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    When I was a kid‚ one of my favorite story books was‚ Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. As a piece of my childhood‚ that simple story about Max and the “wild rumpus” meant a lot to me. So in the fall of 2009 when I saw the coming attraction for the full-length feature film‚ my first thought was‚ “I really hope they do it justice.”      In chapter 10 of Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature‚ authors Desmond and Hawkes note that one of the potential reasons for the failure of an adapted

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    theory.the thoght therory reflects the way i veiw scary movies‚it the possiblity that the monster on the film could actually exist at the moment and time that i am actually watching the movie‚it creates fear for the remaning of the movie.to be able to entertain scary thoughts brings the horror films to life.in the movie "The Exorcist" th possibilies that the devil can actually possess a child‚is frieghting to watch on

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    farm all by himself. In the next few years he became a grave robber‚ a necrophiliac‚ a cannibal‚ and also took up arts and crafts in body parts. He is known as one of the weirdest serial killers of the twentieth century. He also inspired movies like Psycho‚ Silence of The Lambs‚ and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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    a) Childhood 1. Born in La Crosse County‚ Wisconsin 2. Lived on farm outside Plainfield‚ Wisconsin 3. Mother preached innate immorality of world 4. Read to them from Bible every day 5. Focused on verses dealing with death‚ murder‚ and divine retribution 6. Target for bullies 7. Mother scolded him for trying to make friends 8. Did well in school 9. Mother abused him 10. Believed he would become failure b) Family Deaths 1. Father 1.a) Heart attack b) 1940 2. Brother 2.a) “Brush Fire”

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    possibly all time. It is directed film by one of the great founding films for the horror Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was based on a novel by Daphne DuMaurier‚ I think this is a extraordinary‚ exceptional film because it does everything a suspense film should have‚ and Hitchcock went beyond. I am proceed to examined special effects such as lighting‚ color and camera techniques. Throughout the movie‚ The Birds‚ Hitchcock was very impressive in his dramatic techniques because of the tension it built in various

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    Tricia Fischer English 1010 Professor Busi 9/9/11 CHOOSING TO WATCH A MOVIE AT HOME OR IN THEATRES. Watching a film on TV is better than watching in theaters this how I’m going to prove my comparisons. It’s annoying when you hear from friends what happens in the movie and it ruins the whole thing. It just isn’t the same! It depends on‚ how good your surround system is and how big your TV is‚ and economic hardships today. It does not mean that the enjoyment of watching movies needs to be

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    A Portrait of Life‚ Self-Schema & Defense Mechanisms George Mitchell PSY-255- Personality Psychology May 26‚ 2013 Professor Rob Lane Abstract: Capturing a portrait of life reveals the keys to unlocking the potential or positive self-schema of emphasizing knowledge of your self-worth and the worth of others‚ utilizing your own interpretations of the world through life situations‚ film‚ spiritual enlightenment and our own perceptions. Which questions us to decipher the defense mechanisms

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    Hitchcock’s second making of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) there were many themes presented throughout the film. The opening sequence of the film sets up a theme that in this world you cannot trust anybody by their looks. The first frame in the movie shows an orchestra which you assume is playing for the soundtrack then the camera slowly pans left to focus on a man

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    Anna Film 101 Final Paper Mamet and Hitchcock’s Suspenseful Similarities While comparing the film’s Strangers on a Train‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock and The Spanish Prisoner directed by David Mamet‚ two suspenseful mysteries unfold. In this essay I will compare both directors use of themes‚ tones‚ and camera effects to convey the thrilling story of a confused and tortured protagonist. While they are different plotlines‚ both stories overlap in many ways. Perhaps Mamet may have even made

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    Drive Yuppies became a term in the early 1980’s‚ made out of the words; young urban professional + “ies”. We know the type from Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities” or Brett Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho”‚ these young upper middleclass/upper class types with a taste for cultural attractions‚ a good image and high social status. Originally an American term‚ but as we can see in the story “Drive” written by Singaporean author Simon Tay also spotted elsewhere in the world. In “Drive” we follow

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