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Romeo and Juliet Film Comparison
There are not many movies that have been made on the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet, mainly because the story can't change in order for it to be Romeo and Juliet. Staying true to the classic atmosphere is what the 1968 film version by Franco Zeffirelli attempted, which was staying true to the atmosphere of the story, with the setting being Elizabethan times, in the city of Verona. It doesn't stray very far from
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Film and Television
Name of the film or television show you viewed: Film: Sorority Wars Respond to each question with a paragraph of at least 50 words. State your point of view and explain it thoroughly. What is the primary emphasis of the film or show? Examples: artistic expression, technological achievement, informative. Explain your answer. The primary emphasis of this film is to show girls that they should be themselves and not who others want you to be.
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Females in Film Musicals: Virgins or Whores, and Nothing More
Popular film musicals from 1970's and 1980's often stereotype females as either "Virgins" or "Powerless Whores". However, such depictions of females have changed in relatively recent film musicals like Moulin Rouge, where they are portrayed as sexually empowered "Powerful Whores". Additionally, the "Virgin" and "Whore" dichotomy was also casted upon the female lead simultaneously, where "[s]he is at the same time a courtesan, and a virgin" (Giusta and Scuriatti, 2004, p.33). While earlier film musicals
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Film Review of Jefferson in Paris
Film Review of Jefferson in Paris Plot Summary: The class was instructed to view the film entitled Jefferson in Paris. The film was an examination of the years in Thomas Jefferson's life when he acted as the U.S. Ambassador to the court of Louis XVI. The movie spanned the years between 1784 and 1789, and followed Jefferson to France after the death of his wife. The movie was filmed against the back-drop of the beginning
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Food Inc. - Film Review
Food Inc. Film Review Food, Inc. is a hard-hitting documentary that portrays the lamentable facts of the existing food industry practice. Industrialization of food worsens everything, however it is still the main stream of food production. Why? There is only one answer to that: it brings huge profits to big food corporations, which are the monopoly of the food market. Deplorably, these large and powerful corporations put profits ahead of consumer health and well-being. In
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Comparing Doubt, Film and Theater Versions
Comparing Doubt, film and theater versions Doubt: A Parable was originally written by John Patrick Shanley as a play. It tells the tale of a catholic school nun who is convinced that the priest is having an inappropriate relationship with one of the young students. She does her best to convince other nuns, the parents of the child, and herself that the priest is guilty without having any actual proof. After much success on Broadway
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The Film "enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room"
The film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" was directed by Alex Gibney in 2005. The script is based on the best-selling book with the same title written by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind in 2003. The story tells us about the bankruptcy and fraud scandal of Enron Company in 2001. This movie is documental, that is why a lot of archival materials and interviews are used in it. As I got
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Achilles and Hector, the Illiad
The Illiad was set in a time where war was a constant threat to the people. The storyteller, Homer, recounts a story of a 10-year war between the Achaeans and the Trojans that resulted from the attack by the Trojans where they made off with Helen the wife of an Achaean chieftain named Menelaus. Hector and Achilles were alike in many ways. They seek glory on the battlefield, to die a hero, to be honored
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Watchmen: Film Vs Novel
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons have an interesting collaborative style for the Watchmen. The novel is full of well-designed three-dimensional characters and a delicately deliberate tangled web of sub plots artistically directing readers through an intricate story. The thought of something so overwhelming being translated to film is terrifying. Moore himself was offended that Hollywood would even attempt to summarize the Watchmen onto film, and He was right to protest. Producers and studios had been
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Hippie Culture in Film Industry
After the Second World War and during the Cold War people in Western civilizations, including the United States, realized that in the industrial and highly developed modern world the impacts of wars were incredible and often irreversible. The prosperity and material wealth had flown into the country as a contrast to the previous war times; however the threat of nuclear bombs did not add much to the feeling of the after-war security. A social chaos
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Gender Roles in Film; Ocena's Eleven
Men' s talk in Ocean's Eleven University Duisburg-Essen Hauptseminar: Gender roles in film Semester: So.Se. 2014 Dozentin: Patricia Sift Verfasser: Philipp Tagoe philipp.tagoe@gmx.de Table of contents: Introduction: p.1 1. The Conversational Floor: p.2 2. Men Friends Talking: p.3 3. Nominating The Next Speaker: p.4 4. Self-Selection: p.6 5. Minimal Response: p.7 6. Overlap as a form of agreement: p.8 7. Monologues and Playing the Expert: p.9 8. Ownership of ideas: p.11 Conclusion: p.12 Sources: p.13
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Project Plan Filming “lost in Madrid”
PROJECT PLAN FILMING “LOST IN MADRID” GROUP I Macintosh HD:Users:kuralay:Desktop:ie.png GROUP MEMBERS: ANTONIO LOPES, ANDREA NAMUR ENDLEIN, JULIO LORENZO, FLORIAN WATTIN, KURALAY NURMAGAMBETOVA, MAXIMILIAN FREIBERGER TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Scope definition 2. Assumptions 3. Exclusions 4. Constraints 5. Key Deliverables 6. Acceptance Criteria 7. WBS & Critical Path 8. Resources (people assigned to the project) 9. Budget 10. Key Stakeholders 11. Risk Identification 12. Risk Strategy 13. References 1. Scope definition The scope has been
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Psycho Film Review
PSYCHO Psycho, an old, classic, horror movie, filmed in black and white. How could anyone possibly expect much from a film like this? Well, what I expected to watch, and what I did watch, are two very different films. This film certainly surprised me. I simply couldn’t expect much more than a few jump scares, from the 1960’s black and white film. However, it was more than just that. Psycho managed to not only just
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Active Reading Task: Year 1 Film and Society
Semester 1 Active Reading Task: Year 1 Film and Society Section 1: Assignment Section 2: Reading Annotations/ Notes Section 3: Summary Section 4: Evaluation Section 5: Vocabulary Summary Gender order was put forward by Connell, and then Giddens and Sutton(2013) summarized the theory which is to describe the power relations between masculinities and femininities in society. Patriarchy, as one of the key concepts of the gender order, is defined that men are dominant over women.
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Selma Film Analysis
Summative Project – Selma lower standing in this film strived for their right to vote in order to increase their involvement in deciding who can chosen to lead their country, those of the Caucasian race who opposed them through racism already had the privilege to vote freely and did not want to share any of their voting power but used deadly force, and the threat of death and violence to suppress any who would try
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Soapiff Southern International Film Festival
Running head: SOAPIFF SOAPIFF: Southern International Film Festival LaShana D. Leigh Dr. David Kilmnick NPMN 620-9040 University of Maryland University College ________________ SOAPIFF: Southern International Film Festival The Southern International Film Festival is a regional film festival in the Appalachian region of North America. The festival has been in existence for the last seven years, the primary goal of the festival is to highlight the works of amateur and relatively unknown up and coming filmmakers.
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Southern International Film Festival Grant Proposal
Running head: SOAPIFF Request for Funding Proposal SOAPIFF: Southern International Film Festival Grant Proposal LaShana D. Leigh Dr. David Kilmnick NPMN 620-9040 University of Maryland University College ________________ 04/16/2014 Ellen May, Chair Grants Advisory Council Tennessee Arts Commission, Inc. 401 Charlotte Avenue Nashville, TN 37243-0780 RE: SOAPIFF Fall Festival and Award Ceremony Dear Ms. May, Thank you for the opportunity to be considered for support by the Tennessee Arts Commission. In the seven short years
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Film Review: Transcendence
Film Review: Transcendence Transcendence is a 2014 science fiction movie directed by Wally Pfister –first movie as a director−, written by Jack Paglen and starring by Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Cole Hauser and Morgan Freeman. “Imagine such an entity with a full range of human emotion even self-awareness”, is the phrase that eludes the central concept of the movie the singularity or as the main character of the movie
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Will Gluck’s Film Easy A
Easy A Gets a B+ http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/easya/assets/images/onesheet.jpg “It should come as no surprise that the rumour that I was soliciting sex for money spread around school faster than…..well faster than the first rumour about me spread,” Olive Penderghast, played by Emma Stone. In Will Gluck’s film Easy A, an unnoticed high school girl, learns that being the centre of attention is not all its hyped up to be. Easy A embodies wittiness, comedy and is anchored
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Estimate the Per-Film Value of a Portfolio of Sequel Rights Such as Arundel Proposes to Buy.
The first approach to estimate the per-film value of a portfolio of sequel rights is the DCF approach. Initially, we collect the movie whose one-year return of hypothetical sequel is greater than the cost of capital of Arundel, 12%. In other words, we find the movie with positive NPV. From Exhibit 7 we know that the number of movie meets the requirement is 26. Because the sequel production is determined by a positive NPV, we
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Thelma and Louise Film Analysis
Thelma and Louise Film analysis 4/13/16 This film Thelma and Louis is a feminism film, filmed in the 1990s. This movie represents confrontation, men, violence and “girl power” but in a darker side. This film also shows in the point of view from the women’s eyes, voice and their experience. IT is a great film because we have seen so many films about man bonding and now the role is flipped, it a female bond.
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Analysis of Characters in a Short Clip in Doubt Film
The selected scene introduces two characters from the film “Doubt”. It centres on the interaction between an older nun (whose name was never identified in the scene) and a younger nun who is called Sister James. Both nuns are dressed in unconventional habits with bonnets instead of the traditional formal wear of a full wimple and veil. The choice of clothing, in an environment where uniformity and outward appearance, is of importance, it implies that
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Russian and American Film Versions of the Novel "anna Karenina"
[Введите название документа] Russian and American Film Versions Of The Novel "Anna Karenina" Contents Introduction 1. Anna Karenina in the novel of Leo Tolstoy 2. Anna Karenina’s history in cinematography 1. First screen version 2. Russian screen version of 1967 3. American screen version of 1997 1. The modern perception of "Anna Karenina" 1. The resonance caused by the American version of "Anna Karenina" Conclusion Work Cited Introduction Today, as however, and there is always
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Films on Demand: Sociology Collection: Social Institutions
FILMS ON DEMAND: SOCIOLOGY COLLECTION: SOCIAL Films on Demand: Sociology Collection: Social Institutions Shannan Johnson SOC100 May 29,2017 Sandra Hightower ________________ Films on Demand: Sociology Collection: Social Institutions In sociology, social institutions, such as economy and government, are like bike parts of the overall society is the bike. Just like a bike, society can’t function successfully without all its parts, social institutions. Social institutions are established set norms and subsystems that supports each societies survival.
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Beasts of No Nation Film Analysis
Ian Dretzka #70502 Beasts of No Nation film analysis Beasts of No Nation is a shocking story of a boy who is torn from his everyday life and thrown into a war at a very young age. The director of this film, Cary Fukunaga, is a very talented director, writer, and cinematographer who is well known for directing the first season of the series True Detective. His understanding of how to frame the shot just
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