Essays 481 - 510
because I am religious and watching Moses and his interactions with God is quite enlightening and moving. Like Moses, I feel that ...
foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...
a woman who is a leader of her people, and yet her role is reduced to love and childbearing. War of the Worlds does not have any s...
placing countless products in thousands of movies. If you give it any consideration, you will be able to think of quite a few exa...
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...
are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...
Yorks celebrated Actors Studio, and emphasizes the importance on emotion memory, which enables an actor to connect with a role by ...
maintaining all the latest electronic devices, such as a plasma television, DVD player, or a home stereo surround system. And book...
of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...
is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...
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 ...
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...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
This essay offers a description of film techniques used in "Citizen Kane," directed by and starring Orson Welles. Three pages in l...
This essay pertains to "V for Vendetta" and "Children of Men" and provides a discussion of how both films support Enlightenment i...
This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...
This essay offers discussion of "Saturday Night Fever" and "Taxi Driver" as films that exemplify the social environment of the 197...