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  • Characteristic Of Many John Woo Films
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    John Woo: from Hong Kong to Hollywood, The Killer and Face / Off John Woo and his "heroic bloodshed" have revolutionized and rejuvenated the action genre, combining melodrama with action to create the male melodrama, in which he explores the codes of masculinity while redefining them. Robert Hanke says that "explosive pyrotechnics seem to be privileged over plot, narrative or character" (Hanke 41) and yet notes that Jillian San dell maintains the opinion that Woo does not "celebrate this violenc...
  • Film Taxi 2
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    A film I have seen I've seen a lot of films, and with a lot of different genres. But I don't think that romantic films are pretty good. They are too boring. The good films are action or comedy films, but the best films are action and com-ed films mixed together. That's why I've chosen the film Taxi 2. It's a French produced film, with a lot of action and comedy. It's a pretty new film, and I saw it in the cinema last month. I've looked very much forward to see that film, because Taxi was very go...
  • New Beginning For Action Films
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    Mission Impossible II: The Modern Spy Film In a film genre filled with heavily accented hero's, fancy cars, beautiful women, and plot distracting action scene's, Mission Impossible II breaks away to stand out as a modern reincarnation of the past spy / action films. Tom Cruise returns to play Ethan Hunt, who is a mercenary working for an underground international agency. He has been assigned to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose, played by Doug ray Scott, from destroying the world. Along with Crui...
  • Thornhill And Kendall Dangle Off A Cliff
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    1959 was an exciting year in the history of filmmaking. An extraordinary conjunction of talent throughout the globe existed. In France, Truffaut, Godard, Cabrol, Roomer, Ricette, and Res nais all directed their first films, thus establishing the French New Wave. In Italy, Fellini created the elegant La Dolce Vita, and Antonio ni gave us L'av ventura. Most importantly, though, in America, famed British director Alfred Hitchcock gave us the classic thriller North by Northwest, the father of the mo...
  • John Woo Movie
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    The bread-and-butter of the film industry is the action movie. Each summer, audiences can expect to see car chases, gunfights and explosions, and studios can expect to see millions and millions of dollars in return. Though most viewers and critics see these movies as 'fluff' entertainment (and rightfully so), there is one director that puts as much heart and soul into his 'fluff' as any number of talented directors put into their 'serious' movies. His name is John Woo. Even though you may not ha...
  • Films And Computer Games
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    Blood, Violence and Gore As Entertainment The Texas Chainsaw massacre, Brain eaters from outer space and Bloodfeastare all films were the title can speak for itself. The are films were violence, blood and gore play an important role. It is obvious that someone has to action, but who? Since the dawn of man people have used violence for entertainment. In Rome they had the Colluseum, nowadays we have the cinema. Violent films are being produced all the time, no one seems to care. Even though there ...
  • Use Of Inter Titles The Film
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    Nanook of the North In 1922, Robert Flaherty debuted his epic ethnographic film entitled Nanook of the North. At the time, nobody knew of the impact that it would have on the entire industry of filmmaking. One of the innovators of the ethnographic film, Flaherty took his camera into places that no one had ever imagined. His expedition into the Arctic brought forth a new style of filmmaking that is still used in many films today. The first thing that everybody must notice about Nanook of the Nort...
  • More Recent Paradigms Of Action Film Masculinity
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    Simply by its name, the action film genre would seem to be the easiest of all genres to describe. In fact, unlike a genre such as the Western, whose generic markers are largely clear-cut (deserts, cowboys, horses, shoot-outs on Main Street, the frontier), the action film can be defined so broadly that it becomes a term of almost no use at all. Technically, as marked by the cry of "action" by the director at the beginning of all scenes, every film is an action film, and all films have action in t...
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
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    Arnold Schwarzennegger Arnold Schwarzennegger was born on July 30, 1947 in a little town called Graz, in the Styria province, of Austria. During his early childhood in Graz, Austria, Schwarzenegger was encouraged by his father to become involved in athletics. Schwarzenegger means black plowman in Deutsch. At age 15 he discovered weightlifting, which led to the title of Mr. Universe at age 20, followed by an unprecedented 13-world bodybuilding titles. His motion picture career began in 1977 with ...
  • Schwarzenegger's Films
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    Billed as Arnold Strong, Schwarzenegger tried his hand at acting, making his screen debut in the low-budget adventure Hercules in New York (1970). After a few years struggling to find suitable film work, he landed his first substantial acting role in the offbeat comedy Stay Hungry (1976), which starred Jeff Bridges and Sally Field. Other memorable projects followed shortly thereafter, including the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977) and the TV biopic The Jane Mansfield Story (1980). In...
  • 2 Trailers For Different Films
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    Comparing the 2 film trailers 'Shrek' and 'Final Fantasy' SECTION ONE Film trailers are 1 of the main ways that film-makers advertise their film. In this essay I will look at the different techniques that film trailers use to persuade viewers to go and see the film at the cinema. To do this I will look at 2 trailers for different films that seek to appeal to different types of cinema-goers. The films are Shrek and Final Fantasy. Shrek is aimed at children because it is a fairytale comedy & Final...
  • 570 Digital Effects For The Film
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    For the illiterate amongst you, the Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of books written by John Ronald Real Tolkein. The first installment in the trilogy was called "The Fellowship of the Ring" which was first published in 1953. This was closely followed by "The Two Towers" in 1954 and finally "The Return of the King" in 1955. The trilogy is without a doubt one of the finest works ever to grace the shelves and few novels have come close to its brilliance. It has been heralded as the book of the 20th...
  • Way The Actions Of Princess Fiona
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    Shrek was a popular computer animated movie released in 2001. It was given a PG rating making it suitable for children ages seven and up. The films popularity among a young audience makes it ideal to examine in terms of its socializing effects. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the actions, reactions, and emotions displayed by the title character's love interest, Princess Fiona played by Cameron Diaz. I choose this character to study the way women are portrayed in contemporary society. I c...

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