Essay on Casablanca The movie Casablanca (1942) takes place in the WWII torn town of Casablanca. The movie is based on the fleeing of refugees from war torn France trying to gain passage into America. The movies circles around the struggles of the war in Europe and of the struggle between lovers. Casablanca was a war waypoint located in Northern Africa where refugees from the war against the Nazis fled to try and gain passage to the America’s. The only problem is that it is a rough place to live
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go undercover for five months‚ almost killing herself in a car chase‚ while Smith proves that he can drive and shoot at the same time and Lawrence checks to see how effective it is to shoot inside the vehicle rather than out. The peak of the movie is reached when there is a major shoot out in Cuba. Compared to the first Bad Boys movie this one for me definitely leaves its predecessor in the shadows after a long waited eight years. Nothing in this film is done in moderation...there’s at least one
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To Save a Life is a story that I feel could transform lives if viewed by teens. Since I first watched this I have shown to my children and my youth group and can honestly say that it impacted at least two. The movie is about Jake Taylor‚ a senior at Pacific High School. Jake is the typical high school jock that has it all popular friends‚ a beautiful girlfriend and is planning on attending college on a basketball scholarship. He parties with the most popular and everyone looks up to him. He is
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high school senior. He has regrets and doubts when it comes to his life and is constantly wondering how will his parents take the next disappointment that he bring to them. But following his parents little getaway‚ and following some of his friends advise Joel gets himself involved with a small time prostitute named Lana‚ played by Rebecca DeMornay. In class we touched upon the topic; does this movie glorify prostitution? There is no clean-cut answer to this question‚ because on one side Joel profited
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Non-fiction historical drama based on the book by Traudl Junge‚ the final secretary to the High Chancellor of Germany‚ Adolf Hitler. The movie opens up with a group of five girls sitting in a waiting room with concrete walls and simple furnishings. They are being briefed about how to properly speak and address their possible new boss as he interviews them. The movie has not yet given away who the employer is. The next person up for the interview is a young teenage Berliner‚ Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH -Movie Review- FROM A TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC VIEW POINT People today realize that individualism in our time‚ of the Great Depression‚ doesn’t work. The stock market is plunging; people are losing their jobs‚ money‚ and homes. The most well known people suffering through these hard times are the Okies. Okies come from Oklahoma‚ the major home of the Dust Bowl. The Okies continue to flock to the land of promise‚ California. Their motive is to find work and better living conditions
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Kishida. All of the villagers seem to keep him trapped down there‚ and over the course of the film‚ he falls in love with the Woman‚ and opts to stay at the end when he is presented with the option of leaving. In terms of technical filmmaking‚ the movie is very well done. The cinematography in particular‚ is noteworthy. The blend of image contrast‚ lighting‚ and the specific shot composition‚ give each frame a texture that you can almost reach out and touch. Gary Morris writes in the Bright Lights
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Film Response It’s always hard to pick a single favorite movie‚ because there are so many good ones. If I had to pick a favorite it would be a toss up between Gladiator‚ and Old School. I have a hard time choosing between comedy‚ and action. I would have to say that Gigli staring Ben Affleck‚ and J-lo is the least favorite movie of mine. In my opinion Gigli had a bad plot‚ bad acting‚ and was to long. I recently have seen the Client which was writer by John Grissim. The Client was originally
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of how he viewed the Filipino society under the Spanish regime. The movie gives us an idea about how Jose Rizal‚ which is just an ordinary citizen like us‚ helped our country acquire independence. It showed us how hard it was for them to gain the freedom that we are enjoying right now. That behind every free man at the moment is equivalent to a man that was maltreated by the Spaniards before. It was a very heroic thing to do‚ sacrificing your own life and not having the assurance if all your sacrifices
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Erica Albright broke up with Mark Zuckerberg just because in a small‚ tiny thing. Also‚ Erica doesn’t want Mark to underestimate her. By letting him introduce Erica to his new friends when he gets a new club on Harvard to let him be popular. 2. How did Mark betray Eduardo? As shown in the film what happens is that Mark dilutes Eduardo’s stock in Facebook. Zuckerberg‚ Parker‚ Saverin‚ and Moskovitz all had significant segments of Facebook stock along with investor Peter
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