The movie is based upon a graphic novel by Frank Miller (of comic book fame). They are both based upon a one of the most famous battles in the Persian Wars (492 - 449 BC)‚ The Battle of Thermopylae. The Battle of Thermopylae goes down in history for being one of the most heroic feats of bravery in any war. The Spartan King Leonidas led 300 Spartan warriors in a fight to block the Persian Army from passing into Greece through a two meter wide pass through the mountains of Thermopylae. The Persian
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Videodrome Videodrome‚ directed by David Cronenberg‚ is a movie setting in Toronto during the early 1980s depicting a television station attempting to broadcast a show of violence and torture named Videodrome. Max Renn‚ owner of a small-sized television station‚ learned about a Videodrome‚ which was broadcasted in Malaysia‚ just when he wanted a change to the program the station was showing. Max immediately gained interest to the new show and order to start pirating it as he believes that the show
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Freakonomics The first part of the movie talks about the way real estate agents work and whether their interests are actually aligned with the seller of the property or not. This is confirmed by the data which shows that the homes of real estate agents tend to command a better price than the client’s as the agents hold the property for more days on the market. The agents ask the clients to sell their respective property’s right away because the additional consideration which they get‚ for waiting
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By currently taking this History & Philosophy of Sports class‚ this film “Gladiator” establishes the whole scenery during the time period of ancient Rome. In the film‚ it introduced Gladiator battles. These Gladiator battles reflected as entertainment to society‚ as well as‚ being a survival setting between life and death. Not only they would compete for survival‚ but they would compete to become the best. By this time‚ Commodus‚ is the new Roman emperor and he fears that Maximus could use his heroic
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During class we saw the film “Walkout”‚ it was a film that made me cry not only once but twice. The film showed the stereotypes and the expectations of Chicanos. I found the film being quite interesting because I could relate to it in many ways. For instance‚ I was also not allowed to speak Spanish in school and I was also the first generation to apply to a University. I always thought the walkouts were peaceful‚ I had no idea how brutally students were attacked. It was quite sad seeing students
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letter saying that she was sorry she couldn’t be with him‚ and Rick was feeling like his inside had been ripped out. Feeling very betrayed by Ilsa‚ Rick being a very hard headed character himself‚ begins to hold a grudge against Ilsa. Well‚ as the movie plays out you can see she comes back to his casino‚ and he doesn’t behave in her favor. He’s actually quite mean to her‚ but only because he feels so betrayed by her. They have a long conversation about Paris and he finds out that she was married.
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Scott did not accurately portray the biblical version of the Hebrew Exodus. Many things portrayed in the movie either didn’t happen in the bible or were very different than the Exodus. Some examples would be that Moses had a different personality in the movie‚ Moses didn’t perform the three miracles‚ God wasn’t a little boy‚ and several other things. These are a few of the problems that lead the movie away from the text. In the Exodus passage‚ Moses was a timid man and when God first asked him to go to
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Ren in the older movie has an edge to him but it doesn’t give us more detail on why. In the newer movie‚ we see a scene where the viewer is told that Ren used to fix cars to make money. Ren‚ in both movies‚ is involved in gymnastics and is a good dancer. The Ren in the newer movie gives us more insight into how he feels about the law. Being accused of being the “Bad influence” in a small town starts earlier in the newer movie than in the older version. By the end of both
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Diana Soto African American History Mr.Shust January 30‚ 2015 Selma Movie Review The movie Selma is about a civil rights leader and his journey to fight for the freedom of his people. It was the dream of this man to put an end to the mistreatment of blacks in the United States. The African Americans fought for their freedom in south of the United States. These people were facing racism and mistreatment from the whites during this time period
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Pamela Rhodes SOC 101 14 April 2015 The Suspect The movie starts out in a small southern rural town of Midland with Sheriff Dixon listening to the radio as it talks about how Carolina Credit and Trust Bank had been robbed earlier that day in the all-white town. The suspect happens to be a college professor running a social experiment on the racial dynamics and bias in small town law enforcement. In the experiment Mekhi Phifer and Sterling K. Brown play the roles of the social scientists running
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