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  • Stallone's Return To Serious Acting In Copland
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    Movie Review on "Copland" Much has been written about Sylvester Stallone's return to serious acting in Copland. It's an entirely different matter, however, to watch the action superstar in this new role than it is to read and hear about it. In Copland, Stallone plays Freddy Heflin, the shy, overweight, rather dumb sheriff of the tiny town of Garrison, New Jersey. The most noticeable thing about Freddy isn't the caliber of his gun, it's the size of his paunch. And, every time Freddy confronts Cop...
  • End Of The Movie Eve
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    All About Eve Eve is a character which represents personal ambition and manipulation. The character is a person who is willing to do anything necessary to get what she wants and has, apparently, no remorse or feelings of guilt for her actions. Watching this movie I saw that All About Eve was also all about me. In watching this movie I personally saw Eve of a sort of mirror to my own manipulative tendencies. As I watched how carefully the character chose her words, and moved in a certain way in o...
  • Altman's Movie Nashville
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    Nashville Essay Robert Altman's movie Nashville is based on the political, social, and personal problems that our country has to deal with. These problems are rooted in the battle between the need to create some false image of success and the need for truth which is the struggle that exists in every character of this film (except Jeff Gold bloom). To show this Robert Altman takes us through Nashville's Country Music using political commentary, music and realistically portrayed dialogue to tell t...
  • Aliens Movies Including Alien 3
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    It was in 1979 that the nightmare began, when the spaceship the Nostromo landed on an unknown planet to answer a rescue message and later explore an abandoned vessel. That's where the crew met for the first time a creature as deadly as beautiful, the Alien. This creature and it's environment, created by the talented Swiss artist H.R. Giger, were the main antagonists from the movie, directed by Ridley Scott and featuring Sigourney Weavers the only survivor of the Nostromo crew when the Alien pene...
  • Women Characters In Western Movies Play
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    Women in Westerns Womens roles in western movies are very diversified. Although the roles are very different from each other, they are very stereotypical. Almost all women characters in western movies play one of the following: a mother, school teacher, prostitute, or an outlaw. Through comparing three western movies, all ranging in different eras from 1932 to 1994, it is clearly shown that whether its the loving mother or town prostitute, women characters often play a minor part compared to the...
  • Nathan Arizona And H.I. McDonnough
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    Raising Arizona In the movie "Raising Arizona" a lot of Archetypes (a pattern consisting on literary elements found in all literature regards) are used throughout. Ethan and Joel Coen turned a serious subject like kidnapping, into a hysterical comedy. The use of archetypes are strong, the movie is basically one big archetype. The uses are archetypes are found within the language, plot, and character. When looking at the different archetypes they all seemed to fall under the category of character...
  • Brick Top And The Manner
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    Theme: is that of rivalry and revenge. Rivalry between perpetrators seeking the same goals / motives. Revenge of evil against evil and good against evil. Key characters Turkish - the most important character of all, he is the narrator of the story. He is essentially a boxing promoter but also owns a gaming parlour to keep him occupied when there's no "action" in the ring. His absolute informal style of delivering the story helps the movie to connect to the audience to a great extent. One of the ...
  • One Other Of The Lead Characters
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    Show in detail how one film demonstrates innovation of technique and originality of theme The over riding theme in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrito's movie Babel is the idea that we are all connected, as if we live in one large village. The techniques he employs to show this are highly innovative. Babel has an unconventional narrative which follows three different stories. These stories occur in various different parts of the world - Tokyo, Morocco, and the US / Mexican border. These places couldn't ...
  • Actuality The Movies Characters
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    12 Angry Men The movie 12 Angry Men is more than a movie about a murder case and a jury trying to find an accused man guilty or innocent. This movie is much more deeply then that. In actuality the movies characters actually represent the different types of people that exist in an American society. The main character of this movie, with out a doubt, is juror 8. He in essence bodies what an American is. During the first vote, he is the only one to vote innocent because he is unsure.? It's not easy...
  • Akira Kurosawa
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    Akira Akira Kurosawa Paper #1 Akira Kurosawa often incorporated social issues into his films. One of the most interesting of these issues was that of western culture's affect on the Japanese and whether it was better to evolve with the rest of the world or not. Many times in his films, Kurosawa ended up bashing the message over his audiences heads: This new culture may not be the best, but everything will be all right. Kurosawa used many different tools in getting his themes and metaphors across...

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