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it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

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...

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...

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...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

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...

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

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...

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

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...

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

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...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...