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    many things like drugs and depression. The film adaptation of The Namesake starts with Ashima and Ashoke getting marry and adpadting to the American culture. Later on‚ they would have two kids named Sonia and Gogol. Gogol the main protagonist of the film doesn’t understand why his father gave him the name Gogol. Throughout the film‚ Gogol struggle to find his identify and he started to change throughout the movie. First‚ Gogol was immature in early if the film because he was really young. He didn’t

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    Québécois Film Analysis

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    Canadian and Québécois context‚ especially given the rich history of film and television production in Québec. This article paints an austere picture of current realities in which content creators in Québec feel stifled creatively and underappreciated due to racism in the industry. When award-winning Haitian filmmaker Jephté Bastien was told that in order to join the ranks of the best Québécois filmmakers he would need to make “Quebecer Films‚” the question arose: what exactly defines such a genre

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    Film Noir Analysis

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    Film Noir is most often seen as a man’s world- the hard boiled detective is the ultimate masculine hero‚ and the he fits right into the dirty world around him. However‚ with a shift in perspective‚ we see that just maybe the opposite gender are the ones who are the heroes of the genre. The women are certainly memorable. Through analyzation of the typical hero’s journey and comparison to the stories of the women in film noir‚ we see that they are the true heroes of the genre. This again begs the

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    Ethnographic films have focused on one key component‚ reality. It is the goal of ethnographic filmmakers to do their best to try to‚ in their minds‚ to the best of their abilities‚ express that perfect representation of the real. According to Peter Loizos‚ real[ism] “appears as it does in real life” as if the camera is an unseen observer; “Realism is life as it is lived and observed” (Loizos 165-66) and reveals the “whole bodies [...] whole people [...] whole life” (Loizos 7). That reality can only

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    Dope Film Analysis

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    Dope is a film directed by filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa‚ released in 2015 about three high school students that get caught up in a huge drug scheme. The story revolves around Malcolm and his two best friends‚ Jib and Diggy‚ as they find themselves with a huge possession of drugs following the birthday party of Dom: the local drug dealer. Malcolm comes to terms that he must sell all the drugs while concurrently making sure he gets accepted into Harvard. The movie is filled with adventure‚ comedy‚ drugs

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    Shane: Film Analysis

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    Politics and Film Shane Shane may be a film about what happens when our hero comes to Joe Starett’s property and ends up becoming the reluctant gunfighter‚ but it also places the viewer front and center between two distinct and opposing ways of life. Ryker and Starett hold two very different ideas on property and progress‚ and these ideas shape their behavior in accordance to their own ideology. By way of signs‚ the film portrays Ryker as a businessman and Joe Starrett as a man of the community

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    Halloween Film Analysis

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    Cinema of Horror MEDA 13672 November 10‚ 2014 In 1978 John Carpenter changed the landscape of horror cinema with the release of his terrifying new film Halloween. The film follows a group of young females as they are stalked‚ tormented and inevitably killed by an escaped lunatic wearing a Halloween mask and wielding a knife. The film was revolutionary for the many themes and concepts it introduced‚ (including the concept of the final girl) things that have been so often repeated they have

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    There is nothing better than watching a film and then being able to go to the location and relive the moments while standing there. It makes me feel like I am a part of it. The feeling I got while walking the halls of Alcatraz‚ setting in the same room Billy Bob Thornton filmed in Sling Blade‚ setting on the grass they actually played baseball on in Field of Dreams‚ hearing the ire tells of what went on in the Winchester House as you are looking at the stairs to nowhere‚ or hiding in the same foxhole

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    The world has been plagued with inequality issues since the beginning of time. The film Braveheart portrays this issue magnificently. Braveheart‚ directed by Mel Gibson‚ was released in 1995 and since then has won a total of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture 1995 and Best Director Mel Gibson. Based on true history‚ Braveheart takes place in the late 13th Century in Scotland. William Wallace (Mel Gibson) returns to Scotland after living away from his homeland for many years. The king of Scotland

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    Clueless Film Analysis

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    Clueless was an iconic release‚ written and directed by Amy Heckerling that dramatized the life and struggles of Cher Horowitz; your typical‚ American rich girl. Cher comes from an wealthy home‚ her story is set in Beverly Hills‚ CA where she lives and attends high school. Her mother passed away early in her life and so she lives with her father who is a lawyer. Cher is privileged by her affluence and social status‚ which also makes her popular amongst her peers. Her main concerns are mostly superficial

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