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Low Budget Cult Films
3,325 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema - John Ford's The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940) - are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved them. This devotion eventu...
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Scenes Of Wild West Movies
407 words"Faster Pussycat, kill, kill! !" Review of "The Wild Bunch" (1969) Written by Sam Peckinpah Violence can be shown in many ways. Sam Peckinpah's, "The Wild Bunch" caused a fuss because of it's raw violence. The depiction of violence in this film was rare. The deaths are not heroic or clean in any way. When a fight broke out and a gun was shot, it usually ended in major bloodshed and dead bodies. I believe that alongside the theme of friendship and loyalty, violence is a major theme in this film. ...
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Cameron's Adventure Movie The Abyss
2,246 wordsJames Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario in Canada August 14 (16) 1954. His family later moved to Chippewa Falls near Niagra Falls. James Cameron was during his youth years always very fascinated with movies. He was mesmerized when he saw Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he drew himself crazy trying to figure out how they had shot that film. Cameron also wrote sci-fi stories and fantasized a lot instead of doing his school work. It was actually during one boring biology class t...
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Vault Of The Scorpion King
499 wordsThe film: "The Mummy Returns" A full scale re-imaging of Universals Pictures seminal 1932 film, The mummy is a rousing, humorous, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure seeking explorers in the Sahara desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters set loose a 3000 year old legacy of terror, which is embodied in a vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead. The Mummy Returns is a continuation t...
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Parents On The Films And Television
1,013 wordsCensorship Without the history of Censorship, what type of things would children be watching? Without the unique methods of Censorship, what kinds of films would be being released into the public? Throughout this essay I will be explaining the steps taken to achieve the level of Censorship, that we have now. In 1900-1950 every movie in the world was rated before being released. The government, of the country in which the movie was made always did this. In 1956 the rules were changed. Each movie'...
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My Success At The Movie Theaters
620 wordsI'm Steven Spielberg and I was born in Cincinnati on December 18, 1947, but I was mainly raised in New Jersey and Arizona. When I was 12 years old I used my dads 8 mm camcorder and made a movie. I continued to make films with the camcorder for five more years until I went on a trip to Universal Studios. I was 17 years old andI broke away from the main tourist group to see the soundstage's. I bumped into the head of Universal's editorial department, Chuck Silvers. We talked for about an hour and ...
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Good Film
385 wordsAMERICAN HISTORY This film is a very good film. It shows us what causes people to hate other races and ethnic groups. Normally we hear about people killing, robbing and abusing other persons but we only see it from the victims' point of view. In this film we get to take part in the "bad guys" lives. Things that's happened in their childhood, family life and the point being insecure of themselves causes them to do the horrible things that we see in this movie. The nazi youth here have a manipulat...
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Violence In Films
1,726 wordsCinematic violence has been in films since the start of movie making. From Orson Wells tearing up his estranged wives room in Citizen Kane to Anthony Perkins slicing up Vivian Leigh in Psycho, violence has always been present in film in one form or another. It was not until the late sixties and seventies that such visionaries as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah, and William Friedken, to mention a few, came and put on film what was to become a trend in America...
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Ship
363 wordsReaction for Voyage of the Damned Writing for TV-Radio-Film June 3, 2002 Voyage of the Damned was a film based on the true-life ship, The Saint Louis, which departed from Hamburg, Germany with over 900 Jewish passengers. Their final destination was Havana, Cuba, which is where they would live until they received visa's to enter the United States. Before watching the film we read actual news articles from the voyage and wrote down facts that occurred throughout the couple of months the ship was a...
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Classic Film
1,288 words"A Clockwork Orange" is a very different movie. It has everything a movie should have, but the plot is quite disturbing, especially for the time it came out. I have personally watched this film several times to find the meaning, and every time I watch it I come up with a different one. I am going to try to explain what this film contains as well as try to explain the plot. "A Clockwork Orange" is a story of a young man whose principle interests are rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven. It's about...
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Movie The Sixth Sense
626 wordsThe Sixth Sense The Sixth Sense, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, follows the troubled life of eight-year-old Cole Sear, played by Haley Joel Os ment, who is haunted by his supernatural abilities to see and communicate with the dead. Being sought after by the disturbed spirits of his hometown of Philadelphia, Cole must reconcile this frightening power with his desperate desire to be normal. Growing more isolated from his helpless mother and distrustful of his peers in school, Cole soo...
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Smith's Life As A Convenience Store Clerk
735 wordsClerks Clerks is a raunchy, obscene, cheap, and extremely funny movie. It was written and directed by film school dropout, Kevin Smith in 1994. Clerks is an independent film that was funded for under 30,000 dollars. Smith raised the money by selling his comic book collection. (Ellis) The film ended up grossing $3.1 million on its initial domestic release by Miramax. (Humpry) Films produced for this amount of money would be considered amateur. However, it won top prize in the Critic's Week sectio...
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Film Etienne
1,315 wordsFilms that are based on novels when compared often have many similarities and differences. The Beach directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle and Virginie Ledoyen. The genre of this film is Adventure / Drama because of the intense moments in the movie and because the movie is one big trip to an island. I think this film is overwhelming because of the extreme details. For instance the starting of the film when Richard describes how travelling should ...
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Movie Review
1,615 wordsWhat attracts us to the movie theatre on Friday nights Is it the commercials we see Or is it all the gossip we hear from friends and TV talk shows Well for many, it is the critiques we read and hear almost every day. One who specializes in the professional evaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic works is a critic. The profession of movie criticism is one of much diversity. Reviews range anywhere from phenomenal to average. Not only are movies created for the entertainment and sheer p...
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Benvolio In Luhrmanns Film
1,015 wordsWe have watched two versions of Romeo and Juliet. One was made in 1968 by a man called Franco Zeffirelli and was set in Verona, in the Middle Ages. A man named Baz Luhrmann made the other movie in 1996. This version was set in America and is very modern. The stars in the Zeffirelli version were Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting. The Luhrmann version starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. One of the main differences between the two versions of Romeo and Juliet, was the opening. The Zeffirell...
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Perfection In The First And Second Movies
668 wordsI came into the theatre expecting. Expecting what? Well, everything. It is not that I had heard friends or other movie reviewers raving about the film, it was because I had seen the first two movies of this series myself. Not many films can challenge the brain in such an obscure manner as this trilogy does. As Keanu Reeves stated, "The first film was about birth, the second about life and the third about death". Many of us didn't even understand the first film yet loved it because of that. As we...
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Spielberg Film
477 wordsSteven Spielberg is one of he world's best-known movie makers. His 1993 movie, Jurassic Park, has earned more money than any other movie in history. The gross topped $900 million in less than a year and was heading toward $1 billion with home video and other after-market releases. That surpassed 1982's E. T the extra-terrestrial, another Spielberg film, which had been the top Hollywood moneymaker. Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and The Temple of doom and Close encounte...
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Woody Allens Movies His Own Unique Way
1,505 wordsThe argument that I'm going to make is that Woody Allen is an "auteur", by standard definition a "auteur" is a film director whose practice accords with the auteur theory. For clarification the "auteur theory " The dictionary definition of auteur states that the director of a film dominates the film-making process's o much that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. The theory also states that the director projects his or her own personal style onto ...
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Harron's Film
1,065 wordsAlthough she was born in Canada, Mary Harron knew a lot about America. She used this knowledge to make the movie American Psycho. In her adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name, Harron was able to make a satirical film about Wall Street life in the 1980's. It took two years and a lot of controversy to make her feature film debut, but Harron was able to do it in style and without backing down. Mary Harron was born in Canada, the daughter of Canadian actor and comedian Don Harron ...
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Film Ridley Scott
720 wordsHow important is characterisation to the success of a feature film or films you have studied? In the film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott it is the characterisation of the film that maintains the viewers in suspense and awe. There are questions that are always asked during the film about specific characters which the directed has specifically left the atmosphere in doubt. Accordingly it is imperative that the characterisation of this movie has been thoroughly thought out and is at its peak...
