On the tragedy of Nick in Snowdrops — The tension between the Sophisticated and the Naïve Abstract: Snowdrops is a tale of an Englishman abroad. Nick is a thirty-something lawyer working in Moscow to broker huge deals between banks‚ oil companies and property developers. His project on a major loan to a subsidiary of an energy company is underway‚ and meanwhile‚ he comes across an enchanting girl‚ Masha and soon becomes involved with Masha’s world‚ psychologically. This thesis tries
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Compared to Hollywood films‚ independent films usually don’t achieve a high amount of success (except for maybe one or two like The King’s Speech). They usually have a low budget and can sometimes not be as profitable as mainstream cinema because they are usually independently funded. However‚ because of the slow introduction of platforms like ‘Kickstarter’ and ‘IndieGoGo’ (which offer the public to be able to fund different ideas such as films)‚ independent films are slowly starting to achieve the
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the simulation‚ the might itself cannot distinguish. Early within the film‚ the Protagonist Neo learns about manipulation within the Matrix using a spoon. "Do not try and bend the spoon‚ that’s impossible. Instead‚ only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you will see it is not the spoon that bends‚ it is only yourself." The object‚ the spoon‚ does not exist. Therefore it cannot be changed‚ Neo must change himself. Metaphorically‚ it’s all within his head. It’s mentioned within the film
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Vertigo Vertigo is a very deeply loved masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock’s. He made a stack of movies‚ yet Vertigo happens to be my favorite. The movie is about the inner and outer journey of two characters involved willingly and unwillingly in a set-up. In fact‚ there were a lot of behind the scenes ideas that the average movie-goer may not have known about yet. The movie begins with Jimmy Stewart talking to his friend after a long sequence where he is chasing a burglar on a roof top. In a
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Lesbians are women who are attracted to or are sexually involved with women; they are not attracted to men at all. There are three types of lesbians in the LGBT community: Butch Lesbians‚ Dominant Lesbians or Doms‚ and Femmes. Both the lipstick lesbian and aggressive femme is more accepted in the society than Butch and Dominant Lesbians due to how they portray themselves. Why are masculine women not accepted in society by men‚ but they enjoy the activities of feminine women? Butch Lesbians are
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a classic movie characterized as film noir. A film noir is “a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism‚ fatalism‚ and menace‚ a type of movie that is full of mysteries.” (Maltese Falcon) I think that film noir is a movie in what women try to seduce men into thinking things whether they are true or not‚ using their power of beauty to trick men and make them go down for something women did. I believe “The Maltese Falcon” is film noir‚ l the
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Scholarly Article Assignment In “Crime‚ Guilt‚ and Subjectivity in Film Noir”‚ Winfried Fluck argues that Film Noir “opens our eyes to the ‘true’ state of American society”1 by not masking true human emotion in a situation where survival is not certain. He implies that it shows the protagonist struggle with desire and selfishness in a light that had not been shown before in American cinema and is the root of why Film Noir transcends time and remains a popular genre. He adds that the popularity of
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Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography By Sharon Verba July 20‚ 1997 Those women who struggle without giving up hope‚ herald the impending change...: change in attitude for both men and women as they evaluate and re-evaluate their social roles.... -Rosemary Moyana‚ "Men & Women" Rereading‚ willful misreading‚ and de- and re-coding are tools used in African literature and womanist or feminist discourse to challenge "canonized ’literature ’"
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nightweaver066 In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Frankenstein and Blade Runner? Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s neo-noir film Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (1992) mirror the sociocultural circumstances of their time. These contextual influences permeate through the texts revealing the beliefs and values of their eras. Although composed almost two centuries apart with significant contextual differences‚ both texts
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To really understand where the Femmes sound came from‚ we need some background on the beginning of punk music. It started in the 1970’s with the beginning of the rejection of mainstream conservative ideals and testing new musical limits. This is a parallel to the 1950s when kids blasted rock n’ roll to the dismay of their parents and Elvis Presley’s hip shaking brought sexuality to the mainstream. History was repeating itself‚ "punk youth seemingly place themselves outside the parent culture as
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