Essays 541 - 570
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...
75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...
"More importantly, the innovative, bold film is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film ...
out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting t...
This begins to change with the comment, "I have an announcement to make." Whatever follows is guaranteed to prompt anger and trial...
his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...
She does not confine herself to a single domestic location, and is overtly...
box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...
Burgess poses basic questions regarding the...
women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...
their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...
finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...
keep the beauty in life intact for his son, determined that his sons innocence will not be turned into bitterness and hopelessness...
the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...
pictures the "ineffectual male figure" as being displaced by the more "aggressive female" (DLugo 65). Cinematography underscore...
depiction was not anti-Semitic: "Most of good people in this movie are Jewish, including not only Jesus and Mary, but Mary Magdale...
narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...
Jerry and chase them through the hotel. The two hide under a table in a banquet room, only to discover that its the very room in ...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...
saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...