‘Serenades’ is a film set in central Australia that explores the mixing and relations between cultures in the 1890’s. It follows the story of Jila‚ the child of an aboriginal woman named Wanga‚ whom was given away for one night to an Afghan cameleer Shir Mohammed as payment of a gambling debt. Jila was raised and taught about aboriginal spirituality by her grandfather in her early childhood‚ but when her mother and grandfather both die‚ she is brought into the German missionary and is baptized into
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is given the greenlight by 20th century Fox and the budget of 11 million dollars to film his creation. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend of that year‚ and we all know the rest is history. Now‚ flash forward to modern day. The United States is overseas battling foreign powers‚ the nation’s first African American is in the Whitehouse‚ and Justin Bieber is dominating our air
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Immokalee workers have been oppressed. It has become so vigilant that abuse of the common man is common and wealth bringing. Not a single generation of people have been left unoppressed; whether it was the Homosexual community in the 1950’s or the Black community in the 1960’s. The new faces of oppression are those that have no face and hold the weakest voice. The farm worker that reside in Immokalee‚ Florida are invisible to the naked eye however they are important to the American food chain. Men and women
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actress gets her first break in a zombie film‚ but then real life zombies trapped the cast and crew on the set and they have to battle to survive. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CURTIS (40’s) is a desperate movie director who needs his new zombie film to succeed. When his current actress is not working out‚ he decides to find a new actress. VANESSA (20’s) is a hopeful‚ budding actress‚ working as a waitress. She’s star struck when she meets Curtis and the lead actor‚ MARK (20’s). When Vanessa realizes she has something
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During the 1960’s in the United States of America there was very little acceptance of people with different backgrounds or races. The only way to be accepted was to be a conformist and to prove you were just like everyone else around you. This would hold impossible for any one that was not white. Any sign of unconformity or differences would be used against you and any place you hoped to hold in society. The United States‚ during this time period‚ was not the land of equality that President Lincoln
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’The Hurricane’ Film Review How is it possible for an innocent person to be wrongly excused and reprimanded all because of their pigment or race? How can a supposed ’justice system’ allow a man to be put behind bars for nearly 30 years for a crime he did not commit‚ solely because he is black? ’The Hurricane’ evokes‚ explores and answers these questions and more in a dramatic‚ meaningful manner. By the end of the film there is no question in any viewer’s mind of how hard it was to be a black person
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Grace Massett Professor Delmira Valladares Film 101 September 16‚ 2015 Casablanca Casablanca was a romantic film produced in 1942. Internet Movie Database summarizes Casablanca as “Rick Blaine‚ who owns a night club in Casablanca‚ discovers his old flame Ilsa is in town with her husband‚ Victor Laszlo. Laszlo is a famed rebel‚ and with Germans on his tail‚ Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.” Rick Blaine is the main character and he is described as cynical and doesn’t have a care
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2 Scene Breakdown 3 Narrative Analysis 4 Character Analysis 5 Aesthetics and Design Misc-en-scene Props Set Lighting Editing Video Audio 6 Auteur Analysis 7 Textual Analysis Symeotics/Marxists/ Retotic‚ Physco 8 Conclusion Introduction Cast Away reunites star Tom Hanks with director Robert Zemeckis‚ their first film together since 1994’s Oscar-winning Forrest Gump. The film was a critical and commercial success
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“I would argue that feminist film studies is not only still alive and well‚ but has‚ in fact‚ become much more heterogeneous‚ dynamic‚ and open in its scope‚ encompassing not just film analysis but also television and new media studies…” says Karen Hollinger from Feminist Film Studies (Hollinger 19). Film’s have definitely grown and expanded from the years pass. Women are now starting to be given roles other than those to please the male eye such as the girlfriend‚ secretary‚ receptionist‚ or mother
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Mash‚ a counter culture classic‚ the themes and techniques used‚ represent the ethos of 1960s - 1970’s youth perfectly. The first thing i really noticed with Mash was that it did not hold back‚ religion was mocked and Mash really didn’t hold back‚ this is very pertinent in one scene‚ the legendary Last Supper scene‚ followed by Painless rising from the dead‚ only after a nurse has sex with him. This scene also shows the use of satire as sex‚ and honoring the “Faux Dead” with the use of sex and booze
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