How my favorite character was depicted in the movie?

How my favorite character was depicted in the movie?

Mercutio "A gentlemen…who loves to hear himself talk" as he once was described by Romeo is Romeo’s best friend. A character who is neither a Capulet or a Montague plays a rather important role in the plot. Mercutio is one of the main characters in Shakespeare’s play and one of its most memorable characters, remaining true to his essence in a different scenario. Mercutio is one of the most unique characters ever created by Shakespeare with his stage-stealer personality and untamable mind and spirit, the uniqueness of this characters was uniquely and joke-like portrayed in the movie.

First of all, Mercutio is a character full of wit and eloquence, characteristics that are both, portrayed and exaggerated in the movie . During the movie we can see him as the funny and full-of-words character he was supposed to be. Mercutio fills with great detail and imagination his speech exclaiming every single word together with hand and facial gestures. He always uses different words to exemplify what he means.  Mercutio is a character who often jokes and teases everyone else, his wardrobe in the movie enhances this trait. Mercutio’s brains when punning Tybalt are the are the reason why he gets himself killed. Mercutio uses his words and intelligence in order to persuade character’s during the story. When we first get to hear him, Mercutio is delivering a speech to Romeo dressed as a drag queen, he uses his appearance and words to convince  Romeo to go to the Capulets party and mock his oblivion about life and love.

Secondly, Mercutio is a crucial character for the plot’s development and the setting’s building up. He is portrayed in the movie as a little preoccupied and without foes guy who chooses Romeo as his best friend and helps him meet his fate. Mercutio is the one who convinces Romeo to go to they party where he meets Juliet, where he depicts down to perfection the time and place the story is settled in by wearing women’s clothes. Mercutio’s dead is the climax of this story. Mercutio is responsible for the climax in the story. He is assassinated by Tybalt, when he confronts him in his witty style about Romeo and his relationship to Juliet. This scene in the movie, is not merely as potent and dramatic as it should be, it does not receive the importance it should have, it is only boosted by the weather change, but immortality was certainly not there. Mercutio continues having importance even after his dead. His dead is the fact that gets Romeo banished from Verona, because Romeo in his thirst for revenge kills Tybalt.

Lastly, Mercutio pierces through the lovesickness  and romantic view of life that exists all during the story. In the movie, just as in the play, he mocks on Romeo’s flairs and supposed life-lasting love. He talks about sex and love, he is a light-hearted and dynamic character who contrasts with Romeo’s oblivion and heavy existence. He represents the relief of all the heaviness and gloominess the characters build up during the story, by using his looks and speech as an instrument to serve his purpose rather than a mere expression of himself.  Mercutio proves himself not to be part of the conflict by blaming both houses on his death, this trait is portrayed in the movie with the color of his skin and his dressing code. He is the only characters who blames a specific person on his dead and not fate.

Mercutio is a strong, light-hearted character full of wit and humor. He is an essential character that helps define the plot in this play. Mercutio is the character who provides an excellent contrast with every single person in the play and their way if thinking, this is why he sets himself apart as a neutral character representing the light side of life and how not everything should be taken so seriously. His portrayal in the movie is an exaggerated and better one. You are able to understand his true self and meaning to the story, because of the qualities that were shown and increased in the movie. The place matches his personality he is a portrait of the time the story is settled in and the situation they are involved in. With a quick mind and humor and a wild and unique personality Mercutio is one of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters.

Freytag's Pyramid Analysis

External Conflict: Society’s pressure, american dream vs. reality, people portraying something they are not.

Internal Conflict: each character in the story faces a clash between who they are and who they want to be. 

Exposition: Lester’s initial speech. In this speech he describes how he lived in total misery, how pathetic his life was. He anticipates his death. 

Inciting Incident: Lester meets Angela. He realizes he needs to change his life around. 

Rising Action: Lester becomes infatuated with Angela, Carolyn has an affair with the real state manager, and Lester gets to know about it. Jane and Rick start dating, Rick has a lot of drug related issues with his dad.

Suspense builds up all through the story, we observe all the complications increasing, we get to know all the characters, their life story, their background, their conflicts. 

Climax: All the conflicts come to its greatest pick when Frank kisses Lester. Rick and Jane are planning to run away. Carolyn's mind begins breaking down.  

Falling Action: Angela offers herself to Lester. Carolyn is planning to kill her husband. Lester is thirsty for the moment he has prepared himself all during the movie. 

Turning Point: Lester and Angela are about to have sex, when Angela confesses Lester she is a virgin. Lester now gets to see her as the kid she really is. 

Last moment of suspense: Lester is about to get killed, but you do not yet know by whom. 

Resolution: Lester is dead. He gets to understand what life is actually about, he sees his childhood, his family, and for that one moment he is truly happy and satisfied. Everything falls down into place. The characters receive a wake up call, their life is not as miserable as they thought it was. 

How the conflicts are solved? 

All the characters stop trying to look and be something they are not. By  accepting who they are, the american dream becomes what it really is, a scam. 

Who was James Dean?

James Dean is one of the greatest examples of tragic Hollywood legends. He was an American actor who died at the young age of 24 in a car crash, only two hours later after receiving a speeding ticket. He became an icon after starring only six movies. The three most renowned are Giant, East of Eden, and Rebel Without a Cause, two of which were released after his sudden death. He was the first actor to become an Academy Award nominee after his death, he was nominated for his role in East of Eden. James Dean with his wit, intelligence, and dramatic thirst for life, became an inspiration to a whole generation of filmmakers, and actors. 

“American Beauty” is a fantastic movie

Twelve years ago American Beauty was premiered in theaters all over the United States. It is a movie that talks about desire, self-disgust, experience against youth, and routines against extraordinary events with delightful wit and intelligence. Full of controversy and truth American Beauty is on its way of becoming an American classic. 

In the first place, American Beauty is an artful uncommon comedy filled with controversial ideas about happiness. American Beauty is all about happiness and how its pursuit leads us to unknown places. We can observe how Lester is dragged into a sexual fantasy with his daughter’s best friend, but it is this same fantasy that makes him reach out for more and learn to love himself, and by doing this he actually learned to love life all over again. This film enhances the idea that happiness can be seen as the only thing worth living for. For example at the end of the movie when Lester is murdered we cannot observe that fact as a complete tragedy, because we know he was able to understand and meet true happiness just moments before he was killed. It is perpetual unhappiness that damages ourselves the most. This is one of the greatest problems in our society nowadays, people get so used to being unhappy, that their struggle for happiness is nothing more than a mere attempt to cover the holes that let their misery out, like with Carolyn Lester, who pretends to be this perfect wife with a perfect husband, but in the knowledge that her whole life is a complete fake. American Beauty depicts how in our pursuit of happiness, many misleading roads can be taken. 

In the second place, American Beauty displays the eternal struggle for power. American Beauty portrays down to perfection the struggle of men against women. Carolyn Burnham and Lester are in an eternal fight to see who will become the head of the house. This movie talks about parents and sons, this generational gap that can either build lifelong relationships or destroy them. Like with Frank and Ricky this gap manages to destroy both of them, Frank continuously stalks his son searching through his stuff and Ricky breaks his father’s trust by selling drugs. American Beauty shows the struggle within oneself and our identity. Frank fights his homosexuality back by killing Lester, because he is not capable to accept the fact that his true self has been exposed. It is a powerful movie filled with overflowing emotions. 

Lastly, American Beauty is definitely one of those movies whose impact is easily felt, but incredibly difficult to describe. It explores and criticizes a lot of issues in contemporary culture making it possible for us to identify ourselves with at least one of its characters, due to the circumstances they are encircled in. You can be either in love with the wrong person, or fighting a war against yourself. American Beauty describes that moment in which you discover life is actually worth living exquisitely, “...and that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.” This film invites the audience to start looking far and beyond, it asks you to stop being a mere observer in your own life. It is due to the fact that it is so brutally right about everything that when it is over you are left with a distressing feeling that you have to start doing something, anything to feel alive. 

American Beauty is a movie that talks about happiness, power, freedom, love or the lack of it in a superbly manner. This movie is an indescribable experience, it is one of those movies that interacts with its audience, causing a great impact in it, because it our search of self and happiness that keeps us tangled most of the day most days. Due to its sensitivity, intelligence, wit, and sensibility; American Beauty is on its way to becoming an irreverential classic. 

A lot of noise, more kisses

She felt like a school girl on sunday, scared, tired, lonely, willing to do anything to win her smile back. She felt life had been drained from her body, she feared that nothing would ever compare, nothing would ever be the same she thought. She was dragged into one of those moments in life in which not the brightest of the ideas was taking place, she was chasing a van in the middle of the night...not very clever of her if I may say, but somehow she managed to stop it, she climbed in, and  went away to finally have dinner with friends.

They arrived to a place, that felt so mysterious and familiar at the same time for her. They went upstairs, cheered everyone, and sat down for a nice, calmed meal with truly enjoyable people, she laughed continuously at the stories one of the guys was telling. He was just so funny and intelligent, but she did not even think of him, because her mind was always on someone else, the boy she was chasing down the street before. What a douchbag he was, but she did not see it. Now they were leaving. 

They went on a trip. She thought she would die, because they were assigned to different communities, so they were not going to see each other for a whole week. Each of them parted to their corresponding communities along with their teammates, she was not happy at all, but she was already there, so she might as well take the hang of it and enjoy it, because maybe everything just may turn out fine. All during that week she played, sang , learn, and ran all over the place, it was the greatest week ever. The most wonderful thing happened when she noticed that she had not needed the boy previously mentioned to feel alive, and so it happened that she took courage and determined she was to leave at sight, she was willingly leaving him in the past, but as in every story there is a surprise , the one in this story is that he dumped her first. The way back home was truly funny, there he was in the arms of another girl, and there she was singing and laughing like if he had never existed. 

Oh boy, but he had existed, and bad habits stick even though you do not want them to, her legs began to tremble again and her confidence was slowly fading away, what if she had made a mistake in letting him go. Not the brightest of all the ideas of course, but it woke up a thought, she needed a friend, someone she could trust, someone with whom she could be herself. Now it is the time for you to remember the boy telling stories, he comes in handy. She had remembered how wonderful he seemed, what a great friend he was to all of the ones present in that dinner. 

She asked him out, he said yes, but he never showed up. So she thought he was not interested, but later on that week the guy showed up, proving her wrong, he took her to dinner and they went on for hours,  after that first date everything just fall into place, he began taking her to all of these great places, like galleries, restaurants, movie theaters, or at least she thought they were. They were playful together, they listened to each other. Then one day he sits down beside her and tells her she does not need anything else, that  he was there to make it all okay, she believed in all the words he said and took a leap of faith, he was the most perfect and greatest thing that had ever been hers. He became her reason for waking up, but in a way she had never felt before, she became anxious of every morning and thirty for life. She had found herself through him, now she was free, capable of anything of everything. All that she thought could now come true, the world was now what she always expected it to be, and the very best of all, she had someone she could call home. 

So now, the run behind that van might seem very stupid, nevertheless it led her home, somehow. Sometimes things work in mysterious ways, so I think somehow it all adds up, maybe things do actually happen for a reason.