Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” Rings As True Today As When It Was Originally Released
Fifty years is a long time in politics and cinema. The year was 1974. It was marred by one of the biggest scandals in American politics – The Watergate Scandal which shook the country. People suddenly were or felt they were being watched. People looked over their shoulders to shake off that creepy feeling. The […]
Storytelling And The Importance of Theme
The theme of a story, whether it be a novel, film, television show, or any kind of narrative, can be viewed in at least two ways. Most importantly, a theme is the idea that integrates everything in a story — the nature of its characters, their motivations, and arcs, as well as their conflicts and […]
What Makes Gangster Stories So Endlessly Fascinating?
With The Irishman, Martin Scorsese has once again made a gangster movie that’s earning big box office bucks and capturing a ton of Oscar buzz. Cinema fans love the genre, going back to the early 1930s when stars like James Cagney (The Public Enemy) and Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) made films about the underworld […]
