’The 5th Wave’ is a best-selling series about a young woman trying to survive in a world destroyed by multiple alien invasions. As they send waves of destruction through the planet‚ protagonist Cassie Sullivan finds out what she’s capable of as she fights to stay alive. The newly-released film adaptation stars Chloë Grace Moretz‚ Nick Robinson and Ron Livingston. I interviewed best-selling young adult author Rick Yancey in a conference phone call. Rick Yancey began writing years ago in order
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In the 1920’s before sound was introduced into film we had silent films. Stories were told through expression and even music. Pianists‚ complete orchestras‚ organists‚ and even some actors and narrators were invited by theaters to accompany the films being shown (Silent Films). On the Info Please website‚ the author of Movies and Films writes "by the 1920s‚ silent film writing‚ acting‚ photography‚ and music had reached an aesthetic pinnacle: very subtle emotional and plot nuances could be conveyed
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The Outsiders: The Relevancy of “Stay Golden” The greatest movies of all time are the ones that stand the test of time. The ones that you can relate to even if they came out more than 50 years ago. The Outsiders‚ directed by Francis Ford Coppola‚ is a classic drama written by a teen‚ for teens‚ played by teens. Showing the conflicts of teens in the 50’s and the struggle of being “golden” when surrounded by the harsh realities of the world you live in. According to “Francis Ford Coppola Biography
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In the heyday of figurative painting‚ it was customary to classify and evaluate works of art by their subject matter. This tendency is reflected by French chronicler of the arts André Félibien‚ writing in 1667 that “the most noble of all these [kinds of painting] is that which represents History in a composition of several figures” (qtd. in Duro 2). While the genre of historical painting in contemporary Western art has almost vanished‚ re-presentations of historical subjects in other forms of art
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technology and world-class creative talent to develop computer-animated feature films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that appeal to audiences of all ages. In November 22‚ 1995‚ Pixar Animation Studios forever impacted the future of filmmaking‚ storytelling and the medium of animation with the release of its first feature film‚ Disney·Pixar’s Toy Story. After Pixar founded nine years ago‚ Toy Story exhibited years of creative and technical achievements from a small group of passionate
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Andrea M. Bautista March 5‚ 2012 Bachelor of Science in Psychology 43 Prof. Bernadette Corsame FILIPINO PSYCHOLOGY AND ARTS I. HISTORICAL FOUNDATION Arts in the Philippines started even before the colonization of the country. It has different fields and expressions which are mostly religious. In any way‚ these native arts are on the verge of being lost now since the masses are all focused on foreign cultures forgetting their own. Painting Filipino painting as a whole can be
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aired on BBC America (obviously it was censored heavily). The show’s success has led to two feature-length films that‚ despite positive critical reception‚ never reached the same success as the show from which they derived. The documentary style filmmaking that the show uses provides story telling elements that a standard television show lacks. The one-on-one interviews with the camera that take about roughly a tenth of the airtime both allow the audience to understand the character’s thoughts without
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The VHS format was massively popular and influential and it changed the way people watch movies. VHS’s successor‚ the DVD‚ was not quite as much of a game changer‚ but it still had a huge impact on the home video market. DVD came on the scene in the late 1990s‚ but the story actually begins in the early 1960s. In 1961‚ optical recording technology was patented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell. It wasn’t until the 70s that progress was seen on this front and in 1978 the Laserdisc format was
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In the chapter “The Global Markets For Anime” in Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts‚ Rayna Denison begins by talking about the history of anime. Anime began to consume popular culture in the 1960’s but it wasn’t until the 1980’s that the “second wave of anime films [...] brought a new dystopic future vision to the world.” (Denison‚ 308) Stemming from this “boom” the most popular and consumed anime’s all revolve around dystopian‚ magical and/or science fiction worlds. Denison then goes on to explain
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subordinates. In addition‚ the shields and swords are decorated with gold. Extreme close-up shot is used when displaying the detail of the king’s jewelry. At the beginning of the film‚ when talking about the gold story in Jenne‚ several filmmaking strategies have been used. For example‚ there are some extreme close-up shots on the mental workers who make golden jewelry and other golden stuffs and the process that they make jewelry. The combination of the nature sound: tap-tap‚ and the voice
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