Jennifer’s Body‚ written by Diablo Cody‚ has an acceptable balance of dark comedy and horror‚ but what really makes the movie worth watching is the comically terrible acting of the main characters. Jennifer‚ a popular high school student is best friends with a shy high school girl‚ Needy. Wanting to do everything Jennifer does‚ Needy goes with Jennifer to a club to see Low Shoulder‚ an indie band‚ play. Jennifer having a crush on the lead singer‚ Nikolai‚ flirts and talks with him all night. Things
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parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book‚ you have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like isn’t even filmed
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different in the movie than the book. The directing and special effects were okay in some scenes‚ but half-baked and lousy in others. Furthermore‚ the characters are developed far less in the film and many semi-important scenes in the novel are excluded in the film. Do not watch this movie unless you have read the novel (or even if you have read it). If you haven’t read the book and decide to watch the movie instead‚ you will fail to understand the complicated relationships between each character and between
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instantly tell how different it is from the movie. Nonetheless‚ Luhrmann’s style and idea to take on the story from a new angle is fascinating and indubitably caught the attention of the nation when it came into theatres. Luhrmann’s reworking of this story was as extravagant as Gatsby himself; with today’s music in every scene‚ alcohol‚ drugs‚ the dramatic settings‚ and even just the way the character’s communicated with each other. As seen in the movie though‚ extravagance is not always the best
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The Thirteenth Warrior Essay The middle east and western Europe have always been different. This is true now and was true back in the 10th century as this movie shows. One thing this movie shows that is not seen very often is what the two cultures are like when they met together peacefully. This movie displays the vivid differences of the nomadic Vikings and the intellectual Muslims. First there were the Arabs who were far more civilized than the Vikings. They wore layers of elaborate
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A Civil Action Essay Jay Lee 9-8-09 In the movie “A Civil Action”‚ the environmental problem was that trichloroethylene and silicone was placed into the water in the town of Woburn. It happened through a tanning company pouring chemicals on the hides of animals and it seeping out. The company also placed a lot of barrels with the dangerous chemicals into the ground and it seeped out into the wells of the town. The damage it caused to the environment and to the people was a huge amount. It
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The film 13th explores race‚ justice‚ and mass incarceration in the United States. The film mainly focuses on the history of how racial inequality came to be in the United States. Also the film mentions that in the United States’ prisons there are inordinate amount of African-Americans. Additionally a variety of different political activists and public figures from different backgrounds gave their view from Angela Davis‚ Bryan Stevenson‚ Van Jones‚ Newt Gingrich‚ Cory Booker‚ and many others. In
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Ukulele Lives Happily Ever After We have read many love stories and fairytales which all had a ‘happily ever after’ ending. It was never easy for the lovers to get together because there was always something that would come in between them. Even then‚ they would not give up and would fight until the very end to be with their true love. Keeping that in mind‚ the short film ‘Lava’ is similar‚ as it talks about how two Volcanoes ‘Uku’ and ‘Lele’ are lovers and wait for a very long to be with each other
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Lincoln the movie essay Watching this movie‚ I was really informed on the life that people lived when Lincoln was president. The movie has many was to captivate viewers with humor‚ emotions‚ and how weird it was the guy who played Lincoln‚ looked so much like him! I noticed that many things have changed in politics since during that time and how people act. First of all‚ if you paid close attention to the movie you would see how some people in the representative house did not agree with the
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Movie Scene Evaluation Project Analysis 1) Apply all eight Elements of Interpersonal Communication to you scene. The clip illustrates a very good example of interpersonal communication. In this clip Alpachino (The Blind man) is the major source (encoder) in interpersonal communication. Charlie (Suspect/Witness)‚ Dean‚ Willis Jr.‚ disciplinary committee and the student body are the decoders of the messages. The crowd is astounded by the encoder and gave a positive timely feedback which gave
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