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Platoons top-notch portrayals by the actors were a joy. Ensemble performances are all first-rate with Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...
come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...
admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...
In five pages this 1994 film is analyzed in terms of story with character, cinematics with editing, and meaning with theme. Three...
In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...
Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...
own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
In seven pages this paper discusses how in 1994's Natural Born Killers filmmaker Oliver Stone employed postmodernist techniques. ...
one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...
the commercialism introduced to the Vietnamese during the war, has brought about new economic and political goals. Oliver Stones ...
In seven pages this paper discusses the failure of director Oliver Stone to explain the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his fl...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which includes measures that assesses an individual in regards to the four defining fea...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares the findings of the Warren Commission and the US House Select Committee on Assass...
In four pages this paper examines the films of Oliver Stone with the focus being a social analysis of Natural Born Killers. Three...
This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...
commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...
the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...
In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...
assumption that a bourgeois young man could move into this environment, sprinkle a little Gospel around like holy water, and grow ...
This 9 page paper examines the way in which three different directors approach Shakespeare. It looks at Kenneth Branagh's producti...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...
Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...
seems to be unable to really remain and listen to the lonely song, stating, "in truth I couldnt wait to see if another would come ...