Ernst Lubitsch

When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think that Jacob’s grandfather, Abe, must be utterly insane, but in actuality Abe has been trying to tell his whole family the unbelievably true stories from his past. The reader might also think that Jacob lives an incredibly average life, but this novel never fails to prove the reader wrong. In the beginning of this novel Jacob Portman tells the reader that in his younger years he used to idolize his grandfather, Abe Portman. Abe Portman…

How does the past events in one’s life affect him/herself and his/her actions? In the novel, Beloved by Toni Morrison, the protagonist, Sethe, is forced to undergo a scarring experience from the events that occurred while being enslaved. After being sent to Sweet Home, the feeling of oppression and abuse from the violent and destructive acts affects Sethe to the point where she ends up making an irreversible decision. Morrison uses Sethe’s act in murdering her child and the effects of that event…

War has always effected artists and therefore art. Artists are influenced by everything around them, many artists paint what they see be it realistically or in a more abstract way. When there is a war and an artist is near it and suffers from it or see it a world away and is moved by it then it only make sense that these ideas will come out in their art. Unless the artist is a cruel and slightly heart-less person as Picasso was for quite a bit of his life, then the artist will what to speak out.…

population. This came after Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish student studying in France, was informed his parents were detained and tortured by German officials. Seething with venom and anger, Grynszpan marched up to the German embassy in France, where he shot Ernst vom Rath, a German official. Vom Rath succumbed to his injuries on November 9th, 1938, which prompted Hitler to call for “counter measures against the Jews, [to] specifically burn down as many homes as possible, burn down as many…

Fortunately because of history people are aware that this could cause the next major discrimination. Many people are ready to fight the government by registering even if they are not muslim, but register just to mess up the system. General Otto Ernst Remer “He was one of the co-founders of…

In his New York Times review of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, Vincent Canby said: “in the filmography of Werner Herzog…‘Nosferatu, the Vampyre’ looks to be a kind of charming diversion…it’s something less than the voyage of self-discovery that each of Mr. Herzog’s earlier, very original films has been…[Dracula is] not some profoundly complex character.” With all due respect to Vincent Canby, I completely and fundamentally disagree. On the one hand, I can see Canby’s angle—Herzog had already built…

“I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species.”-John Hughes. The films of the late John Hughes culminated the influence of a generation in comedy, while marking an advent of cinematic ingenuity during the 1980’s. Selling jokes and working in the offices of National Lampoon Magazine, Hughes arrived on-screen in his early 30’s. Ushering in a series of teen hits such as, Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and Pretty in Pink (1986),…

Vincent Price The man behind it all In the mid-20th century, movies from the 50’s and 60’s were simple and yet captivating with many different genera’s to choose from. Some of the films where adapted to fit stories and epic tales you might find and remember from older books and fables from the past. Some of the best films focused on the classical Greek periods, the medieval times, renaissance period’s old westerns and modern day flicks with a strange horror aspect in it. Vincent Price was one…