Essays on Entertainment

‘Goyo, Ang Batang Heneral’ was based on a true story in Philippine History. After the assassination of General Luna, the story of General Del Pilar also known as ‘Goyo’ was started. He was the favourite general of Emilio Aguinaldo during that period. Aguinaldo ordered Goyo to continue Luna’s task so that no one will strike...

Film analysis Split Split is a 2016 thriller / psychological horror film starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor Joy, and Betty Buckler. The director and producer is M. Night Shyamalan. In this film, James McAvoy plays Kevin Wendell Crumb, a dissociative identity disorder, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Casey Cooke, a kidnapped girl, and Betty Buckley plays Karen...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – based on one of the famous Brother Grimm’s tales – was released in 1937, costing 1.5 million US dollars, and is Disney’s first full-length animated feature. The movie was first known as “Disney’s Folly” since many doubted that the audience would sit through a whole animated movie (Wasko,...

In my essay I will be talking about composition in the films ​‘Aladdin’​ (2019) directed by Guy Ritchie and ​‘The nightmare Before Christmas’ ​(1993) directed by Henry Selick. I will be talking about how they both communicate the meaning of change in scene 1, for example in ​Aladdin​ they explore the meaning of change negatively...

“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.” These are the opening lines of a book unimaginably iconic, it prompted the making of 4 movies, Jaws written by Peter Benchley. This book is one of Benchley’s many books about the deep blue and what lies there...

Do you think Asians are bad drivers? Well, Asians have been classified into a stereotype of bad driving, this stereotype is shown through a variety of cultural artefacts like; videos, images, and research papers. For decades now Asians have been put into this stereotype, no one knows where it exactly came from but it’s still...

The Titanic has been known as the “unsinkable” ship or the ship of dreams. This ship was thought to be the unsinkable ship by all the passengers on this ship on its grand departure to America on April 10th 1912. During this journey, a 3rd class artist named Jack Dawson ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) and...

As I watched Alex Gibney’s American documentary film entitled as “Enron: The smartest guy in the room”, it was definitely a shocking story that caused me a lot of emotions since it is mainly focused on one of the biggest corporate scandal in American history. It is based on the best-selling 2003 book of the...

So many people believed that the film Freedom Writers was a waste of time and wasn’t as interesting as it may have seemed. The movie gives you an overview on gang affiliation and violence, being neglected, poverty and adversity, diversity, faith, love and change. There’s so much to learn from this film that it even...

There are moments in everyone’s life where they crave a connection, although they do not get an opportunity because of absences of consistency. The thing is, we need these connections to be fulfilled. Our brain does not function properly without a root system. We need favourable bonds with friends, family and a location. Human connection...