“Bang Bang You’re Dead” was a very intense movie. Executive producers were Norman Stephans and William Mastrosimone. Key actors were Tom Cavanagh, Ben Foster, Randy Harrison, and Jane Maloney. Overall the movie was great and had a powerful message. 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
After the American Revolution there were many of the American people who were lost as to whom they were now. There were two definite groups that had been created, those that were for the revolution and those that were against. At the same time, there were some that had just ridden along for the ride. When the revolution came to an end, there were people who were stuck in the middle confused as to who they were and what being an American specifically meant. Washington Irving shows this fear in his short story called “Rip Van Winkle”. In this short story, he brings to life the common fear and confusion that was among the people. Few were sure of who they were and who was considered their friends or their enemies. I want to show how George
The setting of this movie is at a prestigious all boys' high school called Welton. Many
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
The movie, And the Band Played On, discusses the origin of the AIDS virus and how it spontaneously spread across the world. It used the Ebola disease to foreshadow the forth coming of another serious disease. The world was not prepared to handle such a contagious plague. Doctors around the world assumed that the first cases of the HIV virus to be just an abnormality of a certain disease, their carelessness of this matter was the start to the spread of this disease. Throughout this movie, it illustrates different points, such as the beginning of HIV, the misconceptions it gave, and the panic it aroused amongst doctors and the common people.
Set in 1971 Alexandria, Virginia; High school football is the town's most popular sport. The school board is under a court order to integrate the public schools. In the process of integration, tension amongst individual in school becomes high. This film is a perfect
This movie is mainly about a sixteen year old kid named Craig Gilner. Craig is a young kid who comes from a pretty normal family, has friends, goes to school and has somewhat a social life, but yet still suffers a psychological disorder known as depression. This disorder Craig is battling with makes him afraid he might commit suicide, so he seeks help by going to a psychiatric facility having the mindset that he would be prescribed some drugs or at most treated that same day. Little did he know that he was going to be checked into the facility and had minimum of 5 days before he could be discharged. While in this facility he encountered different types
The playwright was trying to get quite a few messages when he created this play. First of all, I believe he was trying to show social change and the power and potential that an individual has inside of them, despite their circumstances. I think that this play/movie reveals the true messiness of life and how with the right mindset, you can make it through anything you
The movie tells the story of two hit men, a mob boss and his wife, and an aging boxer. The stories of these people are put together to create a bizarre yet funny movie.
The movie, Ordinary People, is about a family that is currently suffering the unexpected death of their son, Buck, due to a boating accident. Shortly after, their youngest son and now only child, Conrad, tries to committee suicide by slitting his wrists, but was saved by his father, Calvin, who found him in the bathroom. Conrad was with
The movie told us a story about how love never dies. Demi Moore portrayed a woman named Molly who lived with her boyfriend Sam. Sam had a greedy and money grabbing partner Carl played by Tony Goldwyn. This is the typical kind of partner who has no real life of his own and will do anything he can to get millions. Of course these kind of characters never mean to do anything harmful to their supposed friends but something always goes wrong. Carl arranges to have a sleazy character rob Sam in order to get what he wants from him and finish his sleazy business deal. Sam and Molly are coming home late one night when the “pretend” robbery happens. Unfortunately Sam chose to fight back and gets knifed. He dies there on the street and soon realizes he has become a ghost.
Not a commercial success but a cult classic that gained popularity after its release. This was the same year that Back to the Future had come out starring Christopher Lloyd who plays an intellectual Professor Plum in the movie. Critically or commercially the movie did not make box office success, but - it has received mixed reviews from audiences. Six guests are invited for dinner to a mysterious mansion and over the evening there are a sequence of events that are funny and murders that take place. Their task is now to find out who is responsible for the murders before time runs out and
in school. The main character in the movie is Robin Williams played professor John Keating.
The is a variety of movies that can attain people’s attention. Whiplash is one of many amazing films that presents that presents a moral to the audience and critics. It presents the idea that certain adolescents have goals to achieve. In the movie, the protagonist, Andrew Neiman attends to a prestigious music school in New York. As the time progresses, he confronts many obstacles on the path to his success. Andrew’s mother abandoned him at an early age, this situation forges him to become closer to his father. At Shaffer school, the music instructor, Terence Fletcher, discovers Andrew exactly when he was playing drums. Additionally, the famous conductor asked him to form part of the band. Innocently, the ambitious and inspired Neiman
The skriker is a play written by Caryl Churchill, which follows two teenage mothers, Josie and Lily, while they are being tormented and harassed by a shape-shifting fairy, named The Skriker. Josie is in an asylum, where she had been taken after murdering her new born baby, and baking her in a pie. The other teenage mother, is named Lily, who is currently pregnant, and is the best friend to Josie.
movie then unfolds as part of the paper that Danny is writing. It goes through how Derrick and