But what specifically do the critics like about Casablanca that has resulted in its popular appeal? From a woman’s prospective, Lauri Boeder writes on About.Com that “Casablanca is a great romance, a stirring wartime adventure, a suspenseful action movie, and in the end, a terrific buddy movie.” She further states that “Casablanca is thrilling on the first viewing, and so richly textured it rewards being watched over and over. The dialogue is clever, touching, and dryly funny by turns and utterly irresistible. See it once and then see it again.” is what she recommends. But what does Roger Ebert say about Casablanca?
The American premium cable television network is currently producing in association with Ball’s production company one of the most successful American television series after The Sopranos, True Blood. It is created by Allan Ball, Academy Award winner for Best Original Screen Play for American Beauty. The show is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. True Blood brings to the screen social motives, reflects pop-culture, and works as a perfect symbol of today’s consumer culture. The metaphysical, ethical, and social ramifications are shown in a very innovative, entertaining, exiting, and controversial fashion, without leaving the mystery aside.
Illiana Garcia Mrs. Barnes English II/Period 1 19 December 2013 To Prove I Was Worthwhile In mythology, the journey of a hero is an ancient and universal theme. In every culture from ancient Greece to China, Southeast Asia, and the Americas, heroes have embarked on life-altering journeys. The hero’s journey, or monomyth, was created and designed by Joseph Campbell, who divided the journey of the hero into three distinct stages: the Departure, Initiation, and Return. One example of the monomyth is Disney’s Mulan, directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook. Mulan is an outcast in a society that values feminine beauty, which is shown when her father Fa Zhou says, “I know my place.
They are similar in the fact that they both explain that the ship set sail from England heading for America. The short story as well as the movie talks about how there were not enough life boats for all passengers to safely exit the boat when it began to sink. They both mention that no one seemed to be worried about not having enough life boats. Now we will explore other differences between the movie and the short story. In the movie a group of explorers are researching the wreckage site of the Titanic looking for a very valuable necklace made of a very large diamond.
To make it more dramatic, they showed the great gale during the battle in the North Sea whereas in actual life it happened after that. Also, the fact that it is made to entertain people means that they changed a lot of the historic facts to make the film more gripping and interesting, for example in actual history Sir Walter Raleigh was not involved in the attacks as he was in Ireland at the time. Francis Drake was the actual one who organized the fire ship attack that broke up the Spanish formation. Another reason why this is unreliable is because it fails to show a lot of important aspects such as the key reasons why the Spanish armada invaded and the dates, times, number of ships and other key points. We cannot fully trust this source because its purpose is to entertain the audience so that it can make money which
Although the history of the Titanic is generally known, therefore it then becomes dramatic irony, but purely in the case of the movies narrative it is a good example of prolepsis. This type of prolepsis, or an external flash-forward, involving a major sequence happening after the finish of the main story. Basically the showing of the already shipwrecked Titanic and Rose already being in her twilight years occur after the main body of the narrative, which is set during her youth and her experiences with Jack. This therefore give the appearance of the prolepsis being external, outside the main story line. Although there is no obvious text giving example to Mamasita in a proleptic sense, the in medias res instead provokes the 'anticipation' and the analeptic writing gives the overall sense of foreshadowing.
It is quite obvious by now that Germany is not honoring our decision of being neutral. As stated in the policy of neutrality, participants of the war, like Germany, may not attack countries, like the United States, who are neutral. Disregarding this policy, Germany continues to attack our merchant ships entering Great Britain, often with U-boat submarines. As if it hadn’t been enough from sinking the Lusitania, a British passenger liner, before on May 7th, 1915. In this case, the innocent passengers on the boat were not warned by the Germans, like they were supposed to, that they were going to be blown up and sink the ship.
Women's Strength? : Dracula One of the most notable qualities of Dracula is the strength of its main female character. Mina Murray, who marries Jonathan partway through the novel and becomes Mina Harker, is surprisingly critical to the development of the story. Besides being one of the story's main narrators, Mina also helps to drive the plot with her intelligence and resourcefulness. In many ways, Mina is as much a hero as any of the men.
To orchestrate an attack of that caliber, a commanding officer should have been fully adept and enthralled with the situation at hand. In the case of the Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbour, that did not happen. Yamamoto, who was the architect of the Pearl Harbour offensive, did not go to and lead the actual attack. After the planning was complete, he directed his commanders prior to departure and sent Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo in his place. Nagumo was not particularly thrilled about the idea of attacking Pearl Harbour, especially considering his inexperience with airborne operations.Nonetheless, he was put in command of the First Air Fleet.
Policymakers in the US were not interested in peace, but rather what they could get out of peace. When it came to negotiating, they blatantly denied Britain’s proposal to allow their Native American allies to stay in their Midwest territories when such a limitation would require the ever growing population of the States to sacrifice precious farmland. Also, the British conceded valuable fishing rights to the American government for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The treaty did not even mention the problem of impressments that the US tried to pass as justification for declaring war in the first place. The participation in this war also resulted in an explosion within the US Navy that made future overseas endeavors possible, and the United States gained serious respect from European powers that had previously noted the budding country as a cute experiment.