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Film & Theater Essays and Term Papers
Connections Creating Perfection in Saving Private RyanSince the commencement of cinematic art, an abundance of motion pictures have been produced in order to respectfully portray the horrifying aspects of war. Though numerous productions that depict prominent eras of history can be viewed as successful projections to the silver screen, such as ...
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Big Fish Film ReviewBig Fish Analysis
Big Fish is the captivating story of a young man losing is father, a man he never really knew; and the tall tale from which his father’s life became. Director Tim Burton’s genuine sense of storytelling created a deeply fascinating other-world experience, mixing our world ...
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Dead Poets Society"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." A line from a poem by legend Henry David Thoreau often quoted throughout dead poet’s society. Mr. Keating called upon his students to take more out of life than most, to such ...
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Antigone - A True Crime: PrideAp Literature & Comprehension
8 March, 2011
A True Crime: Pride – Prompt 2B
Hubris is a word that the ancient Greeks used to describe pride, or, more often, the negative effects of possessing too much pride, namely when one has too much of it. When people are too prideful, they can become ...
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Cache In MeaningDirector Michael Haneke, in a play on the famous Jean Luc Goddard quote said, “film is a lie at twenty-four frames per second in the service of truth” [Porton 51]. This seems to be a general preoccupation of his films, how what the audience sees is never true, but a film. A film being a written, ...
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OresteiaUpon attending the play Oresteia, I was a little apprehensive before entering the theatre about whether I would enjoy the play or not. I had never been to a play before then, and was not sure of what to expect. However, the play turned out to be very well put together and extremely interesting to ...
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Comparisson Of Two Documentaries, Posrt Modern And ModernIn this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting the two documentaries, one modernist (Beatles; 1964, David and Albert maysles) and one postmodernist (Fahrenheit 9/11; 2004, Michael Moore B.) I will be comparing filming techniques, themes, issues, and the genre of the documentaries.
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The Goal of Movie TrailersThe Goal of Movie Trailers
Movie trailers, much like any other text, use techniques through their rhetorical form and frame to catch a viewer’s attention. For example, two trailers advertising the movie “2012” have very different content, while still having the same purpose: to get viewers to ...
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Oedipus Rex Themes ObservedThroughout history there have been some astonishing Greek plays. Some plays were more comedic in nature, so were romance plays and then there were some that were tragic plays. One of the greatest Greek tragedy plays ever written was Oedipus the King. Brilliantly conceived and written, Oedipus the ...
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Our Town: Time and EffortIt is 11:55pm, and I am beat. I got out of bed this morning roughly around 6:30am; giving myself a considerably generous amount of time to leisurely prepare for my “big important” day at work. Now it’s about 8:15am, and if I don’t want to run into the automotive maze we call DMV traffic, I’d ...
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American History XWill racism ever come to an end or will its path go infinitely? The film American History X highlights the problems of race in present day America through non-organized sketches about one family’s struggles with prejudice in Venice, California. The background of the film is Americas troubled ...
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MedeaIN MEDEA, MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER GREEK TRAGEDY, IT IS MADE CLEAR THAT THE TRAGIC CONFLICT IS NO LONGER BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE GODS BUT WITHIN MEDEA HERSELF. DISCUSS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARACTER MEDEA AS SHE FACES HER TRAGEDY.
Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores ideas of ...
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Robert Zemeckis"No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to accept them and to live through them. Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived." This inspiring quote was said by the famous director, screenwriter, and producer; Robert Zemeckis. Zemeckis had been deprived ...
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A Doll's HouseLet's Play House
A Doll's House is a play about a middle class family that takes place during the post industrial revolution. The key characters are Nora, Torvald Helmer, Mr. Krogstad and Kristine. The main characters in the play are protagonist. In the opening of the play each of these ...
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Beauty in Life is BeautifulBeauty is a word that is all perception. It is something that can be seen differently by everyone. Beauty to some is nature, and to some it might be something that makes them happy. The movie, Life is Beautiful, is a perfect example of how different people can see beauty in many different ways. ...
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Silence of the LambsOne does not think of popular movies as being full of thematic content, of being full of questions about death, gender, mental illness, and life. Yet when I sit here and try to decide on a singular topic to write about from a movie that is teeming with them, it is an incredibly popular movie about ...
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Cloverfield ReviewCloverfield
I saw it! It’s alive! It’s Huge! I just got home from a screening of Cloverfield, the JJ Abrams Produced monster film which has hogged the online hype when it was first released. It's a story about a monster, new york and some people trying to survive. It's done in a very Blair ...
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Dead Man Walking - Times Of TimesThe film Dead Man Walking portrays the issue of the death penalty (or Capital Punishment) through the views of politics, religion, and personal opinion. The movie is based off a true story, where the main characters are Matthew who is the murderer, Mr. Delacroix/Percy’s who are the kids’ parents ...
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The DoctorThe life journey of the main character Dr. Jack MacKee consists of a transformation from an inadequate life into one filled with compassion and integrity. Dr. Jack Mackee’s life experience can be expressed by Van Genneps’ three stages of separation (pre-liminal stage, transitional stage, and ...
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Steve BikoIn the film, Cry Freedom, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough an important and influential character is Steve Biko because he stands up for his rights. Biko, a black man, is considered a threat as a political activist by the white ruled government in South Africa. As a result he is officially ...
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Hollywood and the Vietnam War - Alibi, Not ActualityHollywood and the Vietnam War- Alibi, not Actuality
About two decades ago, film critics and observers lamented Hollywood’s avoidance of the Vietnam War. However, in recent years, Hollywood has produced Vietnam War films at a rapid rate and, the focus has shifted from the lack of Hollywood films ...
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Oedipus's QuestIn Oedipus Rex the main character Oedipus goes on a journey to find the truth. Oedipus was destined from birth to kill his father and marry his mother. Fate and free will play an important part in Oedipus’ downfall. Although he was a victim of fate he was not controlled by it. The gods only decided ...
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A View From the BridgeEddie tells Catherine and Beatrice at the outset of the novel that he believes loyalty is very important and anybody who breaks the unwritten code deserves punishment. When he does betray the cousins he makes it quite clear that he feels he himself has been betrayed. Beatrice voices what Eddie does ...
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Our TownOur Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder that has come to be an American classic. The play is simple yet it has a really deep message for the audience to take after watching or reading it. It lets the audience experience the turn of the century New England in the 1900’s. Through out the ...
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Luis Valdez’s “Los Vendidos” and ”No Saco Nada de Escuela”School Sellouts: Luis Valdez’s “Los Vendidos” and ”No Saco Nada de Escuela”
In his many plays Chicano playwright Luis Valdez has always showcased the Mexican-American experience and the struggle to be perceived and respected as fellow Americans. His ground-breaking plays were first ...
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