Bodies are stabbed, sliced in half, decapitated or otherwise mutilated. Many people view the violence in this film as disturbing or desensitizing. While I certainly agree that the violence in action and horror movies with weak plots and character development is disturbing, desensitizing and unnecessarily overt, violence serves an important purpose as a storytelling tool in Kill Bill. The violence that the Bride endures at the hands of her colleagues at the wedding allows us to establish a connection with her as the good guy of the story and identify Bill and the rest of the Deadly Vipers as the bad guys. The hacking and slashing that the Bride doles out to her enemies functions as a cathartic experience for both her and the audience.
Response to Smooth Talk/”Where are you going…” This story written by Oates’ about Connie and the psychopath Arnold Friend and his abduction over this innocent yet in a way very naïve teen-aged girl is much alike to Joyce Chopra’s film Smooth Talk. It all started from the source of “The Pied Piper of Tucson” somewhere in the southwest of America who mimics the character of Arnold Friend. “His Specialty was the seduction and occasional murder of teen-aged girls.” The one question that startles me the most was why in fact these young girls did not report or inform anyone of the cruel acts that this disgusting man committed, and when I say man he was indeed a grown man in his mid thirties posing as a teen-aged boy of eighteen years old. “…mimicked teenagers in their talk, dress, and behavior… (and sometimes walked unsteadily as a consequence. )” Comparing the film to the story itself they are very much identical to one another with a few alterations from the story itself.
Although it is overall empowering to women, that does not have to automatically mean it must be downgrading to men. There are some positive male roles, such as the police detective, Hal, and Jimmy, Louise’s boyfriend. When Geena Davis was asked about Thelma and Louise being considered a male-bashing movie, even she commented, “Most guys don't relate to the truck driver or the rapist, and if they do, their problems are bigger than this movie.” My analysis of Thelma and Louise discusses the friendship between the leading characters and their different personalities, how males are perceived in the movie and their relationships with the women, and the controversial ending of the movie. Thelma and Louise have opposite personalities but are together in the same risky undertaking. Thelma is passive, allowing her husband to dominate her life.
Although the majority of slaves had no legal protection against rape, Celia took a stand to protect her own vulnerability. The fact that Celia was found guilty and sentenced to death for killing the sexually abusive Robert Newsom, is just completely unjust and discriminatory. The life of Celia truly demonstrates the hardships that slaves experienced in the Antebellum South, such as, the many ignored sexual exploitation acts of slaves by slave-holders and the weighted social positions of white and black women in history. In spite of the fact that Celia’s attorneys fought awfully hard, and although she was put to death, Celia’s courageous soul will shine on and continue to open modern society’s eyes to the
The movie had the potential to be a lot more impactful if the roles were taken more seriously. With that being said, there were characters that were played incredibly. Actress Melissa Joan Hart did an incredible job allowing the audience to truly feel her struggle and her pain that came along with enduring such a breaking point in life. All Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) knew and believed in was being torn apart and discouraged by her peers, colleagues, and it was Melissa who played Grace Wesley so impeccably that truly allowed the audience to put themselves in her shoes. Despite a few shortcomings in the film, God’s Not Dead 2 is a relatable, at some points quite comedic, and most importantly an inspiring film.
Other ways that the story was conveyed was through a combination of McCandless’s letters and diaries, guesswork, and investigation that was conducted. In the movie, however, it seemed as though only Christopher’s sister was telling the story. She was always talking about how he failed in contacting her but she reassured us that she was “strong” enough to handle it. I wish that they had other people talk besides her, because the mixture of formats was about the best thing in the story. One scene in the novel has always stuck with me more than the rest.
The scene where she had to do alot of retakes shows you that acting business can be tough and that Marilyn Monroe was not perfect but when she did get the scene right it was extraordinary how alive she became. With the movie being accurate or inaccurate, you can't really tell because it was based off of Colin Clarks
Watching this film for my women’s studies class was my second time viewing the film. I picked up on a lot more after watching it the second time and I was more educated on the issue. My initial reaction to the film was shock. I never realized how much daunting labor and scary tactics went into the women’s suffragists’ movement. The characters in Iron Jawed Angels endured a lot of turmoil—gender violence, violence against women, and generally unfair treatment because of standing up for something that they truly believed in.
Hollywood’s Whores Music has always been an inspirational outlet for self expression and as a way to let go of suppressed feelings—many of which are not so pleasant. Various songs in the modern rock genre always come to mind when controversies arise in Hollywood. The band Papa Roach is no exception. Songwriter and Papa Roach band singer Jacoby Shaddix introduced the explicit song Hollywood Whore in 2008 and a music video for the song in middle October of the year. The song, directed to various celebrity women, presents today’s modern woman as scandalous, with an unsung claim of reevaluation of oneself and purity needs to be reintroduced in the media.
Can Movies Kill The ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others and to avoid them in our own arguments is valuable and rare. Some logical fallacies are more common than others. The fallacies Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Hasty Generalization, and Causal Oversimplification are all errors of reasoning. In the article Natural Born Killers by John Grisham, Sarah Edmondson and her boyfriend Benjamin Darras commit a murder and severely injure another. The two want to say they did such horrible things because of a movie they had seen, Natural Born Killers.