Ethos

Ethos

Marylyn Manroe

She is iconic to Hollywood  People look up to her, wear her famous white dress at costume parties, has her as a tattoo, and uses her quotes still.

-“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

• was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
• Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox.
• Known as a great actress in hollywood

Casablanca 

"Set during World War II, the film focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis".

• Casa Blanca was released in 1943. 
• Appeals to ethos because Casablanca is one of the greatest romantic movies of all time.
• Intended Argument: Casa Blanca is one of the greatest romance films of all time.
• Real Argument: Casa Blanca is a romantic film. 

Godfather 

"Film stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino  as the leaders of a powerful New York crime family. The story, spanning the years 1945 to 1955, centers on the transformation of Michael  Corleone (Pacino) from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss while also chronicling the Corleone family under the patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando)".

• The Godfather was filmed in 1972. 
• Appeals to ethos, because the majority of us may have seen the movie or no about the movie. 
• Intended Argument: The poster makes the movie show aggression and a video game look to it. 
• Real Argument: Its a movie about the Italian Mafia/gangsters.  
• Many shows and movies have reenactments of famous scenes for this film.