The Name of the Film The Shawshank Redemption (1994). The Director of the Film and his Vision This film was directed by Frank Darabont. Darabont’s vision all started the day he read Stephen King’s Novella‚ Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption. "It was a story that captured my imagination and sent my heart soaring. It also instilled in me the hope that‚ someday‚ I might be lucky enough to put it on film." It took him nine-years of developing his craft‚ learning about life‚ studying the
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American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes American Beauty is a movie that shows the journey of Lester Burnham‚ a middle aged man living in what seems to be the perfect life‚ but on the inside Lester is truly unhappy and what he describes as “already dead” in the opening voice-over scene. One truly influential scene is the scene in Lester’s office. The director used a few color techniques and angle of framing techniques to demonstrate Lester’s distaste for his job‚ and his life in general. The
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couples who love each other even when getting to middle age‚ have a less likelihood to go through midlife crisis or at least not as much as Lester and Carolyn‚ rather than couples who fall out of love before getting to middle age. In conclusion‚ “American Beauty” teaches the audience that it is important to pursue our happiness no matter our age‚ status‚ sexual orientation nor societal
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Asia is a big continent but their preference in beauty characteristics is very much alike. Pale skin‚ big eyes‚ small features are the main points of what used to be expected in an Asian woman because of high social status. Although social status is not as important now‚ Asia still holds onto their standards of an idealistic woman and uses them as a basis of what being beautiful should mean. Asian beauty‚ like any other standards of beauty can be achieved through cosmetics. Products that can be used
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Debra Nickles WGS 1000: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies December 9‚ 2013 American Notions of Beauty In the U.S. we are surrounded by the images of “beautiful” or what society and media considers “beautiful” to be. The media showcases a particular body type and expects everyone to strive to fulfill that body type but‚ the images of ultra-thin‚ young‚ large breasted‚ white women are far from true. These images we see are either airbrushed‚ computer enhanced or completely false (Shaw
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Existentialism: American Beauty American Beauty is a movie that sets in suburban America. The story is about Lester‚ whom is a middle-aged writer working in a magazine company. He was having a midlife crisis where he felt lonely and numbed by continuous unchanging routine of his everyday life. In the movie‚ his wife portrayed as a successful real estate agent‚ but she was also going through her own midlife crisis in both her career and personal life. Lester’s daughter‚ Jane Bumham had alienated
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an average american spend about 8 hours a day on digital devices like laptop and smartphone. We spend about 2 years of our life just watching advertisements(Epstein‚ 2014). Spending this much time online can drastically affect the way we think. It has the power to change our perception from reality to a false certainty.Society tends to put more stress on women especially these days for achieving this false standards of beauty for acceptance (Kilborne‚ 2010). The true perception of beauty is often taken
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In the movie “Precious” there are a lot of examples of abuse. The two main kinds of abuse are Physical and Sexual child abuse. Precious’ mother physically abused her throughout the movie and her own father sexually abused her resulting in two children‚ one who was diagnosed with downs syndrome. From the reading in the book Family Violence across the Lifespan I have also discovered that there a few more types of neglect depicted in this movie. The three main types that bothered me the most were
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The film ‘American Beauty’ in short is eye opening and controversial at best. It challenges our perceptions of society and social interactions and how we perceive everyday things such as beauty. It is a film which also steps of the ‘beaten track’ of film techniques and uses more skewed and controversial methods of getting the film’s message and themes across to the audience‚ often resorting to making that said audience feel uncomfortable and insecure. Because of ‘American Beauty’ being far from
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Video Review – Kodo: Heartbeat Drummers of Japan Kodo is a Japanese group who came together in 1981 due to their common interest and passion in Taiko drumming‚ which encompassed their lives on the island of Sado in Tokyo‚ Japan. The sounds produced by these drums were what held their culture together as they believe that they would find an echo of the human heartbeat through it. To them‚ the heart is the principle of the human being. Thus‚ the name Kodo translates into two meanings: the first
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