Stone Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

The year 2014 marks the 28th anniversary since the movie Platoon was first released. It is one of the most honored and best movies of all time. It was released on 24th December 1986. It was directed and written by Oliver Stone, while Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen were the people starring. Upon its release, it took moviegoers, critics, and audiences by surprise as it took home four academy awards including best director and best picture, Oscar awards in 1987. In 1997 and 2007, it appeared in top 100 films of all time in American Film Institute ...

The 2004 Oliver Stone film Alexander tells the tale of the titular young conqueror, played by Colin Farrell, as he grows up, invades the Persian Empire, proves himself to be one of the greatest military commanders in history, and dies. In the film, we see young Alexander growing up in Greece; here, we see the difficulty he has relating to his parents, particularly Philip II of Macedon, his father. After Alexander is suddenly made King of Macedonia following the assassination of his father, Alexander soon takes his armies and starts his campaign against the Persians. For eight years, he ...

Platoon Review

Oliver Stone’s Platoon is a superb depiction of the Vietnam War unlike that of any other in its class. Many other war films doting on the romantic promise of brotherhood in arms during war times, or the heroism of battle. Some rely on the gritty truth of war and death amidst the almost comical amount of bloodshed. Platoon is none of these things, while still managing to show Vietnam like never before.
In an effort to show what Vietnam’s infantrymen experienced on the ground, Platoon begins immediately with the violence, hostility, fear, and exhaustion of war. There ...

Prejudice and discrimination

Summary of the movie
A very rich and powerful man known as Philip Colbert who comes from Chicago and who had plans to construct a factory in a rural southern town called Sparta in Mississippi was found murdered. The regional police boss Chief Bill is under pressurre to investigate the murder of Philip quickly. A well-dressed African-American northerner named Virgil Tibbs, who was waiting for a train in a deserted station, is picked up by a police officer who is a racist. Virgil is found with a lot of money in his pocket. After being arrested, he is brought ...

In this movie Oliver Stone decided to turn inside out the brokerage world, which for most of us, is behind the scenes. He has succeeded his goal incredibly easy. Brokerage world, including the stage of buying and selling shares was shown dynamic and incredibly stylish, so the tension in these scenes was enhanced. The film seems to be easy, even in terms of direction, but that is what makes the quality of the movie really high, and forced to watch almost all of it in ...

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In “The New Rules of the Game” episode of the “Commanding Heights,” it asserts that trade in the context of globalization is uncontrollable. It said that the governments in the third world countries should adapt to the fast developments or else their economies will collapse. The documentary made it appear that after the fall of communism, capitalism flourished through free trade that caused governments’ economies to thrive. Although it presented that the system has further widen the gap between the rich and the poor, it did not suggest solutions that will control the unpredictable ...

The Blind side

John Lee Hancock is behind the scenes in the film The Blind Side. Alcon Entertainment produced the sports drama film, and its central character is Michael Oher, a star player in football. The Blind Side is an interesting piece of art top watch with its hilarious and captivating story flow. The film is based on a true story to portray the events that shape and change the starring of the film.
The story is told by use of flash to allow the viewer to link the current action in the film and the reason for them to be acted in ...

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The Secrets of the Parthenon
The Parthenon is a popular temple dedicated to the goddess of Athena. People of Athens considered Athena as their patron goddess. The Parthenon is seen as a symbol of endurance of Ancient Greece and its democracy. It is also regarded as one of the world’s greatest cultural monuments. It is said that Parthenon replaced an earlier temple of Athena, which historians refer to as older Parthenon that was destroyed in the Persian invasion in 480 B.C. Almost like all Greek temples, Parthenon was used as a treasury of the ...

Recently opening in cinemas of North America and all over the world, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, directed by Mark Webb, follows the events of 2012 reboot as Peter Parker, played by Andrew Garfield, struggles to combine a life of soon-to-be school graduate and sharp-tongued friendly neighbor/city protector Spider-Man. But that is not it – Peter begins to waver about the relationships with his girlfriend Gwen Stacy, played by Emma Stone; Peter had sworn to her dying father they would stop seeing each other to avoid putting her into danger. As Peter’s old friend Harry Osborn (played by Dane DeHaan) returns ...

In the past years, movies marked as “based on real events” appear more often. Moreover, some of the researchers, as well as ordinary viewers claim that almost every movie is based on real events. The point is that sometimes directors as well as screen play writers tend to exaggerate the importance and cruelty of some events. In the most cases, it happens in horror movies or some documentaries. The point is that the main idea of every documentary is to convince people in something. This essay is devoted to the issue of veracity of the events in three movies: ...

Introduction

The movie by Ronald wright emphasizes on the tinted international relations as well as the short comings of progress. We are coming from Stone Age and we are heading to a period that will be worse than the Stone Age since civilization is failing. It shows how the humanity’s nervous system is being rewired from day to day. It shows images of man building, destroying, dreaming, living, dying, mastering and failing. The world is running out of resources. Man destroys their own culture to replenish the exhausted resources. Our destruction of natural resources has made it difficult for the ...