The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839‚ a group of Africans take over a Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists‚ Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey)‚ who is convinced he has the key to set African free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van Buren (Nigel Hawthorne) is on the
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"The Milagro Beanfield War" is an excellent movie about one man’s fight against the state and landowners to use water for farming purposes. Robert Redford did a great job of not only bringing the feel of the culture to the film but also keeping the whole feeling of the film. Joe Mondragon is a family man that is looking for work when he stumbles upon a supply of water. In New Mexico‚ it is illegal to use water because it is owned by the state. Joe decides to use the water for a beanfield that he
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"The Hammer" Response Many issues are addressed in the deaf film‚ The Hammer. The SEE sign issue seems to be less of a problem‚ at least in California‚ with it’s strong deaf community. However‚ some are still relevant today‚ like the view that the deaf community is "disabled". This is part of the reason why Matt’s grandfather did not want to let him use sign language. The idea that those who cannot hear are "deaf and dumb" is terrifying for a concerned parent. It’s almost understandable
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Splice Movie Review The movie was about two rebellious scientists‚ Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast who had been achieving fame by slicing DNA’s of different animals to create new hyrid ones and futher decided to add human DNA. Since their company was not interested with such an experiment‚ they secretly did it. They injected human DNA to one of their creatures to see if conception was possible. Their experiment was a success‚ they named it Dren. It was a female. She began to grow and learn fast‚ so
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How Does Twilight Affect Britain?... How Does Twilight Affect Britain?... http://go.standard.net/story/how-twilight-affected-our-world-and-can-kristen-stewart-have-a-career http://go.standard.net/story/how-twilight-affected-our-world-and-can-kristen-stewart-have-a-career By Carla Meyer‚ Sacramento Bee - Nov 14 2012 - 10:38am On Friday‚ "Twilight" fans will close the lid on a book-and-movie series that entranced them for seven years‚ when the final "Twilight" film‚ "Breaking Dawn --
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David Blackman- SWK 3370- Frozen River In the movie “Frozen River”‚ we meet a family consisting of a mother‚ Ray‚ and her two sons: T.J. who is fifteen years old and Ricky who is five years old. Their father‚ Troy is presently not active in the family as he just took the savings they had been collecting for a double wide and went out to gamble it. From a micro/ mezzo perspective: Communication The family seems strong willed and very attached to each other. However‚ TJ seems to be a little defiant
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Goonies Movie Review The Goonies is set in a neighborhood right off the coast of the ocean‚called the goondocks. Their neighborhood is in trouble because of a rich person wanting to buy off all the houses in the area for some country club. On their last days their spirit is lowered because of Mikey’s older brother‚ he was mad because he failed his driving exam again. The goonies decide to go through things in the attic when the find a old news paper with some bad people. Then one of the boys finds
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Ruben Doncell 10/16/12 Christian Family Movie Review The main character had a terrible relationship with his father. They didn’t see eye to eye at all. The father just took him to baseball games and left him there with an usher that he paid to watch him. The absence of a father figure was significant to his childhood. When he grew up he tried to be anything but that memory. He was involved in his children’s lives. This would be a family theme where the parent separates themselves from the child
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Nurul Hazwani Bt Hatta M12L THE OTHERS Movie Review The Others is one of the psychological horror movies that impress me with its good story plot and suspense elements. It was written‚ directed and scored by Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar‚ starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher Eccleston. It is inspired partly by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a Catholic mother who lives with her two small children in a remote country house in the British Crown
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Canadian Film Essay For the Canadian film unit we watched three films‚ The New Waterford Girl‚ The Boy in Blue and The Red Violin. In comparison to American Hollywood made films the Canadian films had some significant differences. These differences being the budget‚ and genre. The first movie was The New Waterford Girl. This movie was a slice of life film showing the life of a teenage girl living in a very small Canadian town. Moodie is trying to escape from the life that she is currently
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