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lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...
Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...
sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...
the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...
who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, is a comedy that satires an election for student government president, which is ...
of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move each new gener...
particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...
to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...
instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...
in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...
girl, Lucy, dies because one of the pellets broke inside her and caused an overdose. She is simply cut open and tossed aside by th...
she grimaces, indicating that this is not an easy task fro her, she never gives the slightest sign that she feels that caring for ...
confines of the city and go to parts that are not yet secure. The part they desire to see is their old home, to gather some items ...
understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...
isolation in the woods comes into contact with the more traditional culture of the people from the nearby town where she is taken ...
film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...
and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...
of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...
with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...
Frank Abagnale issued a statement on his companys web site that explains his perspective on the literary design of both his book a...
it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
of the industry. Steven Soderbergh is the director of Bubble, Wagners first film targeted for simultaneous distribution. Though ...
him, has him exhume Estradas body and for Norton to accompany him on a journey across country to Mexico in order to keep his promi...
his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...
as an unnecessary delay to the inevitable delivery of a guilty verdict. But, the Architect eventually convinces them to go over th...
he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...
"historical facsimile" of the House of Representatives for the State of South Carolina in 1870 (Dirks). In this scene, the audienc...