Video Critique 1 – Mad or bad? This documentary focused on understanding the criminal mind and what efforts go into deciding the fate of a criminal while making sure that we are still protected in our communities upon their release. There were several cases presented; Case 1 The Naked Samurai Swordsman‚ Case 2 The London Nail Bomber‚ Case 3 The Yorkshire Ripper‚ Case 4 the Ipswich Rapist‚ and Case 5 George serial pedophile. We learned about the cases and watched how the system assesses‚ evaluates
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The films‚ ‘The Butler’ and ‘The Intouchables’ are representations of the ordeals that African American’s were forced to go through in the past years and the implications of such experiences to the current production of films. It is without any doubt that because of the inferior status that was given to African Americans‚ most films that are produced today exhibit African Americans to be of a lesser status (Toledano and Olivier 5; Ager and Aubyn 1). For example‚ in both of the aforementioned films
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One of the biggest milestones reached in the film industry was the narrative‚ movies that actually told a story. The first narrative movie was The Great Train Robbery‚ created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter. The silent film is only about 10 minutes long‚ but was the precursor to the action and western genres. The popularity of the movie proved that motion pictures could be commercially successful. The plot of The Great Train Robbery was actually inspired from a real event. On August 29‚ 1900‚ four members
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spill featured in the film is one example of how environmental disasters can devastate a variety of different things such as historical sites and resources. Environmental disasters occur much more frequently as it should‚ or is even acknowledged in the media. As was portrayed in the film‚ local native communities are generally the population who are effected by such disasters the most and receive minimal media coverage and compensation asides from a small mound which no one of the Ohlone community
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that exist within the “teen world”. The representation of these characters is usually extreme‚ meaning that the viewer instantly recognises the stereotype before the character is formally introduced. While these stereotypes provide comedic value to a film produced for a mainstream audience‚ it also makes the audience think about themselves and how their personality fits into the stereotypes presented. Using research from key audience theories and textual analyses
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The Name of the Film The Shawshank Redemption (1994). The Director of the Film and his Vision This film was directed by Frank Darabont. Darabont’s vision all started the day he read Stephen King’s Novella‚ Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption. "It was a story that captured my imagination and sent my heart soaring. It also instilled in me the hope that‚ someday‚ I might be lucky enough to put it on film." It took him nine-years of developing his craft‚ learning about life‚ studying the
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community‚ queerness goes farther to diversify the communities into one super coalition‚ just as political parties who share similar values form a coalition. Some of those communities still hold traditional concepts but are
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Sacrifice) and Whitey Bulger (Black Mass) are just two examples of cinematic incarnations that have served to entertain and semi-education observers. This time around‚ it’s world-renowned French high-wire walker Philippe Petit that becomes the subject of a film treatment – a man that cemented his legacy by performing depth-defying walks in and between some of the world’s most impressive structures‚ which include the Notre Dame Cathedral‚ New York’s Lincoln Center‚ and of course‚ the two
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Partisan presents itself as Australian Ariel Kleiman’s feature-film directorial debut‚ though you wouldn’t realise it from the maturity displayed on screen. The narrative‚ rather than flimsily structured as some critics have purported‚ is sinisterly brooding and intentionally thin‚ giving the film a normality that adds effective contrast to the otherwise shocking subject matter. The subject matter in question revolves around Alexander‚ a misbehaving child played in a menacingly placid way by newcomer
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Film Comedy: Trading Places Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Film Comedy: Trading Places Movies are created with the intention of entertaining all the while sending a message to the society. The producers therefore have the duty of making sure that the work is not tangential to the original situation as much as possible. The different ways in which they declare the best way of sending the message to the community defines the genre of the movie. It could either be a drama‚ mystery
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