Film review: Captain Philips “Captain Philips‚ can you hear me‚ Captain Philips can you hear me?” The walkie talkie sounded in the midst of pirates‚ as Captain Philips reached to take the walkie talkie…… This is from an awesome called Captain Philips. Captain Philips was released on October 26th 2013‚ the director is Paul Greengrass‚ and major actor is Tom hanks as Captain Richard Philips. This film is rated 8.1 on imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/)‚ 8.3 on rotten tomato (http://www
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Telotte’s article (2001) discusses the genre of science fiction and there meaning in our culture. Telotte (2001) discusses how while there are hallmarks of the genre such as creative and technical limitations of the film medium‚ iconography‚ themes‚ and narrative‚ the genre is still too diverse to be properly defined . These hallmarks however allow audiences to identity elements of science fiction by observing the iconography in them such as space ships‚ future technology and aliens. Even though
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central to the film industry since its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Female stardom was an essential component of the rise of the industry‚ though many of these women were celebrated more for their appearances than for their acting ability. While the popularity of certain female stars offered them legendary status‚ the kinds of roles they were asked to play often reinforced traditional gender roles. Women actually played a powerful role in shaping the early film industry. As
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Critique Star Wars: A new hope "A long.long time ago‚ in a galaxy far‚ far away ." These short‚ simple words have influenced generations. Novices and Star Wars fans alike have enjoyed and thrived on these inventive movies. The writer and director‚ George Lucas‚ came up with the idea during his years at the University of California. He came up with a six part series‚ yet‚ the first movie to be produced was part four entitled Star Wars: A new hope. It was produced in 1977
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THE IMPACT OF FILM Since the start of the 20th century‚ Film has been used to reflect specific cultures as well as affect them. It is an important art form‚ a source of popular entertainment‚ and a powerful medium for educating or indoctrinating citizens because of its visual basis‚ which gives it a universal power of communication. Every country has stories to tell‚ about their past‚ present‚ and what the future will look like through their eyes. Examples of how Film has been used to reflect
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Film Review——Bruce Almighty (2003) God has always been regarded as an omnipotent being. Imagine‚ what would happen if you are the god? Have you ever thought that the power of god is already inside of you? The 2003 comedy film‚ Bruce Almighty‚ explores such theme when Bruce Nolan‚ an ordinary news reporter‚ is given the power of god for a week. The film stars Jim Carrey‚ Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman‚ and is directed by Tom Shadyac. The films tells the story of Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) ‚ a
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Afghan Star‚ the documentary follows four contestants of the Afghan Star TV show: Hameed‚ Setara‚ Rafi‚ and Lema. Afghan Star is said to be the Afghanistan’s version of the “American Idol format”. This show not only gave a new opportunity at democracy but also let the voices of the Afghan people be heard by casting votes on their choice of singer. Afghanistan has rich culture: music‚ religion‚ art‚ films – however‚ with the control of the Taliban‚ it resulted the country to go backwards and prevented
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[pic] 42nd ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON FILM FESTIVAL TO SHOWCASE DOCUMENTARY “FOOD FIGHT” Houston‚ TX (Mar. 18‚ 2009) —The 2009 WorldFest-Houston proudly presents Food Fight as part of its award-winning documentary side bar. Food Fight is a fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food production developed in the 20th century‚ igniting a California food movement that sparked a tasty‚ counter-revolution. The documentary dishes up topics including sustainable produce‚ farmers markets
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In this paper questions will be ask about the special effects of the movies Robocop and Star The Revenge of the Sith‚ for the reader to understand the movies better. How are the effects used? In the movie RoboCop the stop motion animation was used to bring the character ED-209 a giant robot to life and the scene when a man try to run over RoboCop but ended up falling in a vat of toxic waste causing the flesh to melt of his skin. Are they effective? In a way yes since the character ED-209 was animated
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SYNOPSIS OF STAIR CLIMBING ROBOT Abstract: The goal of our project was to design a robot that would climb starirs in a skillfull‚ calculated and efficient manner. Climbing a set of stairs is not a new challenge for robots‚ in fact it is often a common obstacle used by designers to showcase the robot’s skills. Their function as modeled after human movement. The smaller scaled robots‚ such as mine‚ usually use the bruete force method and are not able to successfully climb stairs. In the present
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