Coming from a time when the Vietnam war was as it were fair wrapping up, however, the bad dream of the Cold War appeared to be moving theatres, from the blanketed greys of central Europe to the ruddy aridity of the Centre East, All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) could be a convenient antiwar film, directed by Delbert Mann and maybe a change of a prior 1930’s adjustment of the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which Nolan utilized as...
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What would it be like to situate Gandhi in today's pragmatic times? Would the Gandhian way of life have any value in this “developed modern civilization,” Gandhi was critical of? This has been shown with a touch of humor in Raj Kumar Hirani’s film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. The movie beautifully answers these questions, by locating Gandhi in popular culture. The movie, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, strives to revive the values and principles of Mahatma...
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This paper is to relate communication concepts that we have discussed in class and the textbook to a movie of my choice. Specifically, I chose a movie called “Tell Me How I Die” to do for the movie night essay. Not only am I telling what this movie is about, but I will also analyze two separate concepts that we have discussed and show how they each relate to this movie. The two concepts that we have discussed in class...
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The Big Five personality model Conscientiousness: A personality dimension that describes someone responsible, persistent, organized, and dependable. As we know Americans are very active, organized, and take responsibility on their own. In the movie, Steve Jobs was also an American and followed his culture. he was always persistent in his goal. He wanted to achieve something big in his life. He was a very responsible person and organized in his work life. But he was not dependent on others. He...
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Introduction Scott Fitzgerald's novel, 'The Great Gatsby,' has captivated readers for decades with its exploration of wealth, love, and the American Dream. In 1974, director Jack Clayton brought the story to the silver screen, starring Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan. While both the book and the movie share the same narrative foundation, there are notable differences between the two mediums. This essay aims to compare and contrast the 1974 film adaptation of 'The Great...
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Introduction The movie "Pearl Harbor," directed by Michael Bay and released in 2001, is a historical epic that portrays the events surrounding the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. While the film received mixed reviews from critics, it remains an important cinematic representation of a pivotal moment in American history. This research paper will delve into various aspects of the movie, including its historical accuracy, portrayal of characters and relationships, and its impact on popular culture. Historical...
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Introduction The movie "Pearl Harbor," directed by Michael Bay and released in 2001, is a historical drama that depicts the events surrounding the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. As a viewer, watching this film was a captivating experience that evoked various emotions and prompted reflections on the significance of the historical event. In this reaction paper, I will discuss my personal reactions, thoughts, and critiques of the movie "Pearl Harbor." Emotional Impact One of the most...
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Introduction "Pearl Harbor," directed by Michael Bay and released in 2001, is a film that portrays the events surrounding the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. As a viewer, I had eagerly anticipated watching this movie, given its historical significance and the reputation of the director. In this personal review paper, I will share my thoughts and opinions on the movie "Pearl Harbor." Plot and Narrative The plot of "Pearl Harbor" revolves around the lives of three main characters: Rafe, Danny,...
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Individual human experiences are fundamentally modulated by the values of the collective, by which individual and shared beliefs determine human behavior, emotions, and motivations. As such, the value and meaning in people’s lives are dependent on collective human assumptions and ideas, prompting personal reflection to which an individual can weigh and assess the value and meaning of things, as well as evaluate the means one might use to acquire those things. Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) is a seemingly complete...
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Genre theory is utilized to explore films and place them into a category, so people are aware of what genre of film it is before seeing it. Genres are classifications based on the tale of the movie. All movies belong to a genre or sub-genre type. One of the better well-known but missed genres is a romantic comedy. The cheesy back-and-forth, clever actions, sexual pressures, good-heartedness soliloquies, and the conflict betwixt the central two people in the film, are why...
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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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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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‘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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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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Introduction to Michael Oher's Journey 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...
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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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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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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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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 Earth has been deserted, disregarded and disrespected. It is 700 years in the future. A city occupied by skyscrapers takes over the horizon. A more observant look reveals the structures are actually consist of garbage, neatly formed into blocks and piled to form skyscraper like structures. Throughout this vast city of trash, only one creature roams the land. This is Wall-E, the last remaining solar-powered robot. He scoops up trash, shovels it into his stomach, compresses it into a...
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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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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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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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When editing a movie, you can choose to edit the sequences with a chronological structure (or linear structure) or with a non-chronological structure. With a linear structure you put the sequences in the order which they appear in the timeline, you have a beginning, a middle and an end. If you choose to edit with a non-chronological structure, you choose to not refer to a linear timeline but to put the sequences in a particular order for a good reason....
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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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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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In the movie ‘Million Dollar Baby’, the primary ethical dilemma was the act of euthanasia. Maggie, a famous female boxer, became paralyzed following an injury sustained during a match with the champion of women’s boxing. Eventually, she decided to commit assisted suicide so that she would be out of her misery and remember the good times she had in life and when boxing. The ethical theory of care-based ethics seems most relevant in this film because of the fact that...
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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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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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