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Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

The 1982 film Gandhi and its Historical Accuracy

Indian commune where everyone shares the work, no matter how demeaning. Gandhis years in South Africa are spent in a series of tac...

Ben Younger's Film Boiler Room

saying: "Either youre slinging crack rock or youve got a wicked jump shop -- nobody wants to work for it any more. Theres no honor...

'News on the March' Scene Opening the Film Citizen Kane

last word of Citizen Kane as he dies in his bed. That word is the infamous "Rosebud." First time viewers, viewers who know nothing...

Orwellian Overtones in V for Vendetta

People, in theory at least, travel about at their leisure and enjoy what seems to be certain freedoms. On closer inspection, howe...

Three Israeli Films

the veneer of cultural, ideological and linguistic differences is also reflects in Kazablan (1974, directed by Menahem Golan). Thi...

Themes in The Blind Side

son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...

Oscar and Lucinda and Biography of Filmmaker Gillian Armstrong

Great Britain. Nevertheless, Armstrong patiently honed her craft by taking any directing gig she could from music videos to docum...

Fast Food and Obesity

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...

Hotel Rwanda/Not on Our Watch

Oliver, who placed guard at the entrance gate to the hotel. The student researching this topic should note that as far as this w...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Raiders of the Lost Ark/Cinematography

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...

THE MEANING BEHIND "SUPER SIZE ME"

Discusses the concept of fast food leading to health problems in the movie "Super Size Me." There is 1 source listed in the biblio...

DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE AND THE DICHOTOMY OF GLOBALIZATION

manufacture and export of items. This is not a new concept when it comes to globalization - if we examine anything and...

Rain Man and Psychological Analysis

caused by poor parenting. Having an older autistic sibling may have inhibited the Charlie and Raymonds father, as he may have beli...

Goodfellas, the Media, and Sociology

time period and the Mafia subculture into which the boy is being indoctrinated. Another scene that contrasts Henrys family life w...

Amelie, A Film Review

understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...

Erin Brockovich, from an Ethical Perspective

directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film Erin Brockovich is based on a true story, which dramatizes the catastrophic health consequ...

Elia Kazan and Method Acting

be a disaster. Everybody knows of actors who have made a great living playing themselves-John Wayne comes to mind-but theyre rare....

Questions Concerning the Calculation of Compensation for New Line

argument to support a potentially higher rather than lower figure. But, if this is unreliable, it is also quote possible the figur...

Love Soccer and Cultural Expectations

Starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi, the movie "Bend It...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

Cinematic Analysis of Singin' in the Rain

part of the scene while also seeing the entire dance routine. In many films of dancing the direction may not be on the long sho...

Flawless Film and Character Polarization

except that they happen to live very close to one another in the same building and they are thrown together for a simple reason, t...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

Female Relationships in The Color Purple

experiences with her stepfather, has a warped and hurtful view of her own sexuality. The very definition of love is foreign to her...

Once Were Warriors Cinematic Marxist Analysis

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

Adolescent Social Development, Footloose

This essay discusses topics that address adolescent development as dramatized in the movie Footloose. The writer discusses parent-...

Comedic Style of Charlie Chaplin

rests in the audience realization that nothing "is what is seems" and the element of surprise as the man grows to "monstrous propo...