Movie Essay Examples

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The Incredibles Movie Review (310 words, 1 pages)

What character would you choose from the movie The Incredibles? I would choose the character Elastigirl. This woman is the wife of Mr. Incredible. Her special power is that she can stretch any part of her body up to 100. She can also reshape her body in a variety of ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Shrek 2 (898 words, 3 pages)

I recently watched the sequel to Shrek the other day for the first time called Shrek 2. This movie is about how Shrek saved Princess Fiona from the Dragons Castle and then they go off and end up marrying each other. Which bring us to where Fionas parents, the King ... Read More

An Analysis of Adama Drabo’s 1997 Movie Taafe Fanga (1798 words, 3 pages)

A quintessential aspect of African peoples lives is the community, more specifically how the individual relates to his or her community. When we think of the community we think of the people within that community, and for a community to thrive, there has to be an understanding of how each ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Penelope (928 words, 3 pages)

Unlike many parables Penelope is presented as a modern-style light hearted fairytale. In which with cleverness and humor provides a profound message on self-acceptance as well as love worthiness. Remanding viewers that to be loved, one must first believe themselves worthy of love. In this movie the main character Penelope ... Read More

A Review of the Movies Crash (1137 words, 4 pages)

In Cultivating Humanity A classical defense of Reform in liberal education Martha Nussbaum analyzes the meaning of becoming a citizen of the world and understanding others ethnic backgrounds. Nussbaum stresses how not having the education and the knowledge necessary to understand the needs of others is crucial in life. In ... Read More

Feminism in the Movie The Princess Bride (342 words, 2 pages)

The movie Princess Bride uses many examples of mens and womens roles in society that can be given from the perspective of a feminist. Both genders create a different image in terms of their responsibilities, privileges and natural qualities. First off, when Feeik and Inigo travel to to Miracle Maxs ... Read More

A Review of the Movie The Social Network (1136 words, 4 pages)

Fictional movies are difficult to make. However, in this tough journeythere are some of directors who do frequently end up with anextraordinary film and achieve lots of award. The Social network'' byDavid Fincher is one of the examples of fictional movie well written,well-acted and creative movie, which insights questions about ... Read More

Hazards of Going to the Movies (447 words, 2 pages)

I am a fan of movies and I love to watch movies. I suppose everyone loves to watch movies. Whenever my friends want to ask me something about a movie they come to me. I am a fanatic. The problem here is that I dont like going to a movie ... Read More

A Long Movie of Shadows by Lamont B. Steptoe (948 words, 3 pages)

Lamont B. Steptoe has created some amazing poems that contain a stupefying emotional impact some poems in this collection carry a curse word that disrupts the poems. A Long Movie of Shadows by Lamont B. Steptoe, is spiritual release of emotions. Lamont uses black history, the Vietnamese War, and blunt ... Read More

A Review of Phantom of the Opera Movie (1263 words, 6 pages)

The three main characters who make up the love triangle of the movie are, the Phantom of the Opera, Christine and Raoul. The setting of the movie was the city of Paris at the Opera Populaire. The dates of the setting changes because the movie is film as if the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie To Kill a Mockingbird (1105 words, 3 pages)

The film I have chosen to write about is the movie To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a film that touches base on racial disputes and injustice. The film also revolves around a family that lives in a small town located in the south during the 1930s. During that time ... Read More

Analysis of the movie The Help (912 words, 3 pages)

Would it matter to you if you were to risk breaking the social code just to show something great for the people? Well, oftentimes coloured people and white people may break the laws of society to prove that coloured people arent much different than white people. They go to extremes, ... Read More

A Materialistic World Depicted in the Movie Confessions of a Shopaholic (2213 words, 7 pages)

Our Society thrives on the idea of making money just to buy nice things. Now, this is not completely a bad thing, because some people work hard for what they have and feel they deserve the nice things life has to offer but when does it become a problem? There ... Read More

Animal Farm Movie Versus The Book (697 words, 2 pages)

The movie Animal Farm like many other movies is based on books. Sometimes when this happens differences arise that cause an effect on the viewers. The effect the movie has was that with the movie being told in Jessies (a fellow dog on the farm) perspective the viewers were able ... Read More

Comparison Between the Animal Farm Book and Movie (357 words, 2 pages)

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a story of how animals take over the farm. The farm and the animals are just symbols that is used to represent the Russian Revolution. The story of Animal Farm is based on the Russian Revolution. Comparison between Animal Farm the book and Animal ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Gran Torino (784 words, 3 pages)

How could a movie be complete trash but at the same time an enjoyable one? Pauline Kael is known for her way of criticizing American films. She writes about the different characteristics that makes films complete trash or even enjoyable trash. Gran Torino is a film about a Korean War ... Read More

Lessons from the 25th Hour Movie (1013 words, 4 pages)

The 25th Hour was a great movie, Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) is a 31 year old Irish-American drug dealer that gets to his highest point in selling drugs, but when someone rats him out he gets sentence to seven years in a New York penitentiary and now he only has ... Read More

The Role of a Male Victim in Double Indemnity, a Movie (1682 words, 5 pages)

To be classified as murder, one must have the motivation to kill. Without these requirements a person cannot be classified as a murderer but rather a mere tool that kills for someone's benefit. Throughout the movie Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder displays the protagonist, Walter Neff, as a male victim as ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Waiting for Superman (929 words, 3 pages)

A positive documentary film called Waiting for Superman, impact on me as a parent and a student, but mostly as a student. The movie shows how the education system limits the opportunity for a better future for students. John F. Kennedy our thirty-fifth President of the USA quote, let us ... Read More

A Review of the Movie All Quiet on the Western Front (718 words, 2 pages)

The movie All Quiet on the Western Front is a film about how young men youth was destroyed by World War 1. The moral of this story displays how young men trusted in their families, teachers, and mentors, to make decisions for their young lives. This catastrophe took place in ... Read More

Review of Movie Version of Othello (196 words, 1 pages)

In the 1995 version of Othello there were many dramatic and cinematic elements that made the story more enthralling. The best thing about a movie is it encompasses all three elements dramatic, cinematic and literary. The dramatic and cinematic elements enhanced the mood, atmosphere and setting of the story. Setting ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Lan Yu (3557 words, 5 pages)

The movie Lan Yu is a film based in the late 1980s in Beijing, China about two males falling in love with one another (Stanley, 2001). This tragic love story depicts two lovers longing for each other destined to be together yet in Chinese culture their love is forbidden. Homosexuality ... Read More

Myths in the Movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1293 words, 2 pages)

The story of Perseus is quite different than the movie Percy Jackson the Olympians The Lightning Thief. One difference is the movie is basedon a book written by Rick Riordan. Riordan used parts of the Perseusmyth in his book and changed some parts. Perseus and Percy are bothdemigods however Perseus ... Read More

A Review of the Movie A Beautiful Mind (495 words, 1 pages)

The movie A Beautiful Mind'' is a true story which tells viewersabout a man named John Nash who is suffering from schizophreniahowever, he himself does not know that until the end of the movie. Nextthe movie creates a very realistic perception on how the hallucinationsof a person can be very ... Read More

Comparing the Book and Movie of Johnny Tremain (816 words, 2 pages)

Books and movies are different and similar in many ways. This book had many purpose for reading it like for entertainment. Reading this book would probably be for an educational purpose. The movie, however, was very entertaining. The book Johnny Tremain is a book and a movie that shows how ... Read More

A Comparison of the Movie Mean Girls and the Novel Speak (965 words, 2 pages)

Thesis statement- The two stories are different with respect tosocial problems and friendships however, it is thesimilarities, namely party experiences and parents confusion,that make both stories equally compelling.Introduction - This essay will try to compare and contrast themovie, Mean Girls'', and the novel, Speak. This writer willattempt to show some ... Read More

How Imagination Links Generations: Comparing and Contrasting the Novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories and the Movie Big Fish (610 words, 3 pages)

The connection between generations depends on imagination.In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a novel by Salman Rushdie, and Big Fish, a movie by Tim Burton, stories influence the relationship between father and son. In the novel, Haroun and Rashid had a tough time connecting as well as Will and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Golden Door (1816 words, 7 pages)

Italians have migrated to several parts of the world. From the desertsof Australia to the Northern Alps, Italians have found places ofopportunity and freedom. However, these freedoms have come with a cost,a cost that many didn't realize they had to pay. As thousands ofItalians ventured across the Atlantic Ocean they ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie Crash (1113 words, 3 pages)

"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we ... Read More

A Review of the Movie Saving Private Ryan (222 words, 1 pages)

Saving Private Ryan is a very entertaining movie. Due to the fact that it is very realistic and the plot makes the viewer very interested and captivated in the film. It also displays the horrors of war realistically to give you a slight but effective taste of what happened during ... Read More