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    Shine‚ an award winning film directed by Scott Hicks‚ depicts the life of musical genius David Helfgott and the challenges and suffering he overcame in his life. Through a variety of film techniques Hicks is able to capture certain aspects of the human condition such as that of isolation‚ deprivation of freedom and one’s longing to be loved and cared about. Shine is also highly inspirational‚ illustrating a person’s ability to move forward in life despite facing the debilitating effects of psychological

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    a Mockingbird‚ by using fascinating descriptive language. The manner in which Lee appeals to the reader?s sight using colours‚ relates non-human objects in the novel tarper Lee?s excellent use of literary skills‚ To Kill a Mockingbird would not be one of the most wel Work Cited Lee‚ Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Toronto: McClelland and Steward

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    of Anderson’s films is a box filled with the shards of an individual’s fragmented history. Let us take a look into the boxes of Wes Anderson! 3) Wesley Wales Anderson is a

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    Essay   Power has many facets which are evident in society. Discuss in reference to the core text studied and the supplementary material   In the novel‚ Animal Farm by George Orwell and the film‚ The Power of One directed by John G. Avildsen show many aspects of power which are evident in society. Themes further expressed in both materials include‚ Power through leadership and corruption‚ power through violence and submission‚ power of control over the intellectually inferior and . These are

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    The Power of One Themes The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. Growing up he suffered as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school. Soon orphaned‚ he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor von Vollensteen (Doc)‚ a friend of his grandfather. Doc develops Peekay’s piano talent and Peekay becomes "assistant gardener" in Doc’s cactus garden. It is not long after WWII begins that Doc is placed in prison

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    “I veered off my course to follow the stream‚ running downhill along the slippery stones‚ faster now that I was out of the snow. My body waited for the inevitable bullet...” (179). Lev and Kolya has met up with Partisans and begins marching to a nearby city. Before even arriving at the city‚ they smell that the Germans have set the entire city on fire. Without any other choices‚ they are forced to spend the rest of the night at a safehouse that the Partisan’s own. They are awoken to someone saying

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    The film felt like a visual representation of 1984 with myriad similarities in the ministry of information and the total control‚ but at the same time‚ total chaos. I was most intrigued and provoked by the representation of terrorists in the film and the innocent people caught in the crossfire. There is a clear connection between that representation as no one really ever finds out who the terrorists are and the current climate today in representing refugees as terrorists. This paranoia and fear of

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    importance in giving the audience of a film an idea of where the people in the movie are. If done well‚ sometime the audience can even feel as if they are in this setting with the characters. Sound also plays an important role in films whether is is sound coming from people talking‚ a crash‚ or even a soundtrack of a film. It gives the audience a chance to feel submerged into the film and participate along with the characters. Guardians of The Galaxy‚ a film directed by James Gunn‚ involves may aspects

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    viewer feel closer to the action as the camera follows the soldiers from cover to cover. Steven Spielberg also uses handheld cameras to give the film a newsreel cameraman feel to it. Steven Spielberg uses

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    Daniel Day-Lewis has been hailed as one of Britain’s greatest actors ever since he lit up the screen In My Beautiful Laundrette twenty-two years ago. Daniel day-Lewis demonstrates his great talent in My Left Foot as Christy brown who suffers from cerebral palsy and in Gangs of New York as Bill “The Butcher” cutting the leader of The Natives. In My Left Foot‚ Daniel Day-Lewis is Christy Brown a talented artist and writer who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Day-Lewis draws the audience into his world

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