Pride

Beeeep… beeeep…beeeeep. It’s 4am. This Friday morning in particular is brisk, compared to the unusually warm temperatures slowly allowing a season we used to know as fall fade from our memories. Most of America is rolling back over into the comfort of a warm bed, recovering from our first taste of the weekend, or just [...]

Transcend

“…and the final score… your St. Francis University Red Flash two… and the Quinnipiac University Bobcats zero.”
The announcement echoed from the loudspeaker as though I needed to hear it again and again to firmly cement what I already knew had happened, though it still did not seem real. Was this game really over? Was [...]

QU Foo

Check out QU Men’s Soccer Highlight music video from the record breaking 2007 season.

Life

“Hey, where’s Ralph at?” Ben casually asked.
The question hit me as a surprise more than anything as I sat rigid in the uncomfortable plastic covered seats that seemed to be standard on all these yellow school buses.
“I don’t know…isn’t he in the back?” I replied.
“Nah, I haven’t [...]

A Moral Write

David Mamet’s satirical commentary on the ironies of big budget film making in State and Main is an insightful look into the modern commercialized process. His remarks on the hollowness of the studio industry is entertaining and eye opening. In a medium known as an art form, we find that for most of the films [...]

Player Please

Although it is the thriller component in Robert Altman’s The Player that hooks the audience, carrying the story to its climactic twist, as film students we can appreciate an examination of the element of satire he creates depicting the film industry itself. As Altman’s commentary would attest to, the industry has fallen, for better or [...]

History Repeating: A Take From Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation

Undoubtedly, it is possible to write a screenplay, as Charlie Kaufman suggests, without any of the ingredients in McKee’s recipe for success: sex, violence, drama and conflict. The problem for Charlie is that he assumes this would be breaking new ground in the world or screen writing, where in reality, this type of film already [...]

I Will Show You the Life of the Mind

In the case of the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink, a controlling idea can exist when we view the film through a typical arch plot structure. By using this structure as our spring board, our controlling idea can be recognized as a “what if” question. The question the Coens raised in their screenplay read something to [...]