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Hero’s Quest in the Film The Fisher King and in Epic of Gilgamesh

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

Comparing Film Versions of Twelfth Night

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

The Validity of An Inconvenient Truth

has to do with accuracy. First, the film is well accomplished to an extent. Obviously, it is not as good as if it were done in som...

1920s’ Berlin, German Expressionism, and the Architecture and Lighting in Orson Welles’ Film The Trial

Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

Who Killed the Electric Car?

example, that many people would be out of work if the electric car ever took off. There would be less demand for gas stations and ...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Management & Apollo 13

A 5 page film report that examines the movie Apollo 13 from the perspective of a management consultant who has been brought in by ...

The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

Forrest Gump and Agents of Socialization

him. As such one could well argue that the agent of school as a socialization agent, made Forrest realize there were dangers from ...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

Battle Scenes: Saving Private Ryan and The Return of the King

graphic violence, others praised the realism, while some questioned whether war is really like that at all" (Haflidason, 2000). Th...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

Four Brothers: Depiction of the Aged

considered, or connected to, retirement. As her character relates to any demographics it seems fairly reliable although the film i...

Scripts: Imagery

(What About Bob Script - Dialogue Transcript, 2007).. He proudly claims later, "Im a sailor!" (What About Bob Script - Dialogue Tr...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

how the sane are seen as insane. Once a person is in such an institution it seems as though they are automatically pegged as insan...

Social Work and The Color Purple

her supposed advice and is incredibly confused and upset by Celies advice. While Celie is sorry she is not in a position in her li...

Sexism and Racism in Trading Places

brash prostitute that flaunts her body and acts like a tough hooker. She is representative of women who sell their body and are al...

Comparing and Contrasting Dumbo (1941) with The Little Mermaid (1989)

in fact, alcohol is flaunted, despite the fact that the cartoon is made for a young audience. Dumbo also has a "drunken vision" (L...

History and Evolution of Documentary Film

number has increased to 1,000; by 1901, to 1,299 titles" (Adventures in Cybersound, 2007). This was the beginning of the documenta...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

First Solar Inc.

commercial solar power projects and the company is undertaking international expansion as well as domestic expansion, two producti...

Juno

lightly and surely not a topic that one could conceive of as being used as the foundation of a comedy film that would actually rec...

Finding Forrester: Education and the Arts

respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...

Finding Forrester

about how Jamal would not know a particular author whom Forrester begins quoting. Jamal proves him wrong, illustrating he does kno...

Inherit the Wind and Religion

the majority of people in the United States today still disbelieve that people actually evolved from another species, it seems acc...

Hollywood and the California Dream

actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...

Babel

her friends are at a diner of sorts, prior to the scene with her father, where all the kids hang out, she is laughed at by some yo...