This film is based on a true story. Steve Lopez is employed as a writer for the Los Angeles Times and he needs a story that will increase the interest of his readers. Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. is a homeless mentally ill man that lives on the street and has a special talent. Upon their first meeting Steve Lopez is drawn to Nathaniel playing his 2 stringed violin. Initially Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel as a story that would interest his writers.
''Your father has written...he feels you should not have an education'' Despite this injuction Paul managed to learn a great deal from Keller'' Discuss. 'Maestro' a text written by Peter Goldsworthy is told through the life of a young man named Paul Crebber a self-induldged, arrogent, up and comming musician. Paul's story is one of love,hate,friendship and hardship he deals with throughout his life. A mentor and music teacher of Pauls,Edward Keller, a mysterious geinus pionist with a shady world war two past through diffrent techniques trys to teach Paul the most important lessons in life. Lessons such as the sublect of Human nature, Beauty and horrors and ones self limitations.
Cinematic Critique Film: Mr. Holland’s Opus Written by: Patrick Sheane Duncan Directed by: Stephen Herek Lead Actor: Richard Dreyfuss Mr. Holland Opus is a drama film in which the protagonist, Glen Holland is a musician and composer whose biggest dream in life is to be able to compose a memorable piece of music by which he could leave his mark on the world. In order to support his family and pay the bills he takes up the job of a music teacher at a local high school thinking that the teaching job would give him enough ‘spare time’ to work on his composition. Life, however, does not turn out to be the way he had planned. It is only after stepping into this profession that he realizes not only the fact that teachers hardly ever have any free time, but also how much of the teacher’s efforts and sacrifices go into making each student shine his brightest and the joys that each little success brings. Over the course of thirty years of his teaching career he finds himself using all his efforts in instilling music into the lives of his students, making it fill their souls just the way it fills his own and redefining his dreams and success entirely in the process.
It has its own life, its own song. Part of me wants to resist the rhythms of my grief, yet as I surrender to the song, I learn to listen deep within myself” (Hunter). The tragic death of Paul McCartney’s mom left a similar grievance in the heart of the young man that he was at the time of her passing. Although Paul was close with his mother, he never allowed this loss to falter his education. Paul had an extraordinary mind, and specifically enjoyed the art of music.
Point of view is the key factor in how a composer manipulates and positions an audience to respond in particular ways. Discuss this statement with reference to your two texts. Point of view is used by an author to manipulate the reader by positioning them into the complex illusion of the novel that they have created. ‘1984’ by George Orwell and ‘The Lovely Bones’ by Alice Sebold feature contrasting points of view, which elicit a different response from the audience. Both authors have successfully used literary techniques, such as narration and use of themes, to strengthen the message their novel is trying to convey and consequently engage and enthrall the reader.
k Goldsworthy’s novel ‘Maestro’ uses a first person, reflective narrative to recount the memoires of Paul, a precocious teenage musical, with particular emphasis on the relationship he has with his instructor, the retired concert pianist, Eduard Keller. The author presents Keller (the ‘maestro’) as enigmatic, reclusive and tainted by the horrors of the Second World War, in particular the murder of his wife and son. Keller displays flashes of brilliance, but his appreciation of music is clothed in his world weary cynicism, which stems from his troubled past. Keller inculcates in Paul his own rigid, dogmatic worldview and a wariness of beauty, thus destroying Paul’s own idealism, an aspect which had been crucial to Keller’s early success as
In the essay John Wayne: A Love Song, Joan Didian uses a nostalgic tone throughout the essay because she was reminiscing about the times she was with her idol John Wayne. When she uses this tone she makes the reader feel as if they knew John Wayne themselves. Hence she is using pathos to evoke the feelings of the reader. An example of this nostalgic tone is “ Joan Didian writes the essay John Wayne: A Love Song to express her feelings for John Wayne and how he influenced her. For example in her thesis she writes “I tell you this neither in a spirit of self-revelation nor as an exercise in total recall, but simply to demonstrate that when John Wayne rode through my childhood, and perhaps through yours, he determined forever the shape of certain our dreams.” This quote means that John Wayne influenced her and a lot of other readers and changed their dreams forever.
World Lit Assignment Many people commonly hold the belief that music expresses the sentiments that cannot be conveyed through words. In Three Sisters, Music is a means by which ambivalent emotions are portrayed: the exhilarating bliss of first love versus the rigid confines of an incompatible marriage, the desperate yearning for passion compared to monotony of tedious work, and the desire to live in the past in stark contrast to the harshness of present reality. Such juxtapositions compose the passions that are embodied by musical motifs. In Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters the use of music plays a crucial role in the development of character. Through Masha’s green oak song, musical stage directions and Masha’s and Vershinin’s nonsense song Chekhov gives insight into the intricately linked lives of all his characters and their respective relationships, allowing the reader to peel back the layers and discover what truly lies underneath.
These three ideas will be discussed as well as different interpretations of journeys and how the composers have analysed in the two texts. The first idea of journeys is how an inner or emotional journey can change a person. This idea of a journey happens in the film Schindler’s List. This is show through many techniques and how the characters are portrayed. Such as the character Schindler, at the begging of the film he is portrayed as an arrogant, selfish and cunning war profiteer.
“People grow through the journeys they undertake. Composers know this and so write interesting stories about journeys to show growth and development of their major characters.” Through journeys people grow. Composers create stories which show the journey, growth and development of their main character. The two texts ‘Stand by Me’, which is a film, and ‘Sister Kate’, a novel, show the journeys the main character goes through both physical and inner. ‘Stand by Me’, directed by Rob Reiner, is a coming of age film about four boys going on a physical journey to see a dead body on the train tracks, although it turns into something much more personal.