[8][9][10] Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. [11] Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001), and The Black Album (2003), are considered landmarks in the genre with all of them featured in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. [12][13][14] As an entrepreneur and investor, Jay-Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, and is the co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear. [15] He is the former president of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. He also founded the sports agency Roc Nation Sports and is a certified NBA and MLB sports agent.
In the movie Casablanca the use of Hemingway’s code Hero is used to show the aspects of film noir. The film noir shares characteristics with Hemingway’s code Hero like the disillusionment of society and the darker aspects of the human condition. Items from the code that are used in the movie is the idea of a man’s man in Rick Blaine and that he is always in control of the situation. The trait a man’s man is used to show the ideals of film noir in that it similarly has to do with lust and drinking. Rick is the Hemingway Hero in this movie because he truly is a man’s man.
Michael Jackson: A Star Among Stars Michael Jackson is the biggest pop star of the 80s, and is one of the most popular musi-cians of all time. Jackson stood out from the crowd with his unique voice, eye-popping dance moves, dominant stage presence and musical versatility. Michael Jackson had 12 number 1 rec-ords, 51 million copies sold of Thriller, 80 million copies of the others and 13 Grammy Awards but beneath all the numbers there was a man whose achievements were far greater. His success in the ‘80s opened up white America to black music. Without Jackson there is no Prince, no Chris Brown and no Usher.
In the original film (Hitchcock) the old dark and colorless film, the creep music provide the viewers an idea that something wicked is about to happen. Therefore again both directors did provide enough action to carry over to each scene. In the remake the casting was truly wrong; For instance the infamous character Norman Bates, the psychopathic motel owner was played by fast talking, macho man Vince Vaughn. In the remake the Norman appears to be more of a sexual predator, whom would actually please himself as he watch Marion through a peephole in the shower scene; which gives the audience a different point of view about this film and van sant character Norman. However in the original version Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, who truly fit the character with calmer attitude, and good boy looks as Norman.
A well-trained soldier and an audacious hit man would fully understand the main characters of the book “The Wars” by Timothy Findley and the movie Bourne Identity. They would see beyond the defiant attitudes and changes that both the characters had undergone. Robert Ross and Jason Bourne both went to a stage in their life wherein they acted beyond what they used to. Ross, a caring and loving person, turned into a killing machine. Bourne, on the other hand, used to be an emotionless and fearless killer but in the end he turned out to be good man.
When the narrator is the protagonist and tells the story from a personal account it makes the overall impact of the story more vivid. The narrator in this story is mentally challenged and adds to the overall effect of horror by continually stressing that he or she is not mad; He tries to convince us of that fact by how carefully this brutal crime was planned and executed. He begins the story inquiring, "How then am I mad?" and states, "Observe how healthily--how calmly I can tell you the whole story" (Paragraph 1). The narrator tries to prove how sane he really is before the reader has read enough to make any kind of judgment about him.
Henry Gruger English 112 Finan 10/26/14 The Pressure of Being a Man In the movie The Wizard of Oz, the Great and Powerful Oz is supposed to be considered the ultimate alpha male. He is the feared yet admired by all for his all knowingness and his ability to grant wishes. However, “The climactic scene…where Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal a nervous, tragic man pretending to be the Great and Powerful Oz represents more than just a classic moment in American cinematic history” (Katz 16). It is also a metaphor for how masculinity is portrayed in American men today. Masculinity is not something that every man is born with.
The use of events within ‘Romulus, my Father’ also allow us to view Romulus himself as a sort of tragic hero, since his fatal flaw is being too trusting of people’s karacter. The novel depicts Romulus as a unique character, who has a deep sense of integrity, yet this integrity ironically destroys his soul. He is wise, yet in a sense illogical since much of his judgement takes place on an irrational basis. The novel not only uses the idea of a romantic tragedy, but also takes other forms such as eulogy, bildungs roman and biography. This use of shifting language modes represents Raimond himself changing, both in pace of the story and his opinion regarding his father.
All my life, I have always been very understanding and sympathetic towards individuals with mental disabilities. My cousin has a mental disability called Fragile X, which is a chromosomal abnormality that causes the individual to be cognitively and mentally impaired. Because of my experiences with my cousin and my love for him as a person, the beginning of Rain Man really disturbed me in a way that put me in an emotional state with the film right off the bat. The film Rain Man shows true compassion and character shift accurately throughout it, making it a very entertaining and serious movie to pay attention to. Acting is impeccable to this type of movie.
It’s a dark yet a human portrayal of men who were greatly feared in that time period. This classic Francis Ford Coppola film authentically portrays mobs like we’ve never seen before. The theme of the movie can almost be summed up in one line from the film, “It wasn’t personal, just business.” This relation between family and business is what pops up throughout the film. We see the contrast between Vito Corleone and his son Michael. Vito Corleone is sort of this standard for how a strong leader should be.