Past Work - Analysis & Summaries
Ephraim Belnap A picture from my essay analyzing Middle Eastern influences on the Mass Effect video game franchise I'm a good analyzer of film themes and content. This has extended to essay-writing and to a thriving habit of wiki contribution. Specifically the TVTropes wiki that catalogues and recaps stories and storytelling devices. Analysis "The Raid" Raids: Why People Keep Copying Gareth Evans https://filmlitcrit.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-raid-raids-why-people-keep-copying.html An in-depth breakdown of how the methods, tropes, and choreography of seminal martial arts film The Raid have been copied in subsequent films since its release. -- The Quarians: A Mish-Mash of Middle Eastern Tropes https://filmlitcrit.blogspot.com/2021/07/quarians-mish-mash-of-middle-east-tropes.html A breakdown of how the writing in seminal video game series Mass Effect drew from many real-life cultures to make a compelling and dramatically powerful fictional species...
