pilgrim tells the “Three Musketeers” to go on without him. As the…
A mysterious “BOY” sneaks onto the train. Pinkerton tells the posses that the James brothers have been involved in a range of crimes lead by a merciless captain named WILLIAM QUANTRILL. The James Gang has been searching locations of gold reserves. They have stolen untold millions of gold. One reserve remains and they believe the James’ gang will heist this reserve. The problem is that they don’t know where the reserve is. They recovered a burnt coded message from the gang that talks about a “Wild Rose”. They believe the coded message contains the location of the gold reserve. Their job is to stop the James…
The first hero is the “outlaw hero.” The name gives away much of what this hero is about. The outlaw is sort of the “bad-boy” of the film. They are portrayed as adventurers, cowboys, the vigilante types. Featured mainly in action based films, some examples of the outlaw hero include Huck Finn and Davy Crockett.…
Our community and society have been facing with the massive mass media for nowadays, and movie is one of them. As many people watch movies, it occupies an important role in their lives socially and economically. There are many different movies and several heroes representing in the world. Heroes are movie's long material, and people have a different point of view when they watch movies. For example, The movie "Independence Day" could give deep impression that airplane pilots sacrificed their lives to save the world, but it could draw unwelcome attention that the world was saved under the leadership of United States. Similarly, movie heroes historical blip on the public's desire to delegate to the body, and its functions as an intensive, which have a specific period movie that soars like a hero's welcome, and it is a communication between the viewer a sense of contemporary popular devices that can be separated. In this essay, how does outlaw hero Jeff Lebowski who wants to be called Dude represent his characteristics and what kinds of social issues can be come up with based on his characteristics in the movie "The Big Lebowsky".…
The legend of Billy the kid has been told in novels, books, plays, songs, poems and most of all, in film. Billy has taken the record for most movies made about any single person. Starting in 1911 with “Billy the Kid” directed by Laurence Trimble. His life made for a perfect plot filled with conspiracy, romance, corruption and lots of gun shots. Billy’s fan base grew larger and larger as the years went by and more films and books were written. Even when not in the movie Billy always played a role in the making of any western, as he did play such an important role in the shaping of the Wild West.…
The Big Lebowski, as a classified as comedy and noir, is a film about a sloppy slacker that likes to call himself “The Dude” who eventually gets into a messy situation involving a kidnapping. The Dude is an Absurd hero who lives his life the way he wants to and doesn’t try to make more interesting by doing other activities other than bowling. It’s about someone who doesn’t belong, about “…he's the man for his time and place.” (Stranger) Regardless of its success in the box office and what critics had to say about it, The Big Lebowski gained its popularity through time and the writings of academics in film and literature. As the story unfolds to the dungeons of nonsense, the audience gets to see fictional characters that undoubtedly relate to…
Chicago in 1930 was a very dangerous period to be in . Local gangs stage war throughout the city for control of the billion dollar illegal alcohol industry . The main cause of thee violence in the city was Prohibition . Gang wars , gun battles and explosions were a common scene Whenever local liquor stores won 't accept the high-priced low quality liquor being sold by gangsters that store will just be blown into dust Gangs impose their will with the use of their toys , the tommy guns and hand…
The movie starts out with a group of wayward young men in Lincoln County New Mexico, supply shopping for their benefactor, London native John Tunstall (Terence Stamp). Tunstall owns and operates a cattle ranch and mercantile, and this puts him in direct competition with local rancher and mercantile/bank owner and all around bad guy, Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance). After hearing a mysterious gunshot, we see a young Billy running through the storefronts, chased by several of Murphy’s men. He jumps into a cattle arena and hides among the livestock. Tunstall then comes to his rescue, pulling Billy from the cattle arena and whisking him off to the ranch.…
Being part of a community is something everyone should relate to, yet hard times make people feel alone and alienated. They feel as if they can relate to no one, and no one has the same problems as them. However, in The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck writes about a family of migrants who lose everything. They are left homeless with no money, and are forced to travel to California, where they hope for work. Despite all their hardships they even grow closer as they learn the importance of family and community. They realise that life is not only about personal happiness, but the happiness and wellbeing of others. In The Grapes of Wrath, it is seen that hard times bring people together. This can be seen through the Joad family, the migrant community and how people’s thoughts and actions change throughout the story.…
The Grapes of Wrath, describes the difficulty of migrant labors during the Great Depression. Written by, John Steinbeck, this novel went on to receive many awards. Generally viewed as Steinbeck's best and most striving novel, The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939. Stating the story of an expelled Oklahoma family and their fight to form a reestablished life in California at the peak of the Great Depression, the book captures the sorrow and anguish of the land throughout this time-period. The bank forecloses on the Joads land, so they decide to move west in search of new jobs. Though the Joads travel west in expectations of creating a restored life, the American Dream avoids them, their journey to California proves to be sorrowful and disappointing.…
In both the Gus Van Sant directed film Good Will Hunting and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the antagonists are trying to find the true value of life. While the film is not by any means the visual for the novel, the two are often compared most typically because of the antagonists. Both Holden Caulfield and Will Hunting are both capable of exceeding in the world, but their cruel living styles act as setbacks to whatever beholds in their respective futures. Fortunately for both of them, there are people who show compassion toward them and understand their complexities and also want to help them succeed in life because they find potential in them.…
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" (Lee 30). Atticus Finch says these words to his daughter, Scout, after he elucidates to her why it is important to not be quick to judge a book by its cover . In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mocking Bird, the main conflicts are centered around prejudice. In the tiny town of Maycomb, everybody is set on tradition and there is no room for oddity. Atticus Finch breaks down the walls that everybody else builds up about first and lasting impressions, slowly but surely. Atticus Finch is a discreet example of practicing equality because he espouses the outcasts of Maycomb.…
The movie Good Will Hunting exploits many points of psychology in the character Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT who has a knack for math. Some of the points of psychology include how a character develops after a lot of child abuse during his childhood. It exploits the idea that a child who becomes secluded may never allow an attachment, or when an attachment finally starts to occur, pushes them away. It also exploits the idea that Will Hunting has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Because of the post-traumatic stress disorder it seems that Will is unable to function normally in society, and because of this, carefully plans out his future as to not have to worry about encountering many people.…