Gene Wilder

pronounced Fronkensteen" a quote made famous by Gene Wilder in the classic movie, Young Frankenstein, will forever be immortalized by those mourning his loss. Wilder 's life is the focus of the media and his life is being celebrated because of his loss due to Alzheimer 's at the age of 83 on August 28, 2016. Best known for his wacky neuroticism, Gene Wilder was born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He changed his name at age 26 to Gene Wilder after deciding that he couldn 't quite see a marquee reading "Jerry Silberman as Mac Beth." Breaking into screen acting with his first roll as a hostage in the film Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder was best known for his iconic roll as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,…

“We are the music makers, and the dreamer of dreams”- Gene Wilder . This quote describes who I am today and why i’m so passionate about music. In my life I have experienced great times, and also experienced hard times, but music has brought me closer to myself and I want to share my small journey of music that I have experience in my life. In my earlier years I was a big fan of Michael Jackson. The renown pop artist was first introduced to me by a magazine I had looked at in a corner store…

through as all the many aspects of the film come together to create a masterpiece. The novel and screenplay written by Roald Dahl truly takes on an image all of its own as it plays out on the screen. I give this film 4 out of 5 stars, and say it is a must see for the entire family with the outstanding casting choices for believable characters, and creative set designs, to the developed plot that all ages will find themselves wrapped in. The casting crew for “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate…

Film Noir started when American film change its context to a much darker subject matter due to the aftermath of World War II. Based from the article of Christopher McColm, McColm gathers information to review the book “Blackout: World War II and the origins of Film Noir” whose author is Sheri Chinen Biesen. In the book, Biesen argues that the term noir emerged during the war era. Noir authors used the concept of post-war American angst to relay to the audience that noir fiction tends to…

Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin. In 1893, this short story was published as “The Father of Desiree’s Baby” in a magazine. Madame Valmonde and Monsieur adopted Desiree for the reason she was found abandoned when she was just a little girl. As she grew older, she found the love of her life, Armand as they had so much love for one another. They had a child, and as soon as they had the baby, the relationship turned out to be bitter and complicated. After a few months passed, Armand and Desiree…

The overall aim of this essay is to compare the film Sin City with the classic style of film noir to see if there are any differences or similarities between them. The analysis focuses on four concepts that I believe are the most classic film-noir associations. Lighting, Femme fatale, a dark world and the protagonist. Already in the first scene a couple of things are established. The first scene is part of a side story that we only get to see in the beginning and again at the end of the film,…

Even though film experts still debate what genre it best falls into, the 1950 Billy Wilder-directed film Sunset Boulevard is, in many respects, the archetypal film noir, and is also widely regarded as one of the most brutally honest depictions of Hollywood, by Hollywood. One of the biggest reasons Wilder’s film is viewed as such an exemplar of the film noir movement is its innovative use of lighting effects. Use of lighting can make or break a black-and-white film much more than it can one in…

it captures death. When Emily’s casket is brought to the graveyard on the hill, her soul joins a multitude of other souls who are all, “ ‘waitin’ for the eternal part in them to come out clear.’ ” (88). Emily and the other deceased can still see the living, but she asks them why they do not care about the live people. They respond by telling Emily that the living do not appreciate their lives fully. The stage manager allows Emily to go back in time and view her twelfth birthday, even after…

Hollywood movie goddess Angelina Jolie Workout and Diet Plan Born on June 4, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, Angelina Jolie is one of the most popular and celebrated American actress and filmmaker. Ex-wife of wealthy Hollywood star and producer, Brad Pitt and mother to six children (three children are adopted), Jolie is a woman of substance who is known for her work for humanitarian causes. She has been leading actress of many Hollywood hits - Tomb Raider, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Wanted, Salt and…

Over the course of a three-hour play, three distinct days are told from beginning to end, along with two other partial days in flashback, giving the impression of a life that is paradoxically both sleepily monotonous and rapidly lived. The irrelevant actions and unimportant conversations that fill these days thus take on an urgency - they are precious moments of community connection, however mundane they seem. In addition, characters in Our Town often note the passage of time. The Stage Manager…