YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Influence of Border Films
Essays 1741 - 1770
would seem that the ones in power, ie, middle aged white males, were the only ones who were truly depicted in a favorable light in...
- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...
her moral virtue and the sanctioning of social conformists.. The story is set in France during the 1770s, a time often associat...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
Okay, a few people noticed that there was symbolism that could be indicative of homosexuality and so forth. Does that make a chara...
Finding Forrester Jamal is the primary character in this story. He is from a family that consists of his mother, who is single d...
That is not a trite statement. Rather, the fact that Coppolas skill, and attention to detail, allows him to make a film that is tr...
film. Syed, as we would assume, plays the films hero, "a boy named Chaipau who works for a traveling circus. One day he is sent...
what is being portrayed is hero against the world and right against wrong. Certainly, those factors are present in "Unforgiven." H...
(1975) but in the 1977 movie "Annie Hall" he was truly embraced and celebrated by the mainstream public. In many ways, it was "Ann...
were filed. Now with computer-generated cameras that can transmit images immediately back to the studio, television is now at the...
It is likely that DiNiro, a highly acclaimed actor put a lot of himself into the film and also Scorcese was brilliant as usual. Go...
who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...
The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...
and laughter will come into play in the second section of the film. Film is an emotional medium. And, like it or...
MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...
ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...
necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...
begins to notice how Emmi takes on attitudes attributable to racial intolerance, as well. "While the theme of racial prejudice is...
(Q Branch, 2002). There is the dagger pen which, "When clicking on this pens head in Moonraker, instead of a nib being revealed, y...
that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...
also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...
opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...
Portuguese registry. The Portuguese slavers want their property back, and the Coast Guard who caught the ship wants their rights t...
clowning" (Hoberman, 1997, p. 42). In his critical history on underground film, Parker Tyler refers to Smiths acting as "sloughing...
some style to the films. "One group of filmmakers who were experimenting with cinematic technique were those who emerged from B...
1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...