Adam Weindling Gordon English 12 6 October 2008 Milo and Major In Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 he uses satire to lampoon the absurd and dangerous military life. Heller effectively mocks the corruption and the horrors of war by creating characters like Milo Minderbinder and Major Major. The way Heller goes about ridiculing the military organization can even be applied today. Milo Minderbinder is in charge of the mess hall, but is mainly known for being the ruler of the black market. Milo’s business that started out selling eggs eventually blossomed into a huge money making organization where “everyone has a share.” This all started when Milo was looking for an out to his air raid missions.
Karina Movsesova English 372 (1:40pm) The Evil Mr Ripley Some people can do anything to get where they want. Tom Ripley is one of those people. He also happens to be a psychopath, and in the chase for the better life he ends up completely losing himself. Trying hard to make a living he is willing to go to the very end, and killing a person is not something that can stop him achieving his goal of entering higher society. Throughout the film we can see how his character develops and we see the transformation of Tom Ripley to Dickie Greenleaf and back.
"Breaking Bad" is a fascinating show. But efforts to compare it to "The Wire," which systematically analyzed American institutions and the American experience, are misguided. "Breaking Bad" is fundamentally a conservative show that is all about the individual. This Sunday (September 2) AMC will air the final episode of part one of it's fifth and final season of "Breaking Bad," an immensely popular and critically acclaimed show about a down-on-his luck high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, starts a life as a crystal methamphetamine manufacturer. The high praise of the show is largely warranted: the premise is fascinating, the photography and acting is superb and the drama intense.
The American film institute recently declared it to be number 7 in the top 10 science fiction movies ever made (2008). The particular scene being analysed known as the 'Chestburster scene' and has been rated as one of the most 'gut-wrenching' scenes in any film (Empire Magazine, 2007). The sequence of shots being analysed lies after the crew have had
There is the emotion of heroism. My father loved Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, and he wasn't alone. They were icons of an era. After Louis defeated Primo Carnera in 1935, a writer for The Los Angeles Times gushed: ''The colored race couldn't have chosen two more remarkable men than Jesse Owens and Joe Louis to be its outstanding representatives. Owens is being hailed as the greatest track and field athlete of all time, same thing goes for 'Dead Pan' Joe Louis, whose decisive defeat of Carnera has sent the scribes scurrying to the dictionaries seeking superlatives of greater scope than any they've used before.''
John Travolta (53) who got his breakthrough with Saturday Night Fever and Grease delivers great acting in this movie as a mob hitman. Samuel L. Jackson (59) is just one of the few Hollywood stars in this movie, known from Star Wars as Mace Windu, and one of his most recent movies; Snakes on a Plane. Uma Thurman (37), whom I must admit I never heard of before she starred as the Bride in both of the Kill Bill movies (another Quentin Tarantino directed movie), performs great in this Hollywood cult movie. These are just a few of the actors starring in this movie filled with Hollywood stars of all classes. The movie shows us 4-5 stories about several persons slowly getting woven together creating incredible, funny and bizarre incidents which you never would have expected.
The film Schindler’s List is one of the most powerful and painful movies of all time. It’s hard to quantify the huge success of the movie from its seven Oscars, to a box office blowout, and the SHOAH foundation. Fans and critics received the film very well; it has a 97% on rottentomatoes.com and the American Film Institute rates Schindler’s List as the eighth best American film of all time. Spielberg says, “It’s the only time I’ve made a movie where something better than the movie came along because of the opportunity to tell that story.” Survivors of the SHOAH visual history foundation was created by Spielberg to keep visual records of holocaust survivor’s testimonies. The foundation has almost 52,000 survivor testimonies, done in sixty-five languages in thirty-eight counties around the world.
The Shawshank Redemption Often regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ is the story of one man’s persecution and his undying hope of freedom, which ultimately overpowers him into redemption. After being wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and his wife’s lover, banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) he is sentenced to serve two consecutive life-sentences in Shawshank State Penitentiary. In there, he meets fellow inmate Ellis “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman),and the pair form a close friendship. Andy is also great interest to the prison Warden, who uses Andy’s banking skills for money laundering operations. When Andy finds a way to prove his innocence, the Warden soon suppresses the opportunity as he realizes the true worth of Andy and his activities.
Intro In July of 2008 Warner Brother release the most successful super hero movie the box office had ever seen, The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan. The film Stars Christian Blain as billionaire Bruce Wayne, who spends his nights protecting gotham city as the classic super hero, Batman. In this installment Batman must protect gotham city from the chaos created by The Joker, played by Heath Ledger. Six months prior to the release Heath Ledger died at age 28 from an accidental overdose of drugs creating more hype about the movie then it already had. According to the Los Angeles Times “The Dark Knight” set the record for the most money made at the box office for the first two weekends of opening including an unprecedented $314 million in the first ten days.
During the Industrial Revolution, boxing evolved into a favorite sport of the blue collar or working class. The early legends of American bareknuckel & Gloved boxing includes John L Sullivan, some claim he's the first great American sports idol. His boxing career was from 1877 to 1905, with that he was admitted to the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 Another early American boxing legend is John Arthur Johnson. He was the first African American heavyweight champion. From 1908 to 1915 Johnson had over 44 Knockouts, and only lost 8 fights.