opinion on the horrors of the Columbine shootings. The movie seems distanced from the actors and their actions: an unaware participant from the tranquil introduction to the gruesome climax. His seeming lack of a purpose‚ lack of a reason for the creation of this film‚ is exactly the impetus that drives its core meaning. The high school was as stereotyped and typical as possible‚ a campus where everyone swears they’ve visited once in their life. The visceral climax is at once both slowly built up
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Alive Assignment The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience‚ the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how
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Gary L. Willis AFRS 55T (T&Th@3:30) Dr. T. Hasan Johnson 02.23.13 Extra Credit The Movie “Django Unchained” The objective of this paper is to review some of the results of the discussion-panel’s analysis of certain aspects of this movie that relate to the Hip-Hop culture. On Thursday‚ February 21‚ 2013‚ I attended a panel discussion hosted by the Africana Studies Department of Fresno State University. It was conducted at the African American Museum‚ Fresno California. Its purpose was
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Movie Reviews 42 (2013) gives its audience a feeling of sympathy towards Jackie Robinson while also having you feel a burning hatred towards the people that mistreated him. The movie 42 is a time portal back to the 1940’s when soldiers were returning home from war‚ baseball was America’s sport‚ and segregation was still occurring. It is the true story of Jackie Robinson’s (Chadwick Boseman) first two years in the big leagues of baseball. The trials and tribulations that he had to overcome as a
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player. However‚ her parents are deaf and she is not able to share her wonderful talent with them. This makes their relationship with each other difficult. Watching the movie there are different concepts that appear such as respect‚ levels of identity‚ cultural groups‚ and group norms. Respect is brought out in this movie in many ways. Lara shows a lot of respect for her parents by being their sole translator. Lara is the ears and mouth for her parents. She is a very smart little girl who
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Paola Álvarez Guízar 6/06/2013 Assignment 1 Gattaca Gattaca is a science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in 1997. In this movie it stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. In 1997 the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The movie at the beginning takes places in the United States where a couple has a baby named Vincent who has problems with his heart and also has myopia. When he was born the doctor
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decimus meridus win many victories in fights throughout the movie. The movie Gladiator was made in the year 2000 and it was directed by Ridley Scott. The films setting first starts in Vindobana which is in Austria and Germania and then to the Roman Province of Spain‚ later on the film takes place in Zucchabar in North Africa. Later on through most of the movie the film takes place in Rome‚ at the Roman Colosseum. The main character in the movie is Maximus Decimus Meridius he is a general leading the
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Collateral The movie Collateral written by Stuart Beattie‚ is about a taxi driver named Max who finds himself trapped with a contract killer named Vincent. Max is forced into difficult situations and eventually stands up for himself and the last name on Vincent’s hit list. There are many points that the writer makes throughout the film however‚ one stands out more than others. You need to take risks to get what you want. In the movie‚ Max is a taxi driver that picks up a woman named Annie. She
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The Lego Movie At the beginning of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 21 Jump Street‚ their 2012 cop comedy that was a repurposing the television show that ran from 1987-1991‚ Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman)‚ explains to two young cops (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) that they’re being assigned to a unit in which they’ll be impersonating high school students to investigate drug crimes. “We’re reviving a canceled undercover police program from the ’80s and revamping it for modern times‚” Hardy
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of the film‚ but I also think that movie shows how one can go through the process of seeing a person as part of an out-group but can go through a process of removing them from that category and bring them into the in-group. Denzel Washington’s character Joe Miller evolves throughout the movie‚ from someone who does not understand much about AIDS and homosexuals‚ he is therefore very vocal about that he wants nothing to do with them. In the beginning of the movie‚ Miller views Beckett as the disease
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