Category: Film Analysis

  • Essay on ‘The Princess Bride’ Hero’s Journey

    The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, is a delightful fantasy adventure comedy. The film follows a pair of lovers, Westley and Buttercup, trying to find their way back to each other after being separated for many years. Westley is a farmhand who works for Buttercups family. Buttercup taunts Westley daily by making him do…

  • Essay on ‘Finding Nemo’ Hero’s Journey

    Go on adventure, and conquer the fear, sometimes we need to follow our heart and do things that scare us the most or we arent strong enough to do. Marlin expresses inordinate fear towards the ocean, he teaches Nemo to fear because of his past experiences. His first step to vanquish the terror that controls…

  • Essay on ‘Divergent’ Hero’s Journey

    The story of Divergent is set in a futuristic dystopian city, Chicago. The city, built by its founders, is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, Abnegation: The selfless Amity: The peaceful Candor: The honest Dauntless: The Brave Erudite: And the Intelligent Teenagers have to decide which faction they want to go…

  • Essay on ‘Coco’ Hero’s Journey

    The main protagonist of this story is a twelve-year-old boy named Miguel. Although his family banned music from their lives, this young boy still dreamed of to be part of a musician. The reason why their family banned the music into their lives was because his great-great-grandmother Imelda believed that her husband who was a…

  • Essay on ‘Frozen’ Hero’s Journey

    Frozen, by Walt Disney Pictures, revolves around two sisters, Elsa and Anna. Princess Elsa of Arendelle possesses magical powers that enable her to create snow and ice. As children, the two sisters would often use their powers to play together until one day Elsa accidentally injures Anna. After this incident, the King and Queen keep…

  • The Concept Of Comedy In The Movie Shakespeare In Love

    The word Comedy from the textbook The Theatre Experience is defined as, in general, a play that is light in tone, is concerned with the issues that pointed out the excesses and folly human behavior, has a happy ending, and is designed to amuse (Wilson, 2014. Pg.178). The elements that the film showed are that…

  • Film Analysis Paper: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

    The film Crazy Rich Asians is very interesting and mainly focuses on the cultural aspect of sociology. The film is about a lady named Rachel Chu and a man named Nick Young who are in a relationship. They have a fairly normal and very intimate relationship. Rachel Chu has the occupation of an economics professor…

  • Influence of German Film Industry in 1919-1945

    Since 1919, due to the inception of the expressionist movement, and its increasingly artistic take on the medium, the German film industry had started to have major impacts on not only German culture but also how film had been viewed worldwide, from a form of entertainment for lower class citizens to an art form to…

  • Theme of Motherhood and Sisterhood in Pedro Almodovar’s Film ‘Volver”: Critical Essay

    The feminine characters created by Almodovar are not mere inventions, they are constructed and inspired by the memory of his childhood surroundings and conversations overheard in his infancy between his mother, his sisters his grandmother and his neighbors. His infancy, his childhood and his youth were highly influenced by the women surrounding him. The purpose…

  • Theme of Motherhood in the Film The Imitation of Life’: Critical Essay

    Bea, a struggling widow who sells maple syrup to support herself and Jessie, her daughter. Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea’s husband died. When Delilah, an African American woman, shows up at Bea’s door, mistakenly thinking it’s the address of a potential housekeeping job, a…