Gary L. Willis AFRS 55T (T&Th@3:30) Dr. T. Hasan Johnson 02.23.13 Extra Credit The Movie “Django Unchained” The objective of this paper is to review some of the results of the discussion-panel’s analysis of certain aspects of this movie that relate to the Hip-Hop culture. On Thursday‚ February 21‚ 2013‚ I attended a panel discussion hosted by the Africana Studies Department of Fresno State University. It was conducted at the African American Museum‚ Fresno California. Its purpose was
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The movie Creed was released 25 November 2015 ‚ starring Michael B. Jordan (Adonis) and Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) as the main characters. This movie is a spin off from the many Rocky movies however it focuses on one of the opposing characters in the Rocky movie series and the extension of his life. The young son of Apollo Creed‚ Adonis Johnson‚ follows in his father’s footsteps at a very young age as he displays a natural talent to fight/box. Though Adonis never met his father (because he died
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The movie received Grammy nominations for showing a fictional take of real life events that occurred in the 1960’s in Jackson Mississippi. Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Eugenia (Emma Stone) or Skeeter collaborated together to make sure that African American maids stories were heard. Illustrating the theme of moral courage shown by all of the maids featured in the film. Views are first introduced when Aibileen is interviewed by Skeeter‚ in the scene we are given details about when the movie is set
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Twenty-Four Illuminated Frames a Second for Two and a Half Minutes: What’s the deal with movie trailers? The excitement that comes with a long-awaited movie trailer is almost as good as watching the movie itself. Over the course of my life‚ I have been excited over many movie trailers. I clearly recall 8th grader me‚ back in 2008‚ when director J. J. Abrams released‚ what “youtuber” StarBoy1701 commented‚ “the mother of all teaser trailers” for his upcoming film Star Trek (2009) on his website
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Movie Reviews 42 (2013) gives its audience a feeling of sympathy towards Jackie Robinson while also having you feel a burning hatred towards the people that mistreated him. The movie 42 is a time portal back to the 1940’s when soldiers were returning home from war‚ baseball was America’s sport‚ and segregation was still occurring. It is the true story of Jackie Robinson’s (Chadwick Boseman) first two years in the big leagues of baseball. The trials and tribulations that he had to overcome as a
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of living your life and discovering love. I am a serious movie fanatic. I watch movies all the time. But‚ if I had to pick my favorite one‚ it would be without a doubt “Love and Basketball.” This is due to the fact that I love basketball‚ it inspires me to keep reaching my goals and get through challenges in life‚ and it is a great love story. To begin with‚ “Love and Basketball” is my favorite movie because I love basketball. This movie obviously has something to do with basketball if you look
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Philosophy 101 10-11-10 Dr. Anderson Movie magic We have all gone to the movies and are taken away by a movie experience‚ some movies can even be life changing. The whole experience of it boggles our mind‚ some times we want that movie to be our life or get the oppertunity to view life in a different prospect because of a certain film. Movies can take us through an emotional rollercoaster. It not a coincidence that when a car race movie come out‚ like “Fast and the Furious” speeding
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I watched the movie “Cleopatra”‚ which was directed by Franc Roddam in 1999 for this project. Even though the movie was three hours long it was enjoyable to watch. After watching the movie I starting researching some historical facts about Cleopatra on the Internet and I discovered that most of the movie was incorrect. Like every Cleopatra movie‚ she is always made out to be so beautiful however while researching I found in every piece it stated that she was far from beautiful. The picture of
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Paola Álvarez Guízar 6/06/2013 Assignment 1 Gattaca Gattaca is a science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in 1997. In this movie it stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. In 1997 the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The movie at the beginning takes places in the United States where a couple has a baby named Vincent who has problems with his heart and also has myopia. When he was born the doctor
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I am doing my analysis paper on the movie‚ “The Matrix.” I chose the movie the matrix because I want to talk about all the different types of sounds. . I’m first going to be talking about the ambience sounds they used. Then I’m going to be talking about how they used the music‚ and finally about the sound effects they used in the movie. and types of sounds they used‚ like the ambience‚ music‚ and the sound effects . The matrix is about how computer’s control the universe in the future. Which they
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