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Film Ferris Buellers Day
778 wordsThe Two films we have studied recently 10 things I hate about you and Ferris Buellers day off deal with certain issues relating to youths of today's society. In some cases the films confirm our attitudes and values towards youth and others challenge them. Film techniques such as the use of dialogue, soundtrack, costuming and camera angles help portray the characters image. The film 10 things I hate about you is a story about 2 completely opposite sisters Bianca, popular and vain and Katarina Str...
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Film In Detail
1,194 wordsAs you may know, while the film IWTV was in production with David Geffen, the author of the book had no legitimate contact with him or with the studio or with anyone connected with the film. When the announcement was made that Tom Cruise would star as Lestat, I had deep reservations and severe criticisms. So did many many of my readers. I talked openly about this. A curtain thereafter divided me from the entire production, and with reason. Nobody likes to be criticized, and that includes movie p...
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Entirely Different Perspective On Stereotypical People
333 wordsDoes anyone really like to be stereotyped? Does anyone want to be looked at and automatically judged just because of the way they look, by their skin color, their hair type, or even the type of clothing they have on? Finding Forrester is a film that in my opinion perpetuates stereotypes. The entire film is based on significantly different racial opinions, opinions of different writing styles and stereotyping of different people in general. Race is a huge issue in the film and many stereotypes ar...
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Sant's Film The Reality Of High School
1,606 wordsGus Van Sant's Elephant was at once critically praised and denounced by both film reviewers and film goers alike. The cinematography takes you on a waltz throughout a seemingly typical day at an unnamed high school, stopping through the journey to focus on the stereotypes of school. The jock, the quirky artist, the clique d girls, the skateboarder, they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film, seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine...
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Film
713 wordsShrek The G -eat est Fairytale Never told! By Ahsanul Hogue (Film Correspondent) Finally, a 'family film' you can sink your teeth into. Based on a William Steig's book about a green ogre. This computer animated film is aimed at children as well as adults. And what a excellent story line. The theme of the film is comedy. The general message was that it does not matter if your pretty or ugly looking. It matters what's in the inside not the outside. When it comes to computer-generated motion pictur...
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Film A Friend Of Gaz
445 wordsFull Monty Full Monty is a film which women fulfill their fantasies. Film is talking about a fantasy world where women are power holders and men are objects. Film is based on the idea that after hundred years of industrial reform, which was started on United Kingdom, modernized factories and high technology machines make blue-collar workers unemployed. Those unemployed Englishmen who are losing their power and becoming weak to women are trying to survive by strip teasing. Gaz, our main character...
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Own Money On A Film
286 wordsDescribes the small quaint town of Park City Utah as "condo-Choked" in his article on the front page of the Arts section of Monday's paper. Referring to the annual Sundance Film Festival that, since the beginning has attracted poor attention for bringing big business into the small town". Bouncing Back after some lean years for Indie film makers" he explains is most noticeable by how much money was spent on the films this year. He writes about the success of a movie, writhen by Sigourney Weaver,...
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Film And Original Tale
1,030 wordsSleepy Hollow Versus "The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow" Over time, a change has occurred from the typical horror story to a violent and bloody legend. The original short story " The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow" is an example of a simple, yet mysterious fable in which Ichabod Crane acts as the protagonist. Ichabod becomes the victim of the feared headless horseman after believing the superstitious tales of this spirit preying in the night. The film that is supposedly based upon the tale provides a...
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Brando And Taka's Romance Scenes
507 wordsSayonara h This film is now one of my absolute favorite old movies, right alongside with Gone with the Wind. The film's focus on the taboo's of interracial marriages, while an eye-opening subject in the 60's, the film was not shy showing the audiences that love overcomes all, and when two are in love, all things are possible. Throughout the entire film, I never once felt the romance scenes were "played out" or unusually depicted. This film truthfully allowed me to understand how love doesn't loo...
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Critical Interpretations Dances With Wolves
1,859 words10/31/03 DANCES WITH WOLVES: CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS Dances With Wolves is the story of the "transformation" of Lieutenant John Dunbar, a Union Army Officer, to Dances With Wolves, a Lakota warrior. The film is seen from the viewpoint of Dunbar, who runs away from a field hospital as his foot is about to be amputated and literally invites death by riding his horse by in a suicidal charge at the Confederate lines. He does this to provide a diversion so that a group of Union soldiers can overrun ...
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The Last 2 Films
888 wordsAs the city of Zion fortifies itself for defence against the influx of sentinels, the two remaining ships of the fleet prepare to return to the city. Neo lies in a coma with the sole survivor of the attack on the fleet, however his brain patterns show that he is lost somewhere within the matrix. Trinity and Morpheus go to rescue him and return him to the real world. Back in the real world, Zion is under attack from the sentinels, Neo decides that he must travel into the machine city and confront...
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Utopian Worlds On Film
1,506 wordsFilm is known to be the construction of images projected in rapid succession onto a screen to create the illusion of movement. However, this may be the technical explanation for what is happening but film stretches far beyond imagination and it is probably the most powerful medium of communication that the human mind has conceived. One of the great gifts of the cinematic experience is escapism; the opportunity to seek temporary respite from the high and low dramas that fill up our days and to lo...
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Pp 866 Fukasaku's 1999 Film Battle Royale
3,685 words"All of them believed that they had used scientific analysis (called 'metanarrative' by some post modern theorists) of human development. All thought they could outline the future direction of social change" Haralambos, M. Sociology: Theme "All of them believed that they had used scientific analysis (called 'metanarrative' by some post modern theorists) of human development. All thought they could outline the future direction of social change" Haralambos, M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, 1...
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Noble Willingham Gary Sinise And John Malkovich
383 wordsFilm Review - Of Mice and Men 1: 59, PG-13, Drama, 1992 Director: Gary Sinise Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Sherilyn Fenn, Ray Walston, Alexis Arquette, Joe Morton, Casey Siemaszko, John Terry, Noble Willingham Gary Sinise and John Malkovich are migrant farm workers. John Malkovich isn't very bright and keeps getting the two in trouble. Sinise watches over Malkovich and tries to keep him out of trouble. They go to work on Noble Willingham's farm where Malkovich starts having problems with W...
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Film Looks
464 wordsOnce Were Warriors isn't a fun movie by any stretch of the imagination. Violence and anger are at the core of this powerful film, which doesn't shy away from showing the domestic abuse in all of its potent rage. The story revolves around Beth and Jake Here (Rena Owen and Tempera Morrison) who, to outsiders at least, have seem to have a wonderful life-five healthy kids and plenty of friends and laughter. But Jake is a very angry man and physically takes this negative energy out on his wife. In on...
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Descriptive Chapter Titles In Vivre Sa Vie
942 wordsPeople Magazine Vivre Sa Vie Let's Rate It: Vivre Sa Vie, a film coming just two short years after Godard's highly regarded Breathless, is a stark and moving cinematic work which shows, in 12 chapters, how the life of Nana spirals tragically downward from her days of Paris window shopping to street prostitution. The film, which includes an interesting blend of intimate close-ups, gangster shootouts, and French existentialist ideas, captures all the important elements and informal liberties of th...
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Film The Title Of Alternative Cinema
3,264 wordsThe term alternative cinema has certain connotations. To many, it is not alternative, instead it is the way cinema was meant to be viewed, in that the viewer should be able to define the film in their own personal terms. In the following essay, I will firstly examine what the term alternative cinema means, and secondly how Brecht's theories are evident in many elements of the films that have been pigeon-holed as alternative cinema. The word alternative is described in Collins English Dictionary ...
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Two Religious Men Like McGuiness And Campbell
1,139 wordsAn Assessment Of Govt. Pressure On Than Assessment Of Govt. Pressure On The Media To Withdraw Or Alter, Politically Sensitive Material In August 1985, "Real Lives: At the Edge of the Union ' was due to be shown, focusing on the lives and theories of two of the leading figures in Northern Ireland, Martin McGuiness of Sinn Fein and Gregory Campbell of the Democratic Unionists. McGuiness, who at the time was accused of being the Chief of Staff of the I.R.A., was to be given extensive coverage, the ...
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Film
351 wordsJose Antonio Banderas Antonio Banderas Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas was born in Malaga, Spain on August 10, 1960. He studied theater at the School of Dramatic Art in Malaga and began his career working with an independent theater company there. In 1981, he moved to Madrid and worked in theater and television, which led to his debut in Pedro Almodovar's Labyrinth of Passion. It was Almodovar who picked his artistic name. Antonio filmed several films under Almodovar's direction, including Women...
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Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now
1,134 words' Apocalypse Now' Joseph Conrad' Apocalypse Now' Essay, Research Paper Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness and Francis Coppola's film Apocalypse Now share a number of common features that make them similar from a structural point of view and share some of the same events and many of the same characters. These similarities are not coincidental as when making his film, Coppola based it in essence on Conrad's book. Whilst the film is based on the novella there are also distinct differences be...
