Essays 481 - 510
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...
of film. That would alert the readers to the fact that the criticism is biased. Finally, we have to wonder if opinions really ...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...
throughout the film involves barriers to listening and questioning as well as dialogical processes that can break down these barri...
ethics with virtue ethics. Confucian ethics generally embrace the idea of righteousness and goes to the notion that people should...
indictment of the British caste system and the exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2...
fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...
editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...
of film by offering film at a lower price. Further Fuji became the official film of the 1984 Summer Olympics which took place in ...
scares involving communism. The government wanted people to be fearful of communism and Clooneys focus is clearly on the supposed ...
presents this realistically, although perhaps also justifies his aggressive nature. Lee presents Malcolm as an incredibly real and...
tradition of good vs. evil, the inexperienced novice is cast in the role of David facing off against Goliath, the legal dream team...
accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...
subject of Gavin OConnors 2004 film, Miracle. As portrayed by Kurt Russell, Brooks is presented as a no-nonsense disciplinarian w...
characterization of evangelical minister-turned-apostle illustrates the fundamentals of Fromms personality theory, and how it can ...
because I am religious and watching Moses and his interactions with God is quite enlightening and moving. Like Moses, I feel that ...
an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...
Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...
them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...
child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...
some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...
light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...
portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...
were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...
the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...
documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...