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Essays 601 - 630
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...
hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...
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...
darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...
contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...
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...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
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...
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...
won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...