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The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Anderson in 1837. It is about a mermaid who wishes to be human. She becomes human, falls in love and lives happily ever after. It stars Sierra Boggess as Ariel. Big dance numbers include Part of your World. West Side Story West Side Story was written by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents in 1957. It is about a star crossed romance between
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The Little Tramp and the Big Machine
The Little Tramp and the Big Machine Modern Times is an emotional response, based always in comedy, to the circumstances of the times. In the early films, the Tramp was knocked around in a pre-war society of underprivileged among the other immigrants and vagabonds and petty miscreants. In Modern Times he is one of the millions coping with poverty, unemployment, strikes and strikebreakers, and the tyranny of the machine (Robinson 458-9). When we first see
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The Lonely Island: Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture
The Lonely Island Inspiration can be found in the strangest of places, amongst the strangest of things. In 1829, Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by a great cavern, rich with Scottish mythology. While sailing through the Hebrides Islands off the coast of Scotland, he saw the famed Fingal’s Cave and was so moved by its beauty that he jotted down a full orchestration that became the beginning of one of his most famous works, The Hebrides
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord Of The Rings The first movie in the lord of the rings trilogy the fellowship of the rings is the same basic plot as in many movies the struggle between good and evil. It shows how easy it is for a good person to go wrong and how even bad people can make a turn around and that everyone deserves a second chance and how everything can change in a matter of a
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The Machinist
"If you were any thinner, you wouldn't exist." This is what Trevor Reznik hears from every person he comes into contact with. Being the very cold and sad movie that it is, it revolves around a lonely man who is losing his mind and questions reality mainly because nothing feels real. The constant guessing never ceases in this psychological thriller as each day that goes by gets worse and worse. No luck with anybody, this
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The Main Changes That the Paramount Decree Effected on the Structure of the American Film Industry and the Measures the Ex-Studios Took to Remain in Control of the Film Market
Outline the main changes the paramount decree effected on the structure of the American film industry and discuss the measures the ex-studios took to remain in control of the film market. The period of the 1920’s to 1950’s where known as the studio era in Hollywood. A few major companies monopolized the industry through vertical integration when the film companies controlled all production distribution and exhibition. The majors determined which movies were shown in which
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The Maltese Falcon: The Film & Book
The Maltese Falcon: The Film & Book Dashiell Hammett was a prolific writer of short stories for the pulp magazines in the 1920s-1930s, but only wrote five mystery novels. Most of his works involved his anonymous detective The Continental Op, an employee of one of the big national detective agencies. Sam Spade became popular because of the movies, but didn't feature in much of this author's work. Hammett's greatest skill was his combination of terse
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The Man Who Ate His Lover
Introduction into the programme The Man Who Ate His Lover. In this essay I will be writing about a man called Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes. both Armin and Bernd were respected by friends and colleges but at the same time they thought the two may be homosexual. Armin and Bernd both met over the net on a chat site. Bernd was posting up comments saying he wanted to be eating until Armin read his
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The Man Who Broke 1000 Chains - Moral Vs. Legal Issues
When looking at as issue as right or wrong, it is imperative that the issue be categorized into either a matter of legality or morality. While some may be both, the simple fact that an action may be immoral does not qualify it as necessarily illegal. The film A Man That Broke A Thousand Chains, based on the true story of Robert Elliott Burns, showcases many examples of morality and legality. If an action is
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The Mandolin
The Mandolin The mandolin has been around since the end of the 16th Century, although it didn’t look much like the instrument we know today. It evolved in the 18th century and was built in several varieties in different Italian towns, the Neapolitan mandolin becoming the representative type. It was played widely throughout Western Europe from around 1700 to 1810. In the late 1800s a stronger bowl back instrument was developed in Naples, Italy by
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The Many Mothers of Alfred Hitchcock
When looking at the works of Alfred Hitchcock there are many recurring themes. Wrong man, classic Hitchcock villains, and the use of staircases are just three of the many attributes you see when watching a Hitchcock film. My favorite, however, would have to be Hitchcock’s portrayal of the mother. Whether she is there for comic relief as we see in Shadow of a Doubt, or as the root of all evil as you see in
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The Maroon as Metaphor for Resistance in Latin American Film
Third World Film Professor: Andrew Millington Student: James Cheek Date Due: May 3, 2004 FINAL PAPER: The Maroon as Metaphor for Resistance in Latin American Film Cultural surrender is more than a matter of rejecting one’s father and mother culture. It means that one accepts a new definition as a person. The culturally dependent person is a mere spectator, a receptacle for the creativities of others. To demand freedom from slavery only to use that
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The Matrix
Darrell Stafford Philosophy H.E. Malmquist At the beginning of the Matrix a computer programmer known as Neo falls asleep in front of his computer. A mysterious message appears on the screen “Wake up Neo.” This phrase encapsulates the plot of the film as Neo struggles with the problem of being imprisoned in a material world that is actually a computer simulation program created in the distant future by Artificial Intelligence machines as a means of
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The Matrix
“The Matrix” If I was Plato and I was a movie critic, this would be my opinion of the movie “The Matrix.” The Matrix and my work “Plato’s Republic” revolve around the notion that reality is vastly different from the illusions man accepts to be true. In each work, man discovers truth through a distinct but related process, and from these processes, we can form conclusions as to the true nature of reality. The cause
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The Matrix
The movie the Matrix , directed by Andrew and Lana Wachowski, and the dialogue, The Allegory of the Cave, written by Plato, both have a large selection of connections and similarities with each other. The Allegory of the cave talks about a fairly simple story of how someone discovers the truth. The Matrix is a more complex and action filled description of how someone finds the truth. Both of the works, The Matrix and
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The Matrix Discussion
The “real world” is shown by using dark colors, such as black and gray, the “Matrix” is distinguished by brighter colors. However, there is one scene that I thought showed a different perspective, which was when Neo met Morpheous for the first time. It was raining, the room was dingy and the scene was shot in low key, diffusing the lighting, which gave an eerie and mysterious feeling. The directors shot Neo and Morpheous in
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The Matrix Revolutions
Neo was last found unconscious in the Real World, where his mind has been, in the Matrix World, captured by the Merovingian and taken to a Limbo state-of-mind, between the Real World and the Matrix World. He confronts a program that speaks only of love and religion, something that Neo realizes has never been the case before with a program. He stated that he went back to the Matrix to rescue his daughter, Sati (the
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The Meaning of Life -Opinion
The Meaning of Life -Opinion My beliefs on the meaning of life in religion and interpretation of such things. In approaching the question of 'the meaning of life' we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning, is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point of humans and the universe as seen from monotheistic religion. If life and the universe is some sort of toy or form of entertainment for
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The Meaning of the Light - Chicago Movie Review
The meaning of the light. The movie Chicago is a jazz type musical film full of murders, lies, sex and romance. Because the movie contains lies and deaths, the lighting that is used during the film has meaning for it. In the movie Chicago, the use of the lighting contributes to the idea that sin is part human nature. The three point lighting is lighting that is used to control shadows using three lights; two
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The Media and Its Affect on You
The Media and Its Affect on You Growing up each individual is taught different values and morals. Those values and morals in return affect the daily decisions that we make. How do we obtain these values? We obtain these values from the objects that we come in contact with on a daily basis that has credibility to affect our train of thoughts. I think the media does play a major role in the decisions that
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The Mephisto Waltz"
“The Mephisto Waltz” Composed By: Franz Liszt Reviewed By: John Teabout Jr. January 18, 2006 Mr. Brellochs Piano 1 A4 Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in Raiding, Hungary. His father Adam Liszt, a cello player, taught him to play the piano. As a young boy he moved to Vienna to study piano under Carl Czerny and composition under Antonio Salieri. Two years following him and his family moved to Paris, France
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The Messiah
The Messiah On Tuesday evening, December eleven I attended the 68th annual rendition of The Messiah in Zeeland. It was performed by the Zeeland Civic Chorus along with soloists Betsy Archer as the soprano, Cammille Zoet De Boer as contralto, Matthew Lehman as tenor, and John Scheid as the bass. The chorus was made up of about 75 individuals. They met together once a week for 8 weeks before the performance, giving them little time
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The Mexican Corrido
The Mexican corrido is in essence a lyrical genre, primarily narrative, which narrates with a simple and invariable musical phrase composed of four members those events that powerfully touched the sensibility of the masses; violent crimes, violent deaths, tales of bandits, catastrophes, railroad derailments, wars, battles, heroic deeds, humorous stories, simple love couplets, couplets of unrequited love, or of a satirical nature. As can be seen, it includes the epic vein of battles and heroic
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The Milagro Beanfield War
Who would ever think that using water could get a whole community of people mad at you? Well, the main character in the movie Joe Mondragon, didn’t really think much about using the communities water to water his bean field. When the people found out that Joe was “stealing” the water they were upset, mad, and wanted him to stop. This just goes to show that no matter what you do, you can’t please everybody.
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The Mind of Criminals
What are psychopaths? The definition of a psychopath is a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse (Buss 5-6). The so called psychopath of Moonraker is Hugh Drax, and From Russia with Love is Red Grant. These villains are the epitome of the word psychopath. Psychopaths are a kind of being that have no remorse of their actions (Buss 5-6). In the book, Moonraker,
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The Mirror of Time and Memory
The Mirror of Time and Memory. Live in the house-and the house will stand. I will call up any century, Go into it and build myself a house… With shoulder blades like timber props I help up every day that made the past, With a surveyor's chain I measure time And traveled through as if across the Urals. I only need my immortality For my blood to go on flowing from age to age. I
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The Mirror of Time and Memory
The Mirror of Time and Memory. Live in the house-and the house will stand. I will call up any century, Go into it and build myself a house… With shoulder blades like timber props I help up every day that made the past, With a surveyor’s chain I measure time And traveled through as if across the Urals. I only need my immortality For my blood to go on flowing from age to age. I
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The Mise-En-Scene of Metropolis
An Expressionist Vision German Expressionism is a unique film style that came out of Weimer Germany, the period between World War I and World War II. It focused mainly on the visual aspects on the screen meant to express emotions that trigger more personal reactions from the audience. According to David Hudson, German expressionism was an exploration “into juxtaposing light and shadow” as well as madness and obsession in an urban setting complete with complex
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The Mission
“The Mission” The mission begins in 1750 in the rain forest of Central South America when Father Gabriel who was a Jesuit missionary attempts to bring the Gospel or good news to the native people who are called the Guarani. This was Father Gabriel’s mission, which was very risky considering the Guarani killed the first missionary that was sent to them. Father Gabriel gains the native people’s trust by playing music to show that he
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