Luck Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of “The Great Gatsby” is the archetype and represents the tragic hero. This archetype is the one the audience sympathizes with and whose luck changes throughout the story from best to worst. In most cases the tragic hero dies and it happens because there is a flaw in his character. Jay Gatsby is fortunate at the beginning of the film when he meets Daisy and falls in love with her. However, his poverty prevents him from marrying her, so he goes away and returns as a wealthy man, but only to see the love of his life ...

The film, The Joy Luck Club, based on Amy Tan’s novel, portrays the story of four women and their daughters who eventually migrate from China to America. The story goes on to delve deep into how they are dissociated from their origins. These women live in a culture and time that is vastly different from the one in which they were themselves brought up.
The four older ladies meet once a week to play mahjong and they name their group as the ‘Joy Luck Club’. During the meeting they talk about stories of their respective families and grandchildren. They ...

Movie1: ASHES

Director: Ajay Naidu
Country/Year: US, 2010
Running Time: 77 mins
Language: In English
Format: Digital
Movie 2
Movie 2: "Better Luck Tomorrow" by Justin Lin, 99 min, narrative, 2002
My thesis is that Asian Americans are depicted as the bad guys in several films and this is the stereotype which emerges from these films albeit with a positive stance.
The first film focuses on ashes (which is short for Ashish) who is a small time New York City pot dealer. Apart from also being a caregiver for his mentally ill brother he also dabbles ...

The Joy Luck Club (1993) was based on Amy Tan’s 1989 novel and deals with issues of culture, assimilation and generation conflicts between a group of four Chinese mothers and their Americanized daughters. All four women in the club had emigrated from China to the U.S. after World War II, and met after church to play Chinese mahjong every week. In reality, they had little joy or luck, and no expectations, only the hope that their children would have better lives than theirs. By the Confucian standards which the mothers learned from childhood, there were very definite differences in ...

A thought-provoking and original film, “The Fog of War” is highly controversial. The critical reception of the film reflected both some historical disagreements over the Vietnam and Cold Wars and appraisal of its ability to speak to universal and contemporary questions. The director, Errol Morris, was accused of presenting a historically inaccurate and self-serving narrative and being too lenient on the major figure of his film. On the other hand, “The Fog of War” won an Academy Award for being the best documentary. In general, the film tells the audience about grueling problems in ethics, politics, and contemporary history. ...

“12 O’clock high” is a classic movie of the Hollywood Golden Era. This movie is shown as an example of leadership, courage and a real male friendship. It focuses exclusively on the principle of command and leadership and could be used as a tool for commanders.
In the beginning of the movie we see the problem of lack of discipline in the so-called “hard luck” bomber group that raids over Nazi Germany. Colonel Keith Davenport show us that his leadership style is aimed to save his men’s lives, but on the other hand, he is no capable of sending ...

Films have developed out of dramatic and narrative tradition in which storytelling is used as a central concern. The filmmakers have challenged the manipulative and seductive power of narratives by using playful resistance to the convention of narratives, or by exploring other forms of medium. For example, filmmakers have used the interplays of gesture and rhythm, sound and image rather than relying on character psychology and plot mechanics. However, non-narrative film has a smaller audience than narrative films. A good example is aircraft passengers watching the direction of the nearest exit pointed out by flight attendants, which reminds the audience the ...

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The movie, North Country has shown the controversial nature and the ugliness of the sexual harassment issue that is still prevailing in the developed as well as in the developing countries (Collin-Vezina, Dion, and Trocme). The story of the movie is an indication of the fact that the prejudice and bias against the women have never concluded in spite of the persistent claims of the theories regarding the efficiency of the law in promoting the equality between men and women. The movie North Country, has, however, also pointed out towards the fact that how the declared official equality of ...

The film Slumdog Millionaire was directed by Danny Boyle in 2008. This feature movie is 120-minutes length. Though Slumdog Millionaire is a British film it is based on the novel titled Q and A by Indian writer and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The film is aimed to depict a story of a young 18 year-old Indian guy ad what role does destiny and luck play in his life. The movie created a sensation in the year of its screening. Slumdog Millionaire won eight Academy Awards in 2009, including the awards for the Best Picture and Best Director, let alone other prestigious cinematographic contests, where ...

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The French film Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Mister Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran) tells the story of a Muslim shopkeeper befriends a lonely Jewish boy named Momo (or Moshe) in Paris during the 1960s, and adopts him after his father commits suicide. They make a trip to M. Ibrahim’s homeland of Turkey, and the boy learns all about his adoptive father’s religion and cultural, which is the mystical or Sufi version of Islam. Both Momo and Ibrahim are members of minority groups that faced great discrimination in France at the time, and in fact Momo’ ...

Robert Zemeckis' 1994 dramatic epic Forrest Gump tells the tale of the eponymous character, a mentally challenged man who recounts his life experiencing some of the most interesting times in American history - the Vietnam war, the Red Scare, the hippie movement, Reagan-era America - blithely unaware of the importance of the events that he experienced. In this way, Forrest's lack of awareness or incuriousness is reflected in the attitudes of the film; in many ways, Forrest Gump feels like a pastiche of the 'greatest hits' in American history, without really exploring them in depth. In this way, Forrest Gump is ...