Peter Weir’s film Witness explores the contrast between the two worlds by contrasting the Amish culture with a modern Westernized society. Weir presents many themes and issues in his film. Through his use of film techniques like long shots and close-ups make the film more enjoyable. These themes include clash of two cultures/different worlds‚ Peace and violence‚ innocence and corruption. These are presented effectively with a variety of film techniques‚ editing‚ setting‚ dialogue and music/sound
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CIVE 440 SHARP-CRESTED WEIRS Prepared by El-Khatib Zafer Submitted to course instructor Dr. Habib Basha 3/21/2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... ii List of Figures ................................................................................................................................................ ii List of Tables ...............
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Dumb Witness | INTRODUCTION Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel written by the British witer Agatha Christie. This book was based in a shot story‚ “The Incident of the Dog’s Ball”. It was lost for some years and found by author’s daughter in 2004. SYNOPSIS The story is set in Littlegreenhouse and centers on Emily Arundell. She was a woman with a substancial amount of money‚ sorrounded by three young relatives‚ Bella‚ Theresa‚ and Charles‚ who wanted to take her fortune
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In the move Edward Scissorhands‚ there is a man that was created by an inventor and has scissors as hands. He is an invention with a heart‚ and actual body parts. He would wear a black suit and have black hair. He is very pale with scratch marks on his face. He and his father lived in a mansion away from the community. The character would live on the top floor of the mansion and have a bed with pictures and newspaper articles on the wall. He was taken down to the neighborhood by a lady selling cosmetics
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Joy Chase March 3 2013 RELA Mod 3 Essay: “The Story of An Eyewitness” and “Leaving Desire” - Introduction This essay is based on “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London and “Leaving Desire” by Jon Lee Anderson. “The Story of an Eyewitness” talks about how the San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed the city in 1906. “Leaving Desire” talks about a victim of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. London and Anderson’s coverage of these disasters
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What techniques does the director‚ Danny DeVito‚ use in the film ‘Matilda’ to illustrate that the character‚ Jennifer Honey‚ is benevolent and sweet? The film ‘Matilda’ released in 1996‚ directed by Danny DeVito stars Mara Wilson as Matilda. ‘Matilda’ a film about a young child genius (Matilda) who is born into a family that does not care for her. The movie follows Matilda as she dives into a world of hammer throws and chokeys to prove Agatha Trunchbull the brawny‚ muscular woman serving as the remorseless
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Where Is the Irony? I read the story “The Witness for the Prosecution” by Agatha Christie. Christie began writing during World War II. She earned the title of “a master of crime fiction” after the publication of her book “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” in 1926. Also in 1926‚ Christie created a mystery of her own life when she disappeared for ten days. She was found checked into a hotel under a different name‚ suffering from amnesia. This incident actually increased the sales of her books (Great
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Film noir is a genre based on moods of fate‚ evil‚ and undesirable outcomes. In the film The Big Sleep exemplifies film noir from the visual using the black and dark atmosphere. The genre film noir has a dark downbeat sort of feel to the theme. Film noir is very dramatic and in the movie when a character dies the movie has the orchestra play a dark‚ gloomy‚ grim type of music. The lighting in film noir is also used in the movie. During the car rides the lightening is clear showing what audience should
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The film Metropolis is a unique film. If one thinks about the time in which the film was made and then thinks of how little technology was available to the film industry‚ they would see how awesome the film truly is. A specific scene that had two camera angles involved in it was when Maria was saving all the children from the flooding. It was filmed with a crane‚ but it also moved around her on a dolly to show all the children gathering around her. This scene involved two common camera shots that
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Module B: Close Study of Text Text: Witness ‘Witness’‚ an American film‚ directed by Australian director Peter Weir‚ is a film set in 1985 about a clash of modern American society‚ and an idyllic Amish community. Maeri Saeli describes it as “the two worlds meet‚ but never merge” This is shown in the interaction between ideas‚ characters and techniques that make an impact on the audience. The main ideas represented in this text are Violence versus non-violence/ pacifism versus direct action‚ relationships
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