In watching the film‚ Merchants of Cool‚ which was aired in 2001‚ it is quite concerning how our society is turning to consuming as a means of achieving a satisfying standard of living. The film brought to light how large media companies‚ especially conglomerates that own all production and distribution of media from start to finish‚ study and sell to teen youths because of their large quantity of “guilt money”‚ disposable income giving to youth by parents to keep them happy. They have become the
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4 Aspects “The Hunger Games” In the film “The Hunger Games” directed by Gary Ross‚ and adapted from the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins‚ I studied four different aspects of the film that help to improve the effects the film has on its audience. The first aspect of the film I studied was the contrast -created by both Collins and Ross- between the districts and the Capitol. Some examples of these contrasts include people feasting every night in the Capitol‚ while everyone starves in the
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Film Comedy: Trading Places Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Film Comedy: Trading Places Movies are created with the intention of entertaining all the while sending a message to the society. The producers therefore have the duty of making sure that the work is not tangential to the original situation as much as possible. The different ways in which they declare the best way of sending the message to the community defines the genre of the movie. It could either be a drama‚ mystery
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prisoner-taking business. We are in the killing-Nazi-business and cousin‚ business is a-boomin." Inglourious Basterds has all the right ingredients for a memorable movie. It is a fictitious World War II movie that is centered around Jewish revenge. The film is written and directed by‚ my favorite director‚ Quentin Tarantino. The director of photography‚ Robert Richardson‚ does a stupendous job of capturing my attention with his camera angles. Although the cast of actors could have been better‚ Christoph
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Edward Scissorhands shows how many emotions can collide while still not being the right thing to do. Throughout the film there is exemplary acting and portrayal of emotions of characters perfectly. In this film‚ a young boy who was made as a robot being‚ was found and accepted into a new family and home‚ while still feeling and being excluded at the same time. In this neighborhood everyone was the same and had a repetitive lifestyle. As Edward gets used to the town he develops feeling for the teenaged
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sets up a project in 2007 called the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)‚ it was one of the biggest projects he ever did‚ they spent up to three years observing and recording the data of the changing glaciers. (114 words). One main take away I got from this film was that climate change is real and it is happening because there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or otherwise
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opening scene of the film introduces Xanadu‚ Kane’s mansion castle with the mis-en-scene connoting a foreboding and ominous atmosphere. A panning shot is used to show the expanse of Kane’s wealth – the initiation of the film in this way establishes to the audience that Kane is someone who has gone to great lengths to attain the wealth and material possessions that he has; however the dark atmosphere suggests that perhaps the American Dream isn’t what it seems. In the words of film critic Jonathon Bowen
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In the video‚ the slaunted screen‚ the premise begins with an immensely popular Asian American male idol‚ Sessue Hayakawa‚ who was one of the most recognizable stars in early Hollywood silent era. He starred in more than ninety films even with white female leads. That was the prime time of the Asian American actors. However‚ unlike Sessue‚ the Asian actors nowadays are little thought as sex symbols‚ even some are mould into masculine gender prowess such as kungfu masters. Moreover‚ according to Asian
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The debut film of Francois Truffaut‚ The 400 Blows is world-renowned for being the epitome of the French New Wave movement. Following the award for best director at the 1959 Cannes festival‚ Truffaut’s The 400 Blows entered theatres of all nations ranging from its domestic French theatres to the foreign theatres such as in the United States. Domestic (French) reception of the film was quite positive‚ and commented by Jean-Luc Godard declared it to be “most free‚ film of the world” of the time (Godard)
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How has your understanding of the consequences of conflict been shaped by the techniques used by various composers? The film‚ Unfinished Sky by Peter Duncan together with the novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and Bruce Dawe’s poem‚ ‘Homecoming’‚ demonstrate that the consequences of conflict are exceedingly varied. The audio‚ visual and language techniques used by the composers throughout these texts allow an in depth exploration of the consequences of conflict. The texts show that
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