Movies Essays

The Amish are a charming people, gentle oddities in today’s techno world. They don’t do handguns, cars, or telephones, and they’re exceedingly clannish in their desire to keep out technology generally and outsiders in particular. The basis for Witness is an age-old fish-out-of-water story: a modern man trying to fit …

This essay is an attempt to explore something I noticed when I saw James Cameron’s Titanic on opening night. This concept did not occur to me immediately, but as I saw one of the scenes in the hallway where the water rushed down and around a corner, rushing towards the …

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, and Fences, by August Wilson, are two great tragedies by two outstanding playwrights. The two stories seem intertwined by the great characters that they center around. Although the stories of Oedipus and Troy are separated by centuries, the characters are almost identical. Different backgrounds, different cultures, …

Dead Poets Society: The Influence of Transcendental Thinking Transcendental thinking has an extremely empowering and influential effect upon whoever listens to its teachings. Transcendental thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau greatly influence three main characters from Dead Poets Society. The movie Dead Poets Society reveals the …

Although I thought they were two very different movies. To my surprise, ‘Grease’ and ‘The Outsiders’ do have some very similar characteristics. Even though the genres are different, they have similar themes. Not surprisingly, sound and lighting had almost no similarities. However; camerawork is very similar at various points of …

Neil’s (played by Robert Shaun Leonard) demise was in absolutely no possible way a random occurrence in the movie “Dead Poets Society” or in short DPA. Neil’s death can in fact be compared to a conclusion in a science experiment that was already clearly stated in the hypothesis. A very …

In the novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, many of the patients in the ward have lack of self-respect and dignity. The lack of dignity and self-respect causes many people to become depressed, and even mentally ill. The three patients that lack the most self-respect and …

Grendel is one of the three major antagonists in the poem “Beowulf”. We are told he is a monster and a descendant of the biblical figure “Cain” early on in the text. “Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend/Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild /Marshes, and made his …

“The Dead Poets Society” is an awe inspiring film set in the 1950s about a teacher who went against the grain and taught his high school students to think for themselves and not allow their attitudes and behavior to be constrained by conformity by older generations. In our class lectures/discussions, …

The movie Forrest Gump stars Tom Hanks as a considerate, yet somewhat simple man, who sits down on a bus stop bench and tells his fascinating life story to basically anyone who will listen. This movie is much different then the typical box office hits, which is why I chose …