History of the Americas Rafia Islam Pocahontas Movie Critique The movie "Pocahontas" was released in 1995 by Disney for the sake of entertainment for little kids and their families. However‚ like many other Disney movies‚ people from all different age groups turned to this movie for entertainment. Pocahontas is a majorly inaccurate film that in some cases may be racist or insulting to Native Americas. Obviously‚ Disney didn’t mean to offend anyone because that would be bad business
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Carrie Carrie is a 2013 remake of Stephen King’s 1974 Carrie novel. This movie film was directed by Kimberly Peirce with the help of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The movie shows of a mother and daughter relationship between religious mother Margaret played by Julianne Moore and daughter Carrie played by Chloe Grace Moretz. Peirce shows how Carrie being in the house with her religious mother’s beliefs affects the social beliefs of Carrie at school‚ and how she takes revenge on everybody. Carrie is and
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Dr. Zhivago Movie The 1965 movie‚ Dr. Zhivago‚ takes a slight diversion from the novel by Boris Pasternak. My initial reading of Pasternak’s Nobel Prize winning novel told me a story of war‚ identity‚ and morality. It took individuals under normal circumstances and threw them into the tribulations of war and tragedy. This is emphasized by Yuri’s relationship with Lara. Though there was a strong sub-plot of love and romance‚ the strongest theme‚ to me‚ was that of the individual struggles during the
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Cloverfield was released to the public. The movie starts off as a group friends prepare for a going away party. During the party‚ New York City begins to start having mysterious earthquakes and power outages. The entire movie follows the group of friends as they try to get to their friend stuck in her apartment building‚ and then getting out of the city while trying to avoid whatever is terrorising the city. 10 years later‚ The Cloverfield Paradox was released. This movie is meant to be the prequel to Cloverfield
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Rocky‚ directed by John G. Avildsen‚ is a film full of meaning and strong messages that encompass relatable characters along with an exciting plot. This enticing movie brings you with the character Rocky as he struggles to succeed in middle-class Philadelphia. Living in the poorer sections of his neighborhood‚ Rocky is a small-time boxer who also works for a loan shark on the side. He makes just enough money to keep a deteriorating apartment and a couple pets. But once given the opportunity to box
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befriends Radio who begins to help out the football and the basketball team. The plot of the movie follows the development of the coach and Radio’s friendship and the town’s journey to eventually accept Radio. Response to Character My first reflection after watching Radio was that the movie focused more on the Coach and his character development than on Radio. Although Radio was a ‘main character’‚ his character was undeveloped and simple
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dream at one time or another of leaving everything behind and starting over‚ searching for inner strengths. When Into the Wild was released on September 21st‚ 2007‚ based on the nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. Directed by Sean Penn‚ this movie shows us the gripping true story of Chris McCandless‚ played by Emile Hirsch‚ as he leaves his privileged life behind to embark on a quest for adventure and truth. The film is set in the early 1990’s and follows Chris as he graduates from Emory University
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The movie Glory is about a union soldier who is injured in the battle of Antietam. He goes back home and decides to command the first colored regiment. The story focuses on several main characters‚ Colonel Robert Shaw‚ Private Trip‚ Sargent Major John Rawlins‚ Major Cabot Forbes‚ and Privates Thomas Searles and Jupiter Sharts. At first the men resent the Colonel because they think his parents got him the job but over time he earns their respect. The regiment has to struggle under the discrimination
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Burn Crash the movie illustrates many examples of ignorance‚ bias views‚ discrimination‚ racism and assumptions. This movie is centered on the above ideas. During the movie every character at some point is guilty of bias views‚ discrimination‚ or assumptions. This is due to the different ethnicities and backgrounds of the characters. Towards the end of the movies all the characters begin to realize that some of their voiced beliefs and actions may be wrong. Throughout the movie we will see the
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drama/mystery genre? Well there is one movie in particular that I would like to talk to you about. This movie is full of drama‚ suspense and mystery. It is titled The Prestige. This is my favorite movie of all-time and is based on the Christopher Priest novel with the same title. This film is engaging and keeps the audience guessing throughout just like a magician would do during a show. This movie uses flashbacks to perfection. At first you come into the movie confused and not knowing what is going
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