YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 1621 - 1650
lives, stating, "The idea is almost laughable, if it werent so tragic, laments Eldredge. Men have been taken out right and left. S...
of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...
has nothing to do with love. But the idea of ORourkes full intent of his own trip to Thailand and that it had the potential to be ...
Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...
"artificial intelligence" was the choice..." Artificial intelligence involves the association of machines with comp...
military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...
large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...
Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...
was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...
and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...
dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...
uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...
the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...
angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...
72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...
she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...
rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...
- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...
Suspect (Beachem, 1998) does not mention police corruption, this writer/tutor assumes that this must be an element of this film as...
Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...
another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...
desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...
subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...