The United States in the mid-1960s was a period of revolution. Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe is set in this era‚ in the midst of the Vietnam War‚ the black civil rights movement‚ gay liberation‚ and the LSD movement. It was a time of radical change‚ chaos‚ as well as social and political instability. In three significant scenes‚ through the use of angles and lighting‚ Taymor illustrates the burdens of the Vietnam war‚ and how these burdens cause necessary transitions in Lucy‚ Jude‚ and Max
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Julie Taymor’s film ’Across the Universe’ demonstrates a time of turbulence and conflict; it is a reflection of American society‚ during the 1960’s through the eyes of the youth. The film portrays events such as: the civil rights movement‚ the war in Vietnam‚ the peace movement and the challenging of traditional values all accompanied by Beatles music. This helps to create a sense of the era and to express the feelings of the main six characters. The momentum of significant social and cultural change
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native dresses to hide her scars and braces from the accident (Nyman‚ 2016). In Across the Universe when Max went through the process of getting screened for the army. Taymor used masks again for the soldiers to all be synced and the masks had a similar look of the ones from Titus. This scene also showed the ritual of young people being sent out to a fight a war that they do not want to fight. Frida and Across the Universe are a bit different from Titus because what of what Taymor wants to show her
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Theme: The Big Bang theory (The theory of everything) Subject of studying: The beginning of all the surroundings And the mysteries of our inexplicable and amazing Universe | | |[pic]
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February 16‚ 2014 Our Universe was created billions of years ago. We have no way of knowing exactly how this happened‚ nor how or if it will end. The creation of the universe is greatly debated religiously and scientifically. The future of our universe is a popular topic‚ but still remains a mystery. There are many theories as to what will happen to the universe and factors to be accounted for. The fact that we do not have the ability to travel into the unknowns of the universe makes it extremely difficult
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For almost one hundred years‚ we have known that the universe is expanding. We have traced this expansion back in time‚ through to the very beginning when the universe occupied an infinitesimal point in space. This was the state of the universe at time t=0‚ over 13 billion years ago. It is from this starting point that everything we are familiar with came into existence: protons‚ neutrons‚ stars‚ galaxies - even space and time itself are here. At time t=0‚ this point began an unprecedented inflation
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Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. "This part of the universe is called the solar system‚ and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun." (Skywatching 230) The solar system is the earth ’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury‚ Venus‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune and Pluto are the Earth ’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago‚ perhaps when
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Assignment One 2010 Critical Film and TV Perspectives Sophie Fletcher Across The Universe (Taymor‚ 2007) is a tribute to the great 1960s band‚ The Beatles. It showcases‚ amidst an often wandering narrative‚ the most important songs of the band’s career. The story follows Jude’s relationship with Lucy‚ set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war. When Lucy’s brother Max (also Jude’s best friend) is drafted‚ Max is seen to ascend the stairs of the US Army building as the first bars of the song
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outward. The center of that door had a glass window that was also curved and followed the contour of the bulging door. And behind that window on a shelf stood twenty volumes of the most complete encyclopedia of its time in Germany‚ my Gates to the Universe and its wonders and marvels. In the German language an ’a’ always is ’ah’‚ just as in
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Origins of the Universe 1.Identify the current theory of the formation of the universe. The big bang theory. 2.Describe the Doppler effect. The Doppler Effect is when waves moving away from you have a longer wavelength (lowpitch) and waves moving towards you have a shorter wavelength (high pitch) 3.Explain how the Doppler effect gives us information about the movement of stars andgalaxies. Stars moving away from us are red shifted (light of longer wavelength) while stars movingtowards us are
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