Madison Ewing Dr. Barker IDC 301-03 Scene Analysis 1 Before Sunset I chose a scene towards the ending where Jesse and Celine arrive at her apartment after an eventful‚ therapeutic car ride. Throughout the movie there is this ongoing reconnection and “catching up” the two characters have about their lives over the last nine years. In the chosen scene‚ a change of pace in terms of dialogue‚ scenery‚ and behavior can be seen. Once Jesse and Celine are out of the car‚ they make their first true
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As I lay down onto the tiny golden grains of sand‚ I looked up at the opal sky cut with streaks of pink and orange and purple‚ resembling the colours of a perfectly ripened peach. The sun’s goddess-like face is being caressed by the glistening navy fingertips of the horizon. Mountains rise up on either side of me like giant pillows of green and stone flecked with a palette of purple and yellow‚ sturdy arms wrapping around the bay. Fishermen with sticks are perched on the edge‚ like vultures eagerly
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about which they couldn’t possibly have full detailed knowledge. Sunset Boulevard’s entire point of view is based on a gimmick. Whether one considers it an "artistic cheat" or a valid and audacious device depends up his ability and desire to suspend his disbelief. The problem of point of view in Sunset Boulevard is especially germane. Sunset Boulevard begins outlandishly. A homicide squad with motorcycle escort rides along Sunset Boulevard to an old mansion where a body lies floating in a pool
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On the Amtrak from Boston To New York City The situation of the poem is described in the title "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City‚" was about a white woman and a person with a Native American background who were on a train together. What was being taken place when the speaker is meditating about the "white" woman they were having a conversations with other passengers‚ including an older white woman about the brief history of the city as they pass landmarks of the Native American Culture
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Yes‚ Norma Is That Crazy Sunset Boulevard constantly and persistently advances the theme that Hollywood creates movie stars that become engrossed with their own fame and then abandons them‚ leaving behind only their outlandish and outdated fantasies. The case of Norma Desmond is no different. Her out-of-touch relationship with reality is given form through her desire to make her “greatest picture yet.” The segment of Sunset Boulevard that will be analyzed in this essay is significant because‚
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Sunset Boulevard‚ though at times harshly critical of the motion picture business‚ is considered a great achievement and a true classic among films made during the height of Hollywood’s Heyday. While the story is narrated by down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis‚ or rather‚ his corpse‚ the real star of the movie‚ both literally and figuratively‚ is the character of Norma Desmond‚ played by Gloria Swanson. A silent film star‚ Desmond hasn’t made a picture for over twenty years and still believes
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Book Review < Industrial Sunset > The book ‘Industrial Sunset’ traces and compares the processes of industrial transformation in Canada and the United States. It explains the main issues in the history and the politics of plant closings during the period beginning and ending in the recession between 1969 and 1984 (High‚ 2003‚ p. 4). High (2003)‚ the author of the book‚ argues: … the Great Disruption was filtered through national contexts. In the United States‚ the fears and anxieties engendered by
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Trillium Lake at Sunset by Eryn Tehan The sunset show is the show of the month at the Alberta Street Gallery featuring some of Eryn Tehan’s incredible pieces. Hanging behind a window overlooking Alberta Street‚ Tehan’s piece Trillium Lake at Sunset stuns all those who look at it with it’s vibrant colors. Through using oil paints as well as professional‚ non-toxic pigments as her medium Tehan vividly captures the beauty of the places she paints (Alberta Street gallery‚ n.d.). A majority of her paintings
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The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so-called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X’ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto‚ “What’s A Slacker Movie?”). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day-to-day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of
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divulges the dark yet unknown‚ harsh realities of fame‚ following Hollywood’s transition from silent pictures to talkies; with his film Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American classic film noir‚ starring Gloria Swanson (Norma Desmond)‚ William Holden (Joe Gillis)‚ and Erich Von Stroheim
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