Imagery Questions
Imagery (A)
· Quote image & identify
· Say what is compared to what.
· Just as…so too…
(showing what they both have in common)
This shows/ is effective …
Passage 1:
A sequel followed in 1989 which nobody was really very proud of. And while Aykroyd and Ramis spent the next 20 years trying to get a third movie off the ground, the sticking point was always the biggest star - Murray went on to become a serious actor, and running around Manhattan busting spirits was not what a serious actor in the 1990s was supposed to do. "I don't blame him," says Aykroyd, wistfully. "He did I and II, but an actor wants to move on. I'm one of his great friends and he mine. I created this franchise, I'd love to do 10 of them but he didn't wanna revisit it." So, while the ghost lay dormant, what Ghostbusters came to signify only grew in strength and stature.
a) Identify the image used in the last sentence.
b) Explain how this image helps the reader to understand what happened to the plans for Ghostbusters sequels.
Passage 2:
Many of the jokes in Ghostbusters stem from the idea that, ghosts aside, Manhattan itself was an out-of-control wild west place, a Gotham city where a man could collapse against the windows of the Tavern on the Green, the ritzy restaurant that used to be in Central Park, and the diners would simply ignore him.
What does the image “a Gotham City” tell the reader about what kind of city New York is portrayed as in the film “Ghostbusters”?
Passage 3:
Ghostbusters is as much a love letter to New York as anything Woody Allen ever wrote, and a much less self-conscious one at that.
Explain fully the use of the image of Ghostbusters as a “love letter”.
Passage 4:
For me, a time before Back to the Future exists only in theory. Some films embed themselves so early and deep in your psyche they take on the status not of works of art, nor even cultural relics from your childhood. They feel like vital organs. Remove their influence and the whole structure constructed on top could collapse.
“They feel like vital organs.” How does the writer use imagery here to stress the importance of Back to the Future?
Passage 5:
Plotted with watchmaker-precision by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, and directed by the latter, this 1985 release charts the escapades of time-travelling teenager Marty McFly (Michael J Fox).
What does “watchmaker-precision” tell us about the plotting of Back to the Future?
Passage 6:
Marty is a puzzle: short, immature, but brave; cool enough to pilot his skateboard on busy main roads yet apparently without friends of his own age, platonically attached instead to a white-haired scientist he knows as Doc (Christopher Lloyd). Marty has an apple-cheeked girlfriend (Claudia Wells), is a boyishly good-looking dude, but he comes from duff stock: mum Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is an alcoholic and dad George (Crispin Glover) is a weed, perpetually bullied by his former high-school tormentor, now boss, Biff (Thomas Wilson).
Comment on the use of the image of Marty’s father as “a weed”.
Passage 7:
From then on Carpenter masterfully orchestrates proceedings. The menace of the dark polar night and the claustrophobic confines of the base are utilised to raise the fear, tension and paranoia to unbearable heights. This is a creature that doesn't just hide in the dark, but could be your friend, your colleague, or the girl beside you whose hand you are breaking in a terrified vice-like grip.
How does the writer use imagery to imply that the date isn’t going too well?