Storytelling is more important to me than anything else‚ and I believe film is one of the most rewarding and honest forms of storytelling. Ever since I was a little kid I have been in love with movies. When I was nine I got a camcorder for Christmas‚ and I would make my friends help me remake scenes from my favorite movies‚ and when they said the lines wrong I would yell at them and make them do it over and over until they got it right or got so annoyed with me that they went home. As I got older
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and On the Waterfront seem two structurally independent and unrelated movies that only share some basic theme elements in their plot. However‚ analyzing both‚ side by side and frame by frame‚ can give us a more profound understanding of the American film industry‚ Hollywood in particular‚ and its relation to the McCarthyism in 1950s‚ a dark chapter in the US history. Salt of the Earth‚ directed by Herbert Biberman‚ is a 1954 blacklisted movie based on a true story about the struggles of Mexican
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allowing these emotions to control us? This question establishes the plot for the film Se7en starring Morgan Freeman‚ Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow which was released in 1995. Nonetheless‚ the film does not solely focus on the seven deadly sins and the punishments that go along with them but raise questions moral questions about psychopathy and policing in today’s culture. In this essay I will discuss the how the film Se7en’s portrayal of policing in pop culture is reflective of the dialectical relationship
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Philomena: A Film that Questions What You Believe In and Yet Answers Why You Do Among the many good films of 2013‚ this one has to be on my top 5 list. Directed with passion by Stephen Frears‚ Philomena is a film that questions your beliefs regardless of which religious sect you belong to. As a little exposition‚ Philomena Lee (Judi Dench)‚ way back 1952‚ was impregnated out of wedlock and was therefore sent forcibly to a convent where she gave birth to a son she named Anthony. She and other young
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Module 7 Film/television genres Objectives: In completing this module‚ you will be able to: - understand and apply different approaches for analyzing genre: formalist‚ audience analysis‚ and ideological. - understand the history and evolution of advertising and the forces shaping that history - devise different genre analysis activities for use in the classroom - understand and analysis characteristics of different types of genres for the genres described in this module - present specific
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them‚ the world. Some would argue that in searching for worldly gratification‚ people set aside their faith. Instead‚ choosing to believe in what is real to them‚ not in something imaginary. This is apparent in the poem “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens. The audience witnesses a woman going through the contemplation of living her life or searching for a Christian paradise. Through out the poem‚ there are two voices present‚ one being the woman and the other which refers to the woman as “she” or “her”
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I’m very excited to have been asked to score this film by Joel Plunkett. He has filmed a beautiful scene of what I viewed to be two people that care for each other deeply. The male appears to be leaving as the female rushes to say her goodbyes or stop him from going. This is how I intend to transform this scene: the character of Caroline is frantically looking for Joel‚ her best friend‚ on the day he is leaving town. Caroline having been nervously awake late into the night‚ causing her to accidently
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In the second is the parking lot scene which is where their adventure really begins. On their way to go vacation‚ Thelma and Louise decide to stop at a bar to have drinks. Thelma then meets a guy‚ and starts chatting and dancing with him. While they are at a parking lot outside the bar‚ things start to get out of control‚ the guy tries to rape Thelma. After a moment‚ Louise happens to hear and comes out with her gun pointed at the guy‚ saying let Thelma go. After letting her go‚ and when asked to
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THESIS: “Having not just two cultures‚ but two time zones”. Weir‚ the director of the film Witness‚ cleverly used juxtaposition to divide the two overlapping worlds. The dichotomy in the contemporary American society and the idealised representation of Amish people‚ and their dissimilar values and morals are powerfully shown visually. Linking Sentence from the intro Weir speculates the attitudinal divide of the values and morals of the two worlds. He focuses in the conflict of cultures and social
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The Depth of Real Happiness By: Julie Ann De Villa Sadsad “Unending happiness is a bore; one should have ups and downs in life”. As a living creature‚ obstacles shadow our existence. And yet‚ we all think that this would break our HAPPINESS‚ the thing that we are all dreading and longing for. Well‚ nobody can deny that matter‚ because it has been proven beyond the shadow of doubt‚ that we‚ individuals all need happiness in life. We actually strive to find something to quench our thirst in happiness
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