Essays on Ben Affleck

Feature film “Gone, Baby, Gone” directed by Ben Affleck and based on the novel by the same name by Dennis Lehane does not only keep the attention of spectators but also makes them face a moral dilemma and judge if the final action by the main character, Patrick Kenzie, was right or wrong. In the article about this film, which is called “The cruelest crime of all” and was published by The Guardian in 2008 the author gives such a plot review: “The film has a sinuous, labyrinthine plot and what begins as a combination of police procedural thriller ...

When you look at the progression of Batman over time, the decision to switch from Christian Bale to Ben Affleck for the film Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice seems to be a bit of a surprise. Of course, at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, it looks like Batman has moved on into an anonymous life, having left the sobriquet Bruce Wayne behind. The arrival of Superman and the initiation of a rivalry, though, seems like it would have been enough to bring Wayne back from secrecy. However, there was a quote from a source about this ...

“What happens when wrong feels right and right feels wrong? When situations that appear to be black and white turn out to be gray?” (The Literary Analyst).The bygone philosophy of novelists writing what they desire stands firm. For me, a director holds the same status when it comes to films, in fact all artists irrespective of their desired form of art should have the liberty to think and make people do the same. This perfectly sounds true of Ben Affleck’s triumphant and remarkable debut in Gone Baby Gone (2007), which is an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s heavily ...