Told almost entirely from a young, naive German boy’s point of view, Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a hard-hitting Holocaust tale that will render audiences speechless. After arriving home, Bruno (Asa Butterfield) learns that his family will have to move because his father (David Thewlis) achieved a promotion in the Nazi army. Bruno noticed what he believed to be farmers living just past a stretch of woods near their new home. One day, not long after being told not to go near the “farmers,” Bruno leaves his home and heads towards the camp. There he meets Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a young Jewish boy. While trying to understand what is happening in the world around them, the boys become friends. While…
William Christopher Handy (W.C. Handy) was born on November 16, 1873, in a log cabin built by his grandfather. The town was called Florence, Alabama.He was considered the “Father of the Blues.” His parents were Elizabeth Brewer and Charles Barnard Handy. His father was a pastor and much of Handy’s musical style was influenced by the songs he sang and played in church. His father, however, believed that musical instruments were tools of the devil (Wikipedia). This inspired Handy even more to play a musical instrument. For example, he once ran off and bought a guitar without his parent’s permission. When he was a teenager he secretly joined a band. He worked on a “shovel brigade” and was completely amazed by the sounds the shovels made when they struck the iron buggies. This was the starting point of his musical career. His songs were influenced by the sounds around him. He used nature as inspiration.…
His music was simple, and his shows were raucous and fun for everyone. Soon, he caught the attention of recording-industry types and ended up signing on.…
The music he created spread across many genres. From the introspective psychedelic ballad of ‘Visions’ of ‘Innervisions’ to the archetypical pop song ‘Isn’t she Lovely’. He delved into funk with ‘Higher Ground’ being one example. ‘Pastime Paradise’ is an example of one of his songs that crossed many genres, with its orchestral and choral backing and rhythmical percussion elements of an Afro-Cuban nature, combined with his lyrics and melody typical of a slower ballad.…
One of the greatest ragtime musicians is Scott Joplin who was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He was called as “king of Ragtime.” According to Ragtime and the Blues the First Age of Black American Music, He showed his interest in music in early age, and he was lucky to receive traning from local black music teachers who taught his the basics of European classical music. He became something of a celebrity in the Texarkana area, and he determined to make his living at music. In 1888, when he was twenty, he left home to seek his music fortune. (Haskins) After several years, Scott’s ragtime music became very popular, but his wanted people to respect ragtime music as much as classical music. Some fifty-three years later, the music…
Starting off with some background with Scott Joplin—Scott Joplin’s actual birthdate unknown, but is estimated to be sometime between 1867 and 1868. His family were formerly slaves and they lived in Texarkana. Joplin taught himself piano in a nearby home owned by white people. Eventually, he was taught by German music teacher, Julius Weiss, who noticed how talented Joplin was. Joplin has lived in many different parts of the United States and has lead would could be considered a successful life. His death date is known, though, as Scott Joplin died April 1, 1917, due to contracting syphilis earlier in his life.…
wants to have a future as a song writer. His poems talk about cherishing life, and his…
to fame. He worked hard to master a variety of instruments which brought him success but…
After watching the old time film on “strangers on a train”, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which was based on the latest 1950s novel that was wrote by the famous Patricia Hitchcock. In reading the paper you are going to learn that the acting, featuring, screen playing, music, and editing. Also going to let you act knowledge about how much money was spent in making the film and how much money is earn by selling the film in stores. It is also going to tell you how long the movie is if it is choose to watch.…
Other than his family life he had a an extreme devotion to his music career. He compiled around 1,128 different pieces of music. Considering He lived 65 years and did not start writing music until he was around 15, that means on average he would…
Lou Reed was many things, a visionary, a musician, a revolutionary, and a beacon of hope to outcasts everywhere, but much of this was masked in an image that he created for fans of a hardcore, off-the-rails rocker. He was the first to make the image of an urban New Yorker cool. The creation of this image came from a culmination of bits and pieces of every place he went and every person he met. Much this inspiration was drawn from where he grew up in Brooklyn, Syracuse University, Andy Warhol, and New York City. His long battle with drug and alcohol abuse also affected his behavior and music.…
He was born in March 24, 1940 in Monterey Park, California. He moved to Hollywood and assisted to a design school. After leaving it he became in great demand. He married Lulu Porter, who was a singer and also an actress, in 1960, they had a son called Robin, who was a makeup artist before dying of AIDS in 1994. They’re marriage opened more doors for him, but he still had to work really hard to reach his life goals.…
James Brown was born on May 3, 1933, in South Carolina. He lived a life without parental guidance. His mother left him with his father when he was only 4 years old. James was often left alone while his father traveled to turpentine camps selling tar for a living. James recalls the times he spent alone walking around in the woods looking for doodlebugs, and playing a harmonic his father gave him. During this time alone, he never had anyone around to talk to but himself (Brenchley, 2003).…
The train was on time is the fictionalised version of the life of a German soldier Andreas. Heinrich Böll is a German writer of fictional historical novels. His series of books are mainly set up in Nazi Germany. The book was originally written in German. It is translated into English by Leila Vennewitz.…
One of the biggest milestones reached in the film industry was the narrative, movies that actually told a story. The first narrative movie was The Great Train Robbery, created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter. The silent film is only about 10 minutes long, but was the precursor to the action and western genres. The popularity of the movie proved that motion pictures could be commercially successful. The plot of The Great Train Robbery was actually inspired from a real event. On August 29, 1900, four members from the famous outlaw George Leroy “Butch Cassidy” Parker’s “Hole in the Wall” gang stopped a train in Table Rock, Wyoming and stole $5,000. This movie was ripped from the headlines and captured the public’s imagination.…