Unit 4 Assignment “Pollock” Alison Williams The movie “Pollock” staring Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock is a story of how art was affected by an artist. The movie follows the latter years of Pollock’s life as he rises to fame as a painter but also watches him struggle with life. American artist Jackson Pollock was an alcoholic‚ manic-depressant and often an uncontrollable‚ angry and insecure man. However‚ through one woman and when he painted‚ he found a sense of freedom and peace‚ a release
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Meagan McGee Psychology 1300 Awakenings The movie Awakenings starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro portrays the true story of a doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ and the events of the summer of 1969 at a psychiatric hospital in New York. Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ who is a research physician‚ is confronted with a number of patients who had each been afflicted with a devastating disease called Encephalitis Lethargica. The illness killed most of the people who contracted it‚ but some were left living
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Analysis of The Notebook The Notebook begins at a nursing home where an elderly man called “Duke” reads a love story that is written in a notebook to an elderly woman who is also a patient. The story is set in Seabrook Island‚ South Carolina where a local boy by the name of Noah Calhoun falls in love with a young heiress named Allie Hamilton. In order to get her to go on a date with him‚ Noah climbs up a Ferris wheel at the local carnival and threatens to jump off unless she agrees to go out with
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The movie World Trade Center (2006) directed by Oliver Stone centers around the terrorist attacks of September 11‚ 2001. The movie follows two Port Authority officers‚ John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno‚ who attempt to aid in the rescue of 9-11 victims. While trying to make their way to help victims in the first Tower that had been hit‚ they become trapped under the rubble without an ability to get free or call for help. The movie centers on the struggles faced by these two men to overcome fear‚ pain
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zootopia is not just like any other fun and colorful cartoon movies produced by Disney because It depicts many situations that happens in real life. The story of this movie does not only suit young people but also for adults because it contains morals that every age‚ young or old‚ need to know. This movie taught me life lessons that had a big impact on my personal development as a human. First‚ I learned that we‚ people‚ can coexist with one another no matter what race‚ gender‚ age‚ culture‚ or religion
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Since I am not a fan of viewing blood‚ and the violent actions that causes it; I decided to watch a movie in which the violence is less grotesque. The movie that I chose to watch was "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." I chose this movie because I have recently read that the children’s book series Harry Potter has been rated amongst the most violent books meant for young readers. If you look at "Harry Potter" through a uses and gratifications perspective‚ children would most likely watch
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exposes many talented artists and their brilliant work. The film in its entirety was interesting‚ motivating‚ and comical. This is a documentary that I would recommend to any type of person. When I think of documentaries I think of a boring low budget movie about someone trying to convey a message to an audience. Now after seeing the Banksy documentary‚ “Exit through the Gift Shop” I have a whole new respect for documentaries. This film traces the lives of different talented street artists across the
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The movie “Moonlight” was very interesting to me. It covers bullying‚ abuse‚ finding yourself‚ peer pressure‚ etc. things like this happen every day people just don’t pay attention to it or want to believe what it really is. I think the main purpose of the film was to help people come to their senses and rethink about the decisions they make and also to realize where they come from and how it affects how they are today. The major theme of this movie was to not judge a book by its cover without
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The movie Amarcord is a story about life‚ mostly focus on the work of a great artist who has reachead an age where he can view his childhood memories from a detached‚ nostalgic point of view. Further than that‚ the movie also emphasis on consumer behavior‚ sexual fantasies Looking young may one of the most concern matter in todays world. Therefore‚ people buy stuffs to make them feel younger. This can be relate to our class’s discussion about consumerist culture. Indeed‚ consumerist culture has
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movies non-fictional relationship that Abigail Williams and John Proctor have. The movie is have many inaccurate elements that are not true to what really happened.The fictional romantic affair along with the overall exaggeration that Miller’s incoperates‚ was necessary to follow the Relationship of Abigail and Proctor. The most significant ways is through the innacurate historical events that are added to the movie‚ that ties
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