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Reflections on the Movie ‘Coach Carter’

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The 2005 movie ‘Coach Carter’ is a biographical teen sports drama about the incredible basketball coach Ken Carter. Coach Carter is hired to be the new basketball coach for the Richmond Oilers. Coach Ken Carter after becoming the new coach he requires the team members if they want to play in his team, they have to sign a contract the...

Reflections on the Movie ‘12 Years a Slave’

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The movie ‘12 Years a Slave’ was about a man named Solomon Northup, an educated man living in Saratoga, New York, during the 1840s. He was known as the best fiddle player in the community. The movie has several flashbacks between his present slave life and his life previous as a free man. This is probably referring to the beginning...

Reflections on Phillip Noyce’s ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ and Its Major Themes

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The importance of family. Two or more people who may share a genetic connection, but also an unbreakable social bond. As teenagers, the concept of family has influenced our lives from our first moments of living till now. We rely on our family for a sense of protection, endless moral support and inspiration, whilst constantly strengthening and intensifying our shared...

Reflections on Del Toro’s Movie 'Pan’s Labyrinth'

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Foreign movies have been transporting us to different worlds, since the beginning of cinema and a lot of these films use their fantasy worlds to comment on the real world that we all live in. I love foreign movies as it exposes you to an entirely new culture. This is what ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ has done for me. Filled with original...

Reasons Why I Think 'Ready Player One' Is a Mediocre Movie

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Steven Spielberg’s movie ‘Ready Player One’ was mediocre at best. There are several reasons why I think this. Firstly, the plot. Main characters are competing with a huge corporation, known as IOI, to solve the secret puzzles to obtain three keys. The first person to obtain all the keys is given total control of the OASIS. The OASIS is a...

Racism and Sexism in 'Game of Thrones'

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According to Ella Shohat, culturally and geographically colonialism effected the way different genders and ethnicities are portrayed in media. Historically colonialism invaded other cultures and brought with them their ideologies and views. Views that were in example depicting women and the world, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the...

Racial Stereotypes in Hollywood Film Industry

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In light of the recent Black Lives Matter movement and other peaceful protests, discussions about race, racial inequality, and racial stereotypes are at the forefront of society's current discourse. Given the popularity of movies such as Ryan Cooglers 'Black Panther' or John M. Chu's 'Crazy Rich Asians', it is common for people to assume racial stereotypes are either non-existent or...

Power Used to Exploit the Weak: 'Blade Runner' and 'The Handmaid's Tale'

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘Blade Runner’ directed by Ridley Scott both take place in dystopian societies that demonstrate power over their citizens. In both texts, those lower in power are controlled by their representative state and taken advantage of. In ‘Blade Runner’, power runs over humankind and freedom, while ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ demonstrates a similar plot, including...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Movie ‘The Matrix’

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As we have been going through the study of epistemology, we started off with an allegory. This was allegory was said by a famous philosopher named Plato. His allegory was called the allegory of the cave. This allegory was an explanation of how mankind live, its life and how our understanding are actually very limited. This is explained is multiple...

The Golden Era of Hollywood: A Cinematic Legacy

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Introduction The term "Old Hollywood" conjures images of a golden era in cinema, a time characterized by its glamorous stars, groundbreaking films, and influential studios. Spanning from the late 1910s to the early 1960s, this period laid the foundation for modern filmmaking, creating a legacy that continues to influence the industry. Old Hollywood was not merely an epoch in cinema...
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Nostalgia in 'Midnight in Paris' and 'The Great Gatsby'

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Nostalgia and golden age thinking are an exceedingly critical aspect in Fitzgerald and Allen’s works, as through these concepts they are able to convey a noteworthy message regarding the role of dreams and illusions as motivators. Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses and people underestimate the power it has. We need to establish an understanding of what...

Myths in Modern Adaptations of Classic Works

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Transformations of myths have materialized over centuries and are dependent on the source material for the provision of commonality between storylines, themes, characters and motifs upon which they ultimately traverse. Through these adaptations and re-interpretations of myths to contemporary frameworks, audiences can engage with and appreciate the rewriting undertaken by the adaptive text, whilst simultaneously enjoying the underlying congruity between...

Essay about Master of Suspense: Sir Alfred Hitchcock

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Thrillers and eggs are equally terrifying… Actually, according to one specific person, eggs are even more frightening. The Master of Suspense, also known as Sir Alfred Hitchcock, may be frightened of eggs, but he is famously known for his thrillers, such as ​‘Psycho’​ (1960), ‘​Rear Window’ ​(1954) and ‘​Vertigo’​ (1958). The purpose of this essay is to present some of...

Key Social Issues Highlighted in ‘The Help’ and ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’

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Films can have a great impact on an individual’s way of thinking by helping to inspire and expand our basic knowledge of the world around us. The effects that films have on society are numerous and two-fold. Some even may have the power to completely change already established stereotypes, mindsets and prejudices. Both ‘The Help’ and ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ explore...

Key Issues Highlighted in the Film 'Dead Poets Society'

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Teachers have the freedom to choose their way of teaching, aligning it to the students’ learning styles, as long as it assures the learning of the students. In the film ‘Dead Poets Society’, Mr. Keating uses a more of a non-technical and non-scientific that could appear as a humanistic approach. He wanted his students not only to excel academically but...

Titanic: Enduring Legacy of James Cameron's Epic

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Introduction James Cameron's Titanic, released in 1997, is a cinematic masterpiece that has captivated audiences worldwide and earned a prominent place in motion picture history. The film, which is a fictionalized account of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, stands out not just for its box office success but for its profound impact on popular culture. With a...

Rebellion in 'Dead Poets Society' and 'Pleasantville'

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When people get to a specific age, they start to care less which promotes teen rebellion by breaking rules and expectations. Teens are developing into their own separate person and starting to get their own sense of direction by testing boundaries and experiencing the consequences. An important theme explored in Weir’s ‘Dead Poets Society’ and Ross’s ‘Pleasantville’ was rebellion. ‘Pleasantville’...

History and Mysticism in 'Pan's Labyrinth' & 'The Shadow of the Wind'

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The 1930’s were a traumatic time in many parts of the world. Spain has also endured its fair share of ideological conflicts, of which the Spanish Civil War is a clear example. From 1936 to 1939, Spain saw the most brutal civil war in its history. Often considered a struggle between democracy and fascism, general Francisco Franco's right-wing nationalists eventually...

Global Issues Raised in 'Wall-E'

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The Earth has been deserted, disregarded and disrespected. It is 700 years in the future. A city occupied by skyscrapers takes over the horizon. A more observant look reveals the structures are actually consist of garbage, neatly formed into blocks and piled to form skyscraper like structures. Throughout this vast city of trash, only one creature roams the land. This...

Gender Portrayal and Sexism in Christopher Nolan's Film 'Inception'

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‘Inception’ (2010) is praised for its originality, determination and success, and is one of Christopher Nolan’s best-known films, winning 4 Oscars. Although the concept of ‘Inception’ is extremely compelling, with astonishing performances from DiCaprio and Watanabe, the portrayal of women in this production is disappointing, and poor, objectifying its female characters and portraying prototypical female mania. In this essay I...

Exploring the Depths of 'The Matrix'

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Have you ever had a dream that you were absolutely certain it was real? Envision that you weren't able to awaken. How would you know the difference between the dream and reality? This is the underlying theme to one of the most sought out transmedia executions the world has ever seen. ​The multitude of ways we communicate in today’s society...

Evolution of Spider-Man Films

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Spider-Man as a superhero has undergone a great deal of redesign, reboots and reinvention since the early 2000s. The multitude of recreations have made the differences in values, attitudes and relevant issues in each adaptation extremely prominent. These differences will be discussed with close reference to the films ‘Spider-Man’ (2002), ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ (2018), as well...

Essentialism in the Film 'The Matrix'

2 Pages 750 Words
Essentialism is a philosophy that believes all things have a set of attributes in order for it to be recognized and to know its function. Moreover, it believes that before anything could exist, there should be a purpose unto why it is made. This philosophy has been very evident in ‘The Matrix’. The trilogy is an American sci-fi movie that...

Importance of Supportive Relationships in Selected Novels

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The comparison of similar themes within varying mediums of text, in addition to each composer’s diverse individual perspectives on these issues, reveal the universality and importance of these ideas. Through the exploration of the themes of the importance of supportive relationships and the contrasting impacts that the suppression of free will can hold in differing mediums of text, Malorie Blackman’s...

Cultural Collision in the Film ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’

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Throughout a lot of research, the conclusion that I have come to, seems that ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ surpassed ‘Yolngu Boy’ in presenting cultural collision. This was reached by showing what life was like for Aboriginal kids back in around 1930 and how white culture effected their lives. The part about this film that stood out to me was the fact...

Critical Analysis of the Film ‘Pearl Harbor’

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‘Pearl Harbor’ is an American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay in 2001. The film presents a heavily fictionalized version of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, focusing on a love story that unfolds in the run-up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. Historians have found multiple inaccuracies in this film....

The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave: Comparison

3 Pages 1391 Words
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Introduction A turtle and a salmon are swimming together. While swimming, the turtle asks the fish: "How does the water taste today." After thinking about it for a couple of seconds, the salmon responds: "What's water?". The 2001 film 'The Matrix,' directed by the Wachowski brothers, is a science fiction homage to Plato's allegory of the cave. Both stories tell...

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