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Three Films A Time To Kill
2,688 wordsTHEME: Vigilante Justice 1.0 HYPOTHESIS Movies involving violent crime often position the viewer to sympathise with the victim who enacts the revenge by killing, thus establishing the premise that revenge killing is justified. 2.0 SYNOPSIS 2.1 The way society views vigilante justice and the ideology that it is acceptable are the primary issues in three of the following American films, A Time To Kill, Sleepers and Eye For An Eye. These three films were tested in comparison with the hypothesis tha...
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Final Appeal Of The Disaster Film Genre
1,829 wordsDisaster Films In his poem "Fire and Ice", Robert Frost addresses the preoccupation humanity has with its own demise: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. It is this fascination that is the subject of this paper, specifically the allure of disaster films. What draws people to see disaster f...
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Universal's Flash Gordon Serials
3,122 wordsAll but forgotten today, except by nostalgia buffs, movie serials were at one time one of the most popular pure entertainment forms in Hollywood and one of the most reliable for the studios in terms of making money, as well as a unique form of the filmmaker's art. From their beginnings in 1912, to the release of the last of the serials in 1956, serials were also one of the formative entertainment experiences for two generations of Americans, ending with the postwar baby boom. Essentially, the se...
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Shark Cripples The Orca Hooper
1,169 wordsJAWS was the box-office sensation of 1975 and the number-one hit movie of the decade until 1977's STAR WARS, at a time when the success or failure of a few blockbusters began to determine the course of the entire motion picture industry. Similar to several of the other huge hit movies of the 1970's, JAWS began as a novel, which was then sold to a film company prior to its publication. Yet JAWS remains solidly a director's film from the first ominous chords of John Williams' moody score. In this,...
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Leading Female And Male Characters
1,167 words" You cannot talk about genre without talking about gender". Initially, this would appear to be a simplistic statement. On closer analysis, however, one fact becomes evident. It is the representation of gender which informs the genre of the text. Ismay Barwell, in her essay ' Feminist perspectives and narrative points of view's tates that " Every text is gendered since every act of narration... involves a process of selection... and the nature of that selection implies certain values" (p. 99). S...
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Letters Of A Women Homesteader
1,346 words"Heartland" places the audience almost a hundred years back in time, a technique that not only captivates ones mind, but also allows for the unique opportunity to witness first hand history being re-told. Richard Pearce the director of "Heartland" saw a chance within this film to white out previous interpretations of American homesteading; Pearce paints a radically new picture, which may more accurately reflect the truth behind homesteaders. The inspirations behind Pearce's documentary "Heartlan...
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Big Penny
1,488 wordsPenny Marshall has directed six films in her career: 'The Preachers Wife' (1996), 'Renaissance Man' (1994), 'A League of Their Own' (1992), 'Awakenings' (1990), 'Big' (1998), and 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' (1986). We know Penny best from her stint in Laverne and Shirley (1976-1983) as the hilarious Laverne De Fazio. After the series was cancelled Laverne appeared in some pictures until her directorial debut in 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'. This film was pretty much a bomb and Penny gained credibility as a dir...
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Vivian And Edward
597 words"Pretty Women", directed by Garry Marshall, is a light, bubbly, romantic comedy. On a scale from 1-5 (five being the best), I rate this movie a five. The story plot of this film appeals to the emotion of the audience. Between the romance, greed, lust, and power of this film, the audience can relate with these typical issues. Also, I thought the acting was phenomenal by both Gere and Roberts. There was intense passion between them throughout the film, very convincing. "Pretty Women", portrays the...
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Mode Of Self Reflexive Cinema
1,961 words5 March 2005 AuguisteCommunication Essay Jean Luc Godard's Weekend as Didactic Self-Reflexive Cinema According to Stephen Prince in Movies and Meaning: an Introduction to Film, Screen Reality is a concept that pertains to the principles of time, space, character behavior and audiovisual design that filmmakers systematically organize in a given film to create an ordered world on-screen in which characters may act and in which a narrative may unfold. (262) One mode of cinematic screen reality is s...
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Audience Of The Classical Hollywood Film
3,447 wordsIdentifying Heroes: The Godfather and Pulp Fiction The form of Classical Hollywood films is, first and foremost, invisible. In a Classical Hollywood film, the narrative is foremost, and style serves the narrative. Camera angles, lighting and editing patterns such as the shot / reverse -shot pattern aim to give us the best possible perspective on the unfolding events (1). These events are arranged in a strongly causality-oriented linear narrative, with one event causing the next. This narrative i...
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Men Like John Rambo And Jack Ryan
1,167 wordsRambo John Rambo and Jack Ryan are two amazing men. They are honest, trustworthy, heroic, never crack under pressure, and stand for truth, justice, and the American way. Sylvester Stallone and Harrison Ford do their best attempting to make the audience believe that men such as Rambo and Ryan actually exist. Try as they might, not even Stallone or Ford can convince me that men of this caliber actually live. Rambo is able to not only foil his corrupt, superior American officer trying to sabotage h...
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Making Of Saving Private Ryan Captain Miller
4,381 wordsSteven Spielbergs film Saving Private Ryan attempts to recount the horror of war and reach out to the collective social conscious of todays society. The majority of society have not experienced war and through the historical recollection, the medium of film and the characters of the story, Speilberg builds a powerful film which touches us all in the hopes that future generations will remember and not advocate war to resolve issues. Speilberg stated, My hope, my purpose in doing the film this way...
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Audiences Trust Directors Of Mock Documentary Films
2,295 wordsMockumentary: Questioning Reality and the Tenets of Documentary Film Itself A mock documentary is successful when it is able to combine both the appearance of historically accurate elements and present believable situations through a false lens, leading the audience to question the reality of what they are seeing. The genre of false documentary aims to present a convincing story through the use of credible documentary tactics to portray a "fictional documentary". Every mock documentary depends o...
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Few Dinner Scenes In Donnie Brasco
1,630 wordsGood Fellas (realist film) by Martin Sorcese and Donnie Brasco (realist film) by Mike Newell are two films based on actual events and people that existed. Both are stereotypical Italian gangster films and I intend to compare and contrast these two films, which differ in narrative style, tone, and acting. In turn, each of these aspects creates two distinct films and evokes two separate moods in each movie. Martin Scorsese's film Goodfellas details the rise and 'fall' of character Henry Hills' lif...
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Scott S Feeling Sorry For Fran
528 wordsBaz Lu herman!'s film, Strictly Ballroom was a huge success and in today!'s discussion I will be focusing on the acting components of the film. The performance of the actors will be carefully analyzed in terms of their body language and movement. The actors! charisma on screen will also be looked at by focusing on the central characters and then the minor characters. The body language plays a crucial roll in the sense that it shows the audience the affection that Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio) a...
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End Of The Film
1,362 wordsMacro Essay Discuss how Genre and Narrative create meaning and response in the audience Every film has at least one identifiable genre. The genre is the type of film you are watching, for example Frankenstein is of the horror genre, Star Wars is in the Sci-Fi genre etc. Some films have two or more genres, like Titanic, which is a love story and a dramatic tragedy, so it fits into these genres. Genre is used so that the audience can more easily identify what type of film a particular film is, and...
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Film Rabbit Proof Fence
1,228 wordsRabbit Proof Fence - Directed by Phillip Noyce (2001) The film Rabbit Proof Fence is reminiscent of a war story as the country has been invaded and taken over. The invaders are taking away the children and placing them in camps. Only three manage to escape on their epic journey home they must cross through enemy occupied territory, never knowing friend from foe. The movie Rabbit Proof Fence and the book The Stolen Children: their stories edited by Carmel Bird aims to impose its values and attitu...
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Arnheim's Film Theory
1,693 wordsArnheim's Film Theory RudolphArnheim's Film Theory Essay, Research Paper Rudolph Arnheim, a devout Formalist, believed that film's potential to be an art begin where its ability to represent reality ends. He embraced the mysticism and wonder created by the silent film. Being a Gestalt psychologist, looking at the film as a whole, he believed that perception, when pertaining to the audience as well as the auteur, is active. Arnheim also believed in an empirical or objective reality where in the p...
