Rocio Rodriguez Platoon: The Film on the Vietnam War “Somebody once wrote: ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That’s what this place feels like. Hell” (Platoon). The controversial issues concerning Platoon were not on the film itself‚ but about how this film portrayed the war in Vietnam and the affects the war had on the soldiers morally‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Oliver Stone directed and wrote the screenplay‚ using his own experiences as a reference. Oliver Stone chose to
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War Nicholas Lemann’s book‚ Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War‚ is a great book that describes in detail the pain and destruction that many southern blacks were put through in the late 1800s. Adelbert Ames is the main character in this book and the chief protagonist. Ames is Mississippi’s reconstruction governor as he was elected in a land slide election because of all the support he had from ex-slaves. Once he was in office‚ Ames had many changes
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Willow (1988) FILM REVIEW Created by the creators of Star Wars‚ Willow is an American fantasy genre movie released in 1988. Starring stars such as Warwick Davis‚ Val Kilmer‚ Joanne Whalley‚ Jean Marsh and Billy Barty‚ the story takes place in Nockmaar. Together Ron Howard‚ the director of this movie‚ and George Lucas‚ who is the producer‚ set out to create this wonderful adventurous family movie for all of us to watch and enjoy. The movie follows the story with the birth of a baby‚ named Elora
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Shawshank Redemption: Movie Review. [ 4.5 stars out of 5 stars] Based on the Stephen King novel “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. Tim Robbins stars as Andy Dufresne‚ a successful young banker who is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sent to Shawshank prison‚ place where brutality from both guards and other prisoners is common. Andy makes friends with Red (Morgan Freeman)‚ a lifer who has already spent many years inside. Red smuggles
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country’s life completely as well as the lives of people generations from him. This paper will discuss and evaluate the 1982 film Gandhi. Through exploring both the film and the autobiography of Mohandas Gandhi‚ this paper will attempt to compare and contrast the depiction of our great hero. In addition‚ this paper will discuss how the information in the film represents Gandhi distinctive to how Gandhi portrays himself within his autobiography. Furthermore‚ this paper will subjectively illustrate
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Chinatown Introduction Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir film‚ directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre‚ particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama. The story‚ set in Los Angeles in 1937‚ was inspired by the California Water Wars‚ the historical disputes over land and water rights that had raged in southern California during the 1910s and 1920s‚ in which William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests
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Actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gives a powerful performance in the action drama Snitch opening in theaters this weekend. The film‚ based on true accounts‚ takes you on a suspense filled ride under the fine direction of famous stuntman Ric Roman Waugh. Although the film does provide insight about how the justice system works‚ the hard knocks story does add a lot of ‘Hollywood’. As the movie opens‚ we find 18-year-old Jason Collins (Rafi Gavron) talking to his best buddy on Skype about
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Wadjda The feature film Wadjda draws a picture of gender inequality in Saudi Arabia through the eyes of a young girl‚ who grew up in the Arab culture. This film portrays how religious tradition contributes to women’s stance in society through dressing‚ body language and the women’s role in the family. Granted‚ this film discusses men privilege‚ which is the inherent right of a man to do more things than a woman can. The movie was made in 2013 by the first Saudi female director named Haifaa Al-Mansour
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Sarah Ladis History 2235 1:00 February 21‚ 2014 The biographical film Gandhi‚ directed by Richard Attenborough‚ starts off with a life changing moment in Gandhi’s life when he is thrown off of a South African train for being an Indian in the first class section. It is at that moment when he realizes that the regulations are prejudiced against Indians and in reply‚ he chooses to create a non-violent protest movement for the human rights of Indians in South Africa. Although the ruling classes
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Martin Luther was portrayed in the film as being a very educated man especially in the biblical text. He was however also portrayed as being a sort of mental wreck this is shown by how he acted in the several scenes that seemed to be in his living quarters at night when he would argue with himself and the devil. Martin Luther was respected by his teacher but his teachers colleagues did not approve of some of his behavior. Luther’s father saw him as being a failure since he had worked so hard to
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