Bright Star Film Analysis
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Bright star film analysis. Studying from past student work is an amazing way to learn and research however you must always act with. Received 20 20 this document is 30 exchange credits. Bright star is a 2009 british french australian biographical fiction romantic drama film based on the last three years of the life of poet john keats and his romantic relationship with fanny brawne. Bright star is a biopic that explores the most prolific and creative period of poet john keats life.
Add to cart remove from cart proceed to cart. Jane campion 2009 holly willis. Bright star is a film about interiors alternating between fanny s sunlit rooms and the dark disorderly places where keats ben whishaw and brown paul schneider struggle with the interior imagination. Bright star is a sonnet by the british romantic poet john keats.
Bright star jane campion 2009 bright star. This period of time also happens to be the last three years of his life before his untimely death at age 25. The speaker wants to be stedfast constant and unchanging like the bright star described in the poem s first eight lines. The dulcet chords of a cello begin to sound embellished by a woman s voice moving joyfully through a sequence of notes before harmonizing with another voice.
Deeply felt and intelligent. Full length essay on the poetry of john keats and the film bright star for module a textual conversations. Over a black screen birds chirp in the near distance. It s to campion s credit that she doesn t heat up the story or go for easy emotional payoffs and we re spared even the pathetic deathbed scene that another director might have felt necessary.
Written in 1818 or 1819 the poem is a passionate declaration of undying constant love. In bright star john and fanny court and flirt as if they live in neighboring counties. A portrait of love and loss jane campion s film bright star chronicles the tragic love affair between john keats and his neighbor fanny brawne throughout the years in which keats wrote several of the most celebrated poems of the romantic period. Jane campion s calm subtle and measured film about keats is the best of her career says peter bradshaw.
It stars ben whishaw as keats and abbie cornish as fanny. Cteq annotations on film. Told from brawne s perspective on the romance the film not only reveals the evolution of their young love but traces brawne s introduction and immersion into keats s world of poetry beginning with apathy and ending with passionate involvement.