Steven Spielberg

The Samurai Film Maker Akira Kurosawa is considered by many to be one of the most influential film makers of all time. Many of his films have been remade or his concepts repurposed for a new audiences; Seven Samurai was remade into the Magnificent Seven, The Battle Beyond our Stars, Zhong yi qun ying (Seven Warriors) and a Japanese anime series, Samurai 7. Kurosawa’s Yojimbo was remade into a Fist Full of Dollars, Last Man Standing, and another anime series, Kaze no Yojimbo.(Maunula,2014)…

Oprah Winfrey, an entrepreneur, actress, director, producer, and philanthropist, has a net worth of $3.1 billion (Forbes). With all of this in mind, before I began reading about her, I assumed Oprah had a sturdy childhood, a sturdy family, and a sturdy upbringing. I couldn 't have assumed anything farther from the truth. Oprah endured many hardships throughout her life as a child. She was an African American child in the late 1960s when they were aggressively demanding their rights, she was a…

All through history, women of color have faced racism and prejudice. In the early 1900s, women were treated as slaves to their husbands and fathers. Many were raped by family members or people they were close with, leading to unhealthy mindsets and difficulty forming further relationships. Women would turn to eachother for comfort and support in these terrifying times. These are actions that were present during the time the novel was written, and still today. Alice Walker uses her childhood and…

Assignment #1: Critic Review analysis Submitted to: Submitted by: Sujeevan Nesarajah Submitted for: CUL485YB  In this critical review analysis I will be using the following films in order to review and discuss the critical analysis perspectives. The films are: Transformers 4 and Passion of the Christ. I will begin with Passion of the Christ and then proceed onwards to Transformers 4. The following critics work will be used: Roger Ebert, Glenn Kenny Part 2: Roger Ebert review Passion of…

Finding out your child has a learning disability can be a very tough thing to handle. But having a learning disability is very common in children ages three to twenty one. A LD or Learning disability is a neurological condition that affects the affects the brain depending on which disorder you have. Over two million children have a learning disability and the most common is dyslexia. Dyslexia is a condition that alters the way the brain measures reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and…

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: the Second Battle of Winterfell, the titular Battle of the Bastards, does for medieval and fantasy warfare what Steven Spielberg did for World War II cinema in Saving Private Ryan. The intensity of the battle, the intimacy, the choice to stay in narrow focus on Jon Snow in the midst of chaos during an extended long-shot, all worked together to create an experience that had me not only on the edge of my seat, but holding my breath as I watched. But…

Strictly Business. Following that, he appeared in two more comedies: Amos & Andrew and National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, the former of which was his breakthrough performance. In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, Jackson collaborated with filmmaker Steven Spielberg. BREAKTHROUGH IN A CAREER In 1994, when Jackson portrayed the villain Big Don in Tony Scott and Quentin Tarantino's True Romance, Tarantino cast him as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction (1994). "To know that somebody had written something…

Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…