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Where the Heart Is

position. This superstition is very important in both the novel and the film from the beginning and is clearly seen in Walmart. Sh...

Cinematic Analysis of Singin' in the Rain

the long view where we can see the entire dance. This is often seen in present day films about dance where it seems the performers...

A Son of Africa

thumbscrews" (California Newsreels). This particular film is clearly a film that is aimed at bringing light to the past, to the ...

Crash: Film Analysis

and if they felt justified in their actions. He decided to write a movie from their perspective" (Jet 54). Such information hel...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Sociological Analysis of “12 Angry Men”

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

Strangers in Good Company/Women and Old Age

in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

His Girl Friday and Screwball Comedy

romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

Robert Duvall’s Apostle

who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...

My Left Foot/Social Responsibility

suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

The Middle Passage/Deslauriers

depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

Thin Blue Line

sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

Comparative Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Film Vertigo and Billy Wilder's Film Some Like It Hot

Jerry and chase them through the hotel. The two hide under a table in a banquet room, only to discover that its the very room in ...

Traditional Film Methods and Digital Film of the Future

In twelve pages this paper examines traditional film methods and the increased reliance upon digital technology in a contrast and ...

Erin Brockovich, Scarlett O'Hara, and Film's Independent Women

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...