How castle developed in the middle ages? In the middle ages‚ castles were very important to show power and defend your country. The first castles were made out of wood with little land and barely any defence. Castles became more important when the Normans started to invade Britain. Over the years as castles developed they got bigger and stronger. The battle of Hastings in 1066 marked the start of William the Conquerors reign. Once he was crowned King of England he began to build a network
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directed by Somarathne Dissanayake‚ produced by Renuka Balasooriya. This is my first review. So here goes nothing. As mentioned above‚ this film is created by the award winning famous director himself‚ Somarathne Dissanayake. After doing movies like Saroja‚ Punchi suranganavi‚ Suriya Arana etc‚ now the director has done his first periodic film Siri Parakum. Magnificent So does the newest movie also stand among the previous well created movies? I would say no. So lets start from the
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Have you watched the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis? It is a marvelous film which consists of sensational and emotional realistic scenes‚ and was played by professional actors. Moreover‚ it is directed by a well-known writer whose works have won several Academy awards‚ and Crash is one of them. In this film‚ Haggis tends to represent major issues that occurred in a city of diversity by exposing different kinds of social and multicultural differences. The title of this film Crash‚ which also means
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The Untouchables In the film “The untouchables” directed by Brian De Palma‚ It’s a very inaccurate portrayal of real life events. The screen writers twisted the truth to make for a more entertaining storyline and overall more appealing movie. Characters in the film are somewhat made up and also depicted in different ways to make them seem better or worse. Elliot Ness is portrayed to be the perfect 1930’s husband but in reality he is quite the opposite. Elliot Ness is real life is an unmarried
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Filipino films? Why not? Most of us would prefer watching American movies than Filipino ones. When we are in the cinemas‚ I noticed that there are more people paying to watch American movies instead of supporting locally made ones. For most‚ they better understand movies spoken in English than in Filipino. In addition‚ for most people‚ the quality of American movies is better than Filipino movies. However‚ there are some people that think otherwise but sadly majority of Filipinos think this
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“From Construction to Perspective: Interpreting Reality‚ Interpreting Films” Based on what I read‚ Friedrich Nietzsche has many different views about perspectivism. Perspective is determined by communication‚ the world of “phenomena”‚ the antithesis of this phenomenal world‚ and questions. The communication is necessary. The world of “phenomena” is for it to be real. The antithesis of phenomenal world is called the “true world” according to Nietzsche. Last but not least‚ questions for our understanding
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Filmic Techniques Establishing shot • An establishing shot is usually the first shot of a new scene‚ designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot. • To orientate the viewer to the flow of the narrative by alerting the audience to the beginning of a new sequence‚ but does not itself carry narrative information. Effect: When the director wants the responder (us) to understand the emotion being experienced by the character
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back to the architectural design of castles in the Middle Ages? If design of homes is changing back to design of castles is it a reflection on our society that castles of the Middle Ages were built primarily for defense. Does this mean that as a society we are tying to pull away from each other? There are many similar characteristics and features between modern homes and castles that are incorporated into the design specifically for defense reasons. Castles in the Middle Ages were built primarily
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Homosexuality in Film When sultry‚ womanly JoAnn steps into the five and dime‚ rarely would a viewer automatically leap to the conclusion that twenty years prior‚ that gorgeous she had been a he. Ed Graczyk and Robert Altman pushed the envelope when they so blatantly portrayed homosexuality and trans-genderedness in a movie in 1982. They were not‚ however the first to choose to display homosexuality in movies. "In fact‚ homosexuality‚ or the idea of it‚ has been with [the viewer] since movies
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Popular culture can sometimes be used as an instrument to analyze a particular ideology of a time period. One example of popular culture is seen in blaxploitation films. Blaxploitation films were crafted in the seventies and were mainly focused on "black social identities" (Porter 51). The nineteen seventies was a decade that put an enormous amount of emphasis on "the importance of racial and ethnic identities" (Porter 54). The Black Panthers were not a novel organization‚ getting their start
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