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  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,214 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Max
  • 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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    Essay Length: 723 Words / 3 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 418 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 908 Words / 4 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 584 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Tommy
  • 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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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Janna
  • 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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    Essay Length: 748 Words / 3 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 1,970 Words / 8 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 375 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 443 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 701 Words / 3 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 763 Words / 4 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 981 Words / 4 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 327 Words / 2 Pages
    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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    Essay Length: 520 Words / 3 Pages
    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
  • Compare and Contrast the Movies Requiem for a Dream and Malena

    Compare and Contrast the Movies Requiem for a Dream and Malena

    Paper #2: Film Review Although both Malena and Requiem for a Dream were released in the year 2000, they are very different films. There are multiple reasons why either film would be chosen over the other including storyline, affect on the viewer, actors/actresses, and the taste the viewer has with certain movies. Another aspect of the decision is the amount of themes a movie has and their importance. The more themes a movie forms the

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    Essay Length: 1,423 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Book and Movie Comparison

    One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Book and Movie Comparison

    “The Power of Words” In recent years, it has become popular for many of America’s great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera

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    Essay Length: 1,887 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Max
  • Malcolm X Novel Vs. Movie

    Malcolm X Novel Vs. Movie

    In my opinion, Alex Haley’s novel and Spike Lee’s interpretation were both good representations of Malcolm X’s life and ideals. Both were very detailed and entertaining in their depiction. Alex Haley’s portrayal of Malcolm X’s life as told by Malcolm, shares the same perception as the movie, but what Alex provides in the book many of Malcolm’s various interactions with “white folks”, and each interaction Malcolm gained something from it, some positive while others negative.

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Movie Analysis

    Movie Analysis

    SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY MOVIE ANALYSIS SYED RAZA HASHIM # 4299 JAI HARPALANI # 4351 INDEX NO TOPIC PAGE NO 1 MOVIE SUMMARY 3 2 LIST OF ALL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS FOUND IN THE MOVIE 5 3 PREJUDICE 6 4 GROUP THINK 8 5 BEHAVIOR AND ATTITUDE 10 6 CULTS 12 7 CHARACTER ANALYSIS 14 MOVIE SUMMARY The title of American History X is derived from the name of a class Danny is forced to take after

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    Essay Length: 671 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Top
  • Leone: The Movies of Fantasy

    Leone: The Movies of Fantasy

    can't quite find the words to even come close to describing the pure brilliance of this movie. When this movie was made, the western genre was dominated by the big hollywood studios. The western was taken by these studios and transformed into an opportunity to portray classic superheroes like John Wayne and Burt Lancaster in their fight against all sorts of smalltime crooks and outlaws in smalltime stories and smalltime towns. It was a genuine

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    Essay Length: 690 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: regina
  • Movie Analysis - Monster in Law

    Movie Analysis - Monster in Law

    Monster in Law The main characters in this movie involve Jennifer Lopez as Charlotte “Charlie” Cantilini, Jane Fonda as Viola Fields, Michael Vartan as Kevin Fields, and Wanda Sykes as Ruby. The movie is about Charlie who has been striking out in the dating scene. Charlie is an easy going person who is friendly, enjoys other peoples company, and seems to take pleasure in pleasing other people. She then meets Dr. Kevin Fields, who is

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    Essay Length: 1,176 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Vika
  • Serenity - Movie

    Serenity - Movie

    A switch to those girls' backsides is just good enough - Byen dahTAHmenduhBAY joGOluh Affirmative - Shi Bastard - hwun dan big change - da bianhua Brilliant - Jing tsai bullcrap - tsway-niou consistently useless - jing-tzahng mei yong-duh (jing-tsing myung duh) Damn! - Aiya! Dammit - Ta ma de dong ma - understand Don't worry - FAHNG-sheen Go far away very fast - KWAI chur hun-rien duh di fahng gos se - crap hell

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    Essay Length: 268 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Mike

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