Film Analysis: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Rear Window Argues that people should mind their own business. Do you agree? Rear Window, a 1954 romance/murder-mystery by the renowned golden age director Alfred Hitchcock, is a film that explores a multitude of themes and genres through the voyeuristic gaze of protagonist L.B. Jefferies. Jefferies, or ‘Jeff’ as he commonly known throughout the film, is a middle-aged bachelor recently hospitalised due to his high-risk career as a photojournalist. This hindered condition serves as an important foundation on which the movie is built upon as Jeff’s forced lifestyle being in a wheelchair causes an abrupt stop in his usual high intensity way of life and causes him to quench his boredom in other ways, predominantly watching the other residents in his apartment complex through the ‘rear window’ of his apartment.

The show Band of Brothers was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks who, at the time, recently had success with a World War II film entitled Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg and Hanks used their expertise on war films to craft the exceptional television series Band of Brothers which originally aired on HBO in 2001. The show follows “Easy” Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, from the moment they begin their training to the moment their deployment ends. Throughout the show we see the men of “Easy” Company mature a thousand times over. The men experience love, loss, and death at rate that is inconceivable to someone that has never experienced the theatre of war.

Different Perspectives: Same Story Imagine watching a film adaptation of a movie, then ask yourself, did you ever read the short story version? Sometimes they could be constructive due to the different perspectives of the author and the director. Like Edgar Allan Poe, the enigmatic author of the 1800s published “The Pit and the Pendulum” in 1842 to illustrate the darkness of death. In this short story the narrator who is sentenced to death finds himself striving for an escape.

Nhat Nguyen Professor Carter ENGWR 302 11/08/2016 Extra Credit The Mask You Live In I have seen “The Mask You Live

“Rip Van Winkle” is a short story by, Washington Irving. It was written in June 1818, after Washington was spending time with relatives, remembering their times in Sleepy Hollow. The interesting thing about this author is that he wrote this story based from his personal memories and experiences of living in the Hudson Valley. It is also partly based on local history, but with European myth and legend. Today, “Rip Van Winkle” is a well- known story tale.

The war based movies usually grab the attention of viewers. The amazing tale Beasts of No Nation is novel which is written by the Nigerian-American in 2005, who Harvard-educated student and author Uzodinma Iweala, The Nove lwas adapted as a film in 2015. The novel which is adapted as a film in 2015 is about the young poor boy, Agu, Who is forced to join a group of soldiers in some unnamed West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first conflicted by simultaneous revulsion by and fascination with the mechanics of war.

The analysis of “The Shining” directed by Stanley Kubrick The Shining is a horror movie filmed by Stanley Kubrick. It bases on the namesake novel written by Stephen King. The film tells a story of the Torrance family that included Jack, Wendy and their son Danny that shows signs of strange powers from the beginning of the movie. The trio went to the Overlook Hotel where the husband would work as a caretaker during the winter.

Huckleberry Finn is being looked after by the widow Douglas, who tries to adapt him to a civilized life. One day his drunken father shows up, and both him and his father decide to make an outing together. But Huckleberry escapes from his father and arranges to make it look like he had been killed. After a few days he meets Jim, the servant of the widow Douglas. Jim is on the run north where he thinks he can buy his family freedom.

How does the movie Brokeback Mountain distinguish the attitude towards the LGBTQ group of the people in American culture during the time between 1970s and 1990s? Brokeback Mountain is an exquisite romantic drama film that depicts the romantic relationship of two men. Ennis and Jack worked together herding the sheep on the Wyoming Mountain. After one night of heavy drink, they started a passionate sexual and emotional relationship ever since. However, when the summer was over, the two lovers’ different destinations ended their secret love.

The box was used by the dead man to invite victim for his self-reconstruction. 7. THE SHINING, released in 1980. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Stephen King. Casts included were Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Jack Nicholson.

The book “Dragonwings By Laurence Yep” that in the beginning that there’s a boy named “Moon Shadow” and he lived in the Middle Kingdom,and he lived with his mother, and he explains how his lifestyle in the Middle Kingdom. His mother and grandmother tells him about his grandfather and how he got lynched by white people or which in the case they call them “demons” after that incident,and that’s why the don’t talk about it that much, plus that his father in America to pursue his dream. In The Middle Kingdom a person named “HandClap” and he requested that Moon Shadow could go could to “Land of the Golden Mountain” after some disscussion that Moon Shadow did indeed go to the “Land of the Golden Mountain.” In “Land of the Golden Mountain” Hand Clap

(The Man from Snowy River, 1982) Jim after impulsively charging down a steep valley to capture the escaped colt is reconsidered by the High and Low Country stockmen with their attitudes towards him expressing a newfound admiration saying, “He is not a lad…he’s a man. He is a man. The man from Snowy River.” (The Man from Snowy River, 1982)

My-Kayla responded well to the intervention My –Kayla continues to make progress towards her goals. My-Kayla stated, not doing well in school, having to move again, not being able to be with her mom and having to move to a new school. MY-Kala stated, that her feeling are sadness, frustration depression and anger. My-Kayla stated, taking exams, having to speaking in front of her peers, being embarrassed, fear, and anxious.

In the midst of a snowy Swedish winter, the United States ambassador delivered a melancholy acceptance speech in place of Ernest Hemingway. Unknowingly, the words at the Nobel Prize ceremony were prophetic, as the aging author accurately predicted the impact of his deeply personal novella, published in 1952. When he wrote that great works are the reason "a writer is driven far out past where he can go," he could not have known that Steven Spielberg 's Jaws would derive stylistic cues from The Old Man and the Sea to essentially invent modern filmmaking in 1975. Hemingway approaching the end of his life, Spielberg barely scratching the surface of his own illustrious directorial career, the pen and camera have rarely shared so much in terms of

Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of “Speak.” The main character is Melinda, and she goes to Merryweather High School. She has no friends, and her old friends are mad at her. She is an outcast at the school. The author wants Melinda to speak about her problems to somebody.