YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 541 - 570
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...
notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
this key scene This movie is very relevant to todays issues as it causes the viewer to ponder the possible ramifications of cloni...
community in the mission is that the film portrays delays in the UN rescue mission stemming, at least partially, from faults in co...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
and teachers alike (Willis). It is so out-of-control that only very strong action can tame it, and Clark provides just that action...
of looking at the basic format of a film noire, especially before color (Dirks). The plot as well is a confusing one, in terms of ...
no adultery, save for stolen kisses, which of course are observed and thereby cause conflict, anguish for Arthur; exile for Lance...
academic as being relevant or meaningful to their lives (Giroux 46). The plot of this movie is obviously the story of a plucky, ca...
as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...
The Replicants in The Blade Runner were genetically engineered, and yet while their initial data was programmed and they had a lif...
people who died from typhus, malnutrition as well as exhaustion from being overworked was very high and it appears as though this ...
have on the how memorable the product is to the audience. The research will also have to assess the optimum level for the audience...
petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...
around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...
and the animal bond, and there is a crack in his offensive fa?ade that allows him to grow and become at least slightly human (Schw...
kept isolated from others (Hanson 20). The ultramodern beach house is minimalist in decor and looks more like a prison than safe ...
"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...
the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, is a comedy that satires an election for student government president, which is ...
single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...
to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...