Pixar are known for making great animation and WALL-E is no exception. Director Andrew Stanton has had a hand in most of Pixar’s greatest works such as Toy Story‚ Monsters Inc.‚ and Finding Nemo. The sheer success of these films suggests that Pixar have stumbled upon a magic formula for making hit after hit. So what is the point in trying something new when you’ve set the bar so high and excel at what you do? Yet with WALL-E they have exceeded expectations and set the bar even higher. It is not just
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The raid on Dieppe in World War Two was a disaster and woefully resulted in the loss of many lives‚ but why? The planning of the raid was incomplete and lacked many important factors. The intelligence that the Allied Forces had gained to plan the raid on Dieppe was incorrect or incomplete. There were no lessons learned at Dieppe that were not already known or could have been learned without the raid. The Dieppe Raid was highly flawed and this was the fault of the planners of the raid. The Dieppe
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Term Paper: American Beauty What are the costs of living in a success-driven‚ consumer-oriented‚ image-obsessed society? This challenge to contemporary America’s suburban culture finds a voice in Sam Mendes’ 1999 movie American Beauty. The film’s complex subtlety underscores its implication that subtlety itself is a casualty in our society. American Beauty’s tagline exhorts viewers to “look closer‚” but the film expresses ambivalence concerning what is revealed by closer inspection. On one hand
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Harbor it shows where everything was during the attack of the Japanese. The U.S used Pearl Harbor for a naval air station because they couldn’t get ambushed because they needed to go throw a canal. It was also perfect because the U.S could release battleships straight into the ocean from the base. How did it happen? The attack on Pearl Harbor was led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida. Wave one consisted of 183 fighters such as bombers and torpedo bombers. The attack started at 7:55 a.m. wave number two
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THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY (VERSION – 1) INTRODUCTION 1. By any ordinary standard‚ they were hopelessly outclassed. They had no battleships‚ the enemy eleven. They had eight cruisers‚ the enemy twenty-three. They had three carriers (one of them crippled)‚ the enemy had eight. Their shore defences included guns from the turn of the century. They knew little of war. None of the Navy pilots on one of the carriers had ever been in combat‚ nor had any of the army fliers of the marines. Seventeen
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of memory in accounting for the personal experience of history in Good Bye Lenin! . When the Berlin wall falls‚ Becker uses montage and dialogue to suggest the limitations of the former German Democratic Republic and also represent new found freedom and the ability to experience new things on a personal level. The protagonist’s sister‚ Arianne‚ is featured in this montage trying out different cultural activities such as belly dancing and
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“The best films show ordinary people in extraordinary situations.” To what extent do you agree with this view? Discuss this idea with reference to one or more films. In the film Rush directed by Ron Howard I strongly agree that the best films show ordinary people in extraordinary situations. When the word extaordinary is defined as astonishing‚ prodigious‚ unforgettable‚ unbelievable and pre-eminant the film Rush definitely displays these situations. This is in particular with one of the main protaganists
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The Film Experience 2e‚ Chapter Quizzes Ch 05 completed Total score: 20 out of 20‚ 100% [pic] 1. The brief superimposition of one image over another where the first image fades out and the second image fades in is called [pic]a. an iris out. [pic]b. a dissolve. [pic]c. a cutaway. [pic]d. a zoom. 2. A primary purpose of a cutaway shot is to [pic]a. break the 30 degree rule. [pic]b. break the fourth wall. [pic]c. expand time. [pic]d. condense time. 3. An initial long shot that
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Cinematography Classical Style ‘Hollywood style” Dominant visual language for storytelling with film History Esward Mynbridge-first ‘moving picture of a galloping horse 1880-first usage of term 1895-1907 Primitive period of cinema (developing of cinematic language) 1907-narrative display dominants over narrative absorption After 1907: Classical Hollywood style Position the viewer in a fictional space of the narrative Camera allows engagement with a character and story Development
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married to Mark Loring‚ the Lorings being the couple Juno chooses to give her baby to once it is born. Vanessa lives in St Cloud’s‚ Minnesota‚ an area which is established as being a wealthy one through a montage of large mansions which become increasingly bigger and grander throughout the montage‚ the Loring’s mansion the largest and grandest of all. The two Lexus’s parked outside are also a symbol of their wealth. Before we even meet Vanessa and her husband these symbols of wealth and grandiose lead
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