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Movie Breaker Morant
756 wordsIntegrated Essay My name is Daniella D Antonio and I am a year 11 student at St Dominic's Priory College. I have been asked to write to you in response to your letter concerning, exposing children to war literature. In our English lessons earlier this year my class have read the classic book All Quiet on the Western Front, studied War Poetry and watched the Australian-made movie Breaker Morant. Learning about war is a very important part of our education. It teaches us about the history of the w...
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Ben's Wife
1,376 wordsLeaving Las Vegas, directed by Mike Figgis and based on the autobiographical novel by John O'Brien, is an emotional story about an alcoholic who rejects life and wants to drink himself to death in Las Vegas, and an unselfish prostitute who loves him the way he is. Ben, played by Nicholas Cage, was a former movie producer in Los Angeles and has obviously crumbled in the glamour world of Hollywood which is shown in the opening scene. Here Ben is already an alcoholic when he disturbs former colleag...
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Entertainment Industry For Some Things
797 wordsThis Is Your Brain On Bondage. The entertainment industry has come a long way since the invention of movies and television. It opened the door to a vast new world. If it's comedy you want, it will deliver. If it's action you crave, it can give that to you too. It also has romances, thrillers, horrors, musicals, fantasies, sci-fi, mysteries, and even gratuitous sex, otherwise known as pornography. And because of this the entertainment industry has also had a lot of controversy. Many people disagr...
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Scarlet Pimpernel
364 wordsThe Scarlet Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel was a fictional character that had a positive goal and, to some, was very inspiring. The period of time that the movie takes place in is a very unstable and radical time. Percy, the main character and the Scarlet Pimpernel, is willing to put his life in danger to stand up for what he believes in. Although he does in a very intelligent way, he is very courageous and intelligent in the way he executes his plans. Sir Percy was willing to look like a fool ...
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Students Like The Principal Accept Rocky
1,382 wordsTake Off That Mask As sad as it seem first impressions often dictate the way people feel about one another. In most cases the way a person looks doesnt at all reflect on their personality. This stigma of the way a person looks goes far beyond being pretty and ugly. All to often people are assumed mentally retarded because of a facial deformity when in fact that person is as able or in many cases more then able to perform and task they are asked to perform. Ironically in this modern society where...
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End Of The Movie Frank
1,992 words1. Upon entering the bar for the first time, Frank displays many of the motivational theories listed in the book. Frank enters the bar in order to find a place for his homosexual preferences to be shown. Instinctual ly he prefers men to women and is driven into the dark alley and the bar by this biologically determined need. We learn from his wife's reaction when the girls are having daiquiris that she and Frank are not having sex very often which according to the book is a basic need, so Frank ...
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Conflict With Bender
1,545 wordsBreakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows the way that people from totally different backgrounds can communicate and even agree on issues. The various types of communication and behaviors within the film will be discussed. Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examp...
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Rainbow Randolph And Smoochy Run Their Show
737 wordsDanny Devito, the mastermind behind "Throw Momma From The Train", might be more slightly of his rocket than "Death To Smoochy" villain, Rainbow Randolph Smiley (Robin Williams). However that could be just what the doctor ordered. Barney fans steer clear of this dark demented comedy. "Death To Smoochy" is like nothing ever before put on the silver screen. Childhood hero, Rainbow Randolph is busted by the Feds for trying to take bribes from parents whose kids watch his show. Kid Net executives, Fr...
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Rod Serling
556 wordsRodman Edward Serling, in my opinion one of the most brilliant men of our time, was born in Syracuse, New York, on December 25, 1924, to a wholesale meat dealer, and grew up in Binghamton. By his own account, he had no early literary ambitions, though from an early age, he and his older brother, Robert, immersed themselves in movies and in shows like Astounding Stories and Weird Tales. Rod was best known from the intro where he was seen wearing a suit and most often dangling a cigarette, which w...
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Neve's Career As A Movie Star
690 wordsNeve Campbell Neve Campbell's career was a success because she danced. Neve Campbell started to dance when she was 6, following a visit the made to go and see the performance 'The Nutcracker'. When she was in dancing school (The National Ballet school of Canada) Neve had learned 5 different types of dancing. These types include jazz, flamenco, modern, hip-hop and classical. Neve reefers to the school as being 'the best dance school in the world, but an extremely competitive one too'. She also sa...
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Caring And Compassionate Person
1,224 wordsSlingblade Paper The film Slingblade depicts a mentally challenged man, Karl Childers, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and his trials and tribulations of life. When he comes out of the mental institution he was residing in, he meets a boy named Frank who accepts him as a human being like no one had previously done to him. The whole movie shows how this intricate mentally retarded man; who was domesticated from all his time in the mental house adapts to the outside world. Throughout all the foul ju...
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Bud's Father
967 wordsWall Street The movie "Wall Street" is a representation of poor morals and dissapointing business ethics in the popular world of business. This movie shows the negative effects that bad business morals can have on society. The two main characters are Bud Fox played by Charlie Sheen and Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas. Bud Fox is a young stockbroker who comes from an honest working-class family but on the other hand, Gordon Gekko is a millionaire who Bud admires and wants to be associated ...
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Symbolic Example Of Edna
1,177 wordsBooks, unlike movies, have been around since the beginning of time. For the most part, they are more meaningful than the movies that are made from these books. This is due to the fact that an author is able to convey his / her message clearer and include things in the book that cannot be exhibited in a movie. For this reason, the reader of the book is much more effected than the viewer of the film. In the novella, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, there is much more evidence of symbolism as well as...
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Best Batman Movie
553 wordsThe best part of Batman Begins was its ending... and I'm not being sarcastic. As I was watching the last scene of the movie, I wanted to jump out of my seat and cheer when Jim Gordon handed Batman the Joker playing card. It's been a while since I reacted with such glee at the promise of a sequel (usually it's more of, 'hay nak o, may part two pa yan!' ). Yes, the movie was that good. Without question this is the best Batman movie ever made. Finally we have a film adaptation that shows the essenc...
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Derek's Father
814 wordsThis movie begs to the viewer to think about the views of black and white. With the issues raised in this movie, one must write it down to get the full effect of all that is going on in this movie. One of the ideas in this movie is to show that a person, who can see both sides of an issue, can make better decisions based on that knowledge. That is the key to well rounded idea. What can be learned from American History X? In a conflict there are at least two points of view. If you don't know both...
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Their Ever Expectant Parents
606 wordsDead Poets Society review The Movie Dead Poets Society staring Ethan Hawk, Robin Willams and directed by Peter Weir, is story of young men who have much of their lives decided for them by their ever expectant parents. Whether a doctor or lawyer, most of them have already been told what to become with little respect to their own feelings. While attending on all male private school, they are introduced to a new English Professor that would soon have a major effect on all of their lives. Throughout...
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Movies Show
2,788 wordsFilm Analysis of "Ridicule" and "Queen Margot" Through the two movies, Ridicule and Queen Margot, we get many different insights into the way life was in 16th and 18th century France. The movies showcase culture and society through the characters and events, while also going deep into what life might have been like in the time period. Both films use cases of class struggle and separation to bring to light the true human spirit of the age. Ridicule, taking place about two hundred years later than...
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One Other Of The Lead Characters
1,075 wordsShow in detail how one film demonstrates innovation of technique and originality of theme The over riding theme in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrito's movie Babel is the idea that we are all connected, as if we live in one large village. The techniques he employs to show this are highly innovative. Babel has an unconventional narrative which follows three different stories. These stories occur in various different parts of the world - Tokyo, Morocco, and the US / Mexican border. These places couldn't ...
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Roy's Dream
1,459 wordsArchetypes in The Natural After discovering a God-given talent, a young boy struggles to achieve his only dream; to become the best there ever was. Baseball is all he has ever known, so he prevails through the temptations and situations laid before him by those out to destroy his career. His hopes and dreams outweigh all the temptations along his journey. These hopes, dreams, and temptations are depicted through archetypes in the movie The Natural. An archetype is a universal symbol. It is also ...
