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Hong Kong Portrayal by Director John Woo in the 1989 Film The Killer

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...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Roberto Benigni's 1998 Film Life is Beautiful

reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

Technology and the Works of H.G. Wells and Stanley Kubrick

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

Inside Man and Bourne Ultimatum

the service of the agency" (McCarthy). Both films offer up an individual that is, in one way or another, presumed to be a bad gu...

Alfred Hitchcock and His Auteur Style

theorists and directors," note that "Hitchcocks films are deeply infused with anxiety, guilt, and existential angst, which they tr...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

Analysis of a Scene from Fargo

that allows the director to alter the internal pace of the scene, directing the audiences attention to specific aspects of the sce...

Marley and Me/True meaning

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Brazilian Film/Behind the Sun

backlands that appears to be totally worthless. The feud dictates a continuous cycle of murder. The shirt of a victim is hung out ...

Film Review/Finding Nemo

but are rather handled subtly and well, as they are integrated into the context of the narrative and the way the character change ...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

Film Noir, Complexity And Gangsters

wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

Silent Film Analysis/Fatty and Mabel Adrift

gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

Dangerous Minds Movie and Gender

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Television and Film Production

growth spurt following the war and, at that time, the relationship between the film and television industries was one of antagonis...

Othello on the Stage and on Film

the others are Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear and all of them display a writer at the height of his powers. They have been popular ...

Racial Profiling: The Classroom as the Base of Societal Change

consequences. It can lead to children repeating the actions of perceived heroes that may get them incarcerated. It also leads to e...

Reality on the Screen: District 9

and unexpected, hit for its makers. Shot in South Africa by a newcomer and with a cast of unknowns, the film did have one big name...

QUALITY COMMITMENT - INDEPENDENT FILMS

Scripts go through many rewrites up to the day of the scene production (and sometimes even through the scene production (Sherwood,...

Organized Crime from the Personal Viewpoint

This paper explores some of the beliefs regarding these criminal organizations. Discussion Its probably fair to say that most peo...