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Toy Guns In The Show Scene
1,953 wordsEnglish:Vietnam thru Film and Literature Gerard ChretienProfessor:Morgan April 23, 2002 Apocalypse NowThroughout the film 'Apocalypse Now ' by F.F. Coppola, there is a parallel between the Indian wars and the Vietnamese war. We can compare the Vietnamese with the Indians and the American soldiers with the cowboys. In the beginning, it is the triumph of the Cowboys, that is to say, the triumph of US soldiers. Colonel Kilgore's US Cavalry arrives in helicopters, playing Wagner's Ride of the Walkyr...
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Film Makhmalbaf
1,193 wordsA Moment of Innocence: Reconciling the Past When I walked into class that day I was indifferent to the movie that we would be watching that evening. Five minutes into A Moment of Innocence (1995) by Mohs an Makhmalbaf, I was hooked. By taking a pseudo-documentary style Makhmalbaf lets us see the people as they are transformed into the characters from the director's past. This style allows us to "grow up" with them and to relate to both sides of the story. By taking a true event and fictionalizin...
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Conflicting The Warden With Andy
767 wordsThe Shawshank Redemption is a feature film concerned with the repression of individuals within an institution- a prison in this case. It is concerned with routine, forced conformity, power abuse and the struggle of hope to exist in such a lifeless world. Characteristic of this "feel good" genre film, the "good guys", Andy Dufrense, and the "bad guys", the warden and his guards are also constructed. The viewers response to the above elements are shaped by the use of film language (lighting, camer...
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Bravery And Courage
269 wordsHeroism is portraying qualities of courage, bravery, and valor along with many other highly dignified traits. The crew of Apollo 13 displayed much bravery and courage. The time and dedication it took to show many emotions were greatly shown. Courage was shown many times throughout the film. It was shown when the astronauts were up in space and had to be able to battle out the cold when there was not enough power to generate the heat. That particular event would take much courage, physical streng...
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Excellent Scene From Bonnie And Clyde
1,141 wordsRebellion is a common topic in movies because it draws in audiences with its bad boys and bad attitudes. Two of the greatest rebellion movies of all time are Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean, and Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The opening scene in Rebel Without a Cause shows a drunken teenage boy lying in the street, giggling, while he plays with a toy. The directors of these two films show rebellion using the same elements: themes, characters, and memorable...
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Robot Sonny
1,608 wordsThroughout this essay I will be analyzing a sixty second sequence of the film I-Robot. Directed by Alex Pro yas, the film was released in 2004 and was a hit at the box office. The film is an action-thriller inspired by Isaac Asimov's classic short story collection. Asimov's books set forth the three laws of robotics. Law 1. A Robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Law 2. A Robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such ord...
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Tension Between Mike Vargas And Hank Quinlin
1,344 wordsTouch of Evil Director: Orson Welles Producers: Rick Schmid lin, Albert ZugsmithDirector of Photography: Russel MettyWriter: Orson Welles Editor: Aaron Still, Walter MurchPoduction Designer / Art Director: Robert ClatworkthAlexander Golitzen AVF 10 - 5/1/05 In Orson Welles' classic film noir production Touch of Evil, a Mexican police officer named Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston), becomes the target of an American police officer named Hank Quinlin (Orson Welles), when Vargas attempts to expose Quin...
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O Dog And Caine
3,246 words"A crooked childhood it's what the way I am, It's got me in the state where I don't give a damn, Somebody helped me but now they don't hear me, I guess I be another victim of the ghetto So I guess I gotta do what so I ain't finished I grew up to be a up menace, ge ah". -"Stre iht Up Menace" by MC Eight The song lyrics above are from the soundtrack of the film Menace II Society and correspond directly to the hardships that people are given when growing up in the ghetto and when surrounded by a li...
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Very Heart Of The Film As Cole
681 wordsThe Sixth Sense Adam Fisher Professor Blackwell 11 October 2001 The problem with most horror films these days is that they seem to feel that disgust and fear are interchangeable; that waving a few severed limbs or some intestines at an audience will have the same effect as engaging that audiences imagination and playing on its deepest fears. Just how wrong this attitude is has been fully demonstrated over the past few months by the runaway success of M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. By word...
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Woody's Position As Andy's Favourite Toy
1,790 wordsToy Story Analysis Toy Story is the groundbreaking 1995 motion picture developed by Disney and Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. The film was so revolutionary not only because it was the first feature length animation to be created completely by CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) but also, also the film was more rounded in all respects. The characters not only looked more sophisticated and three-dimensional but their personalities were also more human and fewer cartoons like. The film uses a co...
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Violence And Punishment Play In The Film
1,199 wordsViolence and Punishment in Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction, one of the most highly acclaimed films of 1995, was without a doubt a shocking and controversial movie. Drugs, sex, and especially violence filled our eyes and our ears. Director Quentin Tarantino brought into the mainstream a genre that had never had such mass appeal, and he did it very successfully. After viewing Pulp Fiction, the issues of violence and punishment arise, and we have to question what role they play in the film. The first wor...
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Painting In Mrs Mingotts Home
2,135 words(Dir: Martin Scorsese, 1993.) As a Martin Scorsese film The Age of Innocence stands in a different genre. However, it uses the conventions of a film set in this era and of a romantic drama. Scorsese also employs other interesting conventions to assist in the development of the narrative as well as of characters, themes and ideas. The use of these conventions can be found in the extract which involves some of the first scenes of this film. It takes place at the Boufords ball and then moves onto M...
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Neos And Agent Smiths Point Of View
3,115 wordsIn their film, The Matrix, Andy and Larry Wachowski have included many literary allusions and symbols to enhance the appeal of this groundbreaking science fiction film. As incredible as the special effects and cinematography are in this film, the Wachowski brothers have significantly bolstered the appeal of The Matrix by an elaborately constructed story spanning time and reality. These allusions and symbols include references from infamous writers such as Lewis Carol, Jung, John Bunyan and Desca...
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Film Noir Movies
2,426 wordsBlade Runner was considered one of the most significant and best made science fiction movies of its genre. The movie was directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Michael De eley, and stars Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer. The theme of the movie is basically man's eternal quest to find infinite life, and how short life really is. It is also about man's egocentrism, making cyborgs that look and act like just like humans. It is the year 2019; artificial human robots called Replicants have been made for...
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Shu Lien And Li Mu Bai
1,431 wordsg Promise me this- Whatever path you take in this life, be true to yourself. h Shu Lien, a main character in the Chinese film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon gives this advice to Jen, who is a young, struggling girl. This film explores how one can learn how to go beyond the restraints of emotion and freedom typical in Chinese culture, and find personal happiness. The theme is that holding back your true emotions and passions and never allowing them to be fulfilled will lead to a life wasted. Thro...
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Conversation Between Brick And Big Daddy
1,117 wordsWhen literature is transformed into film, it goes through a process known as cinematic mutation. This process could not be more noticeable in the production of Tennessee William's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This playwright and later blockbuster film is based on the inner conflicts of honesty, love, and greed. There is a great deal of narrative refraction in the screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe. Some major thematic modifications in the film include: Brick Pollitt's sexuality issue, a trans ...
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Moulin Rouge Film
2,254 wordsIntroduction. Moulin Rouge, the Red Windmill situated in Montmartre, Paris, was recreated by Baz Luhrmann who inevitably made it astonishing for all in many different ways. The director creates an accurate, historical account of the Moulin Rouge at the turn of the century, from the 19th century to the 20th century. Many people quickly welcomed the base lines of the Moulin Rouge. The public had discovered a new dance with rhythm and proposition through the Moulin Rouge, and this was the French Ca...
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Modernity Of The Play
994 wordsBaz Luhrmann has succeeded in bringing Shakespeare to a young more modern audience. He has done this by using techniques such as mise-en-scene, montage and various genres. These are used in relation to the themes of the play, which are destiny, love, violence and death. The cinematic techniques help to capture the interest of modern audiences while retaining the original language by using up to date resources. The opening scenes make us aware that the film is a modern day version of the film. Fo...
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Versions Of The Film
2,164 wordsIs more of the same too much? Even when what you started with was pure treasure? That's the question that greets viewers of the restored, re-edited version of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War fantasia, APOCALYPSE NOW, a film that codified genius in its first release and is here presented under a different title, with almost an hour of scenes cut from its original release. The critical consensus is that the re-edited version embarrasses current Hollywood product by emerging as the best film of ...
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Opening Scene
636 wordsEditing Assignment Most with the Least For my assignment I decided to choose "Minority Report", a film set in Washington, D.C. in 2054 directed by Steven Spielberg and edited by Michael Kahn, A.C.E. I compared the opening scene to this chapter which really doesn't seem to follow Murch's theory to well. The film starts out with quickly cut scenes of a murder. These scenes are cut too quickly to fully understand what is going on. A blurred effect is also used to help create these scenes of chaos. ...
