Wajda’s film‚ Katyn‚ has a remarkable way of delivering the insight of the Katyn Massacre to the viewers. The stories of each characters were told in different perspectives‚ which I thought was quite intriguing because they were all fairly tied to one another. Straight off the bat‚ the opening of the film introduced the separation of Anna and her husband‚ a Polish Officer‚ Andrzej‚ which really hinted the initial issue at the time. Officers were separated from others and were set to deport. The progression
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President Lincoln had hoped for when he proclaimed freedom of slavery for African Americans in the Emancipation Proclamation. In the 1950’s and 1960’s there was a new type of music being introduced and called Rock N Roll. In the beginning of this film the first reference to the time and place in history is hearing Tracy Turnblad’s mother refer to the music she was listening to as “race music”. This music was completely unacceptable to white Americans that were practicing conformity and Christianity
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Gregory Howard Williams tells of his story from when he was born in 1943 through his book “life on the color line.” Gregory starts out life living officially as a white child with his mother and father for his first ten years. After his mother left to be away from his abusive father‚ Gregory went with his father to live with his father’s family. Since Gregory was part black‚ and he was now living with his black relatives‚ he was then known officially as a black child. This changes his life by giving
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Politics and Film Shane Shane may be a film about what happens when our hero comes to Joe Starett’s property and ends up becoming the reluctant gunfighter‚ but it also places the viewer front and center between two distinct and opposing ways of life. Ryker and Starett hold two very different ideas on property and progress‚ and these ideas shape their behavior in accordance to their own ideology. By way of signs‚ the film portrays Ryker as a businessman and Joe Starrett as a man of the community
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The blockbuster film Ocean ’s Eleven‚ released in 2001‚ was the first film of a trilogy of heist films directed by Steven Soderbergh. This big budget crime-thriller remake of the 1960 ’s Rat Pack favourite conveys the intricately thrilling plot where Daniel Ocean leads a rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons for the monumental heist of 3 major Las Vegas Casinos. This sequence is significant because it sets up the diegesis of the film and also gives us an insight into the character of the protagonist
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I think the the adaptation of the nunnery scene by Kenneth Branagh was the most effective of the ones we viewed‚ for through its symbolic use of setting‚ its inclusion of the complete Hamlet text‚ and the emphasis placed on the shifts in tone between the young lovers Hamlet and Ophelia‚ it incorporates subtleties of theme and meaning of the original play‚ which other adaptation fail to convey. The main reason why Branagh’s adaptation‚ according to me‚ was the most successful was because he tried
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meaning from maidens who frequently picked them‚ and wore them in their hair. These maidens who wore daisies in their hair felt that the flower made them feel free from guilt‚ sin and corruption. In the story The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Daisy the character) and Daisies (the flowers) are of great significance‚ as well as the colors yellow and white‚ which are sporadically spread throughout the book to define the surroundings of life. Fitzgerald explains the book through what colors mean
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Self-Identity The Color of Water is the story of James McBride as he grows up and finds himself through his mother‚ Ruth McBride. He was born to a white mother‚ Ruth‚ and a black father‚ Andrew Dennis McBride‚ with seven older siblings‚ all black. His father died early on and his mother remarried another black man‚ Hunter Jordan‚ and had four more black children before his stepfather died as well‚ leaving him with a white mother and eleven black siblings‚ making Ruth McBride the only white in the
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Date: 02/24/2015 To: Dr. Sal Kukalis From: Ryan Musante Subject: Industry Analysis: Feature Film Production The motion picture industry produces and distributes films for theatrical release‚ home entertainment‚ and various other markets. The product of this industry is passive entertainment‚ typically viewed as a leisure activity. Various genres target all market segments‚ the largest of which is in the 18-35 year old age group. The same product is released via two main distribution channels
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In the film Difret 2014 by Zeresenay Mehari and the reading “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid‚ both the film and the reading portray either patriarchy or colonialism. This paper outlines that although individuals may think that there is a relationship between patriarchy and colonialism that there isn’t. Illustrations and meanings will be provided on to further explain this‚ as well as how colonialism has affected the indigenous world for worse‚ and lastly‚ the treatment of women. In the film Difret
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