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Clint Eastwood's Film Unforgiven and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote Compared

In three pages this film and novel are compared in terms of the sidekick's stature by comparing Ned Logan and the Schofield Kid wi...

Woody Allen's Film Manhattan and Social Politics

In six pages this paper examines the social politics depicted in this 1979 film starring and directed by Woody Allen. Three sou...

Jean Paul Sartre, Taxi Driver Film, and Existentialism

In five pages existentialism is examined and then discussed within the context of Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver and Jean Paul...

Roman Empire in the Film Quo Vadis

In five pages this paper analyzes whether or not there is an accurate portrayal of the Roman Empire in the film Quo Vadis. Three ...

1958 Film Touch of Evil by Director Orson Welles

drug-trafficking case. Heston, covered in unconvincing dark makeup and no audible Mexican accent, assists Welles in the car bomb c...

How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

Cinematic Comparative Analysis of L'Avventura and Sleepless in Seattle

narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

Animation Advancements in Geri's Game Short Film by Pixar

won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...

Sundiata Film Historical Analysis

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

Aristotelian Ethics and Groundhog Day

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...

The Furies Construct and Toni Morrison's Beloved in Novel and Film Form

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

Mississippi Masala and the Immigration Experience

this Southern town oppose the relationship between a woman of Indian extraction and an African American. In a climatic scene, De...

Criminal Justice System and the Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

in public opinion toward those who are mentally ill and toward those who have been incarcerated. The question that it brought up w...

Cult Status of the Film Rosemary's Baby

away at a person until there is nothing left. A loss of humanity and depth is mourned in this movie, it could be stated. Demonic ...

The Impact of Film Piracy

were not carrying any copying devices; camera phones were immediately confiscated; officials policed the movie aisles in search of...

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...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Controversial Mel Gibson Film The Passion of the Christ

time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Film Brazil

women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...

Review of 'A Room With a View' Film

times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...

An Analysis of the Film, Training Day

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Movie Fight Club and Gender in Culture

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

The Last Samurai Film Historical Analysis

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

Mel Gibson's Cinematic Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

An Overview of Alfred Kinsey

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...