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Film & Theater Essays and Term Papers
Boyz n the HoodBoyz n the Hood
Boyz n the Hood written and directed by John Singleton, a drama-based film about an African-American growing up in South Central Los Angeles. The main character Tré Styles moves with his father after getting into trouble at school. While living with his father Tre’ learns life ...
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Denzel WashingtonDenzel Hayes Washington Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 and is from Mount Vernon, New York. He is the son of father Denzel Sr., which was a Pentecostal minister and of mother Lennis, which was a beautician owning her own beauty shop. Denzel had two siblings in which he was the middle child. ...
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Hitchcock Film ReviewThis series of Hitchcock films are full of suspense and thrills. Alfred Hitchcock started as a silent film producer and very soon after he moved to Hollywood. He very often portrays violence, murders, and many crimes. Hitchcock was born in London on August 13 1899 and died in Los Angeles, he is ...
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas!The movie “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” portrays a person struggling to fit in. Cindy Lou Who, a young Who begins to doubt the frightening rumours that she has heard about the Grinch, after the Grinch saves her from the mail-sorting machine. She discovers that the Grinch was an outcast, who was ...
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Billy Wilder’s “Ace In The Hole”Paying the Price of Gambling With Fate: Billy Wilder’s “Ace In The Hole”
“I’m a pretty good liar, done a lot of lying in my time…”
Charles Tate, Ace In The Hole.
Seizing an opportunity for self advancement, regardless of the consequences or who may be harmed, is to set oneself on a path ...
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman as Social CommentaryArthur Miller's Death of a Salesman as Social Commentary
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman portrays the Loman's and all the family conflicts they faced. It's also apparent on a bigger scale that this play is a social commentary. It touches all the problems brought on by wealth and success ...
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Fight ClubTyler Cuppelman
English 1100-01
Analytical Essay
November 15th, 2010
Analyzing the conformations, social norms of Fight Club and it’s impact on life
Many people throughout the world find themselves falling into categories that society has created. Society has driven people to live a ...
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WavelengthBy Matej Jancar
Wavelength (1967) is a continuous forty-five minute zoom from its widest field to its smallest and final field which rests on the photograph of ocean on the wall. The camera is motionless and is facing far side of eighty foot New York loft with windows. There are four human ...
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Psycho OedipusPsycho Oedipus
There are many things that can be said about the ancient Greek play, Oedipus, but there is also much that can be found through analysis of the play, particularly, through a Psychological analysis. In finding these meanings, one must apply a Psychoanalytical critical approach to ...
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Analyzing The JonesesThe movie “The Joneses” is a movie about how people can be easily influenced and manipulated by the people around them. The way these characters interact with each other, how they view themselves, and knowingly influence other people makes this an interesting plot. This whole movie was ...
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Fate's TriumphFate's Triumph
Oedipus, the fated tragic hero of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, is a complex character who, through slow realization, learns that one cannot escape fate. Throughout the course of the tragedy, Oedipus’s attitude evolves from arrogance to humbleness as he learns to seek for truth and ...
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The Pit And The PendulmThe movie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. His sister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madena believes that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick ...
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Psych Analysis of Hitchcock's PsychoPeople are afraid of the dark because they cannot clearly see their surroundings, and thus have no way to protect themselves from any danger present. In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock takes a very distinct approach at making this film particularly unsettling using this idea of not being able to clearly ...
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A Greasy CritiqueThe theatre program at Rollins College showed up at the Annie Russel Theatre to put on their rendition of Grease. Everyone knows the classic love story of good girl Sandy and bad boy Danny Zuko, especially as they were portrayed in the classic film by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. The ...
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Creon Vs AntigoneCreon Vs Antigone
In the play Antigone, Sophocles analyzes the personality of two main characters. There is a great deal of conflict between Antigone and Creon during the play. Antigone and Creon have their own distinct beliefs and opinions relevant to divine and human law. However, Antigone ...
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Citizen Kane: No One Really Knew HimCitizen Kane is a film open to many interpretations and analyses. It tells the story of its main character through the complex points of view of those who knew him. Or thought they knew him. The character of Charles Foster Kane is played by, and done so in an enigmatic performance, by Orson ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman Tragic Hero"If the exaltation of tragic action were truly a property of the high-bred character alone, it is inconceivable that the mass of mankind should cherish tragedy above all other forms" (Dwyer). It makes little sense that tragedy should only pertain to those in high ranks. As explained in his essay ...
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Airplane and Dumb and Dumber ComparisonComedy is not a science, it's art. What one-person finds funny another might cringe at. There is no simple answer to why something is funny... Something is funny because it captures a moment, it contains an element of simple truth, it is something that we have always known for eternity and yet are ...
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Antigone: Bravery or FeminismBravery or Feminism
In Sophocles’ drama, Antigone, there are many different elements and themes that are present. Tragedy in a Greek drama is not rare but having the main character being a strong, passionate and proud woman is. The character Antigone is a woman who refuses to settle for what ...
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding SummaryMy Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding starts out as a modern day Cinderella story and ends with the traditional end to most fairy tale romances the wedding, with all of its associated complexities and mishaps. There's a significant element of culture clashing here, as well. The ...
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The InsiderLate in "The Insider" the tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand sits despondently in a hotel room and contemplates the steep price of what he has done. The setting is somber except for the bright pastoral mural on the wall behind him, looking like a window onto an unsullied, unattainable ...
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Baraka Film ResponseThe belief in myth has become almost non-existent in today’s society, where people worship their jobs, their cars, money and other objects of a material nature. Few cultures today are as spiritually in touch with nature as people were during primordial times. As seen through the film “Baraka” by ...
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Antigone and IsmeneAntigone and Ismene
In the Greek tragedy "Antigone", by Sophocles; Antigone learns that King Creon has refused to give a proper burial for the slain Polyneices, brother of Ismene and Antigone. Furious by this injustice, Antigone shares the tragic news with Ismene. From her first ...
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Film Review of the movie PreciousThe distinguished Charles Darwin once said, “The observation of expression is by no means easy…” and I agree with Mr. Darwin. Decoding nonverbal messages is not always an easy task, but by examining, some or all of, the communication environment, the communicator’s physical characteristics, and ...
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Terms Of EndearmentThe movie Terms of Endearment has many links to Meditation 17. The first main point of the writing is the part about no man being alone. “No man is an island entire of itself…every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main”. This quote relates to many characters in the film, in ...
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