To answer this question we need to go back to season one of CSI New York episode three (American Dreamers) where a young tourist wants her boyfriend to ask the man at the back of the bus to take a picture of them, as he refuses she goes herself only to discover that the passenger is in fact a dressed-up skeleton. The main characters in the episode include Dr. Sheldon Hawkes a Third Grade Detective who is a former medical examiner with the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and CSI chief forensic pathologist- a specially trained physician who examine the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly, or violently through performing an autopsy to uncover evidence of injury and anthropologist who is a research and application of techniques used to determine age at death, sex, population affinity, stature, abnormalities. First Grade Detective Stella Bonasera whose field of expertise is DNA evidence and is second-in-command in. Detective Don Flack is portrayed as the legal muscle and is often involved in interrogations; he is the one who reads the mindset and psychology of the suspect in relation to crime. Aiden Burn a
His films are engraved by his aptitude of cinematic technique which is epitomize in his way of using camera viewpoints, sophisticated editing and soundtrack to construct suspense. [1] As befits the conductor of mystery and suspense, his films tease with the audience’s nerves, sexually or tabooed topics. His genius was tapping into the most basics of human emotions, fear. However, the way he created fear in his films was far more cutting than merely depicting scenes of extreme violence. Hitchcock could put the audience in touch with how they could become the unwitting victims of secrets, betrayal and even government plot in the midst of their everyday lives.
For one, in the beginning of the movie when he is on the verge of suicide, he is obviously facing a lot of trauma. That trauma led him to get help, hence committing himself in the mental institution. Through the friends he made there, he is able to see that there are better options to life. He help a man who was deathly afraid of the squirrels he saw in his mind overcome that fear and leave his bed that he was practically glued to in fear of the squirrels. This, I feel, is the main thing that motivated him to see a different light.
In the opening scenes of the film, the viewer is struck by the sound of lively music with the viewpoint of footsteps descending down the staircase. Post walking down the stairs the observer is paralyzed in his or her seat due to Harold’s shocking attempt at suicide, by means of hanging. These obvious surprises are sprinkled throughout the entire film, giving it the gloomy, comical mood that is recognized throughout the story. On its most basic level Harold and Maude is a seriously bizarre love story between a morbid 19 year old boy and a manic life-loving 79 year old woman. Bud Cort, who plays Harold, spends a good deal of the movie committing suicide (primarily for the benefit of his mother).
Write an essay in which you explore the interplay of the traditional and the innovative in the Real Inspector Hound. As humans trying to survive in an increasingly complex world, we naturally desire order. This can be achieved through the traditional, logical conventions in a crime fiction, such as Agatha Christie’s “Mouse Trap”. Upon subverting these conventions and featuring absurdist themes, Tom Stoppard creates a satirical creation of a traditionally rational crime fiction such as “the Mouse Trap” with his play, “The Real Inspector Hound”. This is to challenge an audience’s expectations of the play; accumulated due to genre theory.
The film is set around L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) Greenwich apartment whose rear window looks out onto a small courtyard and several other apartments. Wheelchair stricken due to an accident, out of boredom he passes his time by watching his neighbours. The use of a ‘peeping Tom’ concept throughout the film portrays the subjectivity of the protagonist point of view and feeds off of the act of voyeurism making the audience feel a part of this to. Furthermore with Jeff’s confinement to his apartment, serves as the films fixed spatial location thus limiting the protagonists and spectators vision.
The Caveman’s Valentine is a psychologically charged mystery thriller that follows the main character Romulus Ledbetter, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Romulus Ledbetter once had a promising career as a concert pianist, a position at The Julliard School of Music, as well as a loving wife and children. After his life is devastated by paranoid schizophrenia, Romulus is left homeless wondering the streets of New York City living inside a cave in Innman Park. As he aimlessly lives out his days, Romulus is in constant conflict with one of his delusions of Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant who he believes is always watching him and controls all the evil in the world from the top of the Sears Tower.
The movie begins with a romantic scene between Marion and Sam in a hotel room, while their departure is somehow filled with depression and disappointment, due to Sam’s inability to pay his alimony very soon. Then Marion, who works in a real state office, in a moment, decides to steal $ 40,000 and flees the state. On her way, she stops by Bates Motel. After talking to Norman Bates, a disturbed young man and also the owner of the motel, who apparently lives with his old and invalid mother, Marion is murdered by Norman’s mother in her room while taking a shower. Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake.
Hitchcock understood this desire and re-defined how America watched movies. (Thomson, 2009 p. 14) From the illicit opening scene in the seedy hotel room between Marian Crane and Sam Loomis, there is already a sense of disorder. After Marian crosses the line from illicit to illegal by stealing $40,000 from her employer and fleeing Arizona by driving to Sam, she is assailed by guilt and paranoia. Marian’s theft is a crime of opportunity born of desperation. The $40,000 was conveniently left in her care to be banked, her sister is away from home for the weekend, she is already upset, and disturbed that her lover’s dismal financial state has kept him from being able to openly declare their relationship.
Ashley Howard Eng 1102 Professor David Norman December 10, 2012 Symbolism Of Trifles In Susan Glaspell's, "Trifles," symbolism is used to emphasize the meaning of the play. Glaspell writes of a woman who murdered her husband because he was to blame for her cold and lonely life. The women character's in the play, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, solve the murder, while the men, the county attorney and sheriff, wonder about trying to figure it out. Glaspell used symbolism as clues to the murderer's motive that only the women were able to figure out, and in turn kept the motive of the murderer a secret due to the bond of women. Male domination in 1916, when Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles was written, was the way of life.