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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I watched the film Vegucated and overall I thought the film was educational but very graphic. Watching the scenes with the slaughter house were very eye opening to what we do to these animals all because we want to eat meat and dairy. It was just very sad to watch and it made me wonder if all of this was necessary and do we really need meat and dairy to survive? I also like how it follows the lives of three people as they go through the transition of becoming vegan or vegetarian. I also didn’t know
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In the film “Walkabout” is about a girl and her little brother lost in the Australian outback and trying to survive in the wilderness. In the beginning‚ it shows the teenage girl and her little brother living a normal lifestyle like going to school and spending time with her family. Later‚ after the father driving them far to the Australian outback for picnic‚ he went berserk and begins shooting his own children. They successfully escape by taking cover behind rocks‚ so the father suddenly set his
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of film and television production in Québec. This article paints an austere picture of current realities in which content creators in Québec feel stifled creatively and underappreciated due to racism in the industry. When award-winning Haitian filmmaker Jephté Bastien was told that in order to join the ranks of the best Québécois filmmakers he would need to make “Quebecer Films‚” the question arose: what exactly defines such a genre? What Bastien eventually come to realize was that “films representing
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Film Analysis: Pocahontas The animated Walt Disney movie Pocahontas is based on a true life story of a young Powhatan Indian girl named Pocahontas who falls in love with John Smith. In the making of the movie‚ Walt Disney‚ attempts to relate to the early 17th Century historic event of Europeans settling in Jamestown; however‚ Disney did not portrait the true story. Disney rewrote the story by making it a beautifully romantic and animated love story like a Cinderella fairytale. In the Walt Disney
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Ingred Thompson Minority Groups 2390.50 Dr. Dollarhide Texas Wesleyan University Fall 2012 This is the story of Rosewood‚ Fl. I chose this film because of its sensitive subject on Racism and Discrimination. Rosewood is the true story of a small Florida town‚ was inhabited that almost entirely by quiet‚ "middle-class" African- Americans (most of them home and land owners and better off than average at the time.) On New Year’s Day‚ 1923‚ the town was wiped off the face of the earth by angry
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Considered one of the Top 25 films of all time‚ GoodFellas‚ a biographical crime film directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese follows the life of mob associate and FBI informant Henry Hill who is played by actor‚ Ray Liotta. GoodFellas is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book called Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. The film was subsequently release in 1990 after a few years in the making. Scorsese was never interested in making another mob film until he read Pileggi’s book and was drawn to
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His mastery over visual comedy: the physical nuances it exemplifies‚ coupled with the deadpan expressions that garnered him the nickname The Great Stone Face‚ are the driving forces behind his continuing appeal. In one of the very first scenes in the film‚ we see Keaton as Johnnie Gray walk up to the house of Annabelle Lee‚ one of the loves of his life – the other being his engine: The General – followed by two young boys. Completely absorbed in the task at hand‚ Johnnie is oblivious to Annabelle joining
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A major theme that I would like to focus on in the movie Scarface is criminality. This film is littered with criminals and is the basis of the whole movie. Three techniques that I believe identify the theme are costumes‚ lighting‚ and acting style. The acting style that I am referring to is depicted in the scene where Tony Montana is being questioned by immigration officials. He is being deceitful to keep the immigration officials from finding out about his background. " Tony is quickly revealed
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The Propriety and Amalgamation of an Effective Crime Film Crime is a genre that often times follows an often times intelligent‚ malicious criminal. Sometimes it follows the criminal chronologically and sometimes is follows the criminal through their victims. But simply following this generic guideline does not define a crime movie‚ there are defining factors that make a crime movie. In order for a crime movie to be effective it must have a criminal with a motive. A criminal and his motive are
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