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poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

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...

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

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...