Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

winner, in the captivating epic that is gladiator! An entertaining, enthralling and almost completely historically inaccurate epic, starring Russell Crowe in the performance of his career, as Maximus, and Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus. The film primaril…

Nest was presented to the public, the author noted that Cuckoo's Nest was meant as a story of a "Christian character who puts his life on the line for the down-trodden (Porter 23)." However, this story, as seen in the reformatted play by Dale Wasserman,…

2003 Citizen Kane: Intrusion of Privacy The movie, Citizen Kane, gave its audience many interesting and creative shots and scenes. It was able to tease people's minds and was far ahead of its time as far as special effects are concerned. All…

and chivalry in our everyday lifestyle including movies such as A Knights Tale, which includes many aspects of romanticism and chivalry such as having a hero on a quest, and a woman that the hero must prove his love to. We start out with William,…

as reproductions and influence for films or theatrical productions. Instances of this are 'Romeo and Juliet's' contemporary reproduction in Quentin Tarantino's film to the revival of 'Taming Of The Shrew' as the film '10 Things I Hate About You,' Shakesp…

is the highly anticipated motion picture from writer/director Guy Ritchie, as a follow up from his previous film, 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Released in 2000, it was given a greater budget than 'Lock Stock', and therefore was allowed…

as much as any film or advertisement. Techniques of language and written codes are ways in which the report can achieve this. In the "Snowtown Verdicts" channel 2 and channel 9 present the same facts however it doesn't give a lot of detail. Both channels…

what really happened in Roman history. Some things though, are a little different in the actual history of Rome than in the movie. Scenes were changed in the movie too, to make the plot more interesting. I connected what I could between the movie and…

emotions from the audience, must recognize his faults at the end of the novel, and must be large enough to be appropriate for tragedy. Northrop Frye refers to these requirements when he says, "Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human…

experiment performed by a highly decorated Nazi doctor, and the effort made by a Jewish investigator to stop him. The doctor cloned the genes of famous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and genetically implanted them into the egg of a woman in order…