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David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

Burlesque and Fear in Films Dr. Strangelove and The China Syndrome

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these films by directors Stanley Kubrick and James Bridges in terms of their portra...

James Cameron's Science Fiction Films Terminator and Terminator 2

In five pages this paper examines the changes director Cameron made in the second Terminator film and also considers the overall s...

Different Ethnic Cultures and Diane Keaton's Characters in Annie Hall and The Godfather

The ways in which directors Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola use Diane Keaton's characters to provide ethnic and cultural insi...

Irish Filmmaker Neil Jordan

puzzle understand that they are nearly always involved in the penetration of a seemingly depthless surface of one person. However...

John Woo's Film The Killer

In five pages this paper reviews the 1989 film by director John Woo entitled The Killer and considers the influence of Western mav...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

Directors as Authors in the Movie Germany in Autumn

Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rup?, Vol...

Steven Spielberg's Leadership Skills

to the big screen as had been started earlier by Lucas. In order to pull off large projects, communication is key. However, let i...

Historical Changes Made to the Film Braveheart

Gibson. From a simple understanding of history and the constant struggle between Scotland and England, as Scotland fought to rem...

Literary Adaptation and Howard Hawks

In eight pages this report considers how director Howard Hawks was able to masterfully combine film and literature. Five sources ...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

Timing and Disguise in 'The Odyssey' Stories

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

Perspective and Color in Gary Ross' Film Pleasantville

swell. Then, he starts to notice that the books dont have words, the basketball team always wins their games, and no one questions...

The Siege Film by Edward Zwick

a bus bombing incident and after the attacks intensify in violence and frequency, he becomes convinced these are not isolated inci...

Oliver Stone's Film Nixon

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

Beatrice and Hero in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

Searches in 2 Films by Orson Welles

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

Film Review of The Believer

meetings that he attends, he reminds those present to focus on harassing Jews. As one might surmise, Danny definitely has conflic...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Silence of the Lambs Novel and Cinematic Versions

remained amazingly faithful to the book, in his commitment to retaining its essence, there were some changes that needed to be mad...

Woody Allen's Films and Women

(1975) but in the 1977 movie "Annie Hall" he was truly embraced and celebrated by the mainstream public. In many ways, it was "Ann...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

JFK Assassination as Explained by Filmmaker Oliver Stone

In seven pages this paper discusses the failure of director Oliver Stone to explain the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his fl...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

French Director Jean Renoir

his daughters fiance, Anatole. They are observed by two young men, Henri and Rodolphe, who propose to seduce the women in the part...