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Continuous Motif Of Women As Puppets
845 wordsOur team chose to focus on representations of women in Spike Lee's latest joint", Bamboozled". This theme was attractive to us because we felt the filmmaker had a powerful message to send his audience after viewing the trailer in class. Despite the fact that there is only one woman in a starring role, a multitude of specific and acute ideas are presented by Spike Lee through the film. We were also eager to take advantage of the opportunity to apply what we have learned in class to the thought-pr...
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Role Of Comforter And Reasoner To Picard
2,323 wordsImages of Women in Mainstream Culture Reflected inStar Trek: First Contact and Independence Day The most successful box office hits in history are Science-Fiction films. This indicates that the audience, society, likes what they see in these movies. Science-Fiction has long been viewed as a male dominated genre. Although there have been notable exceptions in such films as Alien (and its sequels) and the original Terminator, for the most part, Science-Fiction films have been laden with male heroe...
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Kazans Justification For His Decision
1,187 wordsOn the Waterfront is a classic, award-winning and controversial film. It received eight academy-awards in 1954, including best-picture and director. The director, Eliza Kazan, in collaboration with Budd Schulberg wrote the films screenplay. Based on actual dockside events in Hoboken, New Jersey, On the Waterfront is a story of a dock worker who tried to overthrow a corrupt union. Marlon Brando superbly portrays the character of Terry Malloy. He is a young ex-prize fighter, now a dock worker give...
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Madeleine And Scottie
1,645 wordsVertigo Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most well known directors of all time, bringing murder and mystery to a new light. His films, starting in 1925 with Pleasure Garden and ending in 1976 with the film Fantasy Plot, set a precedent for all other directors in the film industry. Hitchcock came to be known as the Master of Suspense. Many story lines and techniques within his cinematography are common standards for films today. His film The Lodger, is a film that came to be an ideal example of a c...
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Film Gettis
1,357 wordsLange, Jason Film 101 M-W 12-1: 50 Paper #2 ChinaTown ChinaTown, directed by Roman Polanski, is a non-traditional hard-nosed detective film made in the 70's. The typical elements of character type are there; J.J. Gittes (a private detective in LA) played by Jack Nicholson is the central character, sharing the spotlight is Fay Dunaway playing the femme fatale Evelyn Mulwray. This film breaks all types of norms when compared to the hard-nosed detective films it is modeled after. The film is filled...
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Karl And Frank
3,611 wordsSometimes a hero comes from the most unlikely place (Fhaner, 485). In the mid to late 1990's, Hollywood and America witnessed the surprising rise of a new genre of films that would pave the way for a crop of cutting edge filmmakers, script writers, and actors. Free from the tight control and bureaucratic nonsense dealt from the big Hollywood studios, these independent films followed only the creator's guidelines; thus leaving much more room for creativity and original design. Indie films would s...
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Leon And Mathilda
3,472 wordsLEON - REVIEW Set in modern day New York, Leon (Jean Reno) is a professional hit man who carries out contracts for Italian boss Tony (Danny Aiello) who in turn acts as a father-figure and manipulator. Leon is truly exceptional at his job with an ability to move without sound, kill without emotion and disappear without trace. Despite earning $5,000 per head he abides to one rule "no women, no children". Leon seems to derive little from his work, spending his spare time training and looking after ...
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High Fidelity A Film
686 wordsHigh Fidelity is directed by Stephen Frears (The High-Lo Country, Dangerous Liaisons) and is written for the screen by D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, Scott Rosenberg and John Cusack, from the novel by Nick Hornby. High Fidelity offers a comedic look at its heartbroken main character and narrator, whose recent breakup forces him to rethink his previous failed romances and to confront the fear of commitment. The owner of a vinyl record store, Rob Gordon (John Cusack: Being John Malkovich) feels mis...
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Characters Of Red Sorghum
1,747 wordsRed Sorghum Claire Huot China's New Cultural Scene The film Red Sorghum was one of the most popular Fifth Generation films in China and Abroad. As an adolescent American kid, probably the average, I got to see a new perspective of China through this class. I wanted to compare the West's interpretation with Chinas'. One of the first things I did was compare Chinese cinema to well known American cinema. Zhang Yimou's first film as director, Red Sorghum was immensely popular at home and abroad. The...
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Woody's Position As Andy's Favourite Toy
1,790 wordsToy Story Analysis Toy Story is the groundbreaking 1995 motion picture developed by Disney and Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. The film was so revolutionary not only because it was the first feature length animation to be created completely by CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) but also, also the film was more rounded in all respects. The characters not only looked more sophisticated and three-dimensional but their personalities were also more human and fewer cartoons like. The film uses a co...
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Role Of The Character Francis In Exotica
1,773 wordsAtom Egoyan's Exotica "I wanted to make a movie about believable people doing believable things in an unbelievable way". stated Atom Egoyan of his recent film The Adjuster. The Canadian director has recently been acclaimed for his imagination and originality, which is more than evident in his latest work Exotica. In this film Egoyan masterfully uses the popular technique of a multi-line plot in which the plot moves back and forth across time, so that links among events and characters surface slo...
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Negative Effects Of Superheroes On Children
4,013 wordsSince the publishing date of the first illustrated books, the hero characters have taken their places in the daily life of the people. In fact, many hero characters had existed for centuries through the history. They had been living in tales and epic stories and being spread by the word of mouth between people but they were not as effective as the visual ones. Especially after the rapid increases in the film technology, the film industry started to create new superheroes. After a while, film mak...
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Central Character Of Eisenstein's Films
522 wordsSergi Eisenstein 11898-19480 was a Russian film aker well now for political persausain and fine art. Eisenstien has made many contributions to modern film. He shaped the soca il and artistic potential of cinema by combing realistic narrative with symbolic imagery. Eisenstein used the technique of montage, the assembling of cinematic shots in rapid successions. He used different angels and views to manipulate human emotion. His geometric compositions are never static. The individual shots are ful...
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Bergman's The Seventh Seal
509 wordsSymbols in The Seventh Seal In Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, the apocalyptic mood of the film necessitates rich symbolism throughout. That the film opens with the Biblical passage from Revelations depicting the four horsemen of the apocalypse and all of the signs that follow after -- including the opening of the seals of heaven -- sets the stage for a film outside of the constraints of time. The struggles of the characters throughout are timeless, beginning with that of the Knight. He is th...
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Murray's Character
676 wordsThis is the kind of movie that my parents would shut off halfway through and slap me upside the head for recommending in the first place. It's slow, it's introspective, it features a number of scenes with no dialogue & characters simply walking about town, and ultimately, it doesn't have much to say... on the surface. Yes, LOST IN TRANSLATION has already become the early "critic's darling" of the year and despite it being a darn good film, I for one, can't say that it's anything more than a swee...
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Women Play In Ford's Films
1,705 wordsFord was known as a 'mans' director that made films for a basically male audience. However his films still contained some talented and exceptional female characters. In this essay, I will discuss the role of women in a selection of John Ford films (namely The Quiet Man, The Grapes of Wrath, Seven Women and Young Mr Lincoln). I will also discuss how John Ford reached his opinion of women, who influenced him, the women that he approves of most in his films and what role they play in his films. For...
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Rick Deckard And Roy Batty
1,355 wordsBladerunner, directed by Englishmen Ridley Scott is a science fiction film, which explores the idea of humans and non-humans locked in battle, each, driven by necessity for survival in a futuristic world where life in any shape or form seems constantly under threat. Rick Deckard (acted out by Harrison Ford) and Roy Batty (acted out by Rutger Hauer) are two major characters in this feature film, Bladerunner characterised and depicted as being neither god nor bad. Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard,...
