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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...

Comparing Laurence Olivier's and William Shakespeare's Interpretations of King Lear

In a paper consisting of five pages Olivier's TV interpretation of Shakespeare's play is compared and contrasted with the original...

Marcel Camus' Version of Black Orpheus

In seven pages Camus's interpretation of the play is assessed and compared with the original and discusses how Camus's insights de...

Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks' Film Version

In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...

Life Choices in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this film is analyzed in terms of how the lies of the protagonist affect both himself and his vic...

Film Version of the Musical Hair

In five pages this paper examines the social conflict represented by hair within the context of the film and how it may be perceiv...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet in Film

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

Book and Film Versions of Empire of the Sun

and he never becomes completely embittered. In this book (made later into a film by Steven Spielberg), Ballard relates the life o...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

The 1993 Film Version of Randy Shilts's And The Band Played On

In five pages the ways in which the film depicts the AIDS epidemic, the frustrations, social attitudes, and lack of funding associ...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

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

Angela's Ashes Film Version Creation

In five pages transforming Frank McCourt's autobiographical text into a screenplay is examined in terms of necessary elements and ...

1952 Film Version of Othello

In five pages this paper considers the unique opening scene of Orson Welles' 1952 adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous trage...

'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

In five pages the poet's language use is compared and contrasted in the two versions of 'The Chimney Sweep' that appear in Songs o...

Genesis and Hesiod on Creation

sun and moon; animals, birds and fish; and finally, people. This took six days, and on the seventh day God rested from all this wo...

Stanley Kubrick's Auteur Film Style in A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey

In eight pages this paper examines Kubrick's definitive auteur film styles as they are represented in these films and compares the...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Othello by Directors Orson Welles and Oliver Parker

In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

1985 Television Film Version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages Schlondorff's 1985 interpretation of Miller's play is discussed in terms of acting especially Dustin Hoffman's and J...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

The Tempest Play by William Shakespeare and the Film Version by Julie Taymor

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

The Passion of the Christ and the Shared Suffering Between Jesus and the Film Audience

are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...

Two Versions of “La Sylphide”

the "first ballet that expresses the Romantic philosophy fully: the hero, who is about to succumb to the status quo, forsakes ever...