Movie Extra Credit During the winter break I watched the movie Matewan. It was directed by John Sayles and stars Chris Cooper‚ James Earl Jones‚ and Mary McDonnell. It takes place in the turbulent town of Matewan‚ West Virginia during the 1920’s as heads butt on whether creating a workers union is the right thing. The coal workers go on strike to fight against the hazardous working conditions and low pay‚ but are dismayed by the fact the coal company is replacing them with Italian immigrants and
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Critical writing 6: The Interrupters The Interrupters tells the moving and powerful stories of three Violence Interrupters who attempt to protect and improve their Chicago communities from the violence they used to be in. The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention was founded in 1995 by Dr. Gary Slutkin. After returning home to Chicago and hearing stories about children murdering children‚ he created Ceasefire‚ operating from the reasonable premise that violence is‚ fundamentally‚ a public health
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How has your understanding of the consequences of conflict been shaped by the techniques used by various composers? The film‚ Unfinished Sky by Peter Duncan together with the novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and Bruce Dawe’s poem‚ ‘Homecoming’‚ demonstrate that the consequences of conflict are exceedingly varied. The audio‚ visual and language techniques used by the composers throughout these texts allow an in depth exploration of the consequences of conflict. The texts show that
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)‚ directed by Frank Darabont‚ is a film about Andy Dufresne‚ a lawyer sentenced to life in prison for supposedly murdering his wife. The main theme of the film is that Andy survives the brutality and corruption of prison through his enduring hope. The director expresses the theme in two scenes from the film. The first sympathises the audience with Andy. The second is about Andy escaping. The film particularly appeals to viewers going through personal hardships like
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Deaf Culture Film Analysis 1) I personally found the film on deaf culture extremely interesting because it made the deaf community easier to understand by portraying people who are deaf simply as people of a different culture‚ and showed the deaf as real human beings who have opinions and deserve rights which is important because we live in such a hearing dominated society in which our world is filled with so many misconceptions about the deaf. I enjoyed the film because it gave me a deeper understanding
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Neorealism films were shot on location‚ with non-professional actors‚ using various filmmaking techniques like the long take. In the case of Bicycle Thieves‚ its focuses was on poverty‚ as the main character and his son travel in order to find his missing bicycle so that he can obtain a job. Throughout the film we are shown how poor the characters are as we see his wife gather all of her most cherished items and pawn them to get her husband the bike. Afterwards once obtaining the job the film reveals
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story of their own. They tell more than just the story‚ but the underlying thoughts behind the film. This can be seen in Blade Runner by Ridley Scott‚ THX 1138 by George Lucas‚ and Children of Men by Alfonso Cuaron‚ as the landscapes help develop the complexity of the story. The directors of these films use setting and landscape to express and contribute to the development of the main argument of each film. In Blade Runner‚ Ridley Scott immediately constructs a dark‚ gloomy‚ and worn out Los Angeles
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MUSC 1113 11:45 Reflection in Sound The movie Midnight Cowboy‚ which was released in 1969‚ fully embodies the themes and the issues that were coming to the forefront of society and films during the new Hollywood era of the 1960s and 1970s. John Schlesinger’s film follows the story of a young man who leaves his home in Texas to become a male prostitute in New York City‚ and the trials and tribulations he encounters along the way. The soundtrack accompanying the film does not entirely consist of a
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North by Northwest Hitchcock’s Shining Moment To the average viewer‚ each of Hitchcock’s films are individually suspenseful‚ nerve-wrecking‚ and enticing. The 20th century director managed this by having a formulated and scientific approach to creating his movies. In North by Northwest‚ these elements all come together to create the epitome of Hitchcock. A popular and reoccurring theme in Hitchcock’s movies is the case of "the wrong man‚" or mistaken identity and being wrongfully accused
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The films Out of the Past‚ Throne of Blood‚ and Dead Man have been critically acclaimed for being culturally‚ historically‚ and esthetically pleasing. The films take a story and adapt it into its own style of storytelling. These three films account for many of their similar attributes such as a dark and cynical story line and deviant villains. The films Out of the Past‚ Throne of Blood‚ and Dead Man obtain distinct similarities and elements in the classifications such as film noir‚ manipulation
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