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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Film Analysis: American Hustle American Hustle is a 70s crime comedy; it contains a level of commentary about the nature of America and the illusion of Hollywood. The plot is simple yet confusing; it involves cons on top of cons‚ it involves love and deception. The director choose costumes that really brings back the feel of flashy dressed mobsters and he chose certain songs so the audience really gets a feel for the emotions that the actors are trying to portray. In the beginning of the film there
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Extra Credit Paper # 1: Film # 1 – Hidden Figures Summary of Key points: 1. The movie shows how prejudice and hate can interfere with effective intercultural communication in a work space 2. The movie shoes how racism and segregation in the US was used as a way to maintain power distance between those oppressed and those oppressing. Personal Reflective Statement: Hidden Figures does a great job telling a story of a group of incredibly smart Black Women who helped put the first man into space that
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around us and be enlightened in times of great darkness. The film has several sensitive topics and I’m impressed of how the way they treated these topics. It made the film worthy of being acclaimed. Child abuse is the main issue that was shown in the movie – on doing
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Black Death‚ directed by Christopher Smith in 2010‚ it a movie‚ which’s main idea is to show how the Black Death was in the Middle Ages. The movie is about a young monk‚ Osmund‚ who says to the woman he loved‚ Averill‚ to go to the forest because he wanted to protect her from the bubonic plague that had arrived at their city. After this‚ a village leader called Ulrich came with his army‚ which’s members were Wolfstan‚ Hob‚ and Dalyway‚ to tell the monks that they’re going to investigate about
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used in the movie has successfully created a visual impact to the audience. Apparently‚ the color red carries significant information throughout the whole movie. Red‚ as the color of blood and fire‚ has commonly been understood to be associated with meanings of love‚ passion‚ desire‚ et cetera. Despite other significance carries along with the film‚ in this paper it is argued how Red Sorghum expresses an aim for feminism and sexual liberation.
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PROVOKED The movie ‘Provoked’ is based on a true story of a battered wife who killed her sleeping husband by setting fire. Unbearable brutality of her alcoholic husband provoked her to take the revenge in that manner. Though she was charged for murder and sentenced with life imprisonment‚ on appeal the sentence of life imprisonment was commuted to manslaughter. Criminological analysis Classical School: After viewing the movie‚ it is quite clear that there exists no evil spirit which leads
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institution in the late 1960s. The pieces are mostly chronological‚ and in between chapters she shows real files from her stay at the institution (doctors notes‚ discharge papers‚ etc.). Throughout the fragmentary novel‚ Susanna questions her sanity and fights for self realization. James Marigold adapted the memoir into a film in 1999. The movie is loosely based off the novel‚ at best. The differences between the two are so significant that they are basically two separate works completely. One of the major
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MOVIE ANALYSIS: A WALK TO REMEMBER A Walk To Remember is a romantic movie based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. It is a 2002 Warner Bros film which starred the 90s pop singer Mandy Moore as the demure‚ religious‚ and bookish Jamie Sullivan and punk rock musician Shane West as the popular but rebellious Landon Carter. Directed by Adam Shankman‚ the story is set in the small town of Beaufort‚ North Carolina. Landon and his entourage of hooligans have an initiation ritual which‚ as usual‚ involved
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the film‚ The Grey‚ seems to indicate a dark film. The word grey can also be defined as dull or lacking character and as Liam describes the men he works with and protects in the opening line of the movie‚ the viewers may make the connection of the film’s title with the story line to follow. As the movie progresses‚ the story evokes emotion and philosophical thinking among the men collectively and each of them individually. Each man is battling his own character flaws while attempting to simply survive
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