USA TODAY Written byClaudia Puig December 20‚ 2002 Year of the woman in film Pg. 1E Nicole Kidman was convinced she wasn’t right for the part of Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize wining novel‚ The Hours. "I almost talked myself out of it‚" she says. Until she learned Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would be her co-stars. "From the moment they said these are the other women‚ I didn’t even think twice‚" says Kidman. "This opportunity rarely comes along. It’s unheard of
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Liquid Film Motors [pic] Fiona McLaughlin Zoe Cheng Loreto College Coleraine Comments Abstract We have carried out an experimental and theoretical study of liquid film motors. This phenomenon was first reported in 2009. Two papers have been published on arXiv.com‚ the first describing the phenomenon (Shiryaeva et al)‚ the second offering a theoretical model for the observations (Amjadi et al). The
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being caring about his constituents or their minor problems. Throughout the movie‚ he first starts the whole conflict‚ and then the audience is led to like him because he’s nice and does not want to start war without hard evidence. However‚ as the film progresses‚ he increasingly gets presented as a bumbling politician who is unsure of himself and is not able to make a difference. 4. What is the conflict that is driving the protagonist to act? The conflict starts due to the protagonist’s slip
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yet another story about a magazine editor being harassed or even beaten by right wing goons‚ about cinemas showing the films of Deepa Mehta or Mira Nair being trashed‚ about Bollywood starlets or saucy models being summoned to court for obscenity or indecency‚ about offending books‚ paintings and articles being slashed and burned amid saffron flags and TV cameras. Hindi film director Mahesh Bhatt‚ always ready with a sound bite‚ went so far as to call it a “cultural emergency” (Bhatt 1998).1
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WHY IS COMPUTER ANIMATION IMPORTANT IN THE FILM INDUSTRY?Voices Home The Digital Medium Has an Important Contribution to Cinema’s Artistic and Entertainment Values For more than 100 years since its birth‚ the movie industry has evolved much as an art form and a creative industry. Since then‚ it has provided major contributions in the arts‚ culture‚ politics and technology. And whether it’s in Hollywood‚ Bollywood or any other film industry center in the world‚ each one continues to develop better
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Before World War II‚ the quintessential film contained bright‚ happy‚ and optimistic tones. However‚ when the United States entered the battlefield‚ motion pictures became less optimistic. As Americans discovered the circumstances of the war‚ the filmmakers of the time felt hopeless as well. Ultimately‚ movies became hard boiled‚ unheroic‚ and unromantic. This movement is known as film noir (or black film) because the movies of this era contain a dark mood and tone. It would continue to thrive until
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INCEPTION Inception came out to theaters last 2010. It is an action‚ adventure and sci-fi film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb)‚ Joseph Gordon Levitt (Arthur) and Ellen Page (Ariadne). The movie revolves around Cobb‚ whose job is to steal information from the minds of people through their dreams. He was given the task to perform the reverse called Inception on a businessman named Fischer in exchange for having the charges against him dropped and going back to America to finally see his children
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The Help Film makers should definitely have the ability to reflect on the greatest triumphs and tragedies of our time by effectively presenting them through the use of film techniques. The Help‚ directed by Tate Taylor‚ allows us to on the greatest triumphs and tragedies. Tate Taylor presents these triumphs and tragedies in his 2011 film‚ The Help by using a range of characters and situations‚ as well as through film techniques such as dialogues‚ camera work and costume. The film maker‚ Tate Taylor
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A true film genre relies on shared iconography‚ formalistic themes and similar narrative structures and content. ‘What genre does is recognize that the audience any one film within a context of other films‚ both those they have personally seen and those they have heard about or seen represented in other media outlets. …In general‚ the function of genre is to make films comprehensible and more or less familiar. (turner 97)’. Action/adventure‚ the Western‚ Gangster/Crime‚ Detective/Film Noir‚ Comedy
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The Corporation Film Analysis The Corporation was based on a book written by Joel Bakan. It is a documentary film that looks at the history of corporation and follows them up until present day to illustrate their dominance in society. I found this film very interesting with me once being part of the corporate world and finding my way onto another career path for many of the reasons illustrated in this film. This film had an underlying statement of corporations’ number one concern was profit
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