The movie Krabat, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, addresses the adventure of a young orphan named Krabat who learns black magic from an evil sorcerer in a satanic mill. Krabat goes through several struggles that help him develop into this heroic character and ends up fighting for his freedom through love and friendship. The movie was released on September 7th, 2008. The main actors in the movie were David Kross as Krabat, Daniel Bruhl as Tonda, and Christian Redl as the evil master. The movie was directed more towards grownups who read the novel when they were young and grew up obsessed about it. Other than that the changes made in the movie were not that significant from the novel; the cinematography, the actors, and…
In the movie “ Cool Runnings”, the director mixes all different emotions with a storyline proving you can do anything that you put your mind to. The movie begins with Olympic hopeful Derice, running across Jamaica. He is doing this because he is training for the 1988 Olympic Games, and hopes to be a gold-medal winner just like his father was.. Then later on in the day, it’s race time. He’s confident he can represent Jamaica because he has been training for a long time for it. The whole country comes to watch the Olympic hopefuls compete in hope to represent the country . Derice and all the other hopefuls line up for the race, and about halfway through, one of the runners trips and also trips Derice and another contestant who surely would have…
Mash, a counter culture classic, the themes and techniques used, represent the ethos of 1960s - 1970’s youth perfectly.…
Alister Grierson’s film Kokoda (2006) is historically accurate to a limited extent. The film is based on the experiences of 39th Battalion fighting against Japanese forces in the 1942 Kokoda Campaign. The representation of the Australian Soldiers and the Japanese Soldiers were in favour of the Australians. Unbiased representation is important to understand both sides of the war. The problems with food and equipment supply do not quite show in the film, although the audience still gets a feel to the sort of troubles the troops had to deal with. The nature of battle between the two opposing armies is not very detailed. One thing the film did accurately represent was the terrain and disease. However this film is still not 100 percent reliable because films are made to be entertaining and dramatic.…
Probably the most crucial element of the narrative is that Irreversible is told backwards. Director John Boorman commented that a lot of film critics don’t understand the language of film as it’s directed. They’re more interested in traditional values of narrative and construction rather than other virtues such as the rhythm and flow, the underlying imagery and the underlying theme. (Boorman, 2009).…
The film, Crocodile Dundee, showed the environment of the Northern Territory - especially parts of Arnhem Land. This included mainly scrubland and desert. Not that I have ever been up to that part of Australia but I believe how they portrayed the environment in the film is very true to life. I think I would be accurate in saying that it was not set in summer otherwise there would have been monsoonal rains in Arnhem Land. In the films portrayal of Arnhem Land it showed the various fauna and flora and, most importantly, the landscape. It showed magnificent scenes of the outback stretching for miles. It was filmed mainly around scrubland and it showed rivers and water holes, which is a common occurrence for Arnhem Land. It also showed some typically Australian animals, such as Kangaroos and some of the more dangerous ones such as the deadly brown snake and, of course, the crocodile.…
In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, it is understood that the narrator is a woman who has a mental illness but cannot overcome it due to her husband’s controlling ways. Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrates the ideological victimization of many women of the early 19th century through a gothic tale of humor where women suffering from post-partum depression is isolated.…
“Precious” is a tormenting yet hope-filled story of “Precious”, based on true accounts adapted from the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.…
Through my study of The Turning by Tim Winton as well as The Black Balloon by Elissa Down. I have learnt that change is completely relentless and that even the slightest or most significant change can turn our world upside down. In The Turning, the concept of change is evident both within each stories landscape and its characters. We see the impact of change and its recognition through characters such Vic Lang through the story “long clear view” and both Bob Lang and Vic Lang in “Commission”. The notion of change is also evident in the character of Thomas from the film The Black Balloon.…
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The society we now live in has become so immune to free thinking due to the explosion of technology and the mass media. We tend to just believe what we are told by those who run the media societies, or by those who are integrated in our own comfort zone. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato says our “bonds prevent us from turning our heads around”. This quote can be taken many different ways, but I chose to read into this statement by emphasizing how people are so comfortable being the way it is that they are unwilling to step out and explore life and the world around them. People in today’s society have become lazy thinkers and would rather be told how to behave and what to believe rather than making these decisions on their own.…
Crito, a close friend of Socrates, wants to help Socrates escape from the prison, because he thinks Socrates has the good reputation of his friends, and should not be worried about money, his friends, and good places to go after he escape from the prison. What is more, Socrates can take care of his children.…
A joint cast from Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School were recently involved in a production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The cast, led by Gilbert Stalinsfield as John Proctor and Greta Nash as Elizabeth Proctor, was able to captivate the audience for an the entirety of the performer. Director Anne-Marie Brownhill’s interpretation of the play, while short, allowed for each actor to contribute his or her own ideas to the story without removing the overlying theme of the empowerment provided through lies and playing on people’s fears. Each actor showed a deep understanding of the plot and was able to convey the message about McCarthyism and the symbolism of the witch hunts for the way people were suspected and persecuted in the 50s when McCarthy was most influential. Miller’s work successfully illustrates the parallels between the series of events that occurred in the late 1600s known as the Salem Witch Trials and the events that had been occurring during the time that The Crucible was written in the 1950s. The combined cast from Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School were incredibly impressive in their demonstration of these issues and the effects that these…
Stereotyping can be defined as sweeping generalizations about affiliates of a certain gender, nationality, religion, race, or other group. Social stereotyping has been a worldwide issue for many years. More specifically, stereotypical assertions, based on both gender and race, have been a common theme throughout many 20th and 21st century films. Both Crash, directed by Paul Haggis in 2004, and Girlfight directed by Karyn Kusama in 2000, address the issue of stereotyping in their own unique way. Girlfight does this by placing a female in the spotlight of a sport that is predominantly dominated by males, whereas, Crash confronts our problem with racial stereotypes and racism, and the need to counter them, by focusing on the “crash” humans experience by encountering people that they actually are already linked to. Throughout the film Girlfight, the crowd may have been against Diana, but her determination allowed her to fight off skeptics outside the ring and her opponents in the ring. Crash is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. While one story revolves around a gender debate, the other approaches the argument from the aspect of race and ultimately both combat the greater social issue of stereotyping.…
In recent years, nearly every desert United State has been facing a massive water shortage. In 2010, most of California entered a crisis described as an “extreme to exceptional drought,” a crisis has caused cities and towns to cut water use by as much as 36 percent. Laws have been put in place to limit the length of time and days during which citizens can water their lawns, and said citizens are encouraged to switch to fake-lawns and plant-life that require little water like cacti.…