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Essays 211 - 240
This research paper focuses on the films of Roberto Rossellini, specifically on "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and the films of...
In a paper of fifteen pages, the writer looks at the film "Crash". Jean Cabot is analyzed as a source for psychological content in...
weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...
be his wife and daughter. Even with the unrelenting encouragement of Sarah and Rachels recollections to help him remember his fam...
offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...
the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...
and if they felt justified in their actions. He decided to write a movie from their perspective" (Jet 54). Such information hel...
thumbscrews" (California Newsreels). This particular film is clearly a film that is aimed at bringing light to the past, to the ...
as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...
sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...
but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...
This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...
to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....
factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...
In five pages this paper critically reviews M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 film The Sixth Sense....
the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...
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...
and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
problems of Susanna. Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Susanna is suffering from hallucinations. For...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...
GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...
the boy soon comes to look upon Butch as a father figure, and the sole source of excitement in his heretofore colorless world. In...
to matter little, since the war upon which the story was based also, at that time, had no end in sight. In order to ensure the sc...
that context, it becomes clear that they must be seen as something very different than what any audience has seen in the nearly 10...
A 18 page critique of this less than successful film. The author atributes the lack of success however to the poor distribution a...
A 30 page analysis of this science fiction film. This futuristic film imparts a sense of reality that is enough to bring most vie...