Film Analysis Essays

The movie, The Last Emperor, is a startling movie as it details the life of China’s last emperor of the Qing dynasty and the social and political changes the country was revolving through during his lifetime. The direct correlation between the man and the country is so interlinked that it …

Do action movies and Romantic movies have anything on common? Or are they quite dissimilar? We can have two approaches to the matter: Technical and Creative. First I will briefly cover the technical aspects. A typical action movie consists of action sequences, explosions, car chases, fight scenes, stunts and stunts …

The movie The Last King of Scotland depicts the bloody regime of Idi Amin (portrayed by Forest Whitaker), military dictator during the 1970s, as he ruled Uganda with an iron fist. Seen through the eyes of a naive, young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan (played by James McAvoy), the film focuses …

This paper is a book report on “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien. “The Hobbit” is the first book by Tolkien that led to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was made into very successful films. It is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who leaves his …

The function of humor in Woody Allen’s films is argued by many critics. This essay will focus on the comments of Ray Carney, Sam Girgus and Nancy Pogel. Carney argues that, “Comedy is the wound through which serious meaning bleeds out of Allen’s work.” (Carney, 14). He argues that there …

            The movie The Dreamers has much to do with youthful idealism.  It is set in the revolutionary period of the late 1960s when the youth of Paris revolt against, among other things, authority and what they view as a stale way of life.  In the beginning it involves viewing …

“The Roaring Twenties” is a gritty and realistic film which takes as its theme, the “dark side” of the fabled “Jazz Age” era in America and the fallout from this era during the Depression of the 1930’s. While the film seeks toe examine the characters fist and foremost, it is …

Michael Oher “Big Mike”, a homeless teenage African-American. Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has been in foster care with different families throughout Memphis and Tennessee. Every time he is placed in a new home, he runs away. He was …

The documentary Bus 174, by Jose Padilha showed and described the life of Sandro Rosa do Nascimento. The documentary was filmed with clips of camera crews who were on scene; in addition to that there were interviews with those who knew Sandro on a personal level. The film started off …

Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Rear Window(1954), is a movie based on a short film. A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. The professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, played by James Stewart, breaks his leg while getting an …