The movie ‘Ready Player One’ was directed by Steven Spielberg. It features Tye Sheridan as Parzival/Wade, Olivia Cooke as Art3mis/Samantha, Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento, Lena Waithe as Aech/Helen and T.J. Miller as I-R0k. The genre of the movie consists of action, adventure, science fiction, thriller and animation. This film also has a combination of computer-generated image and visual effects. Steven Spielberg has works as a director, producer and as an executive producer on several films. He started to write the...
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Erin Brockovich, a frantic out-of-work divorcee and mother of three who persuades a legal counsellor Ed Masry to contract her and afterwards discovers a fantastic law body of evidence against PG&E company. Powered by a craving to accommodate her family and a consistently developing sympathy for the clueless casualties of a grave social bad form, the improbable Brockovich triumphs over the advanced ideal models of social standards, manners, and expert capabilities. This paper will look at how her character exhibited...
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The novel ‘Jurassic Park’ was written by Michael Crichton, and published in 1990. Most people know it as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film, which has gone on to spawn one of the biggest franchises in film history. While both the book and film follow the same basic plot, the film excludes many scenes and storylines so that the story is more streamlined and is confined to just over two hours. Crichton’s novel, a sci-fi thriller, is much darker...
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Music surrounds us, no matter where we travel or what we do it is impossible to not be exposed to two notes that create a musical tone. People use music to sometimes cope with emotions, relive certain moments where they felt euphoric either by relating to the lyrics or even just through hearing certain sounds of music. In ‘Blade Runner’, the sound design of the movie helps us, viewers, tremendously in understanding and depicting the emotions and the environment each...
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‘Game of Thrones’ has many elements of neo-medievalism. From dragons to White Walkers, this series brings the magical to life both on TV and in the books the show is based on. The series is loosely based on mid-to-late 15th century Europe. However, the series is set in an alternate realm called Westeros. Because the seven kingdoms within the realm are at war throughout the entire series, ‘Game of Thrones’ paints a very bleak and violent picture of the Middle...
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In today’s time, it is very easy for someone to be a bully or harass a person over social media. Before the popularity of social media, this type of insults to people would be done directly face to face with the person. The movie ‘No Country for Old Men’ displays representations of the different levels of harassment along with what it was like to be harassed in person before social media. One short clip from the movie ‘No Country for...
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Bud Fox, from the 1987 American drama ‘Wall Street’, directed and written by Oliver Stone, is a Wall Street young and fresh out of college stock broker that works for Jackson Steinem and Co. He spends most of his day making phone calls to sell stocks to individual investors. Fox only makes $50,000 a year and he feels it is not enough for him as he needs to pay off school loans, rent, suits. Fox is a smart, hard-working young...
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The most common reading of the monster stands as being a metaphor for the nuclear bomb. One can track this throughout the movie through cinematic techniques, dialogue and complementary timelines. It is most clearly demonstrated in the opening scene, where the destruction of the ship mirrors the events of Bikini Atoll. A test that threatened the Japanese fishermen’s lives through radiation exposure, the opening scenes action establishes the monster as this test. Putting the fishermen in harm’s way in the...
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What would you do if you were stuck reliving the same day in the exact same place repeatedly? I often asked myself this same question as I was watching ‘Groundhog Day’. ‘Groundhog Day’ is a romantic comedy movie that starts off with Phil Connors, an arrogant weatherman, who goes to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to do a broadcast of the annual events of the coming out of the groundhog. He hurries up to do the broadcast and tries to wrap it up...
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When it comes to the muted group theory, the concept is fairly simple. It states that those who hold the power in a room tend to have their ideas communicated better and those who do not have such strong language hold less power. When the more powerful groups are conversing, the other groups must find themselves changing their communication style in order to adapt to those of power. In regards to the movie ‘Legally Blonde’, the entire plot of the...
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‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘Life of Galileo’ clearly show characters always having issues about their loyalty. Loyalty always acts as an apocryphal element within people who work together. Elia Kazan’s classic, ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954) and author Bertolt Brecht’s one of the greatest, ‘Life of Galileo’ (1943), despite from different contexts and time, have characters who have issues questioning about their loyalty. Both plays have characters who act as a ‘moral conscience’, which directs the protagonist to correct their views...
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The Studio Ghibli movie ‘Princess Mononoke’ is a Japanese fantasy movie that was released on July 12, 1997, directed by studio head, Hayao Miyazaki. This film was the highest grossing film of Japan after its release. The movie is based during the Muromachi period, in 1336 to 1573 CE; this period was likely chosen due to the progress of the era. It is about a prince who finds himself in a journey of conflict, a fight between gods of the...
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The film ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ is a text that illuminates and conveys ideas, attitudes, and values of the ‘American Dream.’ In the Oxford Dictionary, the ‘American Dream’ is defined as the traditional social ideals of the United States of America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It exposes how the protagonist is devoted to obtaining their desires and how they strive to further achieve the ‘American Dream’, although their values and attitudes alter in both positive and negative...
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Have you or a loved one ever been diagnosed with having an asshole of a significant other? Well then, this essay might be the compensation you deserve. The film ‘Dead Poets Society’ has two women, Chris Noel and Mrs. Perry, they both have controlling, dominant men in their lives and it holds them back from being their true selves. In the movie, Mrs. Perry and Chris Noel, are in the same situation, but in different ways because, they are both...
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The movie ‘Dead Poets Society’ exemplifies major differences on how teachers use diverse methods in teaching for their students. It also shows us the different situations that students may encounter during their whole academic year and how they respond to the situations they are put in. The film also centered on how it was important to acknowledge the uniqueness of every student that teachers may come across during their years of teaching. In the movie, we can perceive the philosophical...
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Disobedience often deems an individual as an aggressive revolutionist, an independent leader, or a rebellious outsider. The context of one’s obedience—or lack thereof—determines how the majority will see them. Whether acting out and defying expectations can be defined as audacious and reckless behavior or valiant and courageous, is in the eye of the beholder. Impulsively disobeying and blindly obeying are equally destructive in society. Mankind has always endeavored to understand the complexities of the human mind. For centuries psychologists and...
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The movie ‘Dead Poets Society’ was set in 1959 in Vermont at an all-boys boarding school known as Welton Academy. In Peter Weir’s 1989 film, ‘Dead Poets Society’ touches on the relationship between Neil Perry and his father, where Neil’s true self was oppressed in his role as an obedient son. Following, human relationships have a complex nature, they present many challenges making it essential in the forming of an individual. Their father-son relationship continues to dissolve throughout the movie,...
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When people get to a specific age, they start to care less which promotes teen rebellion by breaking rules and expectations. Teens are developing into their own separate person and starting to get their own sense of direction by testing boundaries and experiencing the consequences. An important theme explored in Weir’s ‘Dead Poets Society’ and Ross’s ‘Pleasantville’ was rebellion. ‘Pleasantville’ is about two teenagers Jennifer and David who travel into a different world where everything and one is pleasant, whereas...
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Lord Farquaad is the main evil villain of the movie ‘Shrek’, and shortest one too. He is the ruler of Duloc – and a cruel one at that. At the beginning of the movie Farquaad banishes all of the fairytale creatures from his land (relocated to Shrek’s swamp), torturing others to give up the location of whatever creatures he hasn’t yet found. From the start he is portrayed as a cruel and insecure ruler, and yet is the butt of...
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In literature, a quest is a mission the protagonist goes on to achieve a stated goal while he unknowingly completes another desired task. The five elements of a quest are: “a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there” (Foster). The quest is one of the most commonly recurring archetypes in literature, as Foster states, “Every trip is a quest (except when it’s not)” (Foster)....
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‘The Blind Side’ is a movie based on a true-life story about a homeless teen and the family that took him in. The movie is based on Michael Oher who was homeless, who discovered a family that wanted him, and who rose to become famous. This paper will analyze the main character Michael Oher. Michael was an African American homeless while his drug addicted mother lived in a rundown apartment. Unfortunately, Michael never knew his father was, had little education,...
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Based on a book ‘The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game’, the movie I am going to talk about in this paper is based on a true story. Michael Oher, lonely boy, left away to the streets has now entered school, no money, no family, started sleeping at the school’s gym during winter as it was warming, then one day, the most amazing thing was going to happen to him, he was about to discover true love, respect and protection....
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Everyone has many encounters of different human experiences which each individual acts a certain way to deal with that human experience. Human experiences are experiences undergone by a person, it is the ability to process memories by the conscience mind, an example of human experience is happiness. In this paper I’m going to show how human experience is represented powerfully in Amanda Lohrey’s ‘Vertigo’ and the movie ‘The Blind Side’. It will be represented through techniques like visual imagery, metaphors,...
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At the opening of the Gettysburg scene in his movie ‘Remember the Titans’, Yakin starts with a long shot of the camp building and its surroundings. By using this shot, it tells the audience where the scene is taking place and at what time. As shown by the long shot, the audience can recognize that the setting of the scene is at the campsite, around midnight or early morning, because of the lack of lighting. When the fog-horn blares, all...
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The movie, ‘Boyz n the Hood’ (1991), was directed and written by John Singleton and produced by Steven Nicolaides, this movie was based off John’s life and the lives of many African American youth in urban communities (Needham, C., 2008). The movie takes place in South Central Los Angeles during the mid-1980. South-Central Los Angeles was considered a hot zone for crime, gang violence, and drug smuggling during that time (Reinhold, 1988). During this time, we see the first wave...
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The movie ‘V for Vendetta’ is based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. It’s a dystopian political thriller, set up in the year 2032, in England. The protagonist named V is trying to instigate a revolution against the ruling government. V convinces a young girl Evey played by Natalie Portman, to join his mission. This dystopian England is ruled by the fascist Norsefire government whose leaders have used unethical means to ascend to and gain power....
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The movie ‘Spirited Away’ is about the adventure of a young girl (Chihiro) trying to rescue her parents. Chihiro is reluctantly moving to a new town with her family. On their ride they stumble upon an old abandoned theme park and decide to stretch their legs and explore it. When nightfall hits, a discovery is made. This theme park turns out to be a place that is a portal between the living world and the dead. Chihiro’s parents were turned...
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During the year 1933, the Nazis came into power led by Adolf Hitler without using any force. Hitler convinced the Nazis to help him get rid of all the Jews. He forced all or most of the Jews onto crowded train cars and hauled them off to either any of the various ghettos, any of the various concentration camps, or any of the various labor camps. The ghettos were not much better to be living in then labor or concentration...
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The film Shrek is based on a book titled ‘’Shrek’’ which was authored by William Steig. The book is designed for use by children and is about the giant green ogre. This tale is aimed mainly at the children and their parents. From the beginning, the movie is barely a fairy tale, with a lot of twists. The film also uses stereotypical features, characters, and structures. However, throughout the film, these features are challenged by intertextuality, twists in the stereotypical,...
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Disney movies have been criticized in the past for promoting an unrealistic beauty standard through their princesses as well as constant reinforcement that a man is needed in order to complete a woman. However, in the 2013 movie ‘Frozen’, Disney seemed to have attempted to listen to some of these gendered critiques. The main characters, Anna and Elsa, do still fit the profile of classic Disney princess physically, being white and shockingly thin, however, they manage to challenge the typical...
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