The novel ā1984ā and film āV for Vendettaā are both works that explore how totalitarian governments cause isolation and fear through control. They demonstrate how methods such as propaganda, surveillance and fabrication of information assert control over the lives of their citizens and remove the individual freedom to create a mass of people living in a single unified movement. ā1984ā...
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Rules need to be broken at times. As both the 1985 film by John Hughes, āThe Breakfast Clubā, and the 1981 novel by Morton Rhue, āThe Waveā, discuss why and what can happen when such acts are done. With so much desire to break the rule, there is little room left to see why they need to be disobeyed sometimes....
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Introduction The 2007 film "Freedom Writers," directed by Richard LaGravenese, tells the inspiring story of Erin Gruwell, a dedicated teacher who transformed the lives of her at-risk students through innovative teaching methods and an unwavering commitment to their success. This film is based on the true story of Gruwell's experience at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, during...
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NASA has been a very influential organization for this generation beginning with the Space Race. More people seem to be looking up at the stars and wondering how can they get to one of those specks. Right now, our destination is landing on Mars but that is only possible because of the early programs NASA started in order to get...
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In āCitizen Kaneā (1941) directed by Orson Welles, the story is set in motion to seek for the meaning of āRosebudā. At the end, when Thompson is asked about āRosebudā, he states that he didnāt find its meaning, and that āmaybe āRosebudā was something [Kane] couldnāt get or something he lost ā¦ I guess āRosebudā is just a piece in...
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Through the film āThe Social Networkā, many organizational behavioral problems can be identified, such as leadership problems, lack of communication among top management, and some unethical behaviors (hacking, stealing ideas, betrayal, and disloyalty). For this essay, I decided to choose the problem of communication as the main problem because it was one of the vital factors in running a successful...
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Woman are goddess and a miracle. āHidden Figuresā makes a very big impression and an inspirational movie for us. The movie addresses the issues of racial segregation which was reflected in the location of the West Area computing division where the women or blacks worked, about half a mile away from the rest of the Langley Research Centre. It also...
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āCitizen Kaneā begins with a three-minute stretch of dark and foggy silence with a low song before its disruptive by the word āRosebudā said by Charles Kane, played and directed by Orson Welles. The movie opens with a life-changing picture of a far off, haze covered castle on a slope. It's an exemplary gothic shot and goes far towards building...
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The transition from childhood to adulthood also known as adolescents (shonen for boys, shojo for females) is heavily shown within the realm of anime. Studio Ghibli is also known as one of the major producers of adolescent films with the help of Hayao Miyazaki, a director, and producer of films such as āKikiās Delivery Serviceā, āSpirited Awayā, āHowlās Moving Castleā,...
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āOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestā follows the story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal that was sent to a mental ward due to his antics. He assumed that moving there would have been far easier than the prison he was at, but he was wrong; as the person who was in charge of the ward, Nurse Ratched was no...
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Spike Leeās 1989 film āDo the Right Thingā confronts the impossible nature of resolving racism in a society that is so divided by differences in ethnicities. Inspired by the Howard Beach incident in 1986, in which Michael Griffith is hit by a car while fleeing from his racist attacker, the film shows the breaking down of a community under pressure....
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The film, movie, cinema, motion picture, or moving picture has been entertaining audiences for over one hundred plus years. They have come a long way since the Golden Age of movies. Early on movies such as āCitizen Kaneā, āCasablancaā, and āThe Best Years of Our Livesā broke and set new ideas for film-making, casting and directing. Their production made new...
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A hero is defined as a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities (Oxford, 2019) However this definition doesnāt characterize a hero by their skin or gender, yet since the beginning of time the heroes in our stories have been depicted as supreme white men. These are the stories of superior white European men being...
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Still today many books are still very important to many surroundings, they have tons of abilities and can hold a spot in your head forever. This book called āNightā is definitely important especially to the writer Elie Wiesel. He was a huge survivor of a horrendous and frightening real-life event that took place in 1941 and 1945 known as the...
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āPower is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it soā - Erin Hunter. When I stumbled across this poem the other day on my phone it puzzled me. I found myself thinking about what power means to me and compared it to scenarios from books I have recently read and movie I have watched. Power to me is...
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Tensions are created as the culmination of the audienceās sympathy and desire for the individualās welfare and survival against the visual testimonies of anti-Semitic abuse and atrocity. William Shakespeareās play, āThe Merchant of Veniceā, and Steven Spielbergās film, āSchindlerās Listā, depict the tensions inciting the human experience of change and connection through the insights accentuated by the aspects of moral...
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In Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film, āSchindler's Listā, it tells the incredible true story of a German businessman, Oskar Schindler, who saved over one thousand Jews during World War II. The film takes place in Krakow, Poland beginning in the year 1939, where an ambitious, money-hungry Oskar Schindler was ready to make his fortune from the war. Throughout the film, there...
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The film serves to represent the journey Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) undertook in relation to the formation of Facebook. Facebook as it is known today is a social media network used by millions of people worldwide. The filmās opening scene occurs in a gloomy pub, here the audience watch Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) essentially break up with Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse...
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The extract that I have chosen is taken from Spike Leeās āDo the Right Thingā (1989). The reason I have chosen to analyze a sequence of this film is that of the interesting storytelling techniques Spike Lee utilizes. More importantly, the film has many underlying meanings that are represented through the film elements. I will analyze the cultural context, cinematography,...
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āLet me tell you the story of right hand, left hand. Itās the tale of good and evilā, says Radio Raheem to Mookie. Spike Lee adjusts cinematic language to show the audience deeper meaning within the context of his shots. He utilizes a film procedure called breaking the fourth wall. Breaking the fourth wall incorporates a cinematic style shot, that...
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Interesting fact before the beginning of this paper: five years ago, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of āDo the Right Thingā, the director, Spike Lee threw a party with a special message from President at the time Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The two had seen the movie on their first date, and now, in 2019, the movie is getting...
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Sociology and the theories associated with the study of societies, are prominent in all aspects of entertainment especially movies. This essay will attempt to relate the three sociological theories - structural functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism - to the film āV for Vendettaā. In order to appropriately discuss how these theories are portrayed in this film, it is important...
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Berlin argues that the memory of slavery promotes a dual message; one of āthe dehumanizing force of slavery and the slavesā refusal to be dehumanizedā (Berlin, 1265). The transatlantic slavery trade and chattel slavery violated the freedom and robbed Africans of their basic human rights, but it did not ādefine the society and culture that slaves producedā (Berlin 1264). Both...
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The two excellent works of cinematography: āThe Missionā and āSchindlerās Listā differ immensely in terms of the theme, time frame, and location. At the same time, they encompass a similar take on depicting the human experience in a fight for rights and freedom. Moreover, they both encounter a religious/spiritual aspect that is engraved into the culture and people. Not to...
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The movie I chose to discuss from a sociological perspective is āV for Vendettaā, which is directed by James McTeigue. The film was originally taken from the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The setting is familiar to many of the fictitious novels written in the future about a dystopian era, in which people are ruled by...
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āThe Social Networkā explores the times in which the social media platform Facebook came to be. The platform was invented through warring perspectives of smart young men with a great passion to interlink their friends though the online connected platform. David Fincher, director of this interesting script, extracted from the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' kept on our plates an enticing...
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The movie āThe Last Samuraiā was useful to an extent for the education about the modernization of Japan. This movie is based on a historical event that unfolded in the modernization of Japan. āThe Last Samuraiā is a 2003 American drama action movie co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick. It is set in 1876 in Japan, which at the time...
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āMona Lisa Smileā explores college life through feminism, marriage, and gender roles by way of a progressive teacher at the end of a traditional era (Goldsmith-Thomas & Newell, 2003). The film begins in the fall of 1953 at the start of a new semester at Wellesley College, the prestigious all-girls institution in Boston, Massachusetts. The filmās plot revolves around Katherine...
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The movie āIndiana Jones and the Last Crusadeā is an action-packed adventure movie starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) Sean Connery (Indiana Jonesā dad). If I could give the film a rating, I would give it a 4/5 just because it's a bit more of an older movie. But the storyline and the actors are spot on. It's interesting and it...
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Have you ever felt the droplets of perspiration on your skin, creeping down your body, almost like the cold fingers of a skeleton, and have been frighted of a slaying gnome or a malevolent ventriloquist? Well, the movie āGoosebumpsā will definitely tickle your sweat glands as, R.L. Stineās best-selling book, turned into a blockbusting movie directed by Rob Letterman, turns...
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