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The Matrix Character of Neo

Reeves plays Neo, a hacker who learns from rebel-rousers Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) that the wor...

The Seventh Seal and Cinematic Symbolism of Director Ingmar Bergman

In five pages this paper analyzes the symbolism Ingmar Bergman employed for existentialist effect in his 1957 film The Seventh Sea...

Film Face Off

In five pages this film is analyzed in terms of its uniqueness, strengths, and weaknesses. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Film Prequel Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace

In five pages this film prequel is analyzed in terms of what it represents and its influence upon the two cinematic prequels to co...

Odds Against Tomorrow and Dr. Strangelove Are More Than Film Entertainment

This paper examines how public consciousness was raised by these two thought provoking films in five pages. There are no other so...

Uranya/A Film Analysis

funny. The boys arrive at Uranyas beach shack, which is "straight out of Fellini," on their bicycles (Young). One boy ventures for...

Themes in The Blind Side

son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...

The French Lieutenant's Woman

fact is not as clear in the film. The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depen...

There’s Something About Mary

fool has a wondrous capability of truly providing many different elements of human nature to the audience. They can be ridiculous ...

Life in Prison and Redemption Found There

first released, but since its debut it has grown in popularity until it is now generally considered one of the greatest films of a...

About Those Incredible Incredibles

happen to a society that no longer needed or wanted its superheroes. This paper argues that the film is much more than a "cartoon"...

The Hours

situation and her death. In addition, Cunningham illustrates the importance of the subject of suicide, setting the stage for under...

Gang-Rape on Screen

(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....

"Freaky Friday" And Multiculturalism

very essence of what it means to be a human being, demonstrating how and why a person acts the way she does, how she attributes mo...

The Genius of Billy Wilder in Sunset Boulevard

(Brackett & Wilder, 1950). Its the narrator, who is telling his story from beyond the grave. He says he wants to tell the real ...

Stooping to Their Level: the FBI in “Mississippi Burning”

goes black as two more shots are heard. The reaction of the audience at this point is sheer disbelief as well as anger. The disb...

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

Film Review of Coach Carter

Carter and takes a swing at him, which Carter blocks and then, with an arm pended behind his back, Carter pushes Cruz against a wa...

Analysis of 2 Horror Films

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

John Ford Films Young Mr. Lincoln and The Searchers Compared

This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...

Reflections of Poverty In Film

This paper examines Oscar Lewis' film, The Children of Sanchez, as well as Luis Bunnel's work, Los Olvidados. This four page pape...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Education

who do not know how to live life and are brainwashed by books and academia" (Chan). In essence, the professor understands the more...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

Novel and Film Versions of The Rainmaker

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

Cubicle Anonymity and Office Space

climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...