Essays 961 - 990
Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
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...
by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...
same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
of that would come out in his work. The truth, however, is that his films never held any true kind of message of social or religio...
to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...
wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...
death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...
in an untimely accident, she further loses her capacity to love herself or others. She is so consumed by her grief and her lack of...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
alliance between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inc...
child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...