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a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...
history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...
it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...
film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
In five pages this 1943 film by director Michael Curtiz is examined in terms of both its Second World War period history and how i...
The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...
Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...
to answer but is subject to interpretation. The title might be referring to an American point of view perhaps or even the division...
meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...
the daily lives of the general population. The Soviet View of Security Throughout the thirties Soviet leaders viewed their countr...
night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...
applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...
This essay pertains to "A Deadly Deception," which is a PBS film that documents the events of the Tuskegee syphilis study, which l...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...
This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...
particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...
group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...
directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...
in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...
ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...
element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...
is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...