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    treatment of the illness was the main focus of the movie awakenings and the book it was based upon. The cause of the illness even today still remains much of a mystery with successful treatment also following suit‚ thankfully however since a large outbreak of the illness in the late 1960’s there have been very rare reported cases of the disease since. When the movie Awakenings begins we find one of the main characters‚ Leonard Lowe‚ as a child. In the movie the viewer sees young Leonard begin to suffer

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    In the movie version‚ the King and Queen‚ as well as the Kingdom‚ have attempted many times to find Rapunzel‚ such as the floating lanterns that are sent out every year on Rapunzel’s birthday. This helps send the message because it shows that the King and Queen truly care about Rapunzel and worry about her. Here‚ the movie version of the Kingdom is more effective in sending the message because there is effort put

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    differences and similarities about the myth and movie? Hercules killed his parents ‚ but then said he was adopted. Hercules showed all labors in the myth. In the movie it did not show all labors. The differences in the myth is that ‚ there’s more stories than the music. In the movie there was more action. A lot of acting was in the movie. In the myth ‚ Hercules has to perform all twelve labors in order to reach godhood. He then remains as a god. In the movie ‚ Hercules becomes a god by performing the

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    reading the play and watching the movie‚ there are many things that don’t exactly match up to one another causing the audience to develop a bias about several things that could use some reviewing. With all intentions‚ Hansberry worked delicately to choose the right actors to fit the parts in the movie production. Although Hansberry had good intentions when choosing the actors‚ acting is one of those things that she should consider reviewing for some characters in the movie. Mama is one character that

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    Beowulf

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    everything including his own life for the good of the people. Beowulf‚ the hero of this epic‚ shows this quality plus many more throughout the entire poem. The film‚ though‚ is a different story. Beowulf is more of an epic hero in the text‚ rather than the film‚ because although he is boastful and arrogant‚ he is brave‚ he is loyal‚ and he is selfless. In the text Beowulf shows his bravery in everything he does. Before fighting Grendel Beowulf removed his sword and said he would use no form of protection

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    based on classic novels. The epic poem Beowulf goes very much into the importance of the Christian overtones whereas the film version attempts to omit the religious atmosphere with other possibilities of events. The movie version of Beowulf adds certain aspects to the story‚ such as the creation of Beowulf’s son‚ and the suicide of Hrothgar‚ while also omitting the emphasis of religion that is omnipresent in the text version. In the cinematic version of Beowulf‚ the dragon is revealed to be Beowulf’s

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    the comparison of views between Beowulf’s book version of the story which is third-person-point-of-view‚ and Grendel’s version which is first-person-point-of-view. In one one is made to be all glorious and the other evil and in the other one it is vice-versa‚ where other is evil that was good in one view‚ and the other one that is considered evil in one view is proven to be not so heartless and feelings in the other view In das’ book version of Beowulf‚ Grendel is made out to be this heartless

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    Beowulf (/ˈbeɪ.ɵwʊlf/; in Old English [ˈbeːo̯wʊlf] or [ˈbeːəwʊlf]) is the conventional title[1] of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines‚ set in Scandinavia‚ commonly cited as one of the most important works ofAnglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet[a] is dated between the 8th[3][4] and the early 11th century.[5][page needed] In 1731‚ the manuscript was badly damaged

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    The film The Notebook‚ written by Nicholas Sparks is a romantic novel that was turned into a film in 2004. Even though the novel and the movie have different endings‚ the movie was filled with romance‚ hard times‚ and fate. The story of two young lovers from two different backgrounds. In 1940 Noah and Allie meet at a carnival and Noah is immediately smitten. After turning him down constantly their friends lure them together. Noah and Allie spend the summer together‚ for Allie the summer was filled

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    The story The Nutcracker has many different versions of the story. There are books‚ movies‚ and ballets. The original book was made in 1816 by ETA Hoffmann‚ and was called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. There are many different rewrites of the book. The book is during Christmas‚ and Clara got a nutcracker‚ and it was magical Christmas. In brief‚ there are many different adaptations of the story The Nutcracker. Despite the various version of the story the plot stay the same. The plot has the

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