the movie seem to fit Miller’s portrayal of the characters. However‚ in the play‚ Willy Loman is portrayed as a man of considerable size even being called "walrus" at one time‚ while in the film he is much smaller and is called "shrimp". Although Dustin Hoffman depicts the character of Willy Loman well‚ he gets so enthralled in the heat of the scene that it sometimes makes the audience wonder if Miller intended for Willy to be so dramatic and emotional. At times it’s overwhelming and even difficult
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Graduate – Benjamin Braddock Characterization The film „The Graduate“‚ published in 1967 tells the story of a young man who has to deal with the problems of having no aim in life and getting seduced by an elder woman. Benjamin Braddock‚ played by Dustin Hoffman‚ is the protagonist and he is going to be the topic of this characterization. Benjamin‚ a recent college graduate‚ got the features of a normal 20 years old male in the 1960`s. Brown hair‚ mid-tall‚ well-dressed‚ trained and good-looking
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“Rain Man” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was made in 1988. The movie is about an autistic man named Raymon‚ who is a idiot savant played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast‚ talking self absorbed‚ egocentric brother Charlie Babbitt‚ who is played by Tom Cruise. A egocentric person is a person with the simple recognition that every living thing views the world from a unique‚ self-oriented perspective(LIFE: Inherently Egocentric written by James Craig
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Kim Peek - Savant The Original Rain Man Preceding the savant Daniel Tammet by several years‚ Kim Peek is the real life Rain Man whom the Dustin Hoffman character was based in the movie. Described as a confounding mixture of disability and brilliance‚ Kim is in love with knowledge. Kim Peek is probably the world’s most famous savant. Kim was diagnosed as being mentally retarded at birth‚ but with father Fran’s unflagging support he has developed a memory that is without equal. Born and raised
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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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