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Battleship Potemkin Film by Director Sergei Eisenstein

a civil engineer. He was extremely interested in anything to do with "the arts" and theater. His background, including his experie...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

French Film Boy Meets Girl by Director Leos Carax

real name of "Leos Carax" is actually Alexandre Dupont and that "Leos Carax" is an anagram of the lead characters name, Alex Oscar...

A Comparison of the Films Harold and Maude and Blue Velvet

in money, or in finding Harold a nice young woman. Harold, however, is a young man fascinated with death. This is, of course, p...

Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein and Science

about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

Experimental Film Time Code 2000

continuing with this paper, the student should know that the terms "paper" and "essay" will be used interchangeably. The student a...

Perspective on the Church and Censorship

no one, then the use of the material is not considered objectionable. However, it can be submitted by the student, that harm is ca...

James Bond Films and Female Protagonists Electra King and Rosa Klebb

Enough" (2000) she poses little threat to him, as her role is different, it is merely to delay and keep him occupied whilst anoth...

Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. and Charles Chaplin's Modern Times

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

Not Wanted Film by Director Ida Lupino

in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...

Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon

them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...

The Orchid Thief and Adaptation

a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orc...

War Films and Politics

he wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible" (Bodnar). While there is also this sort of romantic ideal in Saving Private ...

Chinatown as a Homage to Film Noir

bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...

I, Robot and Race/Slavery

involves also looking ahead to the necessity of rights for future robots such as the robot in I, Robot. In the film...

The Importance of Supporting Characters in “On the Waterfront”

him: Father Barry (Karl Malden) is a tough priest who urges him to testify about what he knows; Johnnie Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) is ...

Cool Hand Luke/Gospel of Mark

his habitual good-natured grin when he is arrested. For this damage to municipal property, Luke is sentenced to two-years labor on...

The Messages of “Forrest Gump”

is just surplus" (Ebert) But the "surplus" is everything that a "normal" person experiences. While there is a definite charm to t...

What Literature Does

is: Platos account of how Socrates defended himself. When he is condemned to death in spire of his eloquence, he accepts it with d...

“House of Sand”

is Torres mother; Do?a Maria is a frail woman but apparently stronger of character than her daughter. Since they are going to live...

Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

Film and Social Violence

Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...

Frankenstein and Blade Runner

are clearly emotionally distraught at being unloved and uncared for by humans, their parents. They seek vengeance. The only replic...

Horton Hears a Who

what is "proper." How well have they done it? All aspects of this delightful childrens film are done extremely well. The animatio...

Beauty in Film Noir and Personal Aesthetics

Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

Second World War Newsreels

In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...