Long Vu / November 17‚ 2012 / Women Studies / Sally Winkle / Film Analysis Mean Girls In Mean Girls‚ the main character is Lindsay Lohan who plays the role of a 15 year old high school student‚ Cady Heron. Cady is The 15-year-old‚ Africa-raised high school girl begins her high school life by learning what it’s like to be a normal girl by making friends and talking about other classmates. The first thing the students thought when they heard there was a new transfer student in class from Africa
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Film analysis of Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a film about a young boy who discovers and starts dancing ballet. His father and brother work in the mines and are working class people. But still Billy’s father manages to let Billy go to boxing lessons. Billy doesn’t love boxing and isn’t very good either. When the local ballet dancers start practicing in the same venue as he does‚ he develops an interest in the dancing and soon joins the ballet group. Billy has to hide the ballet dancing from his
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symbol and metaphor‚ setting and situation‚ and most importantly‚ contrast between traditional and non-traditional‚ Alice Wu and Ketan Mehta enable a different understanding of Asian and Asian American femininity and masculinity in their respective films‚ Saving Face and Spices. Several historical stereotypes characterize traditional Asian and Asian American culture; Alice Wu and Ketan Mehta address these stereotypes and more. Many historical stereotypes of Asian and Asian American culture revolve
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Smoke Signals demonstrated that contemporary Native American stories could appeal to mainstream audiences. It meets the demand by the audiences at that era that Native Americans are the real people. The film gives out a sense of humor and a projection of real Indian identity. The contemporary Native American’s identity is changing as the development of the U.S. civilization. On one hand‚ they try to stay away from the Whites and the white culture and keep
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FILM ANALYSIS The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis‚ Tennesse and featured Michael Oher‚ an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life‚ 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton‚ coach of Wingate Christian School
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good” film that moves us by the triumph over discrimination but lacks a touch of reality. Remember the Titans takes place in Alexandria‚ Virginia in 1971. Racism was a huge issue‚ and schools were starting to integrate black people into the system. Coast Yoast (Will Patton)‚ the beloved white high school football coach‚ is shocked when a new black coach is sent to take over his job. Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) doesn’t like the situation just like Yoast‚
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Rick Famuyiwa is no stranger of African-American cinema‚ with credits going back to The Wood‚ Brown Sugar‚ Talk to Me‚ and Dope. Dope is a thought-provoking film‚ to say the least‚ watching this film‚ I saw a fascinating concept of old school Hip Hop that collides with a new quirky generation. There are three high school kids‚ that couldn’t be any‚ more opposite than the Hip Hop they love. They all grow up in Inglewood Ca‚ or “The Wood” as it’s affectionately known‚ which happens to be a diverse
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A Clockwork Orange Film Analysis Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange was a deeply disturbing depiction of human nature that shed light onto dark thoughts in the character’s soul. Alex seems to have no regard for human decency or human life. He and his gang of friends kill at will. They have no purpose for their violent outbursts other than to shock and degrade their victims. They have fun making others suffer. This is the logic that is upheld by Friedrich Nietzsche in his approval of Prosper
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The 2013 film The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original iconic novel‚ made a splash amongst movie-goers. It earned itself a profit of over $90 million‚ with the expenses for the production of the movie coming to a grand total of $145 million Australian Dollars. The possibly profligate sum of money put into the movie undoubtedly reflected the extravagant visuals and the immensity of the sets‚ costumes and cast of the movie. Luhrmann had great expectations
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In 2007‚ The movie American Gangster was a reenactment of the famous Frank Lucas‚ a well known herion dealer from Manhattan in the early 1970’s. He was considering himself as the number one importer of heroin in Harlem‚ one of the districts of Manhattan. He imported heroin directly from South East Asia and figuring out a unique way of smuggling the drugs to the U.S. He uses the transportation o the U.S military airplanes from Vietnam to the U.S. His trademark was called "Blue magic" which was the
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