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Contrast and Comparison of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now

conflict in both "Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now." In the book, it occurs between the main characters. In the movie, it ...

John Ford Films Young Mr. Lincoln and The Searchers Compared

This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...

Film and Social Violence

Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...

Frankenstein and Blade Runner

are clearly emotionally distraught at being unloved and uncared for by humans, their parents. They seek vengeance. The only replic...

Horton Hears a Who

what is "proper." How well have they done it? All aspects of this delightful childrens film are done extremely well. The animatio...

Marley and Me/True meaning

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Dangerous Minds Movie and Gender

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Silent Film Analysis/Fatty and Mabel Adrift

gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

Film Noir, Complexity And Gangsters

wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...

Communication Competence in Erin Brockovich

desperation to find a job; losing her court cause in which Ed Masry represents her; the way she cajoles Masry into giving her a jo...

Analysis of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Film Trailer

Goodman, who starred in four Coen films). Its dramatic KKK historical motif serves as a backdrop for what plays like a cartoon wi...

Women in Yellow Wallpaper and The Changeling

lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...

Narrative Structural Analysis of Groundhog Day

that Phil has always been a jerk, even in his youth, as first of all, he dismissed ordinary people, such as Ned, as beneath him an...

The Social Impacts of the American Revolution

of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...

Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou Sirens and KKK Scenes Analyzed

of a directors wish to go into a more exciting creative direction by deviating from his formulaic musical comedies and instead mak...

Good Will Hunting and the Social Learning Theories of Albert Bandura

psychology, and mentoring assisted educators like Professor Lambeau and his college roommate and counselor Sean McGuire (Robin Wil...

Hitchcock's Rebecca

Danvers seems almost supernatural in her ability to simply appear, starling the current Mrs. De Winter, who is played by Joan Font...

Review of Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969)

Portugal, which makes more sense from a historical perspective, as Spains colonial possession are the most prominent, Brazil being...

The Animated Characters of Disney

in the way different characters are presented, as well as beauty in different meanings at different levels. It may be argued tha...

Zack Snyder and The Watchmen

In the film generally, gender is marked by an exaggerated sense of male and female. That is, the men are aggressively male while t...

Analysis of a Scene from Fargo

that allows the director to alter the internal pace of the scene, directing the audiences attention to specific aspects of the sce...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

Romeo and Juliet: The Film

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...