In Sullivan’s Travels, the montage of the casualties of the Depression that Sullivan witnesses underscores everything that the movie had previously eluded too. Like Sullivan, the audience does not appreciate how horribly that time affected people and those few seconds articulated the sentiment like no words could. The movie itself, made during the Depression, does what Sullivan realizes he needs to do—make a movie that gets people to laugh through the hard times. As Sullivan says, “There's a lot to be said for making people laugh… It isn't much, but it's better than nothing.” While in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, there is not one line that sums up the entire movie’s premise, there is a lot more than one montage to show us. The audience sees Mr. Smith fighting for something he believes in, despite everything that suddenly hits him.
To me a very good book is exciting, suspenseful, and funny the whole way through. Some people would say that this book is sexist because of how Miles and Phelps talk to and about girls. But really that’s the way guys are, and when Miles is with Angie he is nothing but nice to her. Miles’s idol is also a girl so that would make no since if he was sexist against girls. I like the friendship between Miles and Phelps because they get closer as the book goes on.
Antonia Peacocke uses short parts of from different authors to shape her argument, agreeing with some and pointing fun at others. She recognizes some of the steps taken due to the fact that the content of some of the jokes are not for younger ears. She ends her article explaining that although she feels that there is more to the jokes on Family Guy than the offensive crudity that people like to point out she still finds that people still need to realize that some jokes do go too far and take to heart "the distinction between a shamelessly candid but insightful joke and a merely shameless joke".
I would of thought Ziegfield was loosing it, don't fix what's not broken. Although this was a bold decision, it turned out Fanny could in fact do it all. She had the audience in the palm of her hands with her long lagatto song about her man. This song has made her the unbelievable superstar she is today. Written by Maurice Yvain and lyrics by Channing Pollack, the song is about her man, that doesn't seem to be the best guy around but he's hers to keep and she loves him so.
The film writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, supposedly based this film loosely on their personal experiences during their own awkward teenage years. Though I’m not sure how true this actually is, the film is excellently written. There is sensitivity in superbad that other teen movies such as American Pie don’t achieve, this gives the film heart. This is also the main reason that Superbad works so well, it gets away with being immature and crude by using well-written and well-acted parts to create a sense of vulnerability and loveable geeky awkwardness in the three main characters, who constantly attempt to appear cool and confident, particularly around their high school crushes, desperately fabricating stories, with hilarious
I’ve heard people refer to “The Notebook” as cheesy, as a ‘chick flick’ (a label very few of my colleagues can stand because of its negative connotation), as predictable and sappy. So “The Notebook” doesn’t exactly take a brain surgeon to guess how the story is going to play out. And it does unapologetically play on your emotions, practically begging you to squeeze out a few tears. But here’s why I enjoyed “The Notebook”: it’s a movie you can relax and let flow over you. It’s also one of the few films out there that tells a complete story.
The dramatic irony that the reader can predict what will happen as the story progresses, but yet is hopeless to prevent it, reflects how Iago “knows” that Othello is having an affair with his wife, but is reluctant to try to stop it by means other than to ruin Othello’s life completely. Cassio, on the other hand is known by the reader to be a respectable lieutenant, however the view of him by the characters changes. The characters notice how a drunk and disorderly Cassio assaults Roderigo; however what is not seen is how Cassio was manipulated by Iago. As a result, Iago is seen as more honest, and Cassio is thought of as untrustworthy (as shown more thoroughly in Act 3 scene 3). The irony of this is that Cassio is honest and Iago is not.
Those who are native to the area depicted in the film did not all share in the enthusiasm. One reason they held for not upholding the film as an Indian success was that the director and lead actor were both British. Some also felt that the film did not adequately represent this area in Mumbai. Others were not happy with the name “slumdog”, stating that it was derogatory. Despite the mixed responses, the film succeeded in drawing the attention of many.
Both the film and article shows that there is so much beauty in this world, but people sometimes fail to look beyond appearances and see what really matters. Angela Hayes the perfect American girl has an intense fear of being ordinary both physically and mentally. In the film Angela says “I don’t think that there’s anything worse than being ordinary” (Ball). Angela hides this fear by inventing numerous sexual encounters to prove both to herself and to others that she is incredibly attractive to men. “I’m serious.
The author preferred to deal with the latter. As a matter of fact, dramatic irony is the leading stylistic device of the whole story. The self-deluded young writer doesn’t see how ridiculous she is, whereas her much-praised “power of observations” are only a fancy of hers. In this way the author criticizes the erroneous tendency that everyone “with some reading” can become a writer. On the other hand, he disapproves of the young generation’s lack of patience and seriousness in everything they do, including