had attacked the audience as well as the perpetrators. As it is‚ it’s too predictable: A media circus springs up when the museum guard‚ a likable everyman played by John Travolta‚ creates a hostage crisis and finds himself bonding with a TV newsman (Dustin Hoffman). The movie is obviously inspired by “Ace in the Hole‚” the knife-edged 1951 satire from Billy Wilder‚ about a man trapped in a cave and the broken-down newsman (Kirk Douglas) who spins out the crisis to rescue his own career. But while Wilder’s
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“Wag the Dog” was a motion picture screened in 1997 with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro as lead actors. ‚ it is all about illusions created elsewhere to avoid realities that are current‚ unpopular and to camouflage a foreseeable political disaster. The illusion is to spin or cause a stir like creating a war
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In the opening scenes of the movie‚ Dustin Hoffman plays the starring role as “The Graduate” Benjamin Braddock Benjamin is on an airplane landing in Los Angles as he arrives background music plays “The Sound of Silence”‚ and begins with the line‚ “Hello darkness‚ my old friend” plays. The main motifs of this movie seem to play on rebellion against authority; alienation and isolation; sexually dominance‚ and the loss of one’s innocence. Often a young man‚ although educated‚ possibly will perhaps
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Kramer v Kramer is a movie filled with opportunities for choosing sides. But what actually matters in this movie isn’t who’s right or wrong‚ but if all the characters involved are able to behave according to their own better nature. It starts of by showing a marriage filled with unhappiness and ego and ends with two single people who have both learned important things. There is a child caught in the middle but this isn’t a movie about the plight of the kid but about the dilemma of the parents. Usually
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choice of what they say and how they say it that gives insight into their character. Some characteristics of voice that we take into account are register‚ range‚ accent‚ tone‚ volume and pitch. In a movie such as “Rain Man”‚ we hear the timbre of Dustin Hoffman’s flat‚ autistic monotone. In the play‚ Pygmalion‚ we are asked to provide for ourselves the sound of Eliza Doolittle’s cockney twang. Through the study of ”Pygmalion”‚ and the 1988 film‚ “Rain Man‚ we can see how distinctive voice lead
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President’s staff to take the heat off of the President. He comes up with the brilliant idea to create a false war with Albania. "Why Albania?" "Well‚ what do you know about Albania?" "Nothing." "Exactly." He hires top movie producer Stanley Motts (Dustin Hoffman) to help him with the story and details and to use the endless amount of visual tricks available to them. They create a short grainy news footage piece of a young girl running from her village holding a kitten. She is in fact an actor and
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MAN (1988) SUMMARY: Well written‚ smartly directed‚ and sensitively performed‚ RAIN MAN depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. A self-centered Los Angeles hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and the older Raymond (Dustin Hoffman)‚ a mentally challenged resident of a home for the mentally disabled. Charlie never knew of his existence‚ until the day he returns home from Los Angeles to attend his father’s funeral. He is enraged by what has happened and by his father
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Butler 1 Intellectual Growth and Inquiry 14 March 2011 Facebook: From Whiteboard to World The evolution of the Internet over the past twenty years has changed the way we communicate with others across the world. However‚ it was not until the late 1990s that the Internet really hit a growth spurt. With such concepts as email and online advertising catching on‚ the Internet began to expand quickly. Shortly after this rapid growth‚ MySpace was created and was one of the first websites under the category
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Brittney Benavidez Professor Berger English 121 5 September‚ 2012 Life on the Road: Book Review “Life on the Road” was in my opinion written to entertain‚ but also to inform the reader about a hitch hikers life. The author explained the basics of his everyday journeys and how they affected him. He explained how he had to adapt to certain ways of living‚ from where he would sleep to where he was going to find food the next day. Surprisingly traveling also taught him how to
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Michael Frayn uses a unique style of writing in the novel Spies‚ dual narration. So in this essay there will be an investigation into this distinctive style of writing that magnetises the audience‚ as it makes the audience feel part of the story. Stephen and Stefan versions of accounts vary‚ this appeals to the audience as it leaves you guessing too many unanswered questions during the plot. Dual narration has many positives to contribute to the novel‚ for example numerous independent viewpoints
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