Grant Godfrey Film Appreciation 11/27/09 Glory or Death A Film Analysis of “300” Most people have heard the story of King Leonidas and the bold three hundred; but for the people that have never heard of the three hundred Spartans until the movie came out‚ it definitely opened their eyes after viewing the film. Some do not understand why this story is one of the most amazing ones in Greek history‚ mostly the people who do not know much about it. It is an inspirational story that tells us many
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The Vikings traveled over and beyond Europe in their prime. They a most known for their ruthless pillaging of European towns however they were a quite advanced society that left a lasting impact on the places they encountered. The Viking Age impacted the areas which it reached through their organized raiding of European villages‚ their economically strong trading industry‚ and their advanced sailing and navigation skills. The Vikings are widely known for their successful raiding of northern coastal
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The Forum of Augustus was erected in 2 BCE‚ a full forty years after it was promised in 42 BCE. Augustus at the time known as Gaius Octavius at the time vowed to Mars during the battle of Philippi to erect a temple in his name. He did this most likely to bring him strength in this battle as after the battle he was able to avenge his adoptive father Julius Caesar by killing his assassins. Sometime after in 27 BCE he became Princeps of Rome changings his name to Augustus. He then made plans to
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My essay is describing the life of J.R.R Tolkien and what he did before and during the time he was an author. He was born in Bloemfontein‚ South Africa on January 3‚ 1892. J.R.R Tolkien stayed in South Africa with his brother and parents. But the weather was very harsh on his mother so she decided she would move to England with him and his brother and their dad would come later. But later J.R.R. Tolkien’s dad died because of a brain hemorrhage so he never ended up meeting up with J.R.R. Tolkien
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Alister Grierson’s film Kokoda (2006) is historically accurate to a limited extent. The film is based on the experiences of 39th Battalion fighting against Japanese forces in the 1942 Kokoda Campaign. The representation of the Australian Soldiers and the Japanese Soldiers were in favour of the Australians. Unbiased representation is important to understand both sides of the war. The problems with food and equipment supply do not quite show in the film‚ although the audience still gets a feel to
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is given the greenlight by 20th century Fox and the budget of 11 million dollars to film his creation. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend of that year‚ and we all know the rest is history. Now‚ flash forward to modern day. The United States is overseas battling foreign powers‚ the nation’s first African American is in the Whitehouse‚ and Justin Bieber is dominating our air
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Hollywood perspective as other countries make their own films even compete against the familiar style. Transnational films break through both ‘national’ and ‘international’ forms and can be taken on a global and local scale. Though‚ it does not limit media to one country‚ but works across many national cultures and economies. Films are not limited to just one country; they can be filmed across one or in many. Although‚ due to the original context of the film‚ not every country may be able to fully grasp all
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Hoosiers Film Analysis Why I selected Hoosiers Let me first begin by saying I am a huge sports fan. I played almost every sport growing up and have always loved watching sports‚ in particular college basketball and any type of football. I saw Hoosiers a few times growing up and enjoyed it every time. In my opinion it is one of the greatest sports movies of all time. The acting of Gene Hackman is definitely an Oscar winning performance. Even though this is not based on a true story it is
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The Patriot The film The Patriot directed by Roland Emmerich follows Benjamin Martin‚ a hero of the French and Indian War‚ and his service in the American Revolution fighting against the British. The Patriot is a film that romanticizes the fact that freedom is not free. The intended purpose of the film is to make Americans and those who fought for freedom to feel good about their country. In fact‚ freedom is a continuous theme in the movie from start to finish. This can be seen at the start of
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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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