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Doctor Zhivago
Based on Russian author Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel of the same title, Doctor Zhivago is about a young, idealistic medical student and poet, the titular character, whose marriage to one woman and...
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Cinema and Drama
There is a significant difference between how movies and plays are constructed and experienced. Plays are performed in real time. Actors usually spend a month or more rehearsing. They memorize...
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Cinema and Drama
In movie The Woman in Black the key issue with attorney Arthur Kipps is his inability to accept the death of his young wide, Stella. Much differently than in the book, in the movie Arthur's son,...
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Cinema and Drama
As Kevin Costner, directing from Michael Blake's screenplay, opens his film Dances with Wolves, the character of Lt. John Dunbar, played by Costner, is lying on a table in a crude Army field...
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Cinema and Drama
One reason why Born on the Fourth of July is a strong medical and psychological study of post- traumatic identity destroyed and rebuilt is because it shows how individuals can pivot from self-...
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Cinema and Drama
This is a great question. Edward Sissorhands is a remarkable movie that exposes the human heart in a very clever way. The protagonist of the movie is a boy, Edward, whose creator died before...
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Cinema and Drama
Aibileen's endurance and resistance are ways that she makes us care about the injustices in the world. Aibileen is shown to be a paragon of honor in the film. Part of the reason why she is able to...
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The Help
The characterizations in The Help display distinctive aspects of conformity and the individual. Skeeter is one such character. She is portrayed as being fundamentally uneasy about belonging to...
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Cinema and Drama
Hello! Short Circuit was a 1986 science fiction movie highlighting the idea of sentient robots and its ramifications for society. 1.Why does Number 5 become important? How does this happen? In the...
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Cinema and Drama
To a great extent, Jacob's struggles derive from being unable to make peace with anything around him. Jacob's entire world is filled with hallucinations, visions, death, and terror. None of these...
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Cinema and Drama
Romanticism was a direct reaction to the Age of Enlightenment, and Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth reflects the ideals of romanticism as much as a work of art possibly can. As such,...
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Cinema and Drama
One distinct way in which Sam's relationship with Lucy is a healthy one is the open way she is able to communicate with her father. For example, the relationship that both of them share is open...
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Cinema and Drama
It should be noted that the lawyer, Rita, ends up solidifying her relationship with her son. However, prior to her interactions with Sam, Rita's relationship with her son is unhealthy for a couple...
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Cinema and Drama
I am so glad you asked this question, as this movie was one of my favorites not only because of the subject matter but also because of the acting involved. Quite simply, YES, Sam was a good dad...
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Cinema and Drama
Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film Pan’s Labyrinth tells the story of a young girl, 11-year-old Ofelia, the stepdaughter of a ruthless fascist military officer in Francisco Franco’s Spain....
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Cinema and Drama
In my opinion, the names of Fanny, Sarah, and Sylvester are the most interesting in Rosewood. The use of the name Fanny in Rosewood has to make a person laugh once he or she understands the...
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Cinema and Drama
The Long Walk Home is a Hollywood depiction of events surrounding the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. It personalizes the historical setting with the struggles of an African-American woman who is the...
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Cinema and Drama
(1) The girl next door is a distinct stereotype that originated during the World War II era. She is cute like Doris Day; cute and pretty like Debbie Reynolds, but not beautiful and alluring like...
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Reference
Expository writing simply refers to an essay, article, or other format that seeks to explain or describe the subject matter. That’s pretty much it. Simply explain the topic, in this case, the...
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Cinema and Drama
One of the most powerful themes in The Blind Side is the idea that individuals can transcend the conditions around them. Michael Oher does not become a victim to the economic challenges around him...
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Cinema and Drama
Ask most individuals of any particular ethnicity whether the film industry portrays his or her ethnic group accurately and the answer will usually be “no.” Since its inception, film studios...
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Cinema and Drama
An artificial man created by an eccentric inventor, who died before he completed his work, Edward Scissorhands, nevertheless, exhibits more humane sympathies than humans. For, his innocence and...
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Cinema and Drama
The main characters in director Tim Burton’s 1990 film Edward Scissorhands are important to the plot precisely because, without these characters, there wouldn’t be a plot. Let’s start with...
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Cinema and Drama
One aspect of general analysis offered about Within Our Gates would be how racial identity is a critical aspect in defining modern consciousness. Sylvia Landry has been defined through the lens of...
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Cinema and Drama
Movies have been a manifestation of the cultures from which they derive since their “invention.” Limiting the scope of this discussion to the current era, films have impacted society in a...
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Cinema and Drama
While Orson Welles's Citizen Kane initiated new techniques in cinematography, the 1960 release of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho set new precedents for film making, especially breaking new ground for...
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Social Sciences
While the entirety of the dependency theory might not be fully accepted, its basic premise is evident in the film, Black Gold. The film reflects the basic premise of the dependency theory in its...
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Cinema and Drama
Martin Scorcese's Wolf of Wall Street is a sustained cinematic four hours of drug-charged depravity coupled with uber-masculine unsatiated greed. Perhaps in reaction to the elaborate glorification...
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Cinema and Drama
Anyone who has read The Jungle by muckraker Upton Sinclair about the Chicago stockyards and the atrocities committed against the workers or the history of the Teamsters Union or the early histories...
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Cinema and Drama
In Peter Weir's eerily predictive film about people's desires of voyeurism by means of reality shows, there are several conflicting perspectives. In fact, The Truman Show, made in 1998, forecasts...
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Cinema and Drama
There is a moment in Steven Spielberg’s 1997 film Amistad when the former president of the United States-turned U.S. congressman John Quincy Adams provides a bit of advice to an African American...
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Cinema and Drama
Calhoun's speech at dinner is a reflection of the political reality that the abolition of slavery faced in the film's historical context. Given how slavery is now seen as such a clear moral evil,...
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Cinema and Drama
The battle over the fate of the Africans in Amistad is a microcosm of the growing sectional conflict in the US in two ways. First, the battle shows how there are a diversity of views on slavery,...
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Cinema and Drama
The courthouse features three distinct positions in the courthouse. The side of the prosecution makes the standard defense of slavery. In this line of analysis, slaves are seen as property and...
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Cinema and Drama
There is definitely no direct evidence, either historically or in the film, that those who defended the rights of the kidnapped Africans in the Amistad case acted out of political self-interest....
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Cinema and Drama
Based upon the only instance in history in which Africans who were seized by slave trade merchants won their freedom and returned home, the historical occurrences are depicted in the Amistad Murals...
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Cinema and Drama
Part of what exactly is eating at Gilbert Grape is seeing his family besieged with so much in way of risks and little in terms of buffers. The risks that the Grape family face cut a wide swath in...
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Cinema and Drama
The Patriot takes place during the American Revolutionary War, and centers on Benjamin Martin, a fictional character composed of the qualities and experiences of several real Americans who lived at...
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Cinema and Drama
The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, is a much acclaimed and popular movie which is set during The American Revolution. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that sets and costumes are sensitive...
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Cinema and Drama
In The Patriot starring Mel Gibson, General Cornwallis is based on a real character of the same name, from The American Revolution. The real-life Cornwallis was admired by his men for his bravery...
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Cinema and Drama
John Carpenter’s 1978 horror film Halloween is considered the precursor to an entire industry of preposterous “slasher” films, in which a psychotic killer methodically works his way through a...
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Cinema and Drama
Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory is, in essence, less a criticism of war than it is an invective against bureaucracy in its hypocrisy, obstinacy, and successive ineffectiveness. In a Wall Street...
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Cinema and Drama
One need only look at the full title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film--Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb--to realize that the film is a dark satire of Cold War...
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Cinema and Drama
There can be many different ways to read the roles of parody and pastiche in Scream. It is a fine line that needs to be walked and different people will fall on different sides. In my mind, Scream...
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Cinema and Drama
The initial setting in Saving Private Ryan is Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. D- Day is the setting for the first 30 minutes of the film. The idea of showing Normandy reflecting the intensity...
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Cinema and Drama
To a great extent, the reclamation of Shakespeare's muse at the end of Shakespeare in Love is of vital importance. The narrative opens with Shakespeare suffering from an intense case of writer's...
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Cinema and Drama
In a film as surrealistic as Frederico Fellini's "8 1/2," a drama rich with humor, or possibly a comedy steeped in drama, identifying a single scene or passage to illustrate the director's use of...
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Cinema and Drama
There is a memorable climactic scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” in which the director intersperses contrasting scenes of religious piety and brutal violence, accompanied by...
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Cinema and Drama
There’s a telling passage during a scene in Paolo Sorrentino’s film This Must be The Place in which the story’s protagonist, Cheyenne, a long-retired rock star whose melancholy songs inspired...
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Business
One of the primary points of emphasis in the film is the complexity within the concept of "outsourcing." In a world where the term has become commonplace on so many levels, the film explores the...
