Essays 1981 - 2010
was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...
ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...
sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
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...
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...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
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...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
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 He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...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...
an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...
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...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
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...
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...
interruptions and is quite different from the theater. It is true that some people today do have very large television sets, but t...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
and racism" (Baron, 2003, p. 44). Two points in particular that bring a connection between X-Men and the study of history is how...
In this essay of three pages, the writer details how explosive the film version really is and the impact that it has. There is on...
with the judge that hell have Will work on advanced mathematics with him, and additionally, see a therapist (Good Will Hunting, 20...
business transactions occur within the city limits, not to mention the fact that some of the wealthiest people choose to hang thei...
career is winding down. Crash loves the game and helps a young pitcher, Ebby Calvin LaLoosh (Tim Robbins, hone his raw talent so t...