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  • Insider's Bergman And Wigand
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    The movie, The Insider, is about Jeffrey Wigand, a former tobacco executive of one of the largest tobacco companies in America. He is fired from his job, and is soon contacted by Lowell Bergman, the producer of 60 minutes. Bergman, played by Al Pacino, asks Wigand, played by Russell Crowe, to make sense of some papers about fire statistics, which belong to, tobacco company, Wilson Phillips These papers mysteriously show up on his doorstep. Wigand lets it drop that he has some inside information ...
  • Movie And The Short Story
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    Awakening the Zombies "Everybody was finally equal. They were not only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else". This is a short, but powerful excerpt from the short story Harrison Bergeron. Not only does it make you wonder why everyone is equal, but as well makes you wonder how did everyone become equal In the short story and the movie, Kurt ...
  • Movies With The Music
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    Scary Stories Campfires surrounded by frightened people listening to blood curdling stories of terror, mystery, and murder is where screams were made. Before modern technology, before the flashy lights and whistles of Hollywood there were ghost stories. Some of the most original, chilling, and spine tingling tales ever, were told around these fires, generation after generation, with each one adding his or her own twist. Many spooky tales were scripted into novels and short stories with vividly g...
  • Monsters In The Movie
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    Reverse Monsterfication Throughout the length of the movie, I was taken back to my childhood when there were monsters in my own closet. Over the years, the monsters have all died and been replaced by just as scary skeletons, so my closet is still full. However, to a young child monsters are still lurking in the shadows, and they still make the floor creak. The approach taken by the writers of this film is one of uniqueness and of originality. By successfully juxtaposing the situation between mon...
  • Written Story Hester
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    The short story, "Rocking-Horse Winner", and the movie based on it contrast considerably. When the written story has ended the movie continues with ideas, which may not come from the author. Three major differences of the two are: the mother, the father, and the ending. In the movie the mother, Hester, is portrayed as a loving and self-sacrificing person. While in the short story she is exposed to be a cold-hearted, and greedy person. Another instance where the short story and movie differ is th...
  • There Will Come Soft Rains
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    Nuclear Radiation There are many ways that the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" are similar. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction story that deals with nuclear radiation and what the future world would be like if there was an atomic bomb. This short story is a good example of what could happen in the future. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a movie that also has the same genre, that it is science fiction. It helps p...
  • 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...
  • Movie
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    Historical Validity in 2004's "The Alamo" In the 2004 release, by Touchstone Pictures, "The Alamo" takes a famous story told throughout time and recreates it on the screen once again. This time was it really any better than the other releases? Maybe the flashy effects and better film quality could interest you in this movie but the real question is how valid is it. To the average person this story looks as if they have recreated it perfectly, but to a historian it might not look so genuine. Alth...
  • Screen For Contemporary Movie
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    Romeo + Juliet: An E Ticket Ride 11/21/96 The new release of Romeo and Juliet is fun, fast and exciting to watch. It is a slick cinematic rendition of Shakespeare's work brought to the screen for contemporary movie-goers. There is something for everyone in this movie. A timeless story, a dynamic cast, a hip soundtrack, great sets and costumes and plenty of action. From the beginning the audience is told,' buckle up, this Romeo and Juliet ride is going to be like no other Shakespeare you " ve eve...
  • Movie Superman In Every Way
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    "Faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive, jumps tall buildings in a single bound". Superman is known throughout the world for being the savior of a city called Metropolis. In every comic book, movie, or action figure ever presented to the public, Superman is a handsome, strong man who can defeat all odds at all times. The movie Superman was a success, showing how the superhero saved lives and yet lived a humble life. As one watches the movie, though, he might notice the many si...
  • Movie Your Mind
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    Sophomore Composition 1,000 Wd. Report October 27, 1999 There are many positive things and negative things about the movie and the story. In the movie you have a chance to see what Elizabeth looks like. That alone could be a positive and negative thing. The movie is more glamour than thought. In the movie your mind has more free will so therefore this is the better of the two. The thought in the movie that, there is unlimited communication between the two, takes away your imagination and the cur...
  • Nicholas Into The Pit With The Doctor
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    The Pit and the Pendulum: Movie vs. Book The movie 'The pit and the Pendulum' was nothing at all like the book. The movie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. His sister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madenabelieves that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick with death, and that led to the death of his sister. The doctor said she died of fright. They bur...
  • Edgar Allen Poe's Short Story Hop Frog
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    Differences in Film and Literature Today there are many differences between stories and film adaptations. When people read a book like Lord of The Rings they use one of the mind's greatest things, the imagination. When people read the story they imagine how the characters look, the way they act, where the story takes place, and other of the setting. Then when a movie such as "Lord of the Rings" comes out, they see the movie and see how the director has interpreted the story, many people are eith...
  • Murder Of A Policeman In Old Town
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    Sin City A beautiful woman stands on the balcony of a skyscraper looking out at the forest of massive buildings. A man exits the party and approaches her from behind. He lets her hear his footsteps. They have a small conversation, he offers her a cigarette, then shoots her. This is just the beginning. Sin City is comprised of four stories. The film begins and ends with the story of a hit man (Josh Hartnett). But Hartnett plays only a small role in the film. The main three tales are outlandishly ...
  • Ichabod's Desire For The Van Tassel Estate
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    SLEEPY HOLLOW "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving. Based on a well-known legend, this story tells the tale of the disappearance of the main character, Ichabod Crane. An effective ghost story, Irving leaves you guessing what the truth is behind the ending. The movie Sleepy Hollow is Hollywood's portrayal of Irving's original story. Although the movie is similar to the story in the beginning, the movie takes a twist that leads in another direction that strays far fr...
  • Real Movies
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    No two movies in this world are exactly alike. Although there are countless number of movies have been made, every single one has its unique style, plot and characteristics. Nevertheless, only a fraction survives, being criticized and considered to be real movies. It is not an easy task to create a movie that satisfies the picky tastes of critics and audience. In recent years, Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix" have noticeably brought stirs in our...
  • Able Lieutenant Of Easy Company
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    Band of Brothers is a ten-part World War 2 mini series in association with HBO and production with 20th century Fox. Steven Spielberg produced the film and Tom Hanks, directed by Hanks himself only for the first series. The series stars, Damien Lewis, David Schwimmer (Friends), Donnie Wahlberg, Scott Grimes, and Colin Hanks. Band of Brothers is based on a true story adapted from the best selling book by Stephen Am rose, who also a historical adviser on "Saving Private Ryan". In history they spen...
  • Movie With Two Main Characters
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    Pearl Harbor, 15 minute battle, 3 hour movie December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was and will always be a date that will live in infamy. But May 25, 2001, the opening of the movie "Pearl Harbor" is a date that was or at least should be soon forgotten. The noisy, expensive, and entirely to drawn out movie was hyped up for months in advance, only to leave viewers with a confused view of the battle and numb backside. To put it bluntly, the movie was a definite letdown. The ...
  • Disney Movies
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    Have you ever noticed that in just about every animated Disney movie, from Bambi to Lilo and Stich, and everything in between, the mothers are missing? They are either killed brutally, as in Bambi, or they are simply long gone, as in Beauty and the Beast, Ariel, Cinderella, and so on, right on up to Lilo and Stich and most recently, Finding Nemo. What is the message that children get when they watch these popular movies, and re watch them over and over on video? What would Sylvia Betelheim think...
  • Tom And Mr And Mrs Cooper
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    "The Birds", written by Daphne du Maurer, is a short story that will be compared with the movie The Night of the Living Dead. There were many differences between the two. Diversities such as themes, plot, setting, characters, endings and any changes. In The Night of Living Dead, There was radiation on one of Venus's atel lites and it has turned regular people into zombies. Anyone who was not affected by it could be eaten by the zombies and they themselves will soon turn in to them. The main char...

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