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  • Kevin's First Movie
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    Kevin Smith Kevin Smith is a prime example of the kind of person in my industry that I aspire to be like. His humor is intelligent, but he walks the fine line between funny and outright offensive. I admire him for his ability to tell a story using people, instead of effects and a huge budget. Kevin's first movie, Clerks, had a budget of around $27,000 (Kevin Smith). The entire film was black and white, and the only effect that had on the movie was to further highlight how obscenely drab these Qu...
  • Donnie Run His Mob Ring
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    Donnie BrascoWhen I was first assigned to see 'Donnie Brasco' I instantly had an image of another ruff and intense mobster movie. It has been a while since Hollywood has attempted to do a mob related movie until now. 'Donnie Brasco " was released last Friday. This movie stars Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. The movie is based on a true story about Joe Pistone and FBI agent who infiltrated the New York mob ring. Johnny Depp takes the role of Pistone a. k. a. Donnie Brasco. Donnie meets Lefty, played b...
  • Accurate And Realistic D Day Movie
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    For a long time, when anyone thought of a war movie, they immediately thought of Darryl F. Zanuck's, The Longest Day. Cornelius Ryan, who was the author of the book by the same name, and happened to be a D-day veteran himself, wrote the movie. The book meticulously recreates the events preceding and during the invasion. It is filled with detailed descriptions of multiple occurrences during the invasion. It explains everything from mass attacks on beaches and towns to humorous anecdotes. The book...
  • Know What You Screamed Last Summer
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    Scary Movie Review By Michael Cat tana Release Date: November 16th, 2000 Not to be Confused With: Another horror spoof heading to theaters this summer is I Know What You Screamed Last Summer. This isn't that movie. Also a note to sir even though this movie isnt released till the 16th of November this year I have seen it on VCD from the internet. Title Note: Anyone who knows their horror movie law knows the significance of the title, Scary Movie. It's the original title of the first Scream movie....
  • Nineteen Fifties Cult Films
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    1950'over past nine weeks we " ve embarked on a journey spanning seven decades of cult films and also received a brief education of our not so distant past. We " ve seen the outrageous, the good, the bad and the ugly, the weirdly dramatic, and the just plain weird of the last seven decades of cult films and how in the end somehow find away to incorporate a piece of American culture at the time. However, by far the most intriguing decade to me would have to be the nineteen fifties. There are many...
  • My Favorite Scene In The Movie
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    The Shawshank Redemption For my analysis, I chose the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Frank Darabont directed Shawshank and wrote the screenplay based on the novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by author Stephen King. The movie was made in 1994 and produced by Niki Marvin. The movie stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as two convicts serving time in a New England prison named Shawshank. Tim Robbins plays a man named Andy Dufresne, a banker, who gets convicted of murdering his wife and ...
  • Movie Presents
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    The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, defines documentary as: 1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents. 2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film. Academic bias. com is the website to which viewers are directed for more information about the film. On this site, it is stated, "In this cutting expos'e, documentary filmmakers Maloney, Browning and Greenberg shine a light on political corr...
  • Paramount Television And Paramount Home Entertainment
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    The Dream In the early twentieth century, film maker and producer Adolph Zukor met Jesse Lasky, owner of Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. The two men admired each others previous work and, in 1916, decided to combine forces. They created Paramount pictures and had one of the most familiar slogans in the film industry, "If it's a Paramount Picture it's the Best Show in Town". Proving their slogan true they started turning out more than two pictures per week. During it's peak in the silent fil...
  • Film Noir
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    Film noir is one of the most beloved and popular "period" film genres of the late twentieth century, although at the time that the movies comprising the genre were made, the term film noir was unknown. Essentially, it mean "black film" - a variation on the nineteenth-century French critical term roman noir, or "black novel" - referring to any number of doom-laden, deeply psychological crime dramas of the 1940's and 1950's. At the time they were made, the movies were simply gangster films or myst...
  • Makes For Bad Films And Spielberg
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    All that Jaws Throughout the history of modern cinema, we as a people have seen various films that have caused fear, hope, laughter, love, and various other emotions. The movie Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, was a very well-written film, but the insignificant parts made me lose focus on what was occurring. I thought this movie lacked in a few fields such as special effects, acting and background illuminations. However, the special effects were well-organized for being created in 1975. Overa...
  • Action Movie
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    "Assault on Precinct 13" marks the return of the R-rated action movie. It is the dark and savvy remake of John Carpenter's 1976 cult classic of the same name, which in turn was inspired by Howard Hawks' 1959 Rio Bravo. French Director Francois Richet's American filmmaking debut has done right by the cult favorite about a ragtag group of cops and criminals trapped in a police station. The thrill of this dark action flick is rightly focused on the characters, eerie setting, and tons of stripped do...
  • Most Important Part Of The Movie
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    I am here Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested in movies. My grandma, who was full of the wise the life experience left, always knew about my interest in movies. She feed my vain for the art. Even though her religion, she professed Adventist of seven-day religion, didn't let her go to the cinema, she always found the way to took me to the cinema. She and I enjoyed watch movies. We used to sit in the darkness room, with our faces illuminated from the reflection of the light ...
  • Roger Ebert Thought Patch Adams
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    Robin Williams brings to life the true story of Patch Adams, a non-conformist doctor who is on a mission to reform the medical system. Patch Adams starts from his days as a mental patient and ends with graduation from medical school. The beauty of this film is that it takes us on an emotional journey that is fun and touching, even if it's heavy-handed at times. This was a great movie because of the cast of characters, the great story telling and the comedic and emotional aspect Patch Adams was s...
  • Half The Young Girls In The Movie
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    One popular cultural myth about the mentally ill is the archetype of the 'Sexy Crazy Girl', which we " ve seen in movies, comic books, and music. Losing your grip with reality is not a glamorous subject, but that's not what you get from Girl, Interrupted. It is apparent that all the girls in the movie had some type of dysfunctional personality, and bad things happen to some of them, but it just did not seem realistic. First off, most of the patients portrayed were young, which made the care faci...
  • Three Lives
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    Life's a Bitch Life's a bitch is a movie filmed out of Mexico, which examines the life of three individuals who are all indirectly involved in the same car crash. The sequencing of the film is much like director Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction, in which several lives are separate, but related. Nonetheless, the movie was very interesting. Three lives were viewed, a young man and his love for his brother's wife, a model's pitiful life as an accident ruins her legs and career, and a bum hit man's ...
  • Nature Of Violent Crime
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    A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish A Clockwork Orange received critical acclaim, made more than thirty million dollars at the box office, and was nominated for various awards; however, this esteemed film was outlawed from the nation of Great Britain in order to curb its immoral content from permeating society. Before all the controversy began, A Clockwork Orange was a novel, written mostly in Russian, by Anthony Burgess. Stanley Kubrick is known to critics as a film maker who probe...
  • Beef Between Wilson And Shane
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    SHANE: REACTION NOTES Shane is a movie about a group of small town farmers who are being picked on by some cowboys. Then Shane mysteriously comes into view and tries to do the right thing by helping the farmers. Jack Schaefer wrote the script and the film was produced by George Stevens. Paramount Pictures released the movie in 1952. The characters in the movie were as follows. The main character in the film was (you guessed it) Shane, "the outsider" in this movie. Shane eventually stays with Joe...
  • Film Version
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    Some stories are meant for movies, but then again, there are times when I wish some stories remained stories, unless we had a French film director do them. Laura Ezquivel's novel is a treat. It stays with you as a fine dessert, or a fine food, and she knows it so well, and revels in it. In the film version, this gets lost because it cannot translate. The twelve recipes for each month get reduced to an occasional side story. In the novel, it is the food that brings about the results, and Tita has...
  • Fashion Designer In The Film
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    Who doesn't adore a classic tale of romance combined with a good old-fashioned makeover? While watching the film Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn transforms from a reserved gamine to a glamorous and elegant beauty. Not only is the makeover aspect of this film appealing, but also the relationship between Audrey and her costar, Fred Astaire. The two have a unique chemistry together that is brilliantly complimented by a picturesque Paris background. First of all, Stanley Donen is the director Funny Face....
  • Run Lola Run Time
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    'Run Lola Run' 18th August 03 If you " re the type of person who likes being kept on the edge of your seat and glued to the cinema screen... then 'Run Lola Run' is the movie for you. This captivating movie has more twists then a lifetime, with the use of extraordinary techniques and visual effects this movie is brought to life. German director Tom Tykwer spins three "what if" segments, each time with the same basic story line but with different outcomes, leaving the viewers perhaps with the choi...

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