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it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

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...

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...

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...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

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,...

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...

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

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...

funny. The boys arrive at Uranyas beach shack, which is "straight out of Fellini," on their bicycles (Young). One boy ventures for...

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

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 ...

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

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...

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...

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...