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Film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Adolescent Development

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

Life and Early Film Career of Howard Hawks

of that would come out in his work. The truth, however, is that his films never held any true kind of message of social or religio...

The Notebook Film Psychosocial Analysis

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

Comparing Soviet Film Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V.I. Pudovkin

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

Monster Film and Crime

are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...

Comparison of Cellular Film Character Ryan and Huck Finn

maintaining all the latest electronic devices, such as a plasma television, DVD player, or a home stereo surround system. And book...

Film She's Gotta Have It by Director Spike Lee

of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...

Isabelle Allende's House of Spirits and the 1993 Film Version

fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...

Film Review of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump

is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...

William Friedkin's Film, 'The Exorcist'

approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...

Greta Garbo's Character in the Film Ninotchka

capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...

Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Producing and Distributing Short Films

mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...

Futuristic Visions in the Films Metropolis and Blade Runner

against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use th...

Critics of Michael Moore's Films

the facts themselves wrong, but that he manipulated them to mislead people (Nyhan). In one instance, Moore apparently "do...

Conflict in the Sherlock Holmes Film Dressed to Kill

counterfeiting, with the messages in the music box containing the whereabouts of the missing plates. Though the inmate was in pris...

Film Industry of South Africa

of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These condition...

The Dance Film, 'Tap'

dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Themes of the Film Cocoon

Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

Formalism in the Films, Great Expectations and, The Night of the Hunter

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

Illusion in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 Film Fanny and Alexander and Different Interpretations

child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Films Inspired by This Novel

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Conflict in the 1939 Film Stagecoach

clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...