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Essays 391 - 420
mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...
middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...
Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...
attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...
rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...
1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...
the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...
is partly based on the experiences of one of its writers, Neil Peng), focuses on Wai-Tung, a gay yuppie and his lover, Simon -- th...
excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...
a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...
noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...
troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...
In five pages the film is analyzed within the context of the time particularly in terms of the political message it conveys, wheth...
The movie Good Will Hunting is analyzed from a Freudian perspective in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....