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12 Angry Men Assessment

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12 Angry Men directed by Sidney Lumet, is a fantastic visual that protrudes the many reoccurring and significant ideas that are even present in society today. This cinematic masterpiece displays a controversial issue, an eighteen-year-old boy facing the justice system for allegedly murdering his own father. Under the justice system, there are twelve prominent judges who through their own sense...

The Hunger Games': Book Report

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An essential contribution to the Young Adult or 'YA' genre is the influential trilogy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Since the first novel's release in 2008, all three books have generated successful Hollywood movies, merchandise and a large fanbase. Therefore, in a discussion of YA fiction, the impact of The Hunger Games cannot be ignored. To understand the...

“I Am not Your Negro” Versus “Chisholm ‘72”: Comparative Analysis of Documentaries

4 Pages 1621 Words
1. Compare and contrast, evaluate and critique, the use and effect of archival footage in the nonfiction films we have studied across weeks 9-14. “I am not your Negro” vs. “Chisholm ‘72” Beyond the presentation of archival documentaries, it has fallen into two unfortunate groups. There’s the conventional variety of “archival doc” that consists of basic talking head interviews intercut...

Mexicans Stereotypes in Movies

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Films and movies are incredible creations that can inspire people, make people laugh, make people cry, and change peoples lives. That is because movies reflect everyday life, and people. However, Mexican people have always gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to representation and portrayal in Hollywood. When Hollywood first made films about Mexican people, in the...

Film Analysis Paper: 'Crazy Rich Asians'

5 Pages 2273 Words
The film ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is very interesting and mainly focuses on the cultural aspect of sociology. The film is about a lady named Rachel Chu and a man named Nick Young who are in a relationship. They have a fairly normal and very intimate relationship. Rachel Chu has the occupation of an economics professor at New York University and...

Representing Violence in Roderick Ford's 'Giuseppe' and Vicki Feaver's 'The Gun'

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The juxtaposition between the surface presentation of violence in ‘Giuseppe’ by Roderick Ford and ‘The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver is immense, the writers explore the varying effects that violence brings within the individual poems. ‘The Gun’ creates an excited and admiring approach towards violence whereas ‘Giuseppe’ shows utter loathing and regret into events that unfolded in the past regarding violence....

Themes of Extremism, Revenge and Manifest Destiny in “The Searchers” by John Ford: Analytical Essay

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The Searchers': A Cinematic Exploration The creative decision in “The Searchers” (1956) John Ford Film makers use various cinematographic techniques and attach special attributes to characters with the aim of passing their intended message in an emphatic manner. The Searchers is a 1956 film directed by John Ford that carries such a strong message on the themes. The film, based...

Plot Summary of The Hunger Games

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The story starts off in dystopian future America, called Panem led by President Snow. There was a war many years ago, which resulted in the country being divided into twelve poor districts and one rich totalitarian capital. The twelve districts all represent different characteristics and beliefs based off the resources they have. District twelve, known for mining coal, is where...

Essay on Black Power Movement: Analysis of Blaxploitation Movies

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The boom period of exploitation in the USA brought forward probably the most criticised yet progressive wing of the exploitation genre, Blaxploitation, it was an ethnic subgenre born out of the black power movement, with 1971s Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song being one of the first films which portrayed a strong ideology of black power allowing African American actors to forefront...

Never Give Up: Critical Analysis of “Southpaw” - Movie about The Success or Defeat

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“Southpaw”, in other words, the left hand. The unmissable dramatic sport story movie of Billy Hope, by Antoine Fuqua, in 2015. This movie highlights the performances of Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker, Curtis “50 cents” Jackson, and a lot of other actors. According to Camden Francis on the site IMDb, for two hours and five minutes the...

Anti-Pornography VS Anti-Censorship

2 Pages 849 Words
Pornography can be defined as “sexually explicit material intended to cause sexual arousal” (Macionis, 2018). Pornography is extremely popular in the United States and throughout the world, and thanks to the internet it is more readily available than ever before. Sexually explicit videos, movies, and magazines, telephone “sex lines,” are now supplemented by an estimated 800 million pages of pornographic...

Death of a Salesman and its Movie Adaptation

2 Pages 855 Words
Robert Stam, in his essay “Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation” has explained the concept of converting a single track medium (book) into a multitrack medium ( movie) and how now must take into consideration the various facts which revolve around such a task. A written work consists of a single material expression, the writer’s contemplations and is able to...

British Pride to an Indian Bride: Problems of Retaining the Indian Essence in a Western Scenario

7 Pages 3153 Words
ABSTRACT Adapting literary texts into films, often disregarded as a secondary activity, is a crucial process that requires the effort and time equal to that of creative writing. An adaptation's success depends on its ability to amalgamate the gist of the literary text and the necessities of a visionary medium, without the objective of the adaptation getting compromised. Jane Austen’s...

Still Alice Essay

3 Pages 1642 Words
The film Still Alice deals with a very serious subject matter of a person whose life is turned upside down when she gets a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout most of this film we can see an accurate portrayal of the symptoms associated with this crippling brain disease. During the course of the entire movie Alice Howland progressively goes...

The Role of Allusion in the Sun, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the Catcher in the Rye

2 Pages 817 Words
Never affirm. Always Allude. Allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart” (Umberto Eco). Allusions are necessary because it allows for authors to include a deeper meaning to their message indirectly, allowing the reader to interpret the message for themselves. Allusions are used on the assumption that the reader and author have shared knowledge about a certain...

Themes and Ideas in The Scarlet Letter Movie

3 Pages 1396 Words
The scarlet letter is an American romantic drama film. It is an adaptation of Nathaniel Howthorne’s book that was written in 1850. The movie was directed by Roland Joffe and stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, Gary Olman as Dimmesdale, and Roland Duvall as Roguer Chillingworth. There are many similarities and differences in the novel as in the film, and...

Ethical Dilemmas In The Hunger Games

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The Hunger Games starts with an ethical dilemma in the first chapter. Katniss discusses going hunting outside the district even though if she gets caught it could result in death. I feel that she chooses to hunt despite the consequences because she didn’t want to see her little sister or mom starve. I believe she uses the virtues approach in...

Isolation In Gothic Stories And Films

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The style of writing found in Gothic literature was used by many writers in the early 1800 and 1900s and can still be found in writing today. Within Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro and “Death in the Woods” by Sherwood Anderson, the theme of Isolation can be identified. Within Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro, “Allal” by Paul Bowles,...

Should Censorship Be Mandatory for Movies?

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If one’s friend jumps off a bridge would they follow? Most people are asked this question because they are doing something dumb that they saw someone else do. Now take that and apply it to watching movies and TV. If one sees or hears something on a movie, they are more than likely to repeat the action they saw or...

To Kill a Mockingbird and Hidden Figures: Racism from the Perspective of Children

3 Pages 1299 Words
Children’s perspectives are often looked over when it comes to injustice in the world. They are seen as naïve, silly, or that they simple just don’t understand. However, it is in the eyes of a child, unconditioned by society, that the greatest evidence of injustice lies. This is demonstrated thoroughly in the texts To Kill a Mockingbird and Hidden Figures....

Orcs, Skinny Dipping And Rebels In Blade Runner And Fahrenheit 451

3 Pages 1465 Words
“The history of the world is but the biography great men.” – Thomas Carlyle. “The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom” – Hannah Arendt. Though Carlyle’s insight is undoubtable, this author under the influence of Arendt believes that the history of the world is in fact the biography of great rebels....

Techniques in the Novel Catcher In The Rye and Movie The Social Network

2 Pages 832 Words
Techniques are a commonly used by authors and directors to display different messages in a media. Slinger and Fincher use this in the book ‘Catcher in the rye’ and the movie ‘The Social Network’ to give the audience a better understanding on the protagonists, Holden and Mark. These techniques include setting, symbolism and language, these techniques are seen in the...

Persepolis VS To Kill a Mockingbird

3 Pages 1449 Words
The transition between childhood and adulthood is a time of growing independence along with constant questioning, especially when being exposed to the cultural norms of society, some of which are divisive and not always driven by pure motivation. When becoming adults, our personal world is shaped around what we have been taught and through our experiences. This highlights that it...

The Smith Problem: Reconciling Purpose and Free Will

2 Pages 724 Words
Agent Smith is fictional character and the main antagonist from the sequel “the Matrix”. Smith is contrast energy form of Neo. Smith’s main role is to police defective programs in order to maintain the stability of the system. In the Matrix, Smith states to Morpheus during his interrogation that he despises the Matrix itself, which he labels a “zoo” and...

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