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The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

Healing With Prayer

Are the criteria for the charismatic part founded on Scripture? If the criteria for the charismatic identity is not founded on Scr...

Film Noir, Complexity And Gangsters

wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...

Christianity and Islam

which set the family in a state of poverty (Hooker, 1996). Mohammeds family was from the Hashim clan, which was one of the poorer ...

The Differences Between Book and Film of New Moon

father is entirely disinterested in her welfare. The picture Meyer paints in fact is one of a lonely, alienated teen who is easy p...

The Life of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels

King of the Jews. Mark places more emphasis on what Jesus did than what He said. He saw Jesus as a powerful servant of God. Luke s...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

Views of Jesus

perspective is not the error, in this authors view, but rather approaching the subject of naturalizing Jesus from a preconceived n...

Karl Barth's Christology

more certain that any consideration of Gods relationship to humanity must also consider the presence of God as manifested in the p...

Analyzing the Film Adaptation of The Rainmaker by John Grisham

tradition of good vs. evil, the inexperienced novice is cast in the role of David facing off against Goliath, the legal dream team...

Analyzing the Film Educating Rita

for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...

Cinematic Depiction of Hong Kong

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...

Increasing Film Studios' Profitability

in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...

Meeting Jesus Christ and Being Ready

where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...

Gangster Genre and 2 Representative British Films

and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

Jesus of Nazareth As God

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

Cinematic Comedies and Sound's Role

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Object v. Spectator Types of Cinematic Gaze

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

Mental Health Insights from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and A Beautiful Mind

that wracks him with confusion (Nassal, 2002). "I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Li...

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Myth, Fact, and Early Christianity

sacrificed consorts who was killed by the Father Zeus after the fertility rite that coupled him with his Mother (Graves 89). Also ...

A Film Analysis of Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

Fifth Book of Luke, Verses 1 to 11

we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets" (Luke 5: 5). Peter and his men...

Condon's Film Gods and Monsters

However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...

Spike Lee’s ‘New York State of Mind’

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...