History 1302 Film review I chose to write about Pearl Harbor (2001) because it was a big event in American history and was our passage for entering World War II. It’s true that America was claiming a neutral stance before Pearl Harbor occurred‚ so if the events that occurred on December 7th‚ 1941 would have never taken place we would not have entered that war. The Japanese started bombing Pearl Harbor around 7:55 am. Therefore‚ the starting scenes of this movie leading up to the attacks are
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Film Review of Pearl Harbor The movie opens with the two Tennessee boys Danny Walker and Rafe Mccawley pretending to be fighting the Germans. The year is 1923 and World War One just finished. Danny’s father fought in world war one fighting the Germans and he never wants the two boys to ever witness the horrors of war. In 1940 the two boys end up in the military. Danny is in the United States Army Air Corp and Rafe volunteered to be in Royal Air Force Eagle Squadron in England as did
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in one for EACH text) Related text scaffold 1. Find out basic information about the text. a) Name of text: The Shawshank Redemption b) Composer: Frank Darabont c) Source (Where you got the text from. Include date of publication‚ or date of accessing website): Castle Rock Entertainment‚ September 23rd 1994 d) Type of text Film 2. Summarise the text. In 1947‚ banker Andy Dufresne is sentenced to two life sentences‚ being found guilty of murdering
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“Amir’s Redemption” It is fair to say Amir redeemed himself by demonstrating courage in the end of Khaled Hosseini’s controversial novel‚ The Kite Runner. Not all individuals possess courage and some develop this virtue at a later time in life. Courage is defined as the ability to do something that frightens one. That is precisely what Amir had done when he received a phone call from his old friend‚ Rahim Khan. He repented for the terrible things he had committed and decided it was
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his own forehead… I let the tears break free‚ rocked back and forth on my knees. ‘What am I going to do with you‚ Hassan?’” (Hosseini‚ 98-99) Another case of positive attitudes towards punishement is where he feels good to be beaten up by Assef‚ redemption‚ and atonement for his sins. These qualities are two sides of the same coin‚ as they both come at once‚ and are both absolved at the same time; after saving Sohrab‚ he is no longer a coward‚ or a traitor‚ as he has proven his courage by risking
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Film Review – 127 Hours Today I would like to recommend a movie to you called “127 Hours”. It is the true story of the adventure of a mountain climber‚ Aron Ralston. Ralston was hiking alone one day and incidentally he was trapped in a canyon with his arm stuck under a rock. He got very little water and food and even more worse‚ he had not told anyone where he was going. After being trapped for over five days‚ he realized that there was very little chance that someone would rescue him
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ERIN BROCKOVICH (2000) Film Review This show re-lives a true story about a woman‚ Erin Brockovich‚ played by Julia Roberts and directed by Steven Soderbergh‚ of how a woman can achieve personal and professional victory by overcoming obstacles external to her and those within her. With limited skills she took on corporate world and caused compensation of US$33M to be paid out to residents of a small town in California‚ Hickley‚ as compensation for contaminated water supply. Erin‚ is an
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The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a very unique movie which involves many different personalities and underlying themes. The personalities of the inmates are very interesting and when they are combined they create a very fascinating plot which looks at prison life in a interesting and different perspective than one normally thinks. The main characters are Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Eliss "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman). These characters are well complimented by the wise
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the two versions. After comparing the two side-by-side‚ it becomes clear that the original graphic novel is far superior to its movie adaptation. In the film‚ Evey Hammond is on her way to her Boss’s house for dinner instead of soliciting men for sex like in the novel. In both versions of V for Vendetta‚ she represents the “everyman” but in the film she starts off as a strong‚ confident woman instead of an insecure teenage prostitute. The relationship between V and Evey in the original graphic novel
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Billy Elliot‚ The Movie Review The story takes place in a coal mining town located in Northern England ‚ during the 12-months long strike in British coal industry‚ which later considered a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the conservative party. The main character‚ Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a 12 years old motherless boy. Youngest member of Elliot’s family‚ a patriarchal miner family where the father (Gary Lewis) and older brother (Jamie Draven) are both
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