SEARCH RESULTS

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

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

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

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

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

to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...