Directed by Martin Scorsese‚ Shutter Island is an American mind bending thriller film based on Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel also named Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio takes the lead role as a U.S Marshall named Teddy Daniels‚ who along with his partner‚ Chuck Aule (played by Mark Ruffalo)‚ are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a patient at a highly guarded and isolated psychiatric penitentiary located on Shutter Island. Teddy Daniels runs about the island trying to uncover the mysteries
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JORDAN BELFORT Biography / Background Nicknamed "the Wolf of Wall Street‚" Jordan Belfort made millions in the 1990s through his investment company‚ Stratton Oakmont. His memoir is the basis for the 2013 Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street‚ starring Leonardo Dicapro. Born in Queens‚ New York‚ on July 9‚ 1962‚ Jordan Belfort had a natural talent as a salesman at an early age‚ operating a meat and seafood business in the 1980s. After that company went bust‚ Belfort began selling stocks in
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Last Temptation of Christ is a controversial adaption of Christ’s crucifixion based on a fictional book of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. The director‚ Scorsese‚ uses an alternate version that places more emphasis on the human being and earthly desires of Christ as a man while His divinity is taken for granted. It starts out with Scorsese almost making a mockery of Christ’s life as being a man who makes crosses for criminals to be crucified upon. Christ suffers from doubt‚ uncertainty‚
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The Wolf of Wall Street: More‚ More‚ More The Wolf of Wall Street is a shocking film that plunges viewers into a life of excess— full of drugs‚ sex‚ scandal‚ and money. This film has been controversial claiming the director‚ Martin Scorsese‚ is endorsing Jordan Belfort’s fraudster and immoral behavior; however‚ this film is actually a cautionary story on Capitalism. The film contrasts the public image of Wall Street with the internal debauchery that goes on within the office walls. The audience
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of 20 when he appeared opposite his friend Jill Clayburg in the Weeding Party. He gained popular attention with his role as dying MLB player in Bang The Brum Slowly (1973). That same year he began his collaboration with Martin Scorsese. When he played the crook Johny Boy alongside Harvey Keitel’s in Mean Streets (1973). In 1974 De niro had a pivotal role in Francis Ford Copolla’s The Godfather part II‚ playing young Vito Corleone. His performance earned him his first Academy Award
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(accessed 24th November 2012) Happe‚ Bernard‚ (1997) The History of Sound in the Cinema‚ http://www.cinematechnologymagazine.com‚ July/August 1998‚ http://www.cinematechnologymagazine.com/pdf/dion%20sound.pdf (accessed 22nd November 2012) Hugo‚ (Martin Scorsese‚ USA: Paramount Pictures‚ 2011) Touch of Evil‚ (Orsen Wells‚ USA: Universal Studios‚ 1958)
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is Raging Bull‚ he quotes that: “Raging bull is the irrational urge to define ourselves by violent acts of control and domination” (Swanson 240). Raging Bull requires viewers to have cultural knowledge in order to fully understand the film. Martin Scorsese presents a movie that many critics would consider a classic. There are many characteristics that make this
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Daniel Day-Lewis has been hailed as one of Britain’s greatest actors ever since he lit up the screen In My Beautiful Laundrette twenty-two years ago. Daniel day-Lewis demonstrates his great talent in My Left Foot as Christy brown who suffers from cerebral palsy and in Gangs of New York as Bill “The Butcher” cutting the leader of The Natives. In My Left Foot‚ Daniel Day-Lewis is Christy Brown a talented artist and writer who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Day-Lewis draws the audience into his world
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aspects such as storyline as it will just be a bunch of criminal men. Feminism has always been a key factor in such gangsterism films such as ‘The Sopranos’‚ ‘Godfather’ (1972) directed by Francis Ford Coppola‚ and ‘Goodfellas’ (1990) directed Martin Scorsese including many more as women play a crucial role as they reveal the men’s persona away from the criminal‚ adulterous activities in their daily
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Film Analysis Draft The film ‘Hugo’‚ directed by Martin Scorsese was released in 2011. It encapsulates the story of Hugo Cabret: an orphan boy who lives in a 1930s train station in Paris. His job was to oil and maintain the clocks in the station‚ however‚ he considers protecting the notebook and fixing the broken automaton that his late father had left him much more important. One particular day‚ Hugo meets Isabelle and quickly befriends her. Soon after‚ they embark on a thrilling adventure‚ in which
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