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This essay pertains to the art production and mise-en-scene that characterizes "The Andromeda Strain," a 1971 film directed by Rob...

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

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

a historical event and also its creation of a fictional love story. In this film there is a woman, Rose, who is very wealthy and...

dress of the other extras (all men) identifies them as working-class people. Theres a mug on the counter and the usual accessories...

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

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

never to have: schizophrenia. But Russell Crowes amazing performance as John Nash shows us what its like to suffer from this illne...

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

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

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

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...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

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...

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

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) (...

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...