played by Matt Damon‚ remains unaffected by the virus due to his immunity. Contagion‚ unlike other movies‚ keeps the hero‚ Damon‚ oddly detached from the viewers. The director‚ Steven Soderbergh‚ decided to keep Damon out of the minimal action in the movie by immediately putting him into quarantine. This automatically dismisses any possibility of suspense‚ no finding out at the last minute if he makes it or not. Mitch takes his daughter (Anna
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Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen 2004 The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states‚ led by Agamemnon‚ and Troy‚ ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ fell in love with Helen‚ wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta‚ and took her back to Troy against the wishes of his brother‚ Hector‚ who‚ with his father‚ had been trying for years to make peace with Sparta and had finally gotten that peace. Agamemnon had recently
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suspense by placing the final scene in the beginning of the movie. When translating play into film‚ he creatively rearranges the scenes while keeping the text intact and shoots from odd angles to produce interesting lighting and shadows. Even though some of the characters in the film do not quite live up to the viewer’s ideals of the characters‚ Welles’s Othello still achieves remarkable success. In order to accompany the powerful words of Shakespeare‚ Welles chooses to shoot from either slightly
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Kestle Z. Tamayo Chem 5 YA/ Biochemistry- Ms. Melannie A. Sabellano September 13‚ 2010 Exam Reflection Paper The movie centers on eight candidates who aspires to join or be employed on a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering an isolated and exclusive room‚ the Invigilator gave the eight candidates eighty minutes to answer one simple question. He emphasized three rules they must obey or be disqualified: don’t talk to him or the armed guard by the door‚ don’t spoil their papers and don’t leave
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defeated through the SCLC March on Washington and the Selma Movement. Body Paragraph 1: King gave the other SCLC members hope through marches and street protest. “In Martin Luther’s role as SCLC’s president‚ he traveled across the country and around the world‚ giving the lectures on nonviolent protest and civil rights as well as meeting with religious figures‚ and activist and political leaders‚”(History.Com). He shows how things can be solved without violence even though the situation is bad.
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Twilight Here’s the deal with Twilight: Edward Cullen‚ a 100-something-year-old vampire who doesn’t look a day over 17‚ is attending high school along with his adoptive vampire family. He’s beautiful (Robert Pattinson is on the path to being the most sought-after man-child since Romeo + Juliet-era Leonardo DiCaprio)‚ he can read minds‚ and virtually all of his female classmates alternate between lovesickness and trepidation (the Cullens are all a little unsettling in their beauty). In any case
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group of paragraphs that develops one central idea. The 3 parts of an essay are: 1). Introductory paragraph 2). The body paragraphs 3). The conclusion. The introductory paragraph should introduce the topic‚ indicate generally how the topic is going to be developed‚ should be inviting and contains a thesis statement (with a topic andcentral ideas) A thesis statement is the main idea of the whole essay which actually helps us to focus on our essay. Each of the body paragraphs introduce
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still takes refuge in the ancient wisdom of its forefathers. It is now comprised of both western and eastern elements that are locked in a constant struggle to achieve dominance. I have chosen the movie Swades for exactly this reason. Directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar and starring Shahrukh Khan‚ the movie follows the story of a non-resident Indian (Mohan) living in the United States of America and working for NASA. He decides to come home to the village in which he was raised and the consequent series
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Stalin is a biography/ drama HBO film. The movie Stalin is about the life of Stalin from the time Lenin became ruler to when Stalin died. It shows the life and career of the leader of the Soviet Union‚ Joseph Stalin. Stalin is portrayed as a man who craved power and thrived for the goal in turning the nation of The USSR into a communist government. Stalin was also a horrible person and led the murder of millions of Russian people. This movie was very informational in my opinion. If you want to
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The movie glory focuses on the 54th massachusetts regiment of all black soldiers during the civil war. It is based on letters sent by Robert Gould Shaw‚ who was born in Boston on October 10‚ 1837‚ to his parents. He was born to wealthy abolitionist parents‚ who had been aquainted with such people as Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe and the famous abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. The movie starts off with a war scene where Robert Gould Shaw (played by Mathew
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