Lanzafama English III 22 March 2014 The Great Gatsby Movie Review This movie does not represent the America I live in. There are some blatant similarities such as the scattered lights of New York. However‚ most of American culture has changed since the time period depicted in the film. Vehicles and phones have evolved drastically‚ people have established more respectable morals (“guy code”)‚ and polo is not as popular of a sport as its shown in the movie. Today‚ gas prices are through the roof
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during the movie her family grows. The hope of having someone to love them and to be her family was one Celie always had. The letters Celie read from her sister Nettie gave her hope that she would see her sister again and might meet her child‚ whom she hoped would love her as their mother. In Steven Spielberg’s film‚ Color Purple‚ three messages of love‚ family‚ and hope are seen throughout the movie. Love in the Color Purple is something
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Great Gatsby: Book vs Film Before the invention of television and film the art of story telling was restricted to theater and literature. Theater was and still is performed live by actors who tell some kind of story through their performance. But theater is still limited greatly in its ability to convey setting to the viewer. In order to fully grasp the power of any story one must believe‚ in a sense‚ that the events are happening before them. Literature is better able to accomplish this by utilizing
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the opportunity and that if you came into the U.S you would be successful but‚ in The Great Gatsby and Chicago by F. Scott Fitzgerald and by Bob Fosse‚ Fred Ebb‚ and Maurine Watkins they give us a good perspective on how it was casually corrupted. The American Dream is probably one of the biggest lies I’ve ever heard.
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The Great Gatsby After reading "The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and watching the film directed by Jack Clayton‚ I noticed a few plot‚ character‚ and theme changes. As I was watching the movie I began to ask myself why did Jack Clayton take this event out or why did he add in this particular event? Was it for the sake of time or the fact that it was not an important part in the book? So I began to write notes and started to compare the great novel to the film. The novel The Great
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Huang Lin Ms. Pesce AP English: The Great Gatsby Mid-Book Response Choose the claim you agree with and prove it by writing a three page response. The great romance always exists with the true love regardless of how much obstacles people will encounter and how much contribution they will give. The great romance can facilitate human beings to overcome the gap between race‚ social status and cultural difference. Love will also become the significant motivation for people to pursue success and reputation
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Name: Lidor Hayun 11\21\11 Period 2 The differences between the tragedy of Julius Caesar from the book and the movie. In the story of “the tragedy of Julius Caesar” There are a few differences between the movie and the book. Sometimes throughout the movie they will cut parts of the text because people wouldn’t want to see a movie if it’s too long‚ but sometimes the editors would cut out very important parts of the text‚ which can change the entire story‚ or how we look at a character personalities
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created a cover for The Great Gatsby using photshop. This is a project I really enjoyed doing and it let me test the knowledge I had about photoshop‚ and about the symbolism in the novel. I wanted to keep the cover rather uncrounded and simple while packing in a lot of this symbolism. I did not include the authors name F. Scott Fitzgereald on my cover because I didn’t want to draw the attention away from the images and colors on the cover. I figured that if this was a real book cover they could probably
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I Am David book/movie comparison Have you ever seen I Am David or read the book? If you have‚ you could probably see a lot of differences between them. The plot is fairly similar‚ but the complications are different. The differences from the movie and the book can just pop out in front of your face‚ almost like its telling you that this is different. To start off‚ the setting of the story (book) I thought it would be some sort of dark pastels because how David’s mood is in the story I thought
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Outsiders The outsiders was a good book and movie‚ although it had many similarities and differences. A difference is in the book it says that Pony-boy gets a cut on his head but in the movie he gets no injury. Johnny was the one that was getting hurt like he got hurt when he went into the burning church to save the kids and piece of the burning building dropped on his back. But pony boy never got no injury in the movie. A similarity that happened in the book and movie would be that Johnny and Dallas
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