Firstly‚ Hollywood has had major negative consequence on American crime. While several of people are correct in saying that crime has existed way before movies and television‚ many do not consider how Hollywood has provoked crime to higher levels. Numerous people incorrectly state that crime levels have gone down since the establishment of movies‚ but The Disaster Center records indicate the number of crimes has continued to grow steadily‚ reaching a peak in 1991 with a total of 14‚872‚900 crimes
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Identifying Heroes: The Godfather and Pulp Fiction The form of Classical Hollywood films is‚ first and foremost‚ invisible. In a Classical Hollywood film‚ the narrative is foremost‚ and style serves the narrative. Camera angles‚ lighting and editing patterns such as the shot/reverse-shot pattern aim to give us the best possible perspective on the unfolding events(1). These events are arranged in a strongly causality-oriented linear narrative‚ with one event causing the next. This narrative is
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Glory: Hollywood vs. History Glory is a movie about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment‚ one of the first official all black units in the United States during the Civil War. It’s an inspirational story of how a young Union soldier‚ Robert Gould Shaw‚ is offered the chance to lead an army unit that will change not only his life‚ but the lives of many other Americans. Glory does a great job of capturing many of the feelings towards the black soldiers during the Civil War. The film is based off
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properties to express larger themes. First of all‚ Quentin Tarantino somewhat adheres to the Classical Hollywood Editing System. One rule from the Classical Hollywood Editing System that Quentin Tarantino adheres to throughout the movie is the 180 degree rule. In other words‚ he does not seem to cross the axis of action. However‚ there are times when the director breaks with the Classical Hollywood Editing System and one way he does this is by having a discontinuous editing system. One example is
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Two monumental acts would take place in the Hollywood film industry within a year of each other that would alter the course of the entire business. The Paramount Decision and The Hollywood Blacklist changed everything concerning life of employees affiliated with the Hollywood studios. On May 3‚ 1948 The Paramount Decision as it came to be known‚ simply because Paramount was the first of eight studios named in a lawsuit by the United States Supreme Court. The prosperous theatre chains RKO‚ Warner
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Alright Love and Classical Hollywood The classical Hollywood style is all about the art of invisible storytelling and the ability to make the viewer feel part of the movie by enabling them to relate with the central character. This is achieved through the use of a seamless narrative which is accomplished by not just the script or story itself‚ but includes every aspect of what goes into making a successful movie. The short 2004 film Alright Love‚ directed by Samuli Valkama‚ does indeed share
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How to Win Friends and Influence People How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie can be broken down into four parts‚ each with a set of principles that fall at the end of each chapter accordingly. Part one starts with the quote “If you want to gather honey don’t kick over the bee hive.” He uses this quote to explain that criticizing people gets the person nowhere because it makes the other person defensive. He uses Abraham Lincoln as an example and states how he did this early on
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In his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” published in 1936‚ Dale Carnegie suggests‚ with the aid of real life examples from both ordinary people and historical figures‚ what might be the key in becoming successful. The several principles included in the book shape what could be considered as the Bible for human relationships. The book was initially written with the sole purpose to be used as a textbook for Dale Carnegie´s lectures on establishing good human relationships. Soon‚ after
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from classical Hollywood conventions in a numbers of important ways‚ marking it quite clearly as a different sort of film to the police procedurals which may have come before it. The sequence begins with Popeye Doyle walking back to his apartment‚ whereupon a sniper kills a young mother with a bullet intended for Doyle. Despite this being an innocent woman caught in the cross-fire‚ Doyle shows little concern overall and we do not later learn her fate‚ unlike a classic Hollywood film where some
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I recently wrote an essay about the development of the star persona of Ice Cube‚ the rapper/actor who has made the unusual transition from hardcore gangsta rapper to leading man in such “family-friendly” films as Are We There Yet? The essay‚ entitled “With an Attitude: The Development of Ice Cube’s Star Persona‚” will soon be published in the online film journal 16:9; I’ll link to it as soon as it’s up. The thesis of the essay is that‚ for all the apparent and unexpected alterations to his “street”
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