YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Film Shaft Analyzed
Essays 1561 - 1590
were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...
the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...
is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...
mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...
has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
again and make everyone else in my life think you are wonderful and Im a shmuck. But Im not a shmuck Bob, and Im not going to let...
of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These condition...
dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
Ultimately, however, Tre grows out of the necessity of needing the peer approval, begins to loathe the sound of gunfire and the...
swell. Then, he starts to notice that the books dont have words, the basketball team always wins their games, and no one questions...
gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...
to the big screen as had been started earlier by Lucas. In order to pull off large projects, communication is key. However, let i...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
follows the expedition of these men, going in sequential order to the actual places the "real" Lewis and Clark had many years befo...
film we have Joe who has suffered incredible wounds in WWI. He cannot talk nor can he see. He cannot hear and his arms and legs ar...
one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...
which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...
"should be allowed to people who are considered superior human beings" (Alfred Hitchcocks "Rope"). Their definition of a "superio...