YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Robbery in Films
Essays 781 - 810
darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...
contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...
What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...
is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...
anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...
and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...
merely oppressed and used the natives. Kurtz is a man who is very diverse and very intelligent. He is a powerful speaker, a poet, ...
not-so-classic sci-fi approach in the storytelling process allows the audience to wonder along with the main character, Neo, if it...
uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...
the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...
72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...
rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...