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Issues of Leadership in the Film Saving Private Ryan

In five pages this paper examines the film's characters in a consideration of various leadership issues. There are three other so...

Charlie Wilson and the Parable of Unintended Consequences

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

On the Waterfront and Character Conflict

he runs the docks. The same thing applies in the other cases. The priest, Father Barry (Karl Malden) wants to save the souls of ...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

Cinema and 'Race Films'

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

Pat Conroy's Novel The Prince of Tides Compared with 1991 Film Adaptation

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

Film Scream and Editing

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

Character and Thematic Analysis of Graham Greene's The Quiet American

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

A Review of the 1965 Film The Greatest Othello?

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

Comparative Analysis of American and Haitian Governments

that the Bush/Gore election is still considered fraudulent by some. Who could have known that the election would ever be so close ...

1972 Film The Exorcist and Feminine Monstrousness Concept

a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...

A Comparative Analysis of American Airlines, United, Delta and Southwest Airlines Strategies

The reference librarian can be of assistance in this regard if the student is unfamiliar with how to locate material in their scho...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

Formalism and Realism in the Film, Citizen Kane

This paper addresses Orson Welles' film, Citizen Kane. The author focuses on formalism and realism in the film. This five page p...

Traditional Film Methods and Digital Film of the Future

In twelve pages this paper examines traditional film methods and the increased reliance upon digital technology in a contrast and ...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...