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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...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orc...
he wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible" (Bodnar). While there is also this sort of romantic ideal in Saving Private ...
bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...
involves also looking ahead to the necessity of rights for future robots such as the robot in I, Robot. In the film...
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...
him: Father Barry (Karl Malden) is a tough priest who urges him to testify about what he knows; Johnnie Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) is ...
his habitual good-natured grin when he is arrested. For this damage to municipal property, Luke is sentenced to two-years labor on...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
is just surplus" (Ebert) But the "surplus" is everything that a "normal" person experiences. While there is a definite charm to t...
errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...
counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...
her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...
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...
of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...
to emanate from the Tufte piece, one of which is the fact that PowerPoint presentations have aesthetic problems and so, they are u...
as an alien, dangerous and strange religion, Said says that he has "not been able to discover any period in European or American h...
one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...
in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...
In ten pages this paper chronicles the history of British film from its 19th century origins until 1939. Six sources are listed i...
In five pages Woo's portrayal of Hong Kong is the focus of this examination of The Killer film. Four sources are cited in the bib...
reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...
In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...
have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...
portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...