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    Multiple Source Paper Slumdog Millionaire: The Feel-Good Movie When Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire came out at the end of 2008‚ people instantly fell in love with it. In 2009 it was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight‚ which was the most won by any film that year. Everyone seemed to be very drawn to the “feel good” aspect of the movie where a poor kid like Jamal‚ the main character of Boyle’s film‚ can overcome the massive obstacles thrown in front of his path to success and

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    life. The increasing popularity of an American television show in India‚ as portrayed in Slumdog Millionaire‚ is consistent with more and more citizens valuing monetary wealth over all else. It also shows that the population doesn’t want to have to work hard for their money. They want easy‚ fast money that involves very little effort. Hence the popularity of the television show‚ Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Not only does a show like this promote monetary values over life experience and hard

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    Slumdog Millionaire – The Movie is about Jamal Malik‚ an orphan from the slums of Bombay‚ or now called Mumbai. He is participating on the show “Who wants to be a millionaire” and with every question he answers we get a retrospective view of his life when he explains how he knew the answers of the questions to a police investigator. Through these retrospective views we learn about his long lost love‚ Latika. When Jamal returns to the show after being freed from custody he calls his brother to

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    SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE ‘A few hours ago‚ you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you’re richer than they will ever be. What a player!’ said Prem Kumar who is the emcee of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’. A tear-jerking movie by Danny Boyle‚ Slumdog Millionaire‚ wowed audiences in 2008. Many people believe that the main theme of the film is love. However‚ I believe there is something more than love in this film; poverty. Boyle took the poverty of India and used it in his film to give knowledge

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    important conflict from the film “slumdog millionaire” directed by Danny Boyle‚ is between Jamal (the main character of the film‚ and a show contestant on “who wants to be a millionaire”) and Prem Kumar (the show host of “who wants to be a millionaire”) The conflict between Jamal and Prem is ongoing throughout the film. Prem is out to stop Jamal from winning the show “who wants to be a millionaire”. He doesn’t want Jamal to steal his light away. Prem was the only slumdog in history to win the prestigious

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    Film analysis – Slumdog Millionaire Slumdog Millionaire is a successful and popular Bollywood film. Bollywood films are movies that are produced in Mumbai in India‚ and this is one of the largest film productions in the whole world. In the film‚ we get an insight in India’s culture‚ and how the industry is changing. The film is a about a boy called Jamal. He is a poor 18‐year old boy who lives in the slum in India. He joins a TV‐show called “Who wants to be a millionaire” and tries out for

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    Slum Dog In the film slumdog they’re had happen to be a whole lot of misfortunate events and stress into living a better life. The movie showed that to get through life you have to first get through obstacles to reach success. Jamal and his brother Salim were born and raised in Dharavi slums of Mumbai‚ India. The whole slum area seemed to be rough and nasty. I couldn’t imagine how life they’re could be. When a whole attack happened at the slum the violators had knocked out Salim and Jamal’s mother

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    Formative Writing – Slumdog Millionaire The film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ by British born director Danny Boyle‚ gives a particular insight into life in India‚ and more specifically the city of Mumbai through the use of setting. It is this cultural backdrop presented through the perspective of foreigner that not only makes the film special‚ but also sparked a lot of debate whether the image revealed is an accurate portrayal of India. The film attempts to show the shocking and disturbing realities

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    Ram Mohammad Thomas is a boy from the Indian slums who has entered a "Who wants to be a millionaire" style television quiz show. Despite his lack of formal education‚ his life experiences have perfectly equipped him to answer each question that comes up. Because the show’s organizers are sure that he must have cheated‚ they ask him to explain how he was able to answer such difficult and obscure questions. Each chapter deals with another question and answer‚ and as the book progresses his very colorful

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    people of the western world. In the film Slumdog Millionaire by director Danny Boyle deeper ideas associated with this poverty are developed including destiny‚ loyalty and how poverty frees us. These deeper ideas are developed through visual techniques such as colour‚ lighting‚ `cinematographic techniques and editing techniques. Colour is a visual technique used in films that symbolizes hidden meanings linking to deeper ideas. In the film Slumdog Millionaire the colour yellow is used to develop the

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