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

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

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...

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) (...

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...

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...

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...

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...

of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...

by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...