HOME A Movie Analysis (Maritess J. Balquiedra‚ DevC 263) Home is an environmental documentary by the French actor-photographer-turned-film director Yann Arthus Bertrand. With aerial footages from fifty-four countries‚ the movie chronicles the present day state of the Earth‚ and sends out a very strong message‚ the planet we call home is in trouble‚ and we‚ the dominant species‚ are largely responsible. The main theme expressed throughout the film is that of linkage‚ how all organisms and the
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The Story of the Extra Ordinary Girl By: Becca Bateman‚ Whitney Hogge‚ and Lydia Weddle Once upon a time there was a girl who was kind of an idiot but people still liked her because she was not ugly and okay at sports. She was 17. Nothing was really wrong with her‚ per say‚ but was anything really right? Probably not. Anyway‚ one day in this once upon a time this girl was walking along the road‚ minding her own business. I should probably mention now that in the world this girl lived‚
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Dakota Gravitt The Great Gatsby (2013) Movie Analysis “The Great Gatsby” movie‚ made in 2013 featuring Tobey Maguire‚ Leonardo DiCaprio‚ and Carey Mulligan‚ is a film based on a book by the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is about Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire)‚ a bond salesman living in the 1920s‚ before the market crash‚ who moves near the shores of New York City over the summer and encounters his mysterious neighbor‚ Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). His rich neighbor would
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Summary of the movie “Memento” The movie “Momento” staring Guy Pearce as Leonard was interesting as well as confusing in the same sense. The plot of the movie was recreated backwards to the way Leonard saw it and left many questionable gaps throughout. Leonard suffered a head injury because he went to go help his wife who was raped and murdered in their bathroom. The altercation with the murderer in his house caused his head trauma which resulted into him losing his short term memory. I believe
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The Jose Rizal movie tells the actual life of our national hero‚ intertwined with the story of his novels – Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It uncovers Rizal’s childhood until his execution in the hands of the Spaniards‚ as well as the glimpse of the life of suppression of the Filipino people under the Spanish friars. It also introduces his imaginations and how he viewed the Philippines during the colonization of Spain through his novels. The depictions of violence and torture during those
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as it is a popular holiday when people wear costumes and have fun at the parties. Despite the fact that this holiday is dedicated to evil and its creatures‚ people have turned it into the joyful event. The director John Carpenter decided to alter the situation and shot the terrifying horror movie “Halloween”‚ which enjoyed a great popularity in the American viewers in 1978. Even today this slasher film is perceived as a masterpiece of horror art. The plot of the movie shows the story of the young psycho
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Acts of Heroism I believe that ordinary people can do heroic things. A Hero by definition is a figure in Mythology and legend renowned for exceptional courage and fortitude. The word also has many connotative meanings. A person who pulls another person from a burning building would be considered a hero. Another example of a hero would be when a person stands up for something or someone despite what others think about them doing that. In saying that ordinary people can show acts of heroism suggests
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it is Mallins ’s film which is most closely referenced in William Boyd ’s account of life in a British trench in the days leading up to that battle.” ‚ there is clear evidence that William Boyd’s movie is based on the real documentary that inspired him to make a color‚ available to the mass view movie that illustrates solder’s life in trenches. The Trench is a story about a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916‚ the last 48 hours that took
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mass murder of Jews by the Nazi’s‚ most are unaware that the people behind the atrocities of the Holocaust came from all over Europe and a wide variety of backgrounds. Art Spiegelman’s Maus: a Survivor’s Tale‚ Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution‚ and Jan Gross’s Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedbwabne‚ Poland‚ all provides a different perspective on how ordinary people felt about their experiences in the Holocaust both perpetrators
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Stanley has always been shy and never the popular kid‚ Stanley is always getting picked on by students even teachers. Stanley would try to fly under the radar.Though the influence of Zero’s friendship‚ Stanley changes from unconfident of himself to a brave person. Stanley at the beginning of the novel is that he was not confident in himself.Before Staley came he wasn’t confident in himself but when Stanley came to camp he started to fit in with the other boys at camp.Stanley was not sure if he
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