In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements In English MOVIE REVIEW Of BEOWULF Merry Anjela M. Mendoza September 16‚ 2011 Ms. Maria Dolores Fiao-ag Introduction Beowulf is an epic from England. It is a story of a brave man who killed many monsters and died defending from a dragon. It is also a great story of adventure. From an old English poem‚ it became a 3D movie with the faces of real actors and actresses. Although there has a difference from the original poem‚ it still showed great and it
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The film depicts many of the characters wearing sunglass for a significant amount of the time. Both the good guys (crew of the Nebuchadnezzar) and the bad guys (the agents) wear them consistently. However‚ it is in the instances where the characters take off their sunglasses that the meaning behind them is shown. These moments indicate moments of truth. In the movie‚ eyes symbolize seeing the Truth. Neo is seeing for the first time once he is unplugged both figuratively and literally. This is the
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Movie Title: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain) Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast: Audrey Tautou‚ Mathieu Kassovitz Genre: Romance Comedy Amelie is a movie that was filmed in french language with english subtitles. The movie takes place in Montmarte with the main character a young girl named Amelie. The story is mainly about how Amelie grew up with odd parents and had a deprived childhood and didn’t have friends or nice things growing up. When she was old enough to move out‚ she
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“The Help‚” is an award-winning movie about a white woman‚ Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan‚ who is an aspiring writer. To show her talents and professionalism as a writer and also expose the unkind treatment toward the black people of her time‚ Eugenia decided to write a book from the viewpoint of some of the maids in the community. This movie is set in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era. In the 1960s‚ Mississippi continued to be very segregated and the African Americans were kept under control by
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The movie I choose to write my review on is not one of my all-time favorite’s movies but the person who the movie is based on has been huge interest to me since I heard his story. The movie is titled “Jobs”; it is based on the true story of Steve jobs‚ one most innovating men in 21st century. The movie is a series of events in Steve’s life that started from when is just dropping out of college to when he is a success business man. In the movie you can expect his struggle of trying to build a innovative
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Bueller’s. But are these movies more than just movies? Or do they represent the true “typical” teenager? Teenagers are often misrepresented in the media by being shown as generalized stereotypes which leaves many groups and individuals marginalized. The movie “Heathers” challenges the media’s portrayal of adolescence by mocking and exaggerating the stereotypical features displayed in teenagers‚ to the point at which they no longer seem realistic. “Heathers” was directed by Michael Lehmann and released
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Movie Review – The Help ENGL – 201 October 4‚ 2012 “The Help” based on a best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett‚ a story of three women who take extraordinary risk in writing a novel based on the stories from the view of black maids and nannies. Set in Jackson‚ Mississippi in the early 1960s‚ a young girl sets out to change the town. Skeeter‚ who is 21 years old‚ white‚ educated from Ole Miss‚ dreams of becoming a journalist. She returns home to find the family maid‚ Constantine‚ gone and no
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An emotionally stirring movie taking place in Jackson‚ Mississippi in the 1960s‚ “The Help” stars Emma Stone‚ Viola Davis‚ and Octavia Spencer as three women who share a common motive. This racially tense setting creates the perfect foundation for a drama film such as this. The characters’ personalities in combination with the emotion of the plot develop a socially accurate depiction of the struggles faced by the people of the time. While the racial aspect of the movie is dominant‚ viewers may also
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fabulous irony to “Wall Street” that perhaps can’t be adequately explained. The movie is an unequivocal denunciation of Wall Street excess but remains the preeminent film of those aspiring to it. They love anything Gekko‚ and a lot of the other scenes too. Michael Douglas was a savvy Hollywood producer but apparently wasn’t much of a Wall Street aficionado before the film was shot. He understands that his character is not so much a stock speculator‚ but a nouveau riche success story. He lifts Gordon
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others lives‚ a niece to a new King who has no remorse towards her actions‚ and a sister to a girl who would stand by her side and help her. Our actors/actresses must fit the roles of the characters‚
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