Ben Graves

I'm currently a 27-year-old college copywriter (with a cursing BA in Fiction Writing), and enjoy reading and writing in many different areas, usually exploring moral ambiguity as well as socially unacceptable behavior in my writing. I enjoy listening to music profusely and watching films, and love to analyze many of my favorite artists and musicians. I'm working on finding an agent/publisher for my first novel and am in the process of working on a fourth. I'm also a freelance copywriter online, so if anybody out there needs a writer with some knowledge of SEO and/or advertising for a business, I can provide.

HubPages is just a place where I can express my thoughts and opinions (if anyone cares to read them) and listen to others'.

For some comedy writing outside of HubPages, I also write sarcastic reviews of horrible films at www.horriblyamazingfilms.wordpress.com .

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My Top 5 Original Film Scores

Here are my favorite original film scores of all time, from Taxi Driver to The Fly. It's a bit of an unusual list, I know.

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Why I Think Patrick Bateman Wasn't Fantasizing in American Psycho

Lee Howard at Deviant Art Ever since the release of Mary Harron's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho in 2000, there has developed a school of thought that says that all of the atrocities that Patrick Bateman commits throughout the...

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From Brass Eye to Four Lions: Who is Chris Morris?

For over 20 years, British comedy writer, director and actor Chris Morris has made waves in Britain, and more recently in America. Here's an extensive look at his body of work.

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It's Time for Quentin Tarantino to Go Back to His Roots

Quentin Tarantino is a director who has proven to be a great asset to film, but the time has come for him to create an homage to his glory days in the film world.

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Withnail & I: A Classic Even an "Ignorant American" Should Enjoy

Don't know Bruce Robinson? Not many do, unless you suddenly bring up the fact that he directed the recent Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary . Even then, most unfamiliar with that movie's release won't know who the hell Hunter Thompson or...

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  Cult Classics

  Withnail & I: A Classic Even an "Ignorant American" Should Enjoy

  2 years ago

  Don't know Bruce Robinson? Not many do, unless you suddenly bring up the fact that he directed the recent Hunter S. Thompson adaptation The Rum Diary . Even then, most unfamiliar with that movie's release won't know who the hell Hunter Thompson or...

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  Entertainment and Media

  The Birds Who Tweet the Most

  2 years ago

  140 characters can get thousands of people to either praise or despise you in an instant. There is one writer using them who displays this most effectively. Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho and screenwriter of his latest independent...

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  Independent Film

  Troll 2 or The Room? Two of the Worst Films Ever Made?

  2 years ago

  There are so many terrible movies out there it's hard to list even half of them. Not only are there so many bad films, but many of them are not bad enough to be considered objectively horrid; they have good points to them such as editing, sound,...

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  Short Stories

  Hobo on a Train: A Short Story

  7 years ago

  There's only one thing that can make me happy. That one thing is riding back and forth all day, every day. I don't have to drive, don't have to walk, and the best part is, I can entertain. I can entertain myself and the people who are either...

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  Musicians

  Roger Waters: A Brief Glimpse into a Tortured Soul

  4 years ago

  “So ya thought ya might like to go to the show, to feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow. Tell me, is something eluding you, Sunshine? Is this not what you expected to see? If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes,...

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  Celebrities

  The Real Rowan Atkinson

  5 years ago

  His face is instantly recognized in America as the childish Mr. Bean, but Rowan Atkinson has much more to his credit as a thoughtful comedic performer. Much smarter than his most famous portrayal, Atkinson first appeared in England's Not The...

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  Famous Artists

  The Tortured Genius of H.R. Giger

  4 years ago

  While Swiss artist H.R. Giger may have been known mostly for his creature designs in Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi film Alien , he had created hundreds, if not thousands, of other pieces of art in the forms of paintings, drawings, and sculptures. His...