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    HARRY LAVENDER SPEECH GOOD MORNING As you all know‚ even a visual tells a story. However‚ characters in a text through distinctive voices demonstrate their personalities which contribute to an insightful understanding of the text. Marele Dey’s novel‚ The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (Harry…) 1988 expounds the criminal activities of crime boss Harry Lavender whose distinctive voice though unheard is loudest in the text portraying his personality of a corrupt crime lord. In conjunction the

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    blackmailed by Joe Brody. Carmen is clearly the femme fatal who killed her brother in law Rusty because he didn’t give her the time of day. This book might be known to many but few can understand the complexity of this novel. Many characters though out this novel double -crossone another and many secrets are exposed. Before I get started‚ I would like to describe what a femme fatale is according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.  A femme fatale is a very attractive women who causes trouble or

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    Femme Fatale For Immediate Release Contact: pll@dullhouserelations.com Dull Relations 412-715-2233 x2 412-715-2445 Female Rock Band Femme Fatale Releases long awaited debut album Which launches nation-wide tour Pittsburgh‚ PA November 1‚ 2012 – Femme Fatale‚ Pittsburgh based female rock band will release their debut album titled “I Hit a Boy.” The release of their album also launches their nationwide tour beginning

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    A deeper understanding of disruption and identity emerges from considering the parallels between Frankenstein and Blade Runner [copy this essay and you die >:( Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner are both social commentaries that reiterate the zeitgeist of their era; exploring parallel anxieties concerning the disruption of the human condition‚ the human condition being the meaningful interaction between humanity and the world around. Both composers raise this as the salient

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    The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it‚ such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed‚ double-crossed ‚ ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat‚ who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie

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    investigation in a Nihilistic post-war setting. Pushing aside the trappings of conventional crime‚ Hawks employs heightened music‚ low-key lighting and cuts between scenes laden with shadows to reflect the process of Marlowe’s investigation. This style of film noir is heightened by the objective correlative and natural imagery‚ as the inclement weather forebodes an ominous mood and tells the audience something sinister is to occur‚ as Marlowe states: "Just started this afternoon and then the rain came in". His

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    Writing 39B January 20‚ 2013 Unconventional Conventional Women: Chandler’s Femme Fatales The Sternwood sisters‚ Vivian and Carmen‚ depict themselves as being the ultimate femme fatales in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. A femme fatale is an attractive and seductive woman‚ especially one who will ultimately bring disaster to a man who becomes romantically involved with her (“TV Tropes Femme Fatale”). While both women possess the attractive and seductive characteristics‚ they fail to become involved

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    certain amount of dominance over woman. 25th Hour represents men as they were represented in “film noir”. In this type of film‚ men want to give protection to the women‚ there is an emotional attitude going on without showing directly their emotions‚ and they are trapped by a social situation. In 25th Hour‚ Monty does a lot of the narration and has a lot of flashbacks just like it will be in a “film noir”. We often go into his head‚ and we find out what he is thinking. Monty is trapped‚ and we can see

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    from Philip Dick ’s 1968 novel‚ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?‚ Ridley Scott ’s 1982 Cyberpunk film Blade Runner can be successfully deconstructed according to these combined literary paradigms with reference made to the conventions of ’Film Noir ’. Similar can be said for Westwood Studios ’ 1997 Blade Runner PC game: An adventure

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    animated films they produce‚ more specifically‚ the princess films‚ that we all know and love. In this paper‚ I will explore the role and functions of the Disney princesses over the past 80 years and discuss their differences. In particular‚ the femme fatales we see when Walt Disney was in charge‚ and how it is the princess rather than the hero who becomes the central figure in these films. On the other side‚ I will look at Team Disney and how they turn the princesses from damsels to more democratic

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