Movies Essays

Steven Spielberg directs Schindler’s List, a film about the plight of the Jews in World War Two. There are many techniques used by Steven Spielberg to great effect but the main ones are the use of shadow and contrapuntal sound to portray the experiences and the extreme terror that the …

Titanic, the unsinkable is known as the ship of dreams as two young, star-crossed lovers Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) struggle to fight for their love despite coming from different social classes. Rose goes back to the past as she narrates a romantic, emotive, death-defying tragedy showing her …

My practical work in July-September 2003 was for option 1 and consisted of Devised work on the theme of Homelessness. We titled our piece ‘Leaving Home’. There were four of us in our group. Our work is based on the play ‘Under the Bridge’. We start with Scene 3 of …

Blake’s poem ‘London’ and Wordsworth’s poem ‘Composed on Westminster Bridge’ at first glance present London in contrary ways. Figuratively, Blake’s London resembles the dark depths of an underground chamber that is isolated from the beauty of nature and instead is claustrophobically filled with Blake’s clever metaphor: “mind forged manacles”, which …

Andy Dufresne, a city banker, is sent to Shawshank prison because he was suspected of murdering his wife and her lover but is innocent. He befriends Byron Hadley, head guard, and Ellis Redding, Red, who help him through his time. After 19 years of hard work Dufresne manages to tunnel …

There have been many suggested ways to regulate pornography and racial hate on the internet. However, there are many problems associated with each of these ways; because there is no one way that everyone would agree to, of regulating pornographic and racial hate websites on the internet. Although there is …

The narrator sets the scene upon a railway bridge in Northern Alabama. There are around four messages that Ambrose Pierce tries to get across, firstly that he is uncomfortable with war, how people are forced into war that do not want to fight and what it does to them and …

My name is Ushna Amin and I would like to put forward an idea about a new character for your TV sitcom the Simpsons. My character is a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy. I have been watching your show for around 8 years and although it is a very good program I …

The Simpsons is the most successful animated feature in television history. In this essay I will discuss some of the features of The Simpsons that make it so successful from the brilliant and intelligent Mini-narratives to the predictable but hilarious stereotypes. Although The Simpsons is entertaining it also has a …

“Good art that reaches thirty million people and makes them feel connected may have more to offer us now than great art that reaches three thousand and makes them feel more or less alone. In our time the standards for art have changed, expanded. The future belongs to Bart Simpson.” …