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Essays 601 - 630
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
boring, routine job he despises because he might develop heart problems. Its likely that he will, but there is no guarantee of tha...
lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...
community in the mission is that the film portrays delays in the UN rescue mission stemming, at least partially, from faults in co...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
and teachers alike (Willis). It is so out-of-control that only very strong action can tame it, and Clark provides just that action...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
when Dash gets in trouble at school. His mother, Helen, is trying to talk to him and reason with him as they drive home, telling h...
of looking at the basic format of a film noire, especially before color (Dirks). The plot as well is a confusing one, in terms of ...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...
Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...
child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...
human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...