The movie I chose to study was American Beauty. This is a movie that begins with Jane Burnhams, Lester Burnhams daughter, being videotaped by an unknown male. She speaks about how much she dislikes her father, and that it would be a gift to society if he were to be “put out of his misery.” By doing so, it begins to make the viewer curious and to start questioning the film in the first five minutes. Why does she hate him so much? Who is behind the camera? What did he do that would make him deserve to die? Then the camera goes blank and the protagonist, Lester Burnham, starts narrating his horrible routine life. He also tells the viewer that he would die in less than a year causing even more curiosity for the viewer. I think this is a great …show more content…
Franklin’s genre of music ranged from R&B to pop to gospel to soul music to jazz. Her influences were Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward, James Cleveland, Dinah Washington, and Sam Cooke. This album is artistically successful because her music came from the soul and it reached out to her listener. "A Natural Woman," "Chain Of Fools," and so many other songs helped shape the music of a generation. Her music is appropriate in the church setting. It makes you want to get up and dances, however, her lyrics still have deep meanings to them. Some distinguished characteristics about Franklin are her talent with the piano and her powerful yet moving voice. Some interesting facts about this amazing artist are that she taught herself how to play the piano, without knowing how to read music. She now has 44 Grammy nominations and 18 wins, ten of those wins are for Best R&B Vocal Performance. She also has a four-octave vocal range. Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate. Such a range is so unusual because the human voice is very limited and we use only a small part of it. This makes it very difficult to expand the vocal range and articulate such high notes. That is why in my opinion she is a very talented artist. The song “Chain of fools” is about a woman who realizes she is one of many girls in her boyfriend's "Chain." Even though she knows this can never last, she sticks with him anyway. “Each chain has a weak link, I might be weak yeah, but I'll give you strength.” Even though she knows that this relationship will not last she tries to keep him around by telling him, even though she might be weak she is still strong enough for the both of them. The song starts very upbeat making you want to get up and dance. The way she sings the song makes it seem like even though the woman in the song is losing her love in the end everything will be ok. “A Natural Women” is about a