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  • Analysis of the Movie out of the Past

    Analysis of the Movie out of the Past

    The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it, such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed, double-crossed , ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat, who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal

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    Essay Length: 2,522 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Monika
  • Platton the Movie Review

    Platton the Movie Review

    John Doe English Mrs. Robinson 03/01/03 Platoon There are many war movies some more realistic then others. But the movie “Platoon” raised some questions as to how real it actually was. Some people think that it was the director’s time in Vietnam that made the movie so realistic. Others say that he touched perfectly on the segregation between the soldiers. No one can exactly pin what it was that made Mr. Stones “Platoon” so realistic.

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    Essay Length: 424 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Comparison of the Great Gatsby Book and Movie

    Comparison of the Great Gatsby Book and Movie

    The book, The Great Gatsby, was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book has a definite plot line, and the details are very well defined. Everything in the book fits together well. The movie on the other hand, has some continuity errors. The movie follows the same plot line as the book, but the movie leaves out some details and events that are in the book, and has details and events that didn’t occur in

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Home Economics Movie

    Home Economics Movie

    Home Economics Home economics is a documentary type movie produced and directed by Jenny Cool. It talks about housing in the suburbs of Los Angeles and the effects that it has in people living there. Even though the documentary seem a little bit old and outdated, it’s still relevant with today’s situation with housing in the United States. It takes the perspective of women living in suburban housing developments like Lancaster and Antelope Valley. The

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    Essay Length: 935 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Victor
  • Sidetracked Movies

    Sidetracked Movies

    Movies have been around for as long as I can remember. They may come in many forms or video types, such as film on a reel, beta, VHS, DVDs and many more. Every successful movie tells a certain story, whether it be original, based on a true story, or based on a book. Whatever the case, the scripts are usually original and closely follow the plot they are based on, if there is one. More

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Max
  • Stereotypic Notion

    Stereotypic Notion

    Stereotypic notions can make people to have false impression about a culture or society. These notions have people to be unfounded information about other people. People will have harsh, unkind or hateful things about other cultures and not know one thing about their way of life. These notions might be untrue due to the lack of information. One of the most recent stereotypic notions involves the Arabic people. These notions were Arabic people are

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    Essay Length: 354 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: David
  • Movie Violence

    Movie Violence

    Since I am not a fan of viewing blood, and the violent actions that causes it; I decided to watch a movie in which the violence is less grotesque. The movie that I chose to watch was “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” I chose this movie because I have recently read that the children’s book series Harry Potter has been rated amongst the most violent books meant for young readers. If you look

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Movie Review

    Movie Review

    Movie Review Different movies have many different aspects of teaching techniques, some good and some bad, and teachers and future teacher can learn from the actions and roles played in films. However, some actions should remain in the film and never be repeated by teachers. In the film, "Dangerous Minds", Michelle Pheiffer plays a teacher that displays many positive characteristics of a teacher, but also displays some negative characteristics. Mrs. Pfeiffer teaches an English class

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Movie Review: Remember the Titans

    Movie Review: Remember the Titans

    Movie Review: Remember the Titans In 1971, the black and white schools in Alexandria, Virginia were forced to integrate and became T.C. Williams High School. There were in the community. Above al that, the white football coach, Bill Yoast, was replaced by a black football coach, Herman Boone. There was uproar among the white players and their parents because their white head coach was being replaced. The players attended a training camp where white and

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Amistad Movie Review

    Amistad Movie Review

    The movie that I choose to review is Amistad. I think this movie would be very appropriate with our course and subject. Set in 1839, a group of Africans take over a Spanish slave ship: directed by Steven Spielberg. Two abolitionists, Lewis Tappan (Stellan Skarsgard) and Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman) hire a real estate attorney Roger Baldwin (Mathew McConaughey), who is convinced he has the key to set African free. But pro-slavery President Martin Van

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Ethnic Culture and Culture of Poverty: The Gypsy/roma

    Ethnic Culture and Culture of Poverty: The Gypsy/roma

    Peter Szuhay asked in “Constructing a Gypsy National Culture” whether the Gypsies are an ethnic culture or a culture of poverty. I would like to argue that the Gypsy identity is a product of traditional ethnic culture as well as the product of a marginalized social stratum. There are many aspects of gypsy ethnic culture to which can be contributed to the result of marginalization and sometimes those same ethnic cultural traits become stereotypes

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Bred
  • Rosewood the Movie

    Rosewood the Movie

    The movie Rosewood had a lot of impact on black and white people throughout the century. Rosewood stems from a small town located in central Florida. It co-existed with 120 people, mostly blacks who owned and farmed the surrounding land. On New Year's Day of that year, Fanny Taylor, a white woman in the nearby predominantly white town of Sumner, ran out of her house screaming, bruised and battered, claiming that a black man had

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Janna
  • Static with Chaotic Notions

    Static with Chaotic Notions

    I felt small only just enough to enough to make my skin crawl, hanging onto insignifigant rock-like grains of sand to ward off the breeze. which one and who was i with when whatever happened on wednsday transpired? Waiting in the wings of a liar, and I remembered leaving before anyone could remember me. Parasitic in the purest possible pondering, as when recalling wanderings through winter parks as i was wondering... ...what was the goings

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Jon
  • Movie Review: Seven Years in Tibet

    Movie Review: Seven Years in Tibet

    Related Event: Movie- Seven Years in Tibet I watched Seven Years in Tibet for the first time ever and really found it to be an interesting movie. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Brad Pitt was playing the lead actor, but it had a lot more qualities than that! In the beginning I had no idea how it would be related to the course on Religion, other than he was traveling to Tibet. I was

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Seven, the Movie

    Seven, the Movie

    “Ernest Hemmingway once wrote, ‘the world is a fine place and worth fighting for,’ I agree with the second part.” The movie Seven ends with that quote stated by Somerset, attempting to justify the many moral dilemmas touched upon by the movie but mainly to bring the character of Somerset and the audience back to the beginning. The symmetry of the characters that the quote creates between the beginning of the movie and the end

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Cup - Movie Review

    The Cup - Movie Review

    "The Cup" as per my consideration an average short movie. It is a pleasant movie about teenager monks and their love towards the football game. Firstly many things related to Buddhist philosophy and culture is shown. How they perform their ritual to somebody in the FAMILY. But at that time it also shows the way teenagers monks dislike (or better to say less like) these traditions. The characters within the film take their time in

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Movie Review of Thank You for Not Smoking

    Movie Review of Thank You for Not Smoking

    Thank You For Smoking Drawing the line between personal practice and personal morals is a complicated task when your job requires you to have a thick skin and get the job done. Compromising the way you live your life and the way you perform at work can make a person feel like a hypocrite. Finding the middle ground can, for some, take years and years of work in their field to get right. In the

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Jon
  • Movie Piracy

    Movie Piracy

    The subject of my paper focuses on movie piracy. Movie Piracy by definition is the illegal copying of movies for personal or commercial use. This is a new epidemic that is affecting the film industry financially on a global level. What are the necessary steps that can be taken on behalf of the film industry that can stop this illegal practice from occurring? Once you walk down the city streets of New York, you can

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Piano Movie

    The Piano Movie

    The piano Pageant Scene Corrigan states “Note which elements are repeated to emphasize a point or a perception” (22). Many elements such as angles, peeping holes, and fingers are portrayed in the film. They are particularly emphasized in the pageant. The pageant scene embodies a story within a story. It contains a great deal of imagery and foreshadowing .The Bluebeard performance emphasis the key concepts of female fatality and female strength in this film. At

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    Essay Length: 609 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Yan
  • Murderball Movie Review

    Murderball Movie Review

    For the movie assignment I decided to view Murderball. Murderball is a true story that focuses on life as a quadriplegic and the sport of quad rugby (Murderball). Mark Zupan, Joe Soares, and Keith Cavill are three characters whose lives are highlighted in the film. Joe Soares was a former Team USA standout and in the movie he was captain of Team Canada. Soares became quadriplegic from childhood polio. The disease put Joe in

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Casablanca the Movie

    Casablanca the Movie

    1942, the year of the creation of one of the most historical movies known to date. That movie, Casablanca, based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick's", still captivates audiences around the world. The setting of the movie is Casablanca, Morocco during the second world war. Casablanca is the jump off point to get to Spain and then to America, but refugees must obtain a fairly costly exit Visa to get onto the

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: July
  • The Movie Vs. the Epic

    The Movie Vs. the Epic

    Was any living person around for the ancient times? No, and no one truly knows what happened, but epics like The Iliad, written by Homer, allows one to visualize what it was like and lead filmmakers to try and create accurate depictions in their movies. Troy, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, is a movie that retells the story of The Iliad or at least it is an attempt to. Although the movie Troy does make a

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Yan
  • Movie Marketing in India

    Movie Marketing in India

    Executive Summary The Indian film industry has been going through a sea change in its attitude. Multiplexes are fast dotting up the metros and are slowly realizing the potential of even the smaller areas. Today, there are far more avenues to make money out of a movie than just its box office earnings. DVD releases, music launch, merchandise, overseas distribution rights etc all form a part of the earnings. This has been a slow process

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Great Gatsby: Movie Vs Book

    Great Gatsby: Movie Vs Book

    The Great Gatsby I: All throughout grade school and even high school, my teachers, parents, and even friends told me not to take the easy way out when it comes to books. Always read the book before the movie. I usually took the easy way out, watched the movie, and then skim the book. After doing this project I see what everyone was talking about. The book is much better than the movie, it gives

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: David
  • Man with a Movie Camera

    Man with a Movie Camera

    The Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film that was created in black and white by Russian director Dziga Vertov. This is a film without scenario and actors but Vertov used different music to bring out slow and fast rhythm. He used the camera to capture real happen and he wanted to show everyday life to the audiences. Vertov used many cinematic techniques to make his film more vivid such

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    Essay Length: 358 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Mike

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