YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Film Shaft Analyzed
Essays 361 - 390
Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...
sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...
the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...
lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...
he runs the docks. The same thing applies in the other cases. The priest, Father Barry (Karl Malden) wants to save the souls of ...
and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...
the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...
Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...
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 ...
of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...
ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...
high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...
lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...
boring, routine job he despises because he might develop heart problems. Its likely that he will, but there is no guarantee of tha...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...