Josh Lucas did an outstanding job as coach Don Haskins. In moies.ign.com movie review, Jeff Otto writes, “The movie […] was well-acted. The acting is commendable. Josh Lucas excels in the sparse dialog, creating a physical presence that makes his character seem like living granted at times. Emily Deschanel has few scenes and lines, but she still creates a beautiful character for the coach’s wife.
Octavia E. Butler’s work Kindred is a profound novel that illustrates the destructive power of obessive love. Butler also does a remarkable job protraying the graphic nature of racial prejudice in the 1800s as opposed to how it’s viewed in modern times via time travels – which gives the reader the oppurtunity to compare and contrast the two distinct eras. Dana’s (the narrator and protagonist of Kindred) choice to continue saving Rufus’ life, regardless of his absurd behavior, causes her time travels to prolong – given that Rufus was the focus and cause of them – and Rufus eventually beomes obsessed with Dana. As Dana chooses to save Rufus’ life, she not only prolongs her time travels to the antebellum Maryland of the early 1800s but also saves her life and preserves the familail bond of the slaves. “Was that why I was here?
But Allende is a psychological realist, and she recognizes realism and the need for the oxygen of romance in the routine of human existence. Allende clearly shows that emotions don’t always follow rules and the most unlikely characters find themselves being enrolled by unexpected passion in the institution of intimacy, as in the light-hearted
All in all I was simply satisfied with major mediocre performance of the mariachi group. Their program consisted of Ron Nelson’s Rocky Point Holiday and Eric Whitacre’s The Seal Lullaby–both instantly enjoyable; an appealing arrangement of Verdi’s La Forza Del Destino Overture; H. Owen Reed’s catchy La Fiesta Mexicana and Carnival; and John Astacio’s marvelous Frenergy. The selections were nicely varied and well-prepared. The excellent conductors included Micah Ewing, Avious Jackson, and Mason High School Band Director Robert Bass, plus world-renowned clinician, conductor, and adjudicator James F. Keene, who also guest conducted the John Hersey
Estevan Ornelas Intro to Visual Culture Miyazaki Miyazakis Princess Mononoke brought action romance and fantasy to the boring environmental documentary. The film perfectly portrays Miyazakis ability to balance drama with meaning, being able to make a great fast action movie that also gets one to think. (Back up Quote) Also the film has influenced visual culture by “promoting this realism that modernization will ultimately be the down fall of mother earth”(Mac Williams 255) Hiyao Miyazaki accomplishes these things in Princess Mononoke by Using extremely detailed scenery but while matching that with incredible engaging plot Miyazaki is able to convey meaning in his story with ease. Hayao Miyazaki, born January 5, 1941 is a Japanese manga artist and well known film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has proved his worth as a director slash animator through his widely popular animated movies such as Princes Nausicaa and the Valley of the wind, Castle of Cagliostro, My Niegbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and many more.
All critics agree in considering Twelfth Night as one of the most delightful of Shakespeare’s comedies. It is full of sweetness and pleasantry. It makes us laugh at the follies of mankind, not despire them, still less bear any ill-will towards them. From start to end the play is full of gay joviality. The sentimental elements and the unsentimental malice a livelier, more dramatic impression from their contrast: and the contrast itself makes the dolling life of the play more interesting to an audience.
“It is told in a way that encompasses all the love and desire in their [the characters’] hearts without being sexually explicit.” states reviewer Parker Beck (1996). “The Quiet Man” consists of exquisite plot construction, vivid set exploration, and detailed character traits. Ford combines all these elements alongside with thoughtful filming techniques and choice of music to create this all time classic that won him his fourth academy award. Scene Analysis Of all the memorable scenes in “The Quiet Man”, who could forget the most romantic scene where the couples date and were “soaked in love”? This is a scene that concentrates on the development of the two main characters of the story.
Jim Daniels in Prose and Poetry There is a different kind of compression and tension between the lines of prose and in the poetry of Jim Ray Daniels, but the emotional resonance, the sense of urgency in the subject matter, succeeds “[t]o reproduce truth and the reality of life correctly and powerfully” which, as aptly put by Ivan Turgenev, “is the greatest happiness for an author.” “Middle of the Mitten,” a short story in the collection Detroit Tales, is a humorous and serious story of survivors. Rites of passage are forged through a landscape of sexual excess and sexual abstinence in the social milieu of college life, an artificial culture that society provides for those who make the grade, who have the funds, who can afford to stay out of the work force long enough to get a degree. While most of Daniels’ characters are lower middle class, blue collar workers, Avery is the exception, he is a college student. “Middle of the Mitten” is set in a small college town in mid-state Michigan, instead of an industrial city like Detroit. The college is named Alba, which means dawn in Spanish, and Dawn is the name of the woman who opens up to Avery in a platonic friendship that most likely turns sexual in the pages right after the story ends.
The words ‘hissing’ and ‘rattle’ are mentioned, describing the sounds of the marshes, both of which create unpleasant onomatopoeic sounds and yet Kipps finds this pleasing. Hill presents the setting of Eel Marsh house as so overwhelmingly attractive to Kipps that he can overlook all the obviously strange and unattractive, even deathly, features. The structure of this chapter is done so that the beautiful is presented first and
Movie Critique : Patch Adams Loosely based upon the true story of Virginia doctor Hunter “Patch “Adams MD , the 1998 film Patch Adams undoubtedly delivers well in terms of emotional and audience appeal . Actor Robin Williams is perfectly cast as the off-beat and idealistic Dr . Patch Adams who is a firm believer in a working partnership between doctor and patient as well as the use of humor and individual approaches in the treatment of patients .On the other end , supporting characters Mitch (played by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman ) and Dean Walcot (Bob Gunton ) effectively represent the staid and traditional medical doctors who define medicine by academics and hard nosed objectivity .Commercially , the film is effective as a “feel good ” drama comedy with the right balance struck between the tragedies of death and illness and the zany antics of Williams as clown doctor Patch Adams .The character Patch Adams was a non-conformist who lived by his own rules . Some night even say that his non-conforming attitude as well as his blatant disregard for protocol and tradition ruling the medical school might be symptoms of an anti-social personality disorder as mentioned in the library scene of the film .Some may however argue that one can call it anti-social only from the medical school ‘s point of view . In general and real society however , the character Patch Adams is more of a “pro-social ” person .