Steel Magnolias Movie Analysis

Magnolia directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson is a truly memorable film which digs deep down to the bone on how harsh life is sometimes. As the film unfolded the ideas of forgiveness, death, chance, and destiny all interconnects and create the story that is Magnolia. One notable theme throughout the movie is the relationship with parents. This really hit home with me because personally, I feel like parents really shape and mold a child with their own actions and personalities. This could be good for the child, but could lead to a life filled with pain and loneliness. In Magnolia it becomes aware that there are a downfall of fathers. Earl Partridge, Jimmy Gator, and Rick Spector all fathers who have placed a burden on their children.

In truth, there is a lot of fabrication of the story; however, the producer applies some elements of the true story that occurred in Rosewood. Based on the movie, the main aim was to provide a movie that is emotionally moving which affects racial affiliation in terms black or white (Gannon, 61). Some of the scenes focus on the emotional reaction, and the depiction of the movie focus on the concept of outside looking in.

The movie Secretariat was released in 2010 and is based on a unbelievable true story. Penny Chenery inherits the horses from the family farm in Virginia when her mother and father pass away. As the farm struggles financially, Penny raises the colt that she won in the coin toss with Ogden Phipps, one of the richest men in America. In all her efforts to save the farm, her colt Secretariat, won the Triple Crown (Wallace, R).

After viewing and an examination of one of Paul Thomas Anderson success film ‘Magnolia’, I have analysed that Anderson uses multiple themes involving regret and loneliness in the film which is connected to auteur theory. What I am going to examine is: How were the themes and the characters are related? How did Anderson’s film techniques affect in the film? And why did Anderson use his similar style within the film? These questions are to give an understanding that focuses mainly on auteur theory in the film.

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell is a nonfiction memoir told from his view of the war and what really happened during Operation Red Wings. Peter Berg directed the movie Lone Survivor based off what Luttrell wrote in his memoir. Although the movie is based on the novel, there are subtle differences between the movie both Luttrell and Berg made in the memoir and movie. These various differences not only change the view and knowledge of this event but also the audiences understanding of the real history of Operation Red Wings.

Honestly, though it's written by Stephen King, Creepshow is not a contender for my favorite horror anthology film. In fact I see this film as below both King and Romero's ability. I only enjoyed less than half of the stories and with the others being fair or simply boring. Which is sad, because I remember this film being far better than it is. It wasn't until I re-watched this film did I realize I had seen it, but it had been so long that it had mostly been buried under other more resent films. The realization clicked during the second story, The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill. As I had remember this short, but I could never place where I had seen it. It makes sense to me that I would remember that one, as it stars King and in my opinion it is far and away the best of the bunch.

The stressors associated in Shelby having a child is that her body may be placed under extreme distress with her diabetes. This places stress on her spouse, her mother, and her father. Shelby deciding to have a child goes against her mother’s wishes, and places a strain on her and Jackson’s relationship. Also, M’Lynn has to give a kidney to Shelby due to her childbirth, creating stress among her siblings, and parents.

American writer Stephen King has written over 50 novels and 200 short stories most of which exists within the horror and suspense genre. Given the immense popularity of his work, King’s stories have often been made into feature films. Unfortunately, the horror that exists on the page rarely translates successfully to the silver screen. For every great King film adaptation such as the classic “Carrie” (1976) and the recent version of “It!” (2017), there are many dismal failures such as “The Dark Half” (1993), “Needful Things” (1993), “Thinner” (1996), “Dreamcatcher” (2003), and “The Dark Tower” (2016). The reason for this poor track record is that the horror that exists within King’s work is contained within complex themes and

The movie Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic romantic-comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks as its leading actor depict changes in the American History. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted but kind-hearted, good natured and athletically prodigious man from Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States.

In the film Silver Linings Playbook, by David O. Russel, delineates two primary characters, Patrick Solitano Jr. also, Tiffany Maxwell, that both battle with mental clutters. Patrick Solitano, who was a previous secondary teacher, gets his significant other in the shower with another man (the history educator) while his wedding tune was playing, in this way in a split second getting to be plainly vicious. Because of going wild on the history instructor, he needs to burn through eight months in a psych ward, and is determined to have bipolar turmoil. Then again, we have Tiffany Maxwell, who is tossed into an ocean of gloom because of a sudden auto crash that murders her better half.

I felt that this movie addressed numerous forms of abuse such as verbal, physical, sexual as well as neglect. Her father, resulting in her having two children, sexually abuses Precious. Her mother verbally and physically abuses her at home. Numerous emotions were at play while watching the movie such as anger, sadness, empathy, as well as hope. Precious was able to tackle all the anguish she faced and persevered. She exemplified courage and strength through adversity. Precious had some very influential people in her life, however, which may have saved her life and her children’s lives. Firstly, the principal at her original school noticed Precious and helped her. She could have ignored Precious and moved her along in the school system.

Straight from the womb she was pulled and taken to that scary machine that pumped her lungs clean. Everything happened so fast, she wasn’t able to feel her mother’s touch, hear her voice, or even open her own eyes. She was born addicted and feeding for that supply her mother used so heavily. The family was expecting to see her but was rather informed that she would be spending the next few days in the hospital, and would not be going home anytime soon. She would be placed with people they call her family, people that weren’t her mother and father, but people that would be able to provide her with the things her parents weren’t capable to. And within less than a day 's time, her life was flipped upside down and all she could do nothing but live by it.

Reviewing Forrest Gump movie is interesting due to special, unique character about a special individual with the different affect him going through extensively with his life. This movie portrayed a character with a sense of humor and dedication to his country and used his strength and his thought to help another. Forrest Gump has become some national icon in the movie portray him a special unique talent. The movie start with Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump talking to someone about his personal love story, career, achievement and the effect of different believe and strong development. The character Forrest Gump has a special disorder such similar to intellectual disability. Throughout the movie, Forrest Gump was a special individual with allot of different personality, but he a nice person and good. In general Forrest Gump was someone has a special mind, and he has the strength he can accomplish a good achievement such as saving lives during combat in the Vietnam War.

Silver Linings Playbook and Bipolar Disorder. Silver Linings Playbook is a film premiering in 2012, featuring a man named Pat, who was just getting out of a mental institution for almost beating the man his wife was having an affair with to death. Soon after returning home he meets a woman, Tiffany, recently widowed with a bad reputation around town from sleeping with everybody in her office. Tiffany knows Pat’s wife, and since she has a strict restraining order against him, offers to deliver a letter to her in exchange for him being her partner in a dance competition she is passionate about. Though the movie primarily focuses on Pat, and his personal struggle with bipolar disorder, it shows the mental disorders of many other characters throughout the film. Pat’s father is extremely OCD about football. Through his superstitions, he ends up making a bet for just about all the money they have and loses, so they partake in a parlay, double or nothing. They bet that Philadelphia will beat Dallas, and that Pat and Tiffany will score at least a 5 at the competition. Nikki, Pat’s wife, ends up going to the competition like he had hoped, his one last chance to win her back. They win the bet, and they score exactly a 5.0. At first, Pat goes straight to Nikki and talks to her, everything looks as if it worked out perfectly, and then Tiffany leaves. Pat chases her down and reveals that he loves her, and has officially moved on from Nikki.

The movie Life is Beautiful follows the journey of a man named Guido. Guido happens to be a Jewish-Italian. He meets a school teacher named Dora, with whom he falls in love with. The first half of the movie follows Guido trying to get Dora to fall for him. Eventually she does fall for him and they end up having a child named Giosue. After they have a child, Guido opens up a half price bookstore and his son helps him run it. One day, two men stop by and ask Guido to come with them. Giosue wants to go with his dad, but Guido tells him to watch the bookstore. While Giosue is watching the store, his grandmother stops by and tells him that she has a surprise for him because his birthday is tomorrow. The next day Guido and Dora are setting up for Giosue’s party. Dora leaves to go pick up her mother. When she returns, Guido and Giosue are gone. Dora figures out that they have been put on a train that is headed to a concentration camp. She demands to be put on the train and she ends up going with them. Guido convinces Giosue that they are playing a game and the first person to get a thousand points wins a tank. This was an attempt to try to protect Giosue’s innocence because he is still young.