David Selznick and Since You Went Away "I have a different concept of producing than other producers. Some producers are money men‚ and others are just lieutenants. For me to produce is to make a picture. As a producer‚ I can maintain an editorial perspective that I wouldn ’t have as a director. I consider myself first a creative producer‚ then a showman and then a businessman. You need all three things to succeed in the business today."
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maintaining commitment. John Ford’s They were Expendable (1945) is an example of this. The film’s characters are “viewed as heroes‚ men free of any fear of anxiety about the war.” Another film with the same purpose is David O. Selznick’s Since You Went Away (1944). Films that did show the gruesome realities of war were often prevented from releasing to the public. John Huston’s documentary Battle of San Pietro is one such example. The intense‚ haunting images of “exhausting soldiers‚ cemeteries of
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wonder as to why Mrs. Weidel would stay with such a man. All of this would change one summer day. One summer day‚ when Joyce was eleven‚ she could hear the Weidel’s dog whining and crying for hours. When Joyce’s father came home from work he went over to the Weidel’s to see what was going on with the dog. Mr. Weidel had shot this poor dog. Joyce’s father spoke to Mr. Weidel and convinced him to put the dog to rest. Finally one of the Weidel boys shot the dog. Joyce would come to discover
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James Ambrose Johnson also known as Rick James was born on February 1‚ 1948 in Buffalo New York. Best known for his hits Super Freak and Mary Jane‚ Rick James was a popular American musician and composer in the late 1970s. Inspired my musical geniuses like Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson‚ James Ambrose Johnson will soon become musical sensation Rick James James Johnson and his seven siblings was raised by a single catholic mother in Buffalo who worked by running numbers for a mob to provide for her
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Preforming for Freedom In James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man‚ the narrator is troubled by the two facets of his racial identity making him incapable of determining his self-identity. Music plays a crucial a role in the determination of the narrator’s self-identity‚ he expresses admiration towards African American culture for its originality and universality‚ while he also reveres European culture for its priority on intellectualism and classical music. It is clear that
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Americans were exposed to‚ one could not be blamed for harshly judging individuals‚ like Frado‚ who look racially ambivious‚ for choosing to pass as a European American. After receiving an enlightening re-education‚ one who reads the work of James Weldon Johnson‚ The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man‚ may not choose to judge the novel’s protagonist as a criminal‚ as he does‚ but view it as a mechanism for survival. Johnson’s novel shares similar themes with Our Nig regarding identity‚ race and freedom
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The haunting and vivid double exposure scene at 19 minutes highlights the idea of two independent worlds‚ in which there is no direct influence on one another. The scene is an example of Death collecting dead people’s souls. At first‚ a transparent carriage stops in front of a house. In this house‚ a man just committed suicide. Death‚ a transparent figure‚ slowly climbs down his carriage and walks past the closed door. This depiction of a phantom walking directly through a physical image suggests
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You know this because the boy talks about the levels they are going up until they reach the top. Then comes the next setting which takes place outside. Although they are in a car the whole time the boy explains the mountains and hill and the old towns and
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The opening sequence of Svenkmajer’s film display Alice as someone discontent with childhood and need for a change much like the Alice in the original story. The frustration leads her to follow a path to enlightenment which results in her foundation of childhood crashing down. This aspect is signified at the beginning of the story when Alice knocks over toy blocks while spying on the rabbit in captivity. As Alice journey to follow the white rabbit she is lead to a drawer that has an item that cuts
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“I surrender‚” a quote that has two different meaning for both the viewers and Jamie. Jamie has gone through many difficulties on his journey during the China and Japan War. He had to learn new skills to help him survive through this. He has made new friends‚ enemies‚ seen things he shouldn’t‚ and most importantly learn a new side of himself. The starting part of the film showed Jamie as an arrogant‚ spoiled‚ eleven-year-old kid. He had almost everything wanted and wouldn’t listen to anyone‚ but
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