LA Confidential film review

  

  LA Confidential film review 

   

   LA Confidential is a really good film.It is only one of the best movies of 1997. It is a story of three different cops drawn together to solve a murder that has everyone as a suspect. Russell Crowe  plays Bud White a good but very violent cop. Kevin Spacey plays Jack Vincennes a cop who loves the spotlight, he is showing to Hollywood how to be a real cop, he gets information by Danny De Vito who plays  publisher Sid Hudgeons, for an exchange . Finally, Guy Pearce  plays Ed Exly, he is a good cop but he is to scared to make mistakes and he is against violence and very different from other two cops. The three cops can't stand each other, but must work together to find out just what went on in that mysterious murder. This film also has a love line to it, Bud White (Crowe) falls in love with Lynn Bracken played by Kim Basinger  who is a prostitute that looks like Veronica Lake a famous actress of that time.   Kim Basinger took the Academy Award for best supporting actress and I think she deserves it. James Cromwell plays Dudley Smith head of the LAPD. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards all together.  

This film is a crime drama. Actors did a good job playing roles, LA Confidential film is old, but people all over the world are still watching it just because it shows the atmosphere of those times and how people were during that time. Cops were working but now they are lazy and they don't care much about completing their job anymore.  

Success is counted sweetest

                                             Success is counted sweetest.

                                                     Emily Dickinson.

In the poem “Success is Counted Sweetest” Dickinson employs allegory, metaphors and diction to create a sense of melancholy commenting on people who are not appreciating their success. The poem is written in third person. The first stanza introduces the idea of success being the sweetest in its absence, i.e. success is best appreciated by those who don’t have it. 

In first stanza author opens the universal concept and how people don’t appreciate it, but in this stanza she focuses more on people who never succeeded, she uses metaphor to make a stronger impression on the reader she is comparing nectar to success and also using diction between the first line and the third one. Also she repeats the sound s and,to a lesser degree,n.This is alliteration.”Sorest” is used with the older meaning of greatest,but can it also have the more common meaning. The association of “nectar” is good.

                                                        

Success is counted sweetest

 By those who ne’er succeed

                                                To comprehend a nectar

                                               Requires sorest need

She is making an ascent on nectar being sweet and by that she is creating diction. The last line is talking about sexuality and beauty.

In stanza two,”purple” represents royalty; the robes of kings and emperors were dyed purple.It is also the color of blood. In a battle, flag represents victory, in this poem victory is described in terms of taking the losing side’s flag. People don’t apprisiate the victory because they know how to win.

 In stanza three, most of the words are connected by sound d or by sound s. In first line Dickinson is using allitiration using ....,defeated,dying,

Author is compressing language and omitting connection in last three lines.The dying man’s ear are not forbidden; rather,the sound of triumph and forbidden to him because his side lost the fight. The triumphant sounds that he hears are clear to him; rather, he is agonized at hearing the clear sound of triumph of the other side. They are “distant” literally in being metaphorically in not being part of his experience;defeat is the opposite of  “distant” from victory.

In the poem “Success is Counted Sweetest” Dickinson employs allegory, metaphors and diction to create a sense of melancholy commenting on people who are not appreciating their success. The author clearly explains and opens up the main idea of  the poem which is: success is important for poeple who never experienced it. Emily Dickinson’s poem can be connected to Sylvia Plath’s because they are both dealing with the man leading is society and they have similar style in writing. I personally didn’t like this poem as much as I liked Allan Poe’s poem about the time it has more imegery to it and more emotions. This poem didn’t make me feel anything. 

History boys))

  Comparison between the film called History Boys and the book.

After reading the book and  watching a film I understood that the story line goes in slightly different order. I noticed that some characters are different in the film,some of them are represented  defferently then it’s shown in the book.For example Headmaster seems more demanding and serious in the book,where in the film he looks more cunning and nicer then expected.Posner’s caracteristics are showing more in the film then they are in the book because, through the visual image people can see that he is more into male sex without even him talking about it.Also in the film Irwin is having his classes outside and it wasn’t even in the book, plus Dakin’s scene of having sex with Fiona is completely gone from the film and not mentioned.One character was added into the film in order to show that boys have more then just three teachers,that’s why the art teacher was added into the film and wasn’t mentioned in the book.The other moment made me think, why was headmaster’s wife replased by random bus lady? She saw Hector touching the boy in the film, but in the book it was headmaster’s wife.Also Irwin is not in the weelchair towards the end of the film but in the book he is.In the book author doesn’t tell us that one of the students (Lockwood) dies.Posner changes more in the book then he is the film, film director changed a lot of little bits and pieces and in my opinion that the film would be so much better if it had all small details from the book.