Essays Tagged: "Sam Mendes"

An Objective Comparisson between "American Beauty" and "The Sixth Sense",

d many more elements in common than were initially apparent."...look closer" the presiding theme in Sam Mendes' Academy Award winning film "American Beauty". This film surrounds the lives of a middle- ... y well-adjusted and relatively happy people in the neighborhood are "Jim and Jim" (Scott Bakula and Sam Robards), a gay couple with whom Lester takes up jogging. As it progresses in plot, the film con ...

(6 pages) 84 0 4.1 Nov/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

American Beauty

In the film, American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes, two sequences that were of significance were the opening and closing sequences. The open ... therefore highlights that Lester's character has developed.Therefore in the film American Beauty by Sam Mendes, the opening and closing sequences were effective. They were effective as they showed the ...

(3 pages) 85 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Ace of Diamonds, Master of Big Jingles and The Paper Parcel are three New Zealand short stories written by New Zealander Owen Marshall

how these have changed the lives of the boys in each story.In the film, American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes, two sequences that were of significance were the opening and closing sequences. The open ... therefore highlights that Lester's character has developed.Therefore in the film American Beauty by Sam Mendes, the opening and closing sequences were effective. They were effective as they showed the ...

(6 pages) 33 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

American Dream: Comparitive Essay

re of such corruption was devastating, and over seventy years later, "American Beauty", directed by Sam Mendes, provided a similar portrayal. This essay will deconstruct and compare the techniques tha ...

(5 pages) 104 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

A Literary Approach to Road to Perdition Road to Perdition Formalism

on a startling journey of revenge. In order to truly understand the nearly unsurpassed precedent of Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition, one must analyze the standard literary textual elements of the film. ... e movie, Michael testifies "I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road and that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm an ...

(5 pages) 29 2 4.3 Feb/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

AMERICAN BEAUTY (Modern Dysfunctional Culture)

triving for one's individual aspirations over and above the health of the family as a whole is what Sam Mendes' American Beauty clearly depicts, as it strives to portray man's unquenchable need to ful ... y and Annette Bening play Lester Burnham and Carolyn Burnham, a seemingly happily married couple in Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" - by typical social standards, that is. What actually lurks beneath th ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.3 Jun/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

"American Beauty"

efers to embodies the meaningless, empty actions which he repeats daily with no particular purpose. Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" introduces Lester as presently dead, and merely overlooking what used ...

(4 pages) 120 1 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Stereotypes in the film "American Beauty"

n cinema, the first example that springs to mind is that of the film "American Beauty", directed by Sam Mendes, in 1999. Here is a seriocomic look at suburban America, which utilizes various stereotyp ... He is aware that his son has a history of selling and using marijuana, and he routinely takes urine samples from him. Ricky's mother is a piece of work, as well. She has clearly lost her mind. She sit ...

(8 pages) 40 1 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"American Beauty" - Film Analysis

hite picket fence. Quite the contrary. In fact, through the movie, the title seems to obtain at the same time an ironic and sincere tone. I find it slightly ironic because the movie contradicts the so ... t to her husband and to her marriage by having an affair with a fellow colleague of hers. Director, Sam Mendes, emphasises all these aspects as well as others, using the colour red. He effectively use ...

(5 pages) 117 0 3.5 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Analize and discuss aspects of "American Beauty"

IntroductionDirector Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" brought in $130 million domestically, making it the 13th highest-gross ... en less stereotypical. But, isn't that the point of a satirical drama?Sources:American Beauty. Dir. Sam Mendes. Perf. Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning. DreamWorks, 1999.Barsam, Richard. Looking at Mov ...

(3 pages) 64 0 3.9 Aug/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Comparative study of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" in relation to the American Dream

des presented in two well-known texts, the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) and Sam Mendes' film American Beauty (1999).A factor evidently influenced by context is the presence of ...

(5 pages) 60 0 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

American Dream, "The Great Gatsby", "American Beauty" (film) - freedom & power, greed, isolation & failure

gh the study of the texts The Great Gatsby by Francis S. Fitzgerald and American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes, we have learnt these rewards do not come without unrespectable consequences such as gree ... ng". He also has a mistress and a respectable façade. It is a façade reason being the same as Tom's, that he is not truly happy with his life otherwise he wouldn't need a mistress.Failur ...

(5 pages) 75 2 4.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrative analysis : "American Beauty"

American Beauty (directed by Sam Mendes), the 1999 award-winning film, gives the impression of having been conceived as a set of ... herhood, Hentzi argues that this social stereotype is actually the "hysterical manifestation of the same mid-century male anxieties that inspired such far more interesting cultural documents as film n ...

(8 pages) 70 0 3.7 Mar/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

AMERICAN BEAUTY

Superlatively well-made, Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" finally comes out and says, once and for all, what has needed to be sa ... the only seemingly well-adjusted family consists of two gay guys, both named Jim (Scott Bakula and Sam Robards), who will innocently figure into Lester's downfall.If Lester's home life is bad, his pr ...

(4 pages) 7 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Great Gatsby and American Beauty, The American Dream

e through history. However, composers F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of 'The Great Gatsby' (1926), and Sam Mendes, director of the movie 'American Beauty' (1999), explain in their texts that the pursuit ... of human beings and our lack of control of other people and our circumstances. In American Beauty, Sam Mendes looks at middle class society, and the consequences of pretending to have reached the unr ...

(4 pages) 29 0 5.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Closer Look At American Suburbia

0, 2002 A Closer Look at American Suburbia In American Beauty (1999), which was directed by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes ex ... les on her pruning sheers match her gardening clogs." I think many viewers were appalled and at the same time related to her behavior. At the same time we are able to appreciate some of Carolyn's obse ...

(5 pages) 14 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Art of Sacrifice as portrayed in the "Great Gatsby" by F.S. Fitzgerald and "American Beauty" directed by Sam Mendes.

essence of it , The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald and the 1999 movie American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes. Both texts closely explore the responsibility of an individual’s relationship with ... sonal happiness and values instead. Through the characters in The Great Gatsby and American Beauty, Sam Mendes and F.S. Fitzgerald seem to imply that this latter way is better and yields more fruitful ...

(7 pages) 5437 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Evaluation of the textual integrity of the film Road to Perdition, with some reference to the graphic novel.

"Shoot your murders like love scenes."Said by Alfred Hitchcock, quoted by Sam Mendes, and extremely relevant to the corruption of the 1930's, the dysfunction of father-son re ... ol over their own fate. The film has a tragic, elegiac overtone throughout, captured brilliantly by Sam Mendes.The film starts with a shot from the end of the story, and then presents the story as a f ... lm. Dialogue is used sparingly. The story is told very much by the camera, not by the conversation. Sam Mendes gives a lot of visual backfill, and looks for ways of telling the story that do not invol ...

(9 pages) 14 0 5.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Exploring the ART OF SACRIFICE through the American dream in john Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men" and Mende's film "American Beauty"

the 'American Dream', for the characters of both John Steinbeck's prose fiction Of Mice and Men and Sam Mendes' film American Beauty, is presented as a powerful concept through its appealing nature, w ...

(5 pages) 3135 0 3.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Essay on area and country

e-hours sunrise that follows-makes plain the utter artificiality of Truman's universe, while at the same time highlighting the forces massed to keep Truman in his place. Read metaphorically, this sequ ... nues to evolve, the major current films about suburbia (The Truman Show, Gary Ross's Pleasantville, Sam Mendes's American Beauty, and Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven) nonetheless represent this environm ...

(10 pages) 0 0 0.0 May/2013

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays