Film Analysis Essays

Movie 1: Arirang The documentary has two parts, “The Korean American Journey,” which covers the community’s history from 1903 to about 1960, and “The Korean American Dream,” which continues the story through the present. The film begins the story of how and why, in less than three years in the …

The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film, but it enhanced film production almost instantly. Television naturally derived from early film since each uses basically the same medium: the motion picture camera. Since film had already set a base in the industry and mastered the …

The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the family’s house that her recently deceased father had worked so hard for. Kathy had neglected the mail after her husband left and didn’t …

As the fluorescent lights dim, a tense hush swallows the audience. Yet as the room itself darkens, the vast movie screen brightens in contrast, and the peal of a single trumpet heralds a familiar tune. “It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have …

The composer of “Shrek” has encouraged many morals such as ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, ‘Good always wins over the evil’ and “No good deed always goes unrewarded’. The composer of Shrek uses film techniques to convey these morals. Film techniques such as lighting, music, camera angles, setting …

This paper will provide a broad analysis of the movie “Crash”, and yet a specific picture of visual narrative techniques and audio techniques. The categories contributing to the nucleus and major movie components are theatrical elements, cinematography, editing, and sound. The Academy Award winning movie Crash is a story about society’s …

In The essay, “Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres”, Jean-Loup Bourget discusses what is implied about social groups in movies. In the last paragraph of the essay, Bourget asks “Must American society be like this? Must the Hollywood system function like this?” (57). Bourget actually answers these questions within his …

The movie “Shawshank Redemption”, written and directed by Frank Darabont is about Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who in 1947 is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. However, only Andy knows that he didn’t commit the crimes. Sent to Shawshank …

I based my movie project on the film, Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino. This film stars such names as John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis. The movie has a few different aspect that takes form thoughout the plot. One of which is about John Travolta and …

It is well known from historical account , novels, poems that blacks have been abused, neglected, and mistreated in American society. In addition, a great deal has been written about the lives, hardships, and obstacle of black men, black women. Bambara presents a very descriptive picture of what life was …