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use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" ...

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

mourn, and move on. He is a man raised by a patriarchal society and as such it is his duty, as he sees it, to do something. In thi...

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. For example, the character of Tom Ba...

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

they become each others other half. They protect one another because they empathize, and they are more open to the needs and condi...

at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions ...