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  • Stone's Film
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    this is my real report Oliver's Stone's "JFK" builds up an overwhelming head of urgency that all comes rushing out at the end of the film, in a tumbling, angry, almost piteous monologue - the whole obsessive weight of Jim Garrison's conviction that there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. With the words come images, faces, names, snatches of dialogue, flashbacks to the evidence, all marshaled to support his conclusion that the murder of JFK was not the work of one man. Well, do you...
  • Wonderful Metaphor For Barry
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    In Talk Radio, Oliver Stone brings together all venues of filmmaking to capture the story he wants to tell. With tremendous collaboration from the DP, the production designer, the writer, and the performers, Stone calculated a tight, moving film in high style. Beginning with the script, Stone and Bogosian formed a laborious respect in the nature of the piece. They each understood the underlying theme that Barry repeats over and over again. If you dont like it, why dont you turn it off (sic) They...
  • Mass Media Through Television
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    One of Oliver Stones masterpieces, Natural Born Killers, caused severe controversy due to the graphic, but sincere portrayal of how the media devilishly feeds on violence and how the people of the country respond to these glamorized acts of wrong doing. Although the nation has condemned the movie for its shockingly violent scenes, critics like Roger Ebert and devoted Stone fans like Jason O'Brien have a different perspective on the message that this movie is trying to portray. That is, the simpl...
  • Stone's Film
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    The release of JFK was a crucial moment in the account of motion pictures just as the events it portrays divided politics. Prior to JFK it would have been awfully hard to sell a political film in which the reality is issue, perverse, deformed, and in the end found impossible, in which the title character is murdered before the opening credits end rolling. Oliver Stone's film has the classic anecdote, visual scale and gist to match; not simply a fascinating real-life plot thriller, but also an al...
  • Radical Drama
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    I'm not quite sure what I am supposed to do with these explorations, except for that they should be written on out of class material. I guess then that I will try to explore some more modern radical dramas. When I first thought of that question, nothing came to my mind. I began to think that radical drama was as thing of the past. Then I realized that there's plenty of it out and much of it I have even seen. One of the clearest and most recent examples of radical drama, which I felt dumb for not...
  • Stone Flashes Scenes From The Zapruder Film
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    Manipulation of Truth in Oliver Stone's JFK Oliver Stone is a master of manipulation. Being an expert in the art of directing, Stone is able to make an audience believe whatever he wishes. In the 1991 film JFK, Oliver Stone manipulates facts in order to convey a fictional conspiracy involving the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Zapruder film and the magic bullet theory are two facts that Stone employs to trick the audience into believing his fabricated tale. Stone unfolds this film through...
  • Scenes As The Military Industrial Theory
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    The Military-Industrial Complex Theory and the role it played in the Assassination of President Kennedy's assassination proven by Oliver Stone in his movie JFK To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of men. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox This quote begins Oliver Stone's 1991 epic, JFK. This is by no mistake. Stone is setting the tone for the rest of his movie. President Kennedy's 1963 assassination still remains today as one of the worst atrocities modern America has witnessed. Questions ...
  • Adventure Film
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    Popular Genres Assignment No. 2 Discussion on criteria of an adventure film Lecturer: Student: Due Date: T his discussion attempts to validate the statement that: 'In a general sense, the criteria of an adventure film is as follows: there is an exciting quest and a series of perilous events or journeys; there is a romantic sub-plot; there are recognisable bad guys, and the hero is able to conquer his or her foes as well as save those around them' (Central Queensland University 2002, p. 21). The ...
  • Sword In The Stone Merlin
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    Using Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur as a guide, discuss how the character of Merlin from the Arthurian Legend changes throughout three 20th century film retelling. Many writers and artists throughout the ages have made attempts of retelling Malory's Arthurian legend. In saying this, many of the ideals of characters change. Merlin, in particular, has been appropriated to fit many different texts. His image and his behaviour between different texts reflect this. Such texts that portray these changes ...

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