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Mandy Moore plays a fairly straight laced daughter of a minister in A Walk to Remember who finds out that being involved in relationships with others is more than following a list of to do's and to don'ts. When she is placed in the path of Sh Continue Reading...
film required for the class with a non-Required film of your choice.
Andy Tennant's movie Hitch and Glen Ficarra's movie Crazy, Stupid, Love describe romantic stories by also relating to more complex topics such as love and the difficulty associate Continue Reading...
An American Alex would be against classical music, with anarchists normally being associated with hard rock music. Moreover, he would find it perfectly normal to use drugs instead of drinking milk in a club that has dummies for tables. The reason f Continue Reading...
Jason Reitman's 2007 film Juno addresses a difficult and potentially controversial topic: unwanted pregnancy and the challenges of deciding whether to terminate the pregnancy or carry it to term. Braha and Bryne describe Juno as a "comedy-dr Continue Reading...
Director Baz Luhrmann's 1996 reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a solid reworking of Shakespeare's classic tale. In the film two young lovers (Romeo and Juliet) are separated by a bitter and long-lasting family feud. Despite their family' Continue Reading...
Media
Film & Media in the Digital Age
Remediation & Convergence
The first section of the paper will explain two terms or concepts within the context of film & media in the digital age: remediation and convergence. These two concepts ar Continue Reading...
Tin Drum 1979
Film Review: The Tin Drum (1979)
The film The Tin Drum (1979) is like nothing I had ever seen before. It was loud, offensive, and in your face; yet, lightly laced with an incredible depth that reflected the sentiment of a still broken Continue Reading...
Sport in Two Films: Any Given Sunday and Field of Dreams
Sport has been a significant part of society for centuries. In part, sport is a recreational activity, a social activity, and a means of competing. However, sport also holds greater significa Continue Reading...
Spike Lee demonstrates his filmmaking prowess in his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. As with most of Lee's work, race relations are central to the story. With Do the Right Thing, Lee presents a bleak view of the nature and future of cross-cultural rela Continue Reading...
Bug's Life And Estes
Although an animated comedy, the Disney film A Bug's Life contains many characters that embody the archetypes described in Clarissa Pinkola Estes' book Women Who Run With the Wolves. For example, the aging Queen ant is the insec Continue Reading...
Movie: The Karate Kid (2010)
Targeted Age Group: PG rated, 10+ (The Karate Kid-Family Movie Review, 2015)
'The Karate Kid' is appropriately PG-rated; there is, however, some content that adults might wish to know of, especially because this drama h Continue Reading...
The way that it uses John Alpert, a therapist who consulted a great deal of important Wall Street figures, with the purpose of showing how these people were basically no different from ordinary criminals (seeing prostitutes and using cocaine) when c Continue Reading...
Another Website ("Historical Inaccuracies in Film") points out the same thing, that the final battle scene with Lt. Col. Moore leading the brave charge at the North Vietnamese headquarters did not take place in reality or in the book. There was no Continue Reading...
It is far from the epic drama of DeMille, but it is dramatic, and moving, and the story lines - the Holocaust, and thou shalt not covet the neighbor's whatever, which is entertaining as it is thought provoking.
While both films cause the viewer to Continue Reading...
We know from the text that Ophelia is innocent and there is no reason for Branagh to include this scene in his film. The two films depict the two leading female characters in a very different light.
Both directors illuminated Hamlet in different wa Continue Reading...
Silent Film And How Critical Reception Shifts Over Time
The objective of this study is to examine the film Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari or 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and to examine silent film and how critical reception shifts over time.
The fil Continue Reading...
Physical Comedy on Film
Sophisticated, Funny and Physical: The Romances of Astaire and Rogers
Physical comedy brings to mind Moe, Larry and Curly bopping each other over the head. Or it might suggest Lucille Ball stuffing chocolates into her mouth, Continue Reading...
When he stays among those in the Cheyenne tribe, Jack has a fairy-tale-like life, he learns about respect and about how to be at peace with the world.
Question number 4.
The Searchers is one of the most renowned Westerns mainly because it has John Continue Reading...
White
Favorite Film
"Snow White and the Huntsman"
One of my favorite stories from childhood is that of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," and this story has recently been made into a full length feature film called "Snow White and the Huntsman," Continue Reading...
" (Blackwelder) Like Shakespeare's original and Parker's version, Odin's fame and popularity and his love for Desi Brable played by Julia Stiles who is the daughter of the school's headmaster just tees Hugo off. With jealousy and envy guiding him, Hu Continue Reading...
True Grit (Newest Version)
Joel and Ethan Coen's 1969 motion picture True Grit puts across an account involving 14-year-old Mattie Ross as she hires a worn-down U.S. Marshall to track down her father's murderer, Tom Chaney. This film is intriguing b Continue Reading...
Chinatown and Film Noir
The influence of classic film noir on Chinatown
Rising to prominence in the late 1940s and initially described as "murder with a psychological twist," film noir helped to introduce audiences to a new genre that could be dist Continue Reading...
Technology and Film
Almost from its inception, the idea of the relationship between the individual and technology has been part of an evolving paradigm. While this new technology brought entertainment to the masses, technology itself as often the su Continue Reading...
Scorsese equates him with "a magician enchanted by his own magic." This freedom allowed Welles to create from narrative techniques and filmic devices a masterpiece that is self-aware of its own form. It intends to communicate this self-consciousness Continue Reading...
These subsequent Draculas are all pretenders to the throne, thanks to the iconographic excellence that emerged in the 1922 version. Indeed, subsequent Draculas in many cases have taken on slick, well-dressed, classy appearances, quite the opposite o Continue Reading...
Frankenstein-Movie
Reading about cloning is very disturbing. Scientists should not try to play God. Messing with the natural cause of life can have unforeseen consequences. They should remember the classic novel by Mary Shelley "Frankenstein." Its p Continue Reading...
Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula Over The Years
The stuff of legends in Eastern Europe, vampires have become a staple of the horror film industry. From Max Schreck's Count Orloff in 1922 to Lugosi's Dracula in 1931, to Lee's unforgettable p Continue Reading...
Assignment : TarantinoAuteur theory suggests that directors place a personal stamp, imparting a unique signature style and voice to each film they make. There are several filmmakers that support auteur theory, such as Hitchcock and Spielberg. Taranti Continue Reading...
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is a masterpiece in the science fiction genre. Based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke, the film epitomizes the features of science fiction, including an overarching theme questioning the role of h Continue Reading...
From this came our insistence on the drama of the doorstep" (cited by Hardy 14-15).
Grierson also notes that the early documentary filmmakers were concerned about the way the world was going and wanted to use all the tools at hand to push the publi Continue Reading...
Recognizing that the film's title functions on both of these levels is important because it reveals how Alfredson deploys common vampire tropes in novel ways which serve to elevate the emotional content of the film, so that the "rules" surrounding Continue Reading...
sound technologies and sound design in Film
Sound in films
Experiments in Early Age
Developments
Crucial innovations
Commercialization of sound cinema: U.S., Europe, and Japan
Sound Design
Unified sound in film production
Sound designers in Continue Reading...
The manager tells him it closed because the economy changed and because of television and videos. What this really means is that the theater closed when the audience left, emphasizing the close community relationship involved in film. In the old day Continue Reading...
War Films
Taking Jeanine Basinger at her word would leave us with far fewer war films than we think we have. Basinger is a 'strict constructionist,' accepting as war films only those that have actual scenes of warfare (Curley and Wetta, 1992. p. 8; Continue Reading...
Richardis a documentary film made by Al Pacino in 1996 and is based on the historical play Richard III written by William Shakespeare. Richard III remained the King of England for just two years only (1483-1485). In Richard III, Shakespeare has sket Continue Reading...
Unlike most television series which wait until the entire series is filmed and aired before they release it on DVD, Glee has already released its first season on DVD, despite the fact that they have not yet completed filming the second season. This Continue Reading...
I. Critique
While Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is ranked at No. 6 in AFI’s 10 Top 10 in the genre for Science-Fiction, the film itself has so much in common with noir film (the kind of black-and-white films that typically offered murder my Continue Reading...
A perfect example of this is located in Chapter three. Chapter three opens with the camera zooming steadily in on a window. The shot then cuts to a shot of streetlights, establishing the time of day as early morning. Even though simply not enough o Continue Reading...