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    Perkowski created a ten-part analysis outline to be used for analyzing different characteristics and functions of vampires that appear in film‚ television‚ and literature. This outline can be used to analyze the film The Lost Boys‚ and how the vampires in the film function as a metaphor for drug use‚ American nationalism‚ and a broken family structure‚ all of which were common in the 1980’s. The first part of Perkowski’s analysis encompasses the information sources for the film‚ which includes the movie

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    Teeth Film Analysis

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    With regards to Le Bad Cinema‚ Teeth is a fantastic decision of diversion around a young lady with an unnerving and unthinkable deformity. The motion picture has solid women’s activist perspectives I don’t concur with yet this imperfection has been communicated in stories all through the times. Dawn O’Keefe spent her life in a home close to an atomic reactor with her debilitated mother‚ negligent step-father and messy scum bucket of a stage sibling‚ Brad. Dawn spends her days lecturing others on

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    The Conspirator is a movie made in 2010 directed by Robert Redford. The whole point of making this movie was to bring history to life. Through other movies made by Hollywood‚ the truth of the story is very small. In this movie‚ they went back and went as historically correct to the time after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. After the assassination of President Lincoln‚ men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln and the vice president and the secretary of state.

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    The Suit Film Analysis

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    In the television show Suits‚ Mike Ross is a college dropout with an impeccable memory that has allowed him to pass the bar exams multiple times without attending law school. He can smooth talk his way through anything‚ including an interview for a high end law firm in New York City. Mike went to a hotel to drop off a briefcase filled with marijuana but noticed there were undercover cops looking for him. He slipped into an open room and quickly realized he entered a Harvard law graduate interview

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    Stunning scenes of landscapes‚ trees‚ and clouds fill the scenes of The Revenant. Snow fills the open-void of the wilderness and sunlight bleeds through the spaces between the tall‚ dark trees. The camera mainly focuses on Hugh Glass as he attempts to take his revenge upon John Fitzgerald‚ who murdered Hugh’s son. The camera pans smoothly during calm shots of vistas and nature‚ while the camera rapidly shakes during the intense attacks of the Native Americans. Rivers flow smoothly‚ and in some shots

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    A well known movie called ‘The Conjuring” was a reenactment documentary based on the real life family the Perrons. This family was possessed with demons and many other paranormal activities that were going on in the house. This demons had frighten the family for at least 10 years moved out in 1980. The Perron family lived in a farmhouse located in a small country town of Harrisville‚ Rhode Island. In the conjuring the movie it was more based on the paranormal investigators Lorraine Warren and Ed

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    From watching the documentary‚ The Interrupters‚ it brought to light the violence going on in Chicago with gang activity. The documentary follows members of the organization CeaseFire‚ these members go into gang neighborhoods in Chicago to try and stop violence while promoting peace. A vast majority of the members of CeaseFire are people that have grown up in this lifestyle and this culture. While watching the documentary it was very obvious one crime theory stood out as to why this style of life

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    Underbelly Film Analysis

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    The two types of texts I am comparing are two different types of the underworld in Melbourne Australia. They explain the depth of crimes they committed and the gangs they were in. The novel I am using is Chopper Reads novel. In this he talked about his upbringing and joining the underworld as early as 15. The Movie I am comparing the novel to is Underbelly‚ written by Peter Gawler and directed by Tony Tilse. Under belly is about to rival gangs competing for complete control for the underworld.

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    In episode 3 of The Wire‚ there are a lot of characters that seem to know nothing more than selling drugs and making money. However‚ in this scene starting at 10:41 and ending at 12:41 shows that these characters are bit more complex and two sided than we are shown. This scene starts with a very fast pan of the pit area until the camera finds D’Angelo. This pan of the courtyard shows how unsafe it is‚ and how the characters are being watched and how they should watch their backs. The pan of the

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    Girlhood Film Analysis

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    In class we watched the video Girlhood. In the movie‚ we were able to watch two female offenders in the juvenile justice system. We were introduced to Shanae‚ a young girl‚ convicted of murder. We also met Megan‚ who‚ unlike Shanae‚ was not at the Waxter Juvenile Facility for murder‚ but‚ by comparison‚ lesser crimes. The movie follows the girl’s journeys after they leave Waxter‚ each for different reasons. The Facility took a genuine interest in Shanae‚ transferring her to a new institution

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