Phillip Noyce’s 2014 social science fiction film‚ ’The Giver’‚ explores the contrasting societal structures of utopia and dystopia. The story‚ based on the 1993 novel of the same name‚ centres around Jonas‚ a young man‚ who lives in a ’seemingly idyllic’ community free from suffering and difference. When Jonas is assigned the position of ’Receiver of Memory’ he begins to discover the true pain and pleasure of life that he has been sheltered from. To show the differences between utopian and dystopian
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Summer Reading Essay Carelessness in society often leads to many incidents sometimes tragedy to occur. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many incidents in his book to develop his idea of carelessness. Carelessness can often play a role in developing a conflict and put a person in a bad situation. [In the book The Great Gatsby‚ carelessness plays a major role and is displayed by people getting drunk at parties‚ and Daisy speeding a causing a car accident‚ which left one dead.] One way of displaying carelessness
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INCEPTION Inception came out to theaters last 2010. It is an action‚ adventure and sci-fi film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb)‚ Joseph Gordon Levitt (Arthur) and Ellen Page (Ariadne). The movie revolves around Cobb‚ whose job is to steal information from the minds of people through their dreams. He was given the task to perform the reverse called Inception on a businessman named Fischer in exchange for having the charges against him dropped and going back to America to finally see his children
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The film‚ directed by Arthur Penn and produced by Warren Beatty was about the real life depression era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton‚ with additional help from Robert Towne. After Warner watched the film‚ he proceeded to tell Beatty and Penn how much of a failure it
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Film review “Nobody wants to be homeless‚ it doesn’t even come across their minds in five years from now I would like to be Homeless” (Inocente). Inocente is a short documentary film about a 15 year aspiring artist who is homeless. She resides with her Mother and three brothers in San Diego‚ California. Inocente attends school and her class mates are unaware that she is homeless. She will not tell classmates that she is homeless because the fear of mockery and shame. Inocente has been homeless
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notion is clearly portrayed through my texts Rainbows End by Jane Harrison‚ The Rabbits by John Marsden and The Ugly Ducking Illustrated by United Artists. Belonging is a mind set‚ which is at times affected by factors such as social status‚ individual circumstances and culture. Problems can often arise due to these factors and through my representations of belonging I will reveal and evaluate these significant issues. My first text Rainbows End supports and reveals‚ to belong is to feel connected
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Film Analysis: Pocahontas The animated Walt Disney movie Pocahontas is based on a true life story of a young Powhatan Indian girl named Pocahontas who falls in love with John Smith. In the making of the movie‚ Walt Disney‚ attempts to relate to the early 17th Century historic event of Europeans settling in Jamestown; however‚ Disney did not portrait the true story. Disney rewrote the story by making it a beautifully romantic and animated love story like a Cinderella fairytale. In the Walt Disney
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created the film Bully to display the harmful effects of bullying and to call everyone to action in stomping out bullying. Lee Hirsch’s exhibition of the three rhetorical appeals‚ pathos‚ logos‚ and ethos‚ in his film Bully‚ spawns the assertion that the bullying epidemic can be prevented and needs to be eliminated. When viewers hear and see the word ‘bully‚’ they are swarmed with emotions‚ because of experience as a bully or as a victim. Pathos is the clearest appeal in Hirsch’s film. The topic
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Lantana is a 2001 Australian film‚ directed by Ray Lawrence set in suburban Sydney. The film’s central event is the disappearance and death of a mystery woman whose identity isn’t revealed until the end‚ despite her body being shown in the opening segment. The motif of the lantana‚ a weed prevalent in suburban Sydney is used to represent key ideas central to the film. The lantana consists of dense interlaced branches that spread quickly‚ producing brightly coloured flowers. It chokes and engulfs
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The Crucible is one of the film that is made from the play. There are some differences between them because some parts were cut off and some parts were made up to fulfilled the mood in the movie. In the book‚ the authors used a lot of devices to set mood and tone‚ and develop characterizations such as figurative languages‚ sensory imagery‚ and sentence style to create particular effects. In order to make the film even more intensive and interesting‚ the film makers need to use various techniques
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