I have always found the myth of the doppelganger very interesting. The idea that somewhere out there I might have an identical twin is kind of intriguing. However, it poses all kinds of questions like whether or not we’d share the same traits, think the same way, have the same talents, etc. The term doppelganger ...
Film is the medium which brings life to screenwriting. A form of literature, screenwriting is frequently based on prose. Literary works are often the muse which inspires modern cinematography. An example of this inspiration can be found in the parallels between Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” and “Fight Club.” The movie, “Fight Club” contains doppelganger ...
John Osborne’s monumental play Look Back in Anger features a complicated script full of complicated characters. There’s Jimmy, a musician in his mid-twenties mired by his relationship with his wife, Alison, who has recently become pregnant. The couple resides with Cliff, a self-taught man of the same age who is “a soothing, natural counterpoint to ...
The best ghost stories ever told are the ones that people claim are true. The Discovery Channel has managed to serve up over five seasons of “true stories” from all over the country. The people in A Haunting are real people. The episodes are dramatized for entertainment effect, but appearances by the real haunted residents ...
