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"Psycho" with Reference to Walters

between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...

D.O.A.: 1950 and 1988

But, in this film remake the character seems less likeable, a character that perhaps the audience could not relate to as well for ...

California and the 1992 Film Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

The Consumption of the Da Vinci Code

that many books before it has looked at blurred the line between fiction and reality. The research has been undertaken and...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Clinical Issues in the Film “Transamerica”

who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...

Brokeback Mountain: The "Great Outdoors" as a Trap

one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...

Forest Gump, Ray, And Dangerous Minds

Association for Retarded Citizens was organized (Education Encyclopedia, 2006). In the 1960s, parents became even stronger in thei...

History and Evolution of Documentary Film

number has increased to 1,000; by 1901, to 1,299 titles" (Adventures in Cybersound, 2007). This was the beginning of the documenta...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

James Bond and Violence from Connery to Craig

society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...

Court Martial: A Few Good Men

most people like and he ultimately seems to be nothing more than a complainer, and less than a perfect military individual in rela...

Leadership in Bridge Over the River Kwai

about getting this bridge done in time is Saito. Saito claims he will kill the British one by one if he does not comply. After som...

Cinderella: Text and Film

clean and cook and be their servant. In both of the versions Cinderella becomes a slave to the step mother and step sisters. In th...

Shawshank Redemption

money that he stole from Warden Nortons ill-gotten funds. Eventually Red is paroled and joins Andy in Mexico. Themes : One of the...

A Sociological Analysis of Hannibal Lecter

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Margaret Mead's Contribution to Ethnographic Film

to capturing reality, and artistic flair was considered, but they were not privy to the aesthetic possibilities that exist today. ...

Methodology Used in An Inconvenient Truth

to emanate from the Tufte piece, one of which is the fact that PowerPoint presentations have aesthetic problems and so, they are u...

Comparing and Contrasting Dumbo (1941) with The Little Mermaid (1989)

in fact, alcohol is flaunted, despite the fact that the cartoon is made for a young audience. Dumbo also has a "drunken vision" (L...

Is "Malcolm X" and Orientalist Film?

as an alien, dangerous and strange religion, Said says that he has "not been able to discover any period in European or American h...

Mrs. Doubtfire/Film Review

her away from home and the kids. Daniel seeks the help of his flamboyantly gay brother, Frank, to help him disguise himself as a w...

Richard Lester: "Petulia"

counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

"Flatliners": Do the Ends Justify the Means?

of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...

Land and Money and the Status Quo

The 1990 movie "The Field", written and directed by Jim Sheridan is based on a 1965 film by John B. Keane. This is a captivating...

Inarritu's "Babel" - Lessons in Conflict and Communication

terrorist act), and this prevents Susan from getting the care that she requires for quite some time. Another major conflict in t...