Cinema Film Essays and Term Papers
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Film Journal on Norma Rae
Film: Norma Rae Director: Martin Ritt Year: 1979 Stars: Sally Field Brief Plot: Norma Rae doesn't have much going for her in her life. She has two children that she's raising on her own, lives with her parents, has lots of problems with men, and works in a textile mill in the south. The conditions of the mill are deplorable. The wages are pitiful, and workers are on their feet all day, with barely a
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Analyse the Methods Used to Make the Opening Battle Sequence of ‘saving Private Ryan'both Shocking and Realistic, and Say How Effective You Find It as an Introduction to the Film
Saving Private Ryan was released on September 11th 1998, and was directed by Steven Spielberg and was a joint production of both DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount. Other films that Spielberg has directed are: Jaws (19) E.T (1982) Jurassic Park (1993) Schindler’s List (1993) Artificial Intelligence: AI (1997) Minority Report (2002) As well as many others. The film is about the historic D-Day Landings of Normandy in 1944, and is shown through American soldiers’ eyes and
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Hud: Bucking the Western Film Stereotype
Hud: Bucking the Western film stereotype Hud (1963) starring Paul Newman is a film about a man who works on his families' ranch along with his nephew Lonnie under his father Homer's direction. When the cows on the ranch become ill with foot and mouth disease, Homer must make a tough decision to kill them. The film depicts the struggle between Homer and Hud over the future of the ranch. Thinking about popular culture imagery
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Review of the Film the Weather Underground
Review of the film The Weather Underground The film The Weather Underground was a great way to educate the population about a part of history not many people know about. The film was a documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegle. The directors used many strategies and elements to make the film effective for the purpose of a documentary, which would be to inform their audience. They used elements like flashbacks of images and news
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Irish Cinema
PHIL 434 Module 1 Assignment 4 (Quiz, covering Modules 3 & 4) NAME: Elizabeth Frolick STUDENT #: 24611030 Instructions: This assignment must be submitted to the Assignments page of the course website. Please follow these instructions: 1. Save this document using the "Save As" command of your word processor. Rename the document in the document name field ("Save Current Document as:" in Microsoft Word) in the dialogue box that appears when you choose "Save As."
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Sling Blade - Film Directed by and Screen Play by Billy Bob Thornton
Sling Blade Film directed by and screen play by Billy Bob Thornton. Theme Sling Blade’s main theme is the redemption of Karl’s lost childhood. Karl Childer’s overly religious parents believed he was a punishment from God. They severely abused him, treated him like an animal, and forced him to live in a shed in solitude. Everyone in town picked on him and called him names. He was seen as a “retard” or slower than others.
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Elizabeth’ as an Example of Art Cinema
Bordwell and Thompson define the art film as "a film which, while made under commercial circumstances take an approach to form and style influenced by "high art" which offers an alternative to mainstream entertainment" (1). Like avant-garde film making, this style offer the audience with a movie that takes glory in cinemas stance as a modern art form, for art house films are not just intended to be entertaining, they are designed to be imaginative.
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Film Comparative
Maori People of New Zealand vs. Western Australian Aboriginals During our film study in English, we viewed two outstanding movies - 'Rabbit-Proof Fence' and 'Whale Rider'. Rabbit-Proof Fence, the first movie we watched, is about the real journey of three half-cast girls, living in Western Australia where they were captured, sent to a confinement camp, which they escaped to travel home to their families. The second movie, Whale Rider, is a completely different story about
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Films That Were Enjoyed and Disliked
Michael Pahios Cinema Professor Sterritt Monday, October 04, 2004 Films that were enjoyed and disliked The DVD The Movies Begin by Kino video is a testament to the early beginnings of film history. The series outlines man’s earliest attempts to create visual representations of the world around them, with great success. There are many short films on the disc that range from real events to staged minute long “stories.” There are some films that are
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Bmw Films
1 Problem/Issue Statement 1.1 The Films The popularity of the short films create positive buzz around the BMW brand name, and anticipation for more short films to be released. The problem is how to extend the buzz and ride on the popularity of the films while circumventing potential moves by competition to copy this marketing device and for the device to lose novelty appeal. 1.2 Focus of the attention Another issue is that the films
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Cinema Paradiso
“Cinema Paradiso” is a movie about growing up, love, leaving and returning home, loss and success. Its first part illustrates a flashback of Salvatore’s life in Sicily, how he fell in love with movies with Alfredo’s guidance, and how he and his beloved Elena started a romance that ended bitterly. The latter part shows his return from Rome to his hometown for Alfredo’s funeral and some revelations of past events that caused him to live
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Bmw Films
1. What were the objectives of the BMWFilms campaign? In the early 1990’s BMW’s performance in the US had reached a low point with annual unit sales falling as low as 53,500. The performance of the company was so poor that rumours in the automobile industry suggested BMW may exit the US market. In the ten years from 1991 to 2000 however the company rebounded and by 2000 annual sales had reached record levels of
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Macbeth Film Interpretation
Polanski’s Macbeth There have been many different versions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. All of which include different endings and portrayals of characters. However, Polanski’s adaptation is probably the most contradistinctive to the other films. Polanski transformed the ordinary script to something new, refreshing and ingenious with his selection of exceptional actors he was able to create a whole new story of Macbeth. Polanski created this film after the gruesome murder of his wife, Sharon Tate. The
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Gallipoli - Australian Film Review
Gallipoli is the remarkable story of two Western Australian mates who are sent to Gallipoli in 1915. Frank and Archie are both very successful sprinters and Archie wants adventure, while Frank wants to stay in Australia, but signs up for the inventory anyway. This story brings back some harsh truths about warfare, and explains why so many naпve young men joined up, only to suffer deaths well before their time. The troops were headed for
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Film Industry: Then and Now
Film: Then and Now The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry’s existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature
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What Makes an Excellent Film?
What makes an excellent film? It took me a little while to come up with an answer to, “What makes an excellent film?” There really is no answer, actually. I believe that an excellent film is within the eyes and emotions of the audience. After researching and discovering what actually won Oscars and Golden Globe awards, it came down to what the people thought, and the popularity of a film. It is extremely hard to
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Romeo Juliet Film Comparison to Text
Comment on how three different incidents are presented in the films, saying whether you consider it to be helpful to your understanding of the text. The Zeffereli and Luhrman “Romeo and Juliet” videos greatly enhance the basic Romeo and Juliet text. The text is written to William Shakespeare’s time period, the late sixteenth century and a lot of the words, phrases and comparisons are difficult to understand. In the video imagery is used to aid
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The Glorious World of Stagnation: A Look at the Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader Film, “taxi Driver”
New York City that is depicted in Taxi Driver seems to be too real to be true. It is a place where violence runs rampant, drugs are cheap, and sex is easy. This world may be all too familiar to many that live in major metropolitan areas. But, in the film there is something interesting, and vibrant about the streets that Travis Bickle drives alone, despite the amount of danger and turmoil that overshadows everything
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Children in Early Italian Cinema
Upon viewing all of the movies in Foreign Film: Italian Cinema, I found that the vast majority of the children are more intelligent than the adults in the movies. For example, in Rome: Open City, Marcello is so very young but he is a part of the resistance, or at least what I would call a mini-resistance. Marcello even helps his children’s group of resistance in setting a bomb. His mother Pina also, instead of
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Film Review: Mindwalk
Film Review: Mindwalk If a good movie is one that makes you think, Mindwalk must be superb. However, I haven't even read the book it was based on and I can say that the book must have been better. The actors are laughable, and the physicists' accent changes with each new scene. Furthermore, the transitions to each scene are as smooth as sandpaper. The purpose of this movie wasn't, and with good reason, to be
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Mansfield Park, the Novel, or Mansfield Park the Film?
There have been many adaptations of Jane Austen's books over the years; all six of her novels have been made into films or television dramas with varying degrees of success, from the classics of Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility, to the funny modern version of Emma in the form of Clueless. In this paper I want to show how director Patricia Rozema has made Austen's novel Mansfield Park much more modern, accessible,
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French New Wave Cinema: Breathless 1959
“French New Wave”: Breathless (1959) The phrase “New Wave” was a blanket term given to a materializing film movement in Europe in the late1950’s and 1960’s, mainly in France, Italy, and England where an abrupt manifestation of brilliant films emerged. This movement consisted of two groups of directors, the Cahiers , majorly consisting of critics turned filmmakers and the Left Bank who consisted of individuals who went straight into filmmaking. Jean-Luc Godard was within the
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How to Write Film Review?
WRITING A FILM REVIEW Be sure to check out film terminology! In writing your film review, remember that your writing is intended to be persuasive. Additionally, your writing should demonstrate clearly that you not only viewed the film, but also read the novel or play which formed the basis of the film. Paragraph 1: Offer your overall impression of the film while mentioning the movie's title, director, and key actors. Paragraph 2: Summarize the plot
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Film Analysis - Roots of Resistance a Story of the Underground Railroad
Film Analysis: Roots of Resistance a Story of the Underground Railroad In the movie Roots of Resistance a Story of the Underground Railroad, the filmmaker makes some very strong points. He made the movie in a way that portrays his specific opinion and views on the Underground Railroad. If a viewer didn't know what the movie was about they may have guessed it would have been a very different kind of movie based on the
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Discussion on the Film "six Degrees of Separation"
Extra Credit on the Film Six Degrees of Separation The reality that Paul is attempting to construct is one that is totally opposite than the one that is his own. Paul is constantly talking about how he knows the Kittredge’s daughter and son. He regularly talks about his days at Harvard and how he is so wealthy. He builds up this extravagant scene of being prosperous, yet, he is a mere destitute. You only figure
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