Pleasantville: Stereotypical Image Of The 1950s

Pleasantville changed. In the beginning of the movie everyone were “equal” and by the end of

A conflicts occurs when she engages in this change because of her uncomfortableness with structure. While experimenting her new lifestyle, she goes to a room with all the walls are white and decides to live there; the white walls a demonstrate a fresh new start, which is exactly what she intends to do. Godwins states "She tried these personalities on like costumes, then discarded them." (Godwin 41) When she has to play the new role, she starts to feel captured and has to conform to the structure of the new character. Once she arrives at the point, she gets rid off the role and goes on to the next. A feminist would view this character a lost person in search of empowerment. She wants a life she is in control but does not want to conform to a structured lifestyle which can possibly lead her to the destruction of her and her family.

The movie starts off with a group of teenagers in school, all from different social groups. They all meet in detention on a Saturday where they are forced to sit in complete silence and they get assigned to write a paper about “who you think are” by their principal Vernon. Throughout the movie their minds are exposed to the different lives and experience of each other; with that they create this bond that

She realises that she has been living with a stranger, since the whole marriage is a charade to fulfil the expectations of Victorian society.

Anyone who has ever been a high school student can probably find some way to relate to the characters in the film. The movie revolves around 5 students who for various reasons have been sent to Saturday detention by principle Vernon. The principle asks each of the students to write a one-page paper on who they think they are. As the day progresses, we see the teens begin to bond with each other and find out about each other and themselves.

When entering Pleasantville David and Jennifer transform into the characters, Mary-Sue and Bud. David was a big fan of the show but Jennifer

A very interesting movie On Golden Pond. Not only learning as you get older there are a lot of changes as well when exploring your adolescent’s years. Confusing, anxiety, anger, and a lot more feelings that occur throughout the journey to late adulthood. The movie was mainly on the characters Billy, Chelsea, Ethel, and Norman who were viewed dealing with biological, cognitive, sociological experiences while dealing with obstacles of family struggles.

The settings of the films takes place in a peaceful suburban community. For Tim Burton’s film, there is a vastly dark mansion that looks upon the town which is Edward’s home and where he was created. The film leaves its actual location up to the viewer's imagination. It also takes place during the late 1950s’ which was the era of conformity and the majority of the film is some kind of flashback from one of the main character’s memory so the timeline of the film would last a few decades. The colors used are to show the contrast between the two worlds for both films. Bright pastels colors are used in the suburban area as compared to the dark and melancholy colors used to show off Edward’s home and world. Pleasantville is a movie set in 1990 where the major characters are a brother and a

“Later that night when Thomas roller over and lurched into her, she would open her eyes and think of the place that was hers” this proves the point that she cannot even express herself sexually because she does not feel as if she has control in the situation.  Her mind wanders elsewhere, in a place where she is her own master, instead of what is reality. Additionally, the main character’s husband shows some selfish tendencies in the fact that he may not notice his wife’s discontentment with his affection.  However, this may also present the lack of communication between man and wife and therefore may cause a sense of isolation from her husband.

The film starts with two teenagers, David and Jennifer. David has an addiction to old reruns of a fifties sitcom also by the name of "Pleasantville". Jennifer is the complete opposite of her brother, leading a rather promiscuous lifestyle. During an argument, their TV remote

Almost Famous The movie, Almost Famous, is based on a fifteen year old teenage boy named William Miller, who rises from a high school nerd to a rock ‘n’ roll journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. The character and story are based on a real life story of Cameron Crowe, the film's writer and director, who was a teenage Rolling Stone writer himself. It portrays how Crowe fell in love, lost his virginity and met heroes that are shared by the protagonist himself. Influenced by the works of rock music and artists his sister had left behind, William gets assigned by Rolling Stone magazine to do a profile of a rising rock band, called Stillwater.

"I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.” This was a statement given in an interview by Director Gary Ross after the release of his film, Pleasantville. Pleasantville, a film that basically represents anti-nostalgia, takes the use of Technicolor and uses it as a metaphor for peoples desires, fears, and maturation.

This movie tells the story of a young man, from Southern California, that is the product of several unfortunate incidents, and his misguided search trying to answer the question why his life is the way it is.

changed who she was as a person. He forced her to become distant from her family and even put

This movie was about the main character Trevor (Ben Foster) and his sophomore year of high school. His film teacher (Tom Cavanagh) asks him to be the lead of the play “Bang Bang You’re Dead”. There was a lot of opposition from the school and the community because of the content of the play and the history of Trevor. The play was almost canceled, but in the process Trevor attempted suicide and his friends known as the Trogs attempted to shoot up the school. The play was a major hit in the community