The plot of this movie is a rather long one to explain. It starts out with Dilios, a Spartan soldier, narrates the story of Leonidas, from boyhood to the throne of Sparta. Years later, a Persian messenger arrives at the gates of Sparta, demanding the submission of Sparta to King Xerxes. In response to this demand, Leonidas and his guards kick the messenger into a large well to prompt a Persian attack, Leonidas visits the Ephors, ancient leprosy-ridden priests whose blessing he needs before the Spartan council will authorize going to war. He proposes they repel the numerically superior Persians by using the terrain of Thermopylae (the Hot Gates) and funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea.
Fight Club the Movie and Popular Culture Fight Club is a highly nominate and awarded movie that was released in October 1999. It was a trademark to the movie industry but also a great example of popular culture. This movie created a visual example of how popular culture is established and how it influences a mass population. It shows how there is always a beginning to something before it becomes popular and there is always a reason for it. It also shows a great example of how the working (lower) culture fights and rebels against the higher culture.
Briana Period 5 Beowulf Essay The Great and Mighty Beowulf sailed his way to Hrothgar’s kingdom to help fight off vengeful beast terrorizing his kingdom, little did he know of the adventures ahead of him. Each battle he fought glorified his strength and being. For Beowulf opening up one door always meant a new quest. From dragons to sea witches Beowulf’s fought for the greater good of his people. Through out his battles the great and mighty Beowulf not only grew physically, but at mind as well.
Another example of Cameron’s reasoning is that he does not want to get his hopes up about having a new protégé, who is equally talented at the work he does, to employ and mentor. Ayn Rand clearly illustrates through Cameron the hardships that passionate men must go through, and through Roark, she illustrates the fearless determination and persistence of these men. Cameron is a man who gave his life to architecture and ultimately gained
Film during this time was used in order to project problems about the war to an audience, as well as to demonstrate propaganda. Finding information on combat film during the early 1900's was a lengthy process. Surprisingly, it was a lengthy process because there was an immense amount of information to choose from. There were many books in the Purchase Library to choose from, as well as many scholarly articles online. Besides historical
HIS212 – History and Film Compare any two films which are produced in Hollywood, and which represent warfare or conflict in the Third World. Comment on the political and cultural messages in these films, and explain how they reflect the politics of the time when they were made. Film as a media has always managed to be one of the most easily accessible, both for the public and also producers as a means for conveying messages and entertainment. Many different aspects of human nature and history is detailed and documented in this fashion across many different fields, such as politics, religion, love and, with often the most poignant and obvious imagery, war. War itself has been an ever-present around the world across thousands of years and has, as the years progressed, evolved and shaped the world in many ways.
I also browsed numerous websites and read through several books on animation. In this essay, I will talk examine Disney’s feature length animations both old and more recent. I will observe how they mastered the classical Hollywood narrative structure from the offset and how they defined the fairytale genre for the big screen. I will compare Disney’s hyper-realistic approach to film making with the shorter, more flexible works of Warner Bros. (Chuck Jones & Tex Avery). There is no better place to begin than with the release of the single most important and key film of all time in American movie history.
As the film progresses, Bertie’s father, King George V, dies and leaves the responsibility of the reign to Bertie’s brother, King Edward VIII. Finding that he is indisposed to become king and has abdicated the throne, Bertie takes the task of kingship into his own hands. Great Britain at this time is preoccupied by the impending war and Hitler’s rising power, and Bertie is pressured by the nation’s cry for a strong leader. With Lionel’s help, Bertie incorporates peculiar techniques to facilitate his public speaking, and successfully delivers a speech to his compatriots on the verge of war. Bertie and Lionel remain close friends, and Bertie is later seen as a strong resistor to Hitler by the people of Britain.
While I understand the views of both men, I believe that Machiavelli’s perspective is more prevalent and useful in the world today. Machiavelli rights that a leader needs to show his prowess and confidence in his decisions which helps make people want to follow the leader. He writes with a more realistic but cynical point of view. Lao Tzu writes from the side that all humans are inherently good. Lao Tzu trusts all people to do the right thing and says not to force any expectations into people as that will cause them only to backlash.
Storytelling Though Film What draws people to film over any other media used to tell stories? The written word has existed for hundreds of years going back to the Guttenberg Bibles, and yet consumers overwhelmingly prefer to view films. The answer lies in the relationship we feel with a well made film. Films have the ability to captivate the audience, to draw them into the story in such a way that a book can never accomplish. Film has the power to create real emotion attachment between the viewer and the characters on screen.