after being killed by a bolt of lightning‚ recounts the way he blackmailed his classmates into contributing to his literary magazine to get into the college of his dreams. While that is the basic synopsis‚ the movie is much more complex than this. It’s definitely not the typical high school movie we are used to see. This isn’t a story about romance‚ the popular kids‚ trying to get laid or trying to fit in. It’s a story made for the ones that don’t have their story told very often. The over achiever
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Synopsis A Beautiful Mind is a biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Nash was a graduate student at Princeton in 1948. He is not a social person and his roommate Charles seems was his only close friend. John is soon a professor at MIT where he meets and eventually married a graduate student‚ Alicia. John begins to lose his grip on reality overtime and eventually being institutionalized diagnosed with schizophrenia. He thought he was working
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who are thinking of becoming an administrator some day. It gives us a lot of insight in handling different challenges faced by administrators. There were a couple of interesting points that struck me while watching the movie. I especially liked the line at the start of the movie "Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm". This line is very true. It doesn’t mean that when discipline is established in school‚ the students lose the eagerness to learn. In fact‚ I believe that discipline goes hand
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The movie is in Sierra Leone in 1999 where ruthless rebel forces called the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) are terrorizing the country and its people. It begins in a small Solomon Vandy’s village is attacked by rebel forces and his family is put in danger. RUF slaughter many of the village people‚ and because killing isn’t enough‚ there are scenes where villager’s hands are cut off to prevent them from voting in elections. Solomon is separated from his family becomes a slave‚ forced to work in
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Tyler Doherty is an eight-year-old cancer patient who loves God first and soccer second. Brady McDaniels is a mailman struggling with alcoholism and the break-up of his family. Tyler writes direct‚ heartfelt Letters to God as a means of praying his way through his illness. Brady picks up those Letters on his postal route and is touched and changed by his encounters with Tyler’s faith; so are many of the other characters who populate the unabashedly Christian family drama Letters to God. The film’s
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a golf ball. The local region‚ engulfed in a civil war between the government and the RUF (Revolutionary United Front)‚ is a backdrop for indiscriminate torture and murder‚ all propagated by the illegal diamond market. This is the premise for the movie. The story line aside‚ Hollywood‚ or most notably the director‚ Edward Zwick‚ is attempting to demonstrate to audiences that within humanity there is moral fiber above the greed of monetary gain. In order to substantiate his claim‚ Zwick is weaving
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[pic] [pic] [pic] Prepared by: REALYN C. CABATAY Master of Arts in Education Introduction Mr. Holland’s Opus is a 1995 American drama film directed by Stephen Herek. It stars Richard Dreyfuss in the title role and the cast includes Glenne Headly‚ Olympia Dukakis‚ William H. Macy and Jay Thomas. Mr. Holland’s Opus is presented as a video biography of the 30-year career of the eponymous lead character‚ Glenn Holland‚ as a music teacher at the
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1. Explain why Erica Albright‚ Mark’s girlfriend‚ did break up with him? Erica Albright broke up with Mark Zuckerberg just because in a small‚ tiny thing. Also‚ Erica doesn’t want Mark to underestimate her. By letting him introduce Erica to his new friends when he gets a new club on Harvard to let him be popular. 2. How did Mark betray Eduardo? As shown in the film what happens is that Mark dilutes Eduardo’s stock in Facebook. Zuckerberg‚ Parker‚ Saverin‚ and Moskovitz
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scenery presents the idea that they have money than they need and they can do whatever they want whenever they want. Their scenery is a recreation of European historical grandeur‚ a fact that the film is keen to demonstrate. <br> <br>Symbolism in the movie was also awesome‚ I really appreciated how the director added a few twists of his own which I will come to shortly. Particularly memorable is the scene where Daisy weeps over Gatsby’s shirts. Is she really weeping for their beauty ? This was really
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The movie Mad City is an exciting and thrilling film staring John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman. John Travolta plays Sam Bailey a recently laid off security guard to a natural history museum. Dustin Hoffman plays the main character of Max Brackett a news reporter who ends up becoming a liaison between Sam and the authorities. In this film the news reporters such as max bracket show disregard for the code of ethics of which reporters are supposed to follow to ensure their actions are moral.
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