YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film Ben Hur
Essays 241 - 270
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...
true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...
attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...
middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...
specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...
in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...
the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...
foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...
not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...
a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...
troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...
noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...
excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...
is partly based on the experiences of one of its writers, Neil Peng), focuses on Wai-Tung, a gay yuppie and his lover, Simon -- th...
in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
This paper takes an Afro-Centric perspective in discussing the film, Sankosa, and its impact on modern-day African-Americans. Thi...
This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...
This paper analyzes Coppola's classic film depicting the rise of Italian organized crime in America, The Godfather. This eleven p...
outsiders who entered their orbit (such as Michaels WASP wife, Kay) represented the audience and their fascination and revulsion o...