historical events‚ or people. To name a just a couple‚ Argo and Lincoln are both movies that are based on actual history. While its clear Recount has some major and deep flaws in its writing‚ sometimes the 100% true events must be forfeited if the movie is to reach a mass audience. Movies like Argo (which I’ve seen) suffer from the same issue‚ which created heroes where there were none‚ and excluded blatant and important facts. Movies consistently distort the facts so that they can entertain a mass
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Million Dollar Baby‚ a non-fiction movie‚ featured the iconic director‚ producer and actor‚ Clint Eastwood. The lead actress was Hilary Swank‚ followed by the supporting actor Morgan Freeman. After its release on December 15‚ 2004‚ it grossed in just under $200 thousand on its opening box office weekend in the United States of America with only 8 screenings. It went on to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. A determined‚ poor‚ thirty-one year old woman named Maggie Fitzgerald decides to make
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Maci Evans The movie Tree of lIfe was at first really confusing and needed more than one viewing to understand. At first I tried to decipher some kind of plot in the story‚ I soon realized that my efforts were in vain when I noticed that perhaps the director of the film intended on the film to be ambiguous. After much thought I concluded that this film was perhaps the story of creation explained‚ questioned and explored through the tragedy of a family. I felt as though there was a lot of imagery
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Things that seem unrealistic become reality. However it is not hard to imagine how advances in technology such as cloning could lead to a dehumanized society if pushed too far. The Island‚ directed by Michael Bay‚ is a movie that imagines a future society where the ethical boundaries of science have been breached. The movie is about a future society in which human clones are created for their organs. These clones live in an underground complex‚ kept separate from the outside world. In their small underground
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grade 12 curriculum we have watched a movie called A Million Dollar baby cast by Clint Eastwood as an Frankie Dunn (coach)‚ Hilary Swank as an Maggie Fitzgerald (female boxer) and Morgan Freeman Eddie "Scrap Iron"(gym keeper). In this movie Eastwood has shown in his movie a story about a struggling life of boxers and coach. In this movie an actor and director is playing a role as Frankie Dunn a boxing coach. Frankie has played his part very well in this movie by high training level of boxing and
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Movie Reviewed: Red Dog Ting Tran playing Rachael Taylor Cathy Uchida playing ‘Oz Movie Talk’ show host/movie critique (Show introduction music playing) CATHY: Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to ‘Oz Movie Talk’ where the latest‚ hottest Aussie films are the talk of the show. This week on Oz Movie Talk is a heart-wrenching film based on a novel‚ ‘Red Dog’ directed by Kriv Stenders. This movie features Josh Lucas‚ Rachael Taylor‚ John Batchelor and most importantly the main
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but now with the addition of mythical creatures like ogres‚ elves‚ and fairies. It has been said by critics that Ella Enchanted‚ the movie‚ varies so much from the book that people should be “regarding the movie as a separate creative act.” The movie follows Ella who was given “the gift of obedience” by her fairy god mother as a child. She spends most of the movie being controlled by various characters‚ from her step-sisters to the king of the kingdom. The main plot point of the novel is her journey
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The film of Mice and Men starring Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie starts out in an action packed chase scene/flashback. This drags you into the plot of the movie and makes you want to keep watching. Also throughout the movie you are constantly left on cliff hangers. Gary Sinise does a great job of making you want to keep watching to find out what happens. There are many different scenes and images in Of Mice and Men. One of the first scenes get to see is George and Lennie running
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After seeing this animated movie‚ it really had some good qualities for a movie that came out in 2009. Before this movie from Wes Anderson was made‚ it was based on a book by Roald Dahl. This movie is one of the best-selling & one of the greatest movies ever seen by children. The director actually makes this movie a family type of movie that everyone wants to watch at home. Kids would like this movie a lot better than most others‚ and parents will find this movie enjoyable as well. It also has
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Away From Her (2006) Alzheimer is the most common cause of dementia‚ characterized by gradual deterioration of memory and the personality and marked by the formation of plaques of beta-amyloid and tangles of tau protein in the brain. In the movie‚ Away From Her‚ the clinic provided services to people with Alzheimer’s disease. Majority of the people admitted to this clinic were the elderly. There were two floors where the patients resided. First floor was for patients with early and beginning
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