YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film The African Queen
Essays 331 - 360
accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
he will abstain until all votes are in. If they still unanimously vote for conviction, he will go along with the majority, but if ...
to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...
from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozus 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, there are two cutaway shots that feature a beautiful vase. Thes...
by Jim Sheridan) is based on the true story of Barry McGuigan, Irish featherweight champion. In Sheridans film, the protagonists n...
Aruru to create a man mighty enough to subdue him if necessary: "It was you, Aruru, who created mankind, now create a zikru to i...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
value, Sherilyn Fenn, a B-movie actress who had starred in David Lynchs television series Twin Peaks (Thompson, 1992). As a resul...
around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...
period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...
had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...
is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...
were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...
documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...
care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...
One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...
After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...
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 ...