Elissa Gargiulo Mr. Dudley Honors English 10 27 April 2011 The King and The Wizard In Billy Joel’s memorable song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”‚ he sings about an omnipresent fire and claims that his generation did not start it. The fire he speaks of is the social phenomenon that consumes the world. It infects society‚ everyone knows about it‚ and it has an impact on history that will be remembered in the future. No one started the fire specifically because different pop culture items have been
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KING JOHN AND ELEANOR If there had not been a King John‚ there would not have been a Magna Carta. John was such a bad king‚ he was considered to be a serious threat to the very existence of England as a free nation. Back when the hated William Rufus was king‚ he was assassinated‚ and nobody mourned his passing. A similar solution was also possible when it came to John‚ but because of the previous history England had experienced‚ and because of the wise leadership of Stephen Langton‚ the Barons
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The Crucible: Air of Hysteria and Paranoia The Crucible (1996) is a drama-film adaptation directed by Nicholas Hytner. The cast of the movie involves a myriad of performers such as Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder. Derived from the play by American playwright Arthur Miller‚ many plots and concepts from the film are identical to the original work. The Crucible is based on true stories about the witch trials held in Salem‚ Massachusetts. During this time period‚ witchcraft was socially unacceptable
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eventually allow an image to form. 3. What three components make up a film camera? Define each part. The three components that make up a film camera are‚ 1. The mechanical element‚ which is the camera body and the parts associated with it. 2. The second one is the optical element‚ This is otherwise known as the camera lens‚ and finally‚ we got the chemical element‚ which would be the film. 4. These three different elements make up a film camera. 5. What is a pentaprism? What job does it do in the camera
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King’s Speech When I think about the film The King’s Speech I think of personal problem and courage. King Gorge VI had a personal problem and that he stammered. This problem made him unable to do his task like giving speech to people. He tried hard to overcome this problem. Sometimes he got disappointed and felt he failed and is not a good fit for his job. I saw how he sometimes became hopeless and disappointed. Also courage comes in my mind when I think of this film. The King decided
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Vice Principals‚ Teachers and fellow students‚ I am Coco Li from Class 5A. Today I would like to talk about a film I like. It is called Titanic. Film: Titanic Director: James Cameron Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio‚ Kate Winslet‚ Billy Zane‚ Kathy Bates Category: II Duration: 194 minutes Reviewed by: Coco Li Overall rating : ★★★★★ (1 = poor‚ 5 = excellent) Titanic is an American romantic film. The background of the Titanic is real‚ but the main plot is fictional. It is a story about passengers on Titanic
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The film Metropolis‚ Fritz Lang adopts the same way of thinking as Eliot. Lang depicts the fragmented society through social stratification. He depicts the bourgeois as people who lead a callous and monotonous life in order to serve the wealthy upper class. The crescendo in the non-diegetic music with the addition of wavering vector lines in the beginning of the film forebodes the exploitation of the working class and creates a sense of chaos. The centralisation of the clock indicates that the workers
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WRITE A FILM REVIEW Writing a successful film review is like baking really great cookies. As a chef you need to pay attention to essential ingredients to make the recipe work‚ but creativity and personal choices are what make the final result more tasty and interesting. As a film review writer you must consider basic elements such as the story‚ character‚ technical details‚ sound/music and the theme or message in the film. A chef must think about who they are baking cookies for. A film reviewer
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original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) Music is an important form of art; it has always been utilized by each and every culture for entertainment purpose. Earlier in the silent film era‚ music was generally not included in the films but played in the beginning or at the end to entertain the audience. Later music was used in the form of background score to provide strength to the scenes of the film. There were three types of original
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these cultures idolize. These heroes not just appear in daily life‚ but these heroes were also carried over to their religious beliefs. The filmmakers did a great job of composing four stories from India‚ Indonesia‚ Korea and Japan. They break the film up into four parts were they use the art masterpieces and performances inspired by these tales. The first‚ “The Ramayana‚” tells the adventures of India’s legendary hero. Here we see Indian paintings‚ Indonesian sculpture and Japanese shadow play.
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