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Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries

a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...

Use of Cinematography in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...

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...

Greed in the Corporate Sector

to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...

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...

Relationship Between Sacajawea and Lewis and Clark

follows the expedition of these men, going in sequential order to the actual places the "real" Lewis and Clark had many years befo...

Corpse's Role in the Movies of Alfred Hitchcock

"should be allowed to people who are considered superior human beings" (Alfred Hitchcocks "Rope"). Their definition of a "superio...

Films One Night at McCool's, The Usual Suspects and Their Narratives

one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

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...

Film She's Gotta Have It by Director Spike Lee

of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...

Film Review of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump

is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Aspects of Film Acting

Yorks celebrated Actors Studio, and emphasizes the importance on emotion memory, which enables an actor to connect with a role by ...

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

The Notebook Film Psychosocial Analysis

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Economic Strategy

alliance between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inc...

Meet Joe Black, the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and Transformation

death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...

What Drams May Come and I Corinthians 13, lines 1 through 13

in an untimely accident, she further loses her capacity to love herself or others. She is so consumed by her grief and her lack of...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Exploitation

between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inclusions i...

Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

2001 A Space Odyssey and Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's Visual Style

the moon base known as Clavius (Falsetto 44). In perhaps the most memorable sequence, when Bowman travels "Beyond the Infinite," ...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

The Film Traffic as a Statement on U.S. Drug Policy

editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...

Film Reflections of Confucianism

ethics with virtue ethics. Confucian ethics generally embrace the idea of righteousness and goes to the notion that people should...

Twelve Angry Men Film and the Barriers of Linguistics

throughout the film involves barriers to listening and questioning as well as dialogical processes that can break down these barri...