Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

13th Warrior is a barbaric movie. The chosen one (Antonio Banderres) leads the men of his village to a nearby village that is in need of help. The village is being terrorized by what the people think are "monsters". Cannibals that eat on the dead. …

Literature 3 - 25 - 04 Everyday UseOvich Alice Walker wrote a short story called "Everyday Use," based on her life as an African in early America. The story was made into a short film that followed the theme (African-American culture) of…

cinema at any time they wished. People were also able to move seats throughout the film and talked for the whole duration of the film. This was a bad atmosphere for watching films as not everyone was concentrating on the film. Psycho changed this…

Hollywood equilibrium, disruption, solution pattern, as the main character is killed of 30 minutes into the film. It starts off traditionally with equilibrium, but there is no solution to the disruptions that occur. The first half of the film is very…

composer and brilliant musician, completely deaf by the end of his life, yet still capable of feats in music surpassing those who came before him, and those that have come since. Very few, if any, would dispute the genius of Beethoven's music. However,…

a group of men waiting to hear what jobs are available. The movie's main character is up for a job posting posters throughout the city, the only glitch is that it requires a bicycle. He says he can get one, with that he pawns his family's linens to…

of the Christ in theatres across the world has become a significant event in many people's lives. It has become the most powerful and moving Christian film in all of time. Never before has a person of Mel Gibson's caliber created such a film. At…

around once in a while, you could miss it. These are the words uttered by Ferris Bueller, the happy-go-lucky teen who from the very beginning of the movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sets the message that he's going to take experience all that life offer…

film opens up and sets up the entire film about how things are always questioned in the same way and how it is always the same answer. The main characters have the same outcome in each scene, even when things are altered just a little bit. Lola affects…

Kill Bill is the most amazing film this year. You would assume the movie to say something like, this theater aint big enough for the both of us as it slices through all of the incompetent underdeveloped movies that are coming out at this time.…