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Review of the 1997 Film Gattaca

the genetic attributes of their offspring in advance and their wishes are accomplished under laboratory conditions through the gen...

Chapter Thirteen of Brendan Prairie by Dan O'Brien

In five pages this essay provides a chapter summary and also analyzes the author's employment of action, setting, and characteriza...

Storytelling and the 'Old Man' Archetype

or archetypes, tend to lend an instant type of history and emotional context for the character, it can be said. The hero, for exam...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Analysis

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

A 'Norman Bates' Analysis

studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...

A Seven Film Analysis

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

1976 Film The Town that Dreaded Sundown

it outlines all of the major action of the film. It is also one of the most positive reviews on this movie, as the author actually...

Cinematic Comparison of Like Water for Chocolate and Mi Familia

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

Fritz Hippler's Film The Eternal Jew

the film to perfection. He suggested that the German people should take matters into their own hands and reclaim their country by ...

Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson's Raising Cain

wonder, then, that there are so many divorces? Little boys grow up to be men who cannot or will not show their emotions; not even ...

SWOT Analysis, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and Thirteen Days

first tried negotiation, then threats, the Soviets continued arms buildup in the tiny island nation. Things finally came to a head...

Cinema and the Impact of Music

desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...

Randall Wallace's Film We Were Soldiers and the Depiction of the Vietnam War

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Life and Performing Art of Actor Marlon Brando

Piscator, where he was introduced to the acting technique developed by Konstantin Stanislavski commonly referred to as "The Method...

Detailed Cinematic Analysis of American Beauty

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...

An Analysis of the Film, Lost In Translation

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck's American Terrorist Timothy McVeigh

home, he was given an opportunity to be a part of the Green Berets but he did not make it due to the rigorous physical training ne...

Film and Sociology

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...

Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

Analysis of the Film Menace II Society

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

Bryan Singer's X Men Film and Space

global world audience, movies and movie makers have to consider that the reference to space as suggested by place may suggest some...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

Jean Pierre Jeunet's 2001 Film Amelie from Montmartre, Feminism, and Postmodernism

known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...

India Song by Marguerite Duras

feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Conflict, Balance, and the Tea Ceremony in Rikyu

Rikyu. Rikyu, played by Rentaro Mikuni not only originated the art of the tea ceremony but was also considered someone of stature ...

An Article by Dan Reed on the Chapter Eleven Filing by United Airlines Reviewed

In five pages an article that was featured in USA Today is evaluated in terms of its intended audience with a consideration of eth...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

Cinematic Analysis of Pierrot le Fou

ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...

Superhero Films, Comics, and Cartoons and Their American Significance During the Second World War and the Cold War

Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...