Analytical Essay of Rear Window Rear Window is a classic movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, about human curiosity, voyeurism and murder. The screenplay was written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich’s short story, “It Had To Be Murder.” The movie tells the story about a magazine photographer named Jeff Jeffries, who while recuperating from a broken leg, was in a wheelchair and confined to his apartment. Feeling bored and caged in by the lack of anything interesting to do, and also feeling trapped by his supermodel girlfriend’s marriage proposal, Jeff sits next to his window every day and starts to spy on his neighbors in the other apartments. One night, he sees a woman having an argument with her husband. The next day, she disappears and Jeff notices that her husband is acting strange and suspicious.
In ‘Twelve Angry Men’, the playwright Reginald Rose presents a jury of twelve men from contrasting backgrounds that has to decide the fate of a young defendant. Rose wrote the play after being on a jury himself, and therefore wanted the audience to known about the role of the jury and the due process. In this play, the defendant plays a dominant role as without him there would be no case and hence no jury. However Rose deliberately chose not to have the defendant make a physical appearance in the play as this would influence the audience’s opinion and focus their attention on the crime rather than the conflicting jury and their objectivity. Therefore Rose introduced the audience to jurors like 3, 4 and 8 who play a significant role in exposing the Juror’s duty.
His unorthodox methods not only taught the boys to think for themselves, but they also awoke the boys’ inner desires and dreams. This movie does an excellent job of portraying the school’s four pillars (tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence) and the four I’s (individualism, innocence, intuition, and imagination) through members of the Dead Poets Society, specifically Todd Anderson and Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton. Todd Anderson showed the best understanding of the philosophies of transcendentalism, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson’s. Todd failed to follow Emerson’s philosophy of “Imitation is suicide” until the very last minute of the movie, when he daringly stood up on his desk and called out “Oh Captain, my Captain!” to Mr. Keating. He could not hold in his guilt anymore because he felt bad for conforming, or imitating, what the other members of the Dead Poets Society had done in Mr. Nolan’s office.
He uses the tone of the character along with dramatic ‘beats’ to allow the audience to better understand what the characters are trying to say. Doug’s monologue in Act One details the incident which put him into the institution, which helps the audience to understand him better. It also explains the inside joke of ‘Go burn a cat’ which highlights Doug’s instability and the danger he poses to both Lewis and the play. This also allows Nowra to question the effectiveness of modern psychiatry and the effect it can have on someone. Doug’s response to setting his mother’s cats on fire was ‘It was the fault of the psychiatrist...he told me I had an unresolved problem with my mother... and I better fix it’.
"Set in the sweltering summer of 1957, Reginald Rose bases his play “12 Angry Men” on the notion that personal experience has the capacity to influence and sway our decisions. *Rose specifically amplifies this ideology as throughout the play, as a myriad of contrasting backstories are seen to be the foundation of the characters judgments. Set amongst a court case apropos to a 16 year old boy convicted of killing his father, the “reasonable doubt” underlying his conviction is explicitly supported by one Juror 8 amidst 11 others. Demonstrating the diversity of the Jurors, Rose illustrates the “2 America’s” that can be observed in the different Jurors identities. In addition the jurisprudence of America enshrines the belief that “the multitude
Instead of showing any guilt, Rainsford actually seems to be more at peace after he pulls the trigger. In the book it says, “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.” The second distinction among the two stories is the motivation behind each murder that occurred. In the “Tell-Tale Heart” the murder of the old man was pre-meditated and was brought upon by self motivation. He says, “To think that there I was opening the door little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts.” This clearly showed that he was having thoughts of taking this man’s life. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” Rainsford kills the General out of pure self-defense.
He takes a moment to explain that the girl looking at him represents him as a boy. He was a boy who entered school barely able to speak a lick of English and came out a scholar far beyond what many aspire to be. Although he became very literate and educated, he was never the quintessential intelligent genius. He mentions that his high quality grammar school, help from his nuns to be successful, and encouragement from his parents did not account for his school success. He was a “scholarship boy,” a boy who never thought he was adequate, always anxious to learn, but highly uncreative.
An example of this is when he needs help from Molly to tie up his shoe laces. The theme Innocence is shown through this character as he shows his lack of understanding to the world around him not understanding why things are the way they are. Innocence is also shown through Tommo’s age. Events also help to portray this theme when Tommo doesn’t know how to ‘tie his shoe laces’ and molly (a main character) helps him to learn how to. Tommo, being seen as one of the younger ones at war, had innocence present because people treated him like the ‘baby’ of the group.
The Bizarre Symptoms of A Beautiful Mind Angela Clarkston Erin Ugboaja PH 132- General Psychology 04/10/2013 Alcorn State University Abstract This paper offers a review of the Ron Howard film A Beautiful Mind. It also links the film's premise to what I learned from class and its accompanying textbook. The main focus and appeal of the film lies in its interpretation of the condition of its main character, John Forbes Nash, Jr.: paranoid schizophrenia with delusional episodes. At least four scenes in the film illustrate his condition with remarkable clarity. First, the scenes that lead up to the supposed confrontation between US and Soviet forces exhibit his growing paranoia.
(American Psycho).This gives the reader a big clue on Patrick Bateman's view of himself. He doesn't see himself as a real person, and all the people he meets and talks to never get an idea of the real monster that hides inside him. The only way you can meet Patrick Bateman, is if he kills you. This is getting confirmed several times through the movie/novel. The homicides he commit look all the same.