Jeannie Hardy PHO 184B Professor Smith September 7‚ 2102 Chapter 1 Essay The film Gladiator is not only known for Russell Crowe’s Academy award winning performance‚ but it is also known for it’s camerawork and cinematography. This film has a considerable amount of blatant formalism‚ which director Ridley Scott uses to portray Maximus’ message. Camera angles are commonly used to distinguish power in a scene‚ most of the time by using low-angle or high-angle shot. These types of angels are
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bombardier of his plane during World War 2. After spending 47 days on a raft after his plane crash and surviving being a prisoner of war by the Japanese caused him to be a war hero. Louie Zamperini is the person being portrayed on the base on a true story movie called” Unbroken”. Zamperini in high school broke all of his high school track records‚ and after high school he joined the Olympics at age 19 where he broke the 5000 meter dash record. After the war Zamperinni has many accomplishment after the war
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that it does not matter. Alex also decides that she does not want to resume taking medicines or have an operation. The movie has a quite heavy subject; hermaphrodite. It is also the first movie with this subject‚ but the movie handles this subject in a perfect way. The movie is not too heavy‚ the subject of the movie is already heavy enough. This is a very strong point of this movie. The sex of Alex is based upon biological criteria; ‘boy’ and ‘girl’‚ her chromosomal typing is; XXY. The environment
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In the 1997 movie‚ Gattaca‚ Vincent Freeman is an invalid born into a valid world. This means his parents decided not to pick and choose the ideal genes in the process of conceiving him‚ causing Vincent to be born with heart problems‚ asthma‚ and myopia. He then makes the decision to become Jerome Eugene Morrow and pass himself off as valid in order to achieve his dream of traveling into space. In the movie‚ there is a clear divide between the valids and invalids‚ revealing many connections to sociology
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As a busy person with a hectic schedule‚ I find that my day planner is an absolute necessity in order to stay on track. Most people keep some form of calendar‚ from intricately-detailed schedules‚ to simply jotting down a few notes at home‚ to setting reminders in a smartphone. Having read Joan Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook‚” I am going to discuss the importance of personal history recording. While it is customary to document impending future events in a written or digital log‚ most modern record-keeping
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producer Sembene Ousmane is a very emotional and inspiring movie. At the beginning of the movie girls are made to have female genital mutilation done which they know is very dangerous and painful. When four little girls run away from a purification ceremony where they get cut‚ they escape to Colle‚ a woman who refused to have her own daughter Amasatou circumcised. Colle Ardo is an everyday hero in Burkina Faso and by the end of the movie she saves the girls from having to get female genital mutilation
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For this semester‚ my classmates and I were assigned to watch the movie Crash. This movie was held on Saturday‚ the 20th of September 2008 and lasted for 2 hours‚ from 9 am till 11am. A day before I watched the movie‚ I looked up on the internet to find out who were the main protagonists of the movie and was surprised to find out that one of my all time favourite actresses‚ Sandra Bullock who plays the role as a district attorney’s wife‚ was one of the many actors in the movie. ‘Crash’‚ which was
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CRASH The movie tells stories about racism between whites‚ blacks‚ Latinos‚ Koreans‚ Iranians‚ cops and criminals. The different levels of the rich and the poor‚ the powerful and powerless are also shown in the movie. The lives of the characters crash against each other. The most people feel prejudice and resentment against people of other groups. The movie started with a cars accident and argument of a Chinese women‚ a police and a Latino women. A black cop has an affair with his Latino girlfriend
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The critically acclaimed‚ private eye‚ "blaxploitation" film Shaft‚ directed by Gordon Parks‚ can be described as a "fresh"‚ "hip"‚ and described by the New York Times one of the best 1‚000 movies made. The movie opens with private eye John Shaft walking around New York city ’s Time Square‚ only to visit a shoe shine parlor where he is informed that two armed thugs from Uptown are looking for him. The police Lieutenant Vic Androzzi is also informed about the thugs and comes to question Shaft at the
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captain of the British Army Sir John Lindsay‚ who was raised in luxury‚ richly educated‚ becomes the father of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay who’s born to a slave mother. While the purpose of the movie can be simply about the difficulties of love and how can people understand the issue that love has no color‚ the movie isn’t only about
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