YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Trio of Historic Films Examined
Essays 661 - 690
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...
is no "true print" of the film, but it stands as a historical film nonetheless (Lang, 1994; 37). "The film was based on former No...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...
escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
in many works, the focus of attention on the many true stories he takes on is related to childhood friendship that seemingly last ...
However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...
constant and effective contrast made between Eliane, who represents the beauty of the country as seen by its colonizers, and Camil...
child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...
of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
and Banks 109). Theatrically trained and critically acclaimed screenwriter Ted Tally impressively translated Harriss text onto ce...
of film by offering film at a lower price. Further Fuji became the official film of the 1984 Summer Olympics which took place in ...
In Dashiell Hammetts novel, "The Maltese Falcon," many people are given such an opportunity, and the story is filled with corrupt ...
subject of Gavin OConnors 2004 film, Miracle. As portrayed by Kurt Russell, Brooks is presented as a no-nonsense disciplinarian w...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
of film. That would alert the readers to the fact that the criticism is biased. Finally, we have to wonder if opinions really ...
how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
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...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...
decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...
is But a Dream" by the Harptones and "Speedo" by the Cadillacs, combine seamlessly with additional orchestration to convey a "let ...
clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...
twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...