When adapting a well-known and loved play into a movie‚ the adaptor must keep in mind how the audience will react to a new version of a beloved story. An example of this is A Raisin in the Sun‚ which was adapted into a movie in 2008. Lorraine Hansberry wrote the original play and Paris Qualles adapted that play into a TV movie. The main themes of the story are family‚ faith‚ and hope. Following the narrative of a lower-class family living in Chicago in 1959‚ the play deals with racial tension‚ family
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The 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain‚ directed by Ang Lee‚ is a screen adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story of the same name. The movie is about the two American cowboys‚ Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar‚ work as two shepherds for a rancher‚ Joe Aguirre‚ in Wyoming. They fall in love with each other. Although Ennis gets married to a sweet girl‚ Alma‚ and Jack marries a beautiful tipster‚ Lureen‚ the two men keep up their illicit love affair for more than 20 years. After reading the story and watching
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of the best movie series of all time by many fans. The original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) shot the top of off the box office and has been a classic since then. In a galaxy far‚ far away‚ a man named George Lucas has been directing a movie of his called American Graffiti‚ while filming the movie‚ he gets a great idea‚ a movie‚ a space western to be exact. It’s a beautiful idea and he starts working on it right after American Graffiti. He starts to write this amazing movie of his. He
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characters. In the movie‚ there are scenes that differ from the book to provide more context for the situation. The beginning of the book is especially different from that of the movie. The beginning of the novel gives a long description of the setting. These opening paragraphs do an effective job of introducing a setting‚ and phrases like “twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight” and “willows fresh and green with every spring” introduce a cheerful atmosphere as well. The movie changes this completely
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as it began‚ I became interested with the movie right away. Having known that one of the main characters of the movie‚ Paul Walker‚ had past away a few months before the film released and that he died as they were making the movie interested me even more into watching the movie. I wanted to see how they animated the parts Paul Walker did not finish and to see if it looked realistic. I have heard before from my friends and family who have watched the movie before that the filmmakers used Walker’s brother
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Grave of the Fireflies was outstanding‚ eye opening‚ movie showing the struggles of two orphan children living in japan during World War II. The two orphans in the movie are Sieta and Setsuko. Both these children live in japan with their mother while there dad is a commander of a Japanese ship. As this family is living you watch as they constantly struggle for food and shelter as U.S. bombs drop on towns everywhere and just about every day. The mother was at a shelter during a raid and was severely
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Jordan Peele‚ the key and Peele star he is the director and writer of the movie get out and he does the screenplay. now‚ the movie is about this guy named Chris and he has a white girlfriend he goes with his girlfriend to meet her parents and when he meets her parents it starts to get weird. because their where weird black people all around the place and it makes them look like slaves. her mother is a psychiatrist who happens to hypnotize people. And Chris is seeing a lot of black people around that
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compared to Korean movies‚ are usually more complex. Chinese movies usually have many parts that needs to be put together to see the bigger picture of the movie. In contrast with this‚ we think that Korean movies have a more simple framework‚ example is in Sassy Girl‚ the story mainly revolves around two characters and their interactions‚ while in the movie Eat‚ Drink‚ Man‚ Woman you need to look at and analyze how the different events in the lives of all the family members affected the final scene where
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of The Hurt Locker could have never imagined her movie winning six academy awards. While the opinion from the audience played a role in these winnings‚ the technical aspect of the movie all the way down to the first shot of the movie‚ played the biggest role in this achievement. Bigelow used things such as moving camera shots‚ camera angles‚ lighting‚ and the use of long shots to create a realistic feel throughout the movie. Throughout the movie it appears that most of the shots were taken using
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Winner Gregory Peck‚ Brock Peters‚ and Mary Badham. The movie is told from the perspective of Jean-Louise Finch (Mary Badham)‚ nicknamed Scout‚ a feisty tomboy that pulls us through a year and a half of racial injustice and life long lessons. Scout‚ with her older brother Jem (Philip Alford)‚ live with their widowed father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck)‚ a respected and prominent defense lawyer‚ in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. The movie‚ set in 1932‚ is right in the early years of the Great
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