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Fight Club/Injured Male Egos & Dystopia

film is much more complicated than the "how." On the day that Tyler emerges from Jacks subconscious, the airline loses Jacks lugga...

Ella Enchanted/Cinderella

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

Presentations of the Media in Film

indicates that a well-written interview with Williams could show that the murder was not premeditated, but due to his psychologica...

Philadelphia, Legal Issues in the Film

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

A Beautiful Mind

abuse (cocaine, alcohol and amphetamines), brain tumor, Huntingtons disease and Alzheimers (Durand et al, 2006). III. PORTRAYAL ...

Controversy Surrounding the Historical Drama, Lean on Me.

In this we see that the principal, wielding a bat, may be seen as a violent individual himself, thus not offering the students a g...

Federico Fellini's Movies and Their Cinematic Influence

he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

Style of Auteur Filmmaker Yusuf Chahine

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

A Difficult Death v. A 'Good' Death

film we have Joe who has suffered incredible wounds in WWI. He cannot talk nor can he see. He cannot hear and his arms and legs ar...

Perspective and Color in Gary Ross' Film Pleasantville

swell. Then, he starts to notice that the books dont have words, the basketball team always wins their games, and no one questions...

Gangs of New York Film and New York Gangs of the Nineteenth Century

gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...

Steven Spielberg's Leadership Skills

to the big screen as had been started earlier by Lucas. In order to pull off large projects, communication is key. However, let i...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

From Disillusionment to Values in Great Expectations Character of Pip

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

Shakespeare and Film Related to Henry V

with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Critiquing the Vietnam War Through Film

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Postmodernism and Cinema Neo Noir

claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Clerks Film Analysis

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...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

System Vulnerabilities and Contingency Plan

be direct and to the point. In the event that the contingency plan needs to be put into effect, one cannot stand around attempting...

Summary and Analysis of the Film Daddy Day Care

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 ...

China of the 20th Century and the Connection Between Property and the Individual

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

Aristotelian Ethics and Groundhog Day

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...