Movies Essays

Introduction             Troy Maxson is the central character in August Wilson’s play Fences.  He is a 53-year-old African-American, a descendant of African slaves in America.  Troy is a father of two sons by two women.  The first is Lyons, a 34 year old jazz musician who is the son of …

Italian neorealism is one of the most historically influenced periods of cinema. Rooted in Italian resistance of northern Italy during the close of World War II, the movement is greatly influenced by sociohistorical factors of the time. From its earliest days during the resistance against the German occupation, to the …

Many contemporary organisations, especially the small businesses in the United Kingdom and around the world are structured in the “command and control” hierarchical form (Pasternack & Viscio 1998). Although the contemporary fads of organisational behaviour are said to be responsible for the success of modern organisations, it is also a …

The movie Jaws is a 1975 classical movie by Steven Spielberg and produced by Universal. It is considered as an archetypal film because it shows how the main character survived all the conflicts and violence in the film. The violent scenes involved the monstrous shark destroying the cage that protects …

Provide a brief synopsis of the movie.             For Rhoda, killing is just a child’s play.             Directed by Mervin Leroy, The Bad Seed, is a suspense-thriller movie which revolves around an eight-year old girl named Rhoda Penmark.  The film basically revolves around the long ago debated topic on whether …

The movie “Shawshank Redemption” is a movie about the struggle of a man named Andy Dufresne, who is a banker in Maine that gets convicted of killing his wife and her lover. He claimed he was innocent, but because of his cold and sheltered personality no one believed that he …

Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing a comedy by Kathryn Walat, Theatre Geeks vs. Zombie Cheerleaders performed at Troy High School in Troy, Ohio. The performance space is a typical high school auditorium that has a large stage and abundant seating. This short-play takes place in a high school …

If I were that captain that fateful night of April 14, 1912 the great R.M.S. would have never struck tragedy. On the Titanic there were 2,235 people crowded aboard. There was no wind. The dark sea was calm, like a glass mirror. It was an hour before midnight on a …

            Introduction             The detective stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle have recently regained their popularity. The reason for this is in the fact that Doyle’s short stories about Sherlock Holmes describe the unlimited human talents. Simultaneously, Sherlock Holmes is a usual person, with his human weaknesses and his own …

The men in The Stepford Wives choose, in a sense, to play God. By re-creating their wives in their own image (or in this case their “ideal” image), they take away the woman’s free-will. As with fundamentalist religion, this need to control takes precedence over morality, fairness and love. “The …