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 2 hitmen (Jackson and Travolta) are out to retrieve a stolen suitcase from their boss, Marsellus Wallace, when a series of unexpected events happen. In the meantime the aging boxer Butch Coolidge (Willis) gets paid by Wallace to lose his next fight, but unfortunately kills his opponent in the ring by knockout. On another side in town 2 thieves decide to hold up a restaurant. And Wallace wants Vincent Vega (Travolta) to accompany his girlfriend Mia to the local restaurant when something goes terribly wrong.
In the year of 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact that the two men were known radicals, prejudiced the judge and jury against them. It didn’t help that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was declined, and the two were sentenced to death. The most prominent and respectable critic of the trial was known to be Felix Frankfurter, a professor at Harvard Law School.
President Lincoln’s assassination is one of the most famous murders in history. When Marche makes reference to it referring to what John Wilkes Booth said after he shot him made a powerful push for logos “firing immediately after the line that always got the biggest laugh: “Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap!” The fact that Booth himself was an actor might play a role in why he said that but why say those words unless it had some underlying meaning? In addition Marche quotes what Booth wrote in his diary after being captured from the police “After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods, and last night being chased by gun-boats till I was forced to return wet, cold, and starving, with every man’s hand against me, I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.” In this quote it Booth clearly states that in his mind during the shooting he thought he was acting as if he were Brutus in “Julius Cesar”.
Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western, black-revenge flick Django Unchained is one of the most overt attempts ever made to deal with the physical reality of slavery. In a year in which Hollywood has been consumed with America's original sin, in my opinion, is the year's [2012] best film about slavery, in comparison to the other major film of the year released concerning the topic, Steven Spielberg’s, Lincoln. It is projected towards a new generation of film watchers, to whom the concept of “Spaghetti Western” is most likely an older concept. It is this reason why the film has captivated so many, how it addresses the brutal history of American slavery with the old familiarity of western movies. What society would deem as “the serious business”, as you would expect from a Tarantino movie, is cloaked in a cloud of superficial pleasures.
TAXI DRIVER MOVIE RESEARCH PAPER Name Institution Introduction Over the decades, movie directors have produced many different genres of movies in the American film industry. During the mid-1990s, many people and movie theatres preferred western movies mostly based on cowboys and Indian battles. It explains why movies produced in later years were based on characters and plots, which were different from these mystifying films. One movie that stands out in this category was the movie “Taxi Driver,” written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese. Everyone has a set of values that determine how they analyze situations in the society.
Characters without power attempt to promote themselves through dramatic and often violent ways. Sasha is central to the theme of power within the story. He is a young and popular leader of a criminal fraternity – making his way through violent and illegal acts; “Sasha was ringleader and mastermind.” Anyone who crosses Sasha will come to regret it as he mercilessly seeks revenge. A road rage incident ends up with Sasha hurling a sour pint of milk through his enemy’s window, whilst his sister’s violent boyfriend ends up literally nailed to the wall. The novel opens with Sasha meeting the main narrator, Louie, and she soon learns the extent of his power; “impressing him was everything.’ Sasha’s power comes from his personal sense of self confidence and strength, as the reader sees him ‘glare like a wolf’ at anyone who might threaten a blind man on the train.
THE PERSONALITY OF A SERIAL KILLER [pic] [pic] [pic] Jeffery Dahmer John Wayne Gacy Theodore Bundy [pic] [pic] [pic] Kristen Gilbert Velma Barfield Albert Fish Mary Chandler 19 February 2007 Wow, where to begin. For many years I have been so intrigued with profiling serial killers, it’s not even funny. I read only true crime novels and mainly watch crime shows and anything that has to do with understanding the criminal minds. Serial killers become celebrities instantly because it points to a fascination we have with the dark, violent places in the human mind. This infatuation is because nearly every serial killer that has been identified is just the guy next door, intelligent, well spoken and/or described as a very nice boy.
Professor Jordan tries to run and is surrounded by the police. ➢ Analysis The 39 Steps follows many themes and conventions of a typical Hitchcock movie. The falsely accused regular guy (North by North West, 1959) who is on the run from those who are actually guilty of the crime (The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1934.) The protagonist is in some way guilty of something. In this film it is the fact that Hannay had invited a girl back to his place for sex
Also, the struggles of the harbor workers are shown as well. The film is centered on Terry Malloy who is pressured by Father Barry and Edie Doyle to uncover Johnny Friendly’s mob and their corrupt ways of running of the harboring business’ union, as well as the planned murder of Joey Doyle. Constantly throughout the movie, he is pressured by people to tell the
Everything seems to be in Alex’s favor until his gang grows tired of his tyranny, and decides to trick him, landing him in prison after murdering a widowed cat lady. After serving a partial jail sentence, Alex is let out for what he comes to know as the “Ludovico Technique” which using nauseating drugs and overly violent films, conditions Alex against his violent nature. The novel, which was later adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, became a controversial subject of debate for many years, as several copycat crimes followed its release. According to fiction writer Joseph Aisenberg; “a woman was raped by assailants performing “Singing In the Rain”; boy gangs marauded around England dressed as the droogs; Arthur Bremmer, who shot George Wallace, reported in his diary having watched the movie and been inspired to get Wallace all through it” (Aisenberg, 3). The existence of violence in the novel is paralleled by an immersion of fine art and culture, but is severely limited due to the narration style of the story.