62nd British Academy Film Awards

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    The text that I am going to analyze in this work has been extracted from the movie “The Shawshank Redemption”. This film tells the story about Andy Dufresne, a respectable accountant who is unfairly accused of murdering his wife and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He is sent to Shawshank prison, where he meets Red, an old man who has spent more than a half of his life living there. Despite they are two very different men, they become friends; sharing his time and thoughts. The text I have…

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    Forrest Gump is one of those movies that literally anyone born in or during the time of VHS tapes was exposed to a minimum of 18 times… per year. However, as a kid obviously you couldn’t possibly understand the incredible multitudinous pop references of the time, nor the incredible milestones of American history encapsulated throughout the movie. Even after all these years and multiple viewings people still aren’t able to connect all the little dots here and there. And so, as a child, all…

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    Late in the year 1818, a seemingly innocent tailor from the city of Malacca by the name of Tsáfú escaped the withholdings of imprisonment which held him back from his true colors as a fraternal leader. This tailor was previously convicted of murder for reasons unknown. However, what is known is that he was freed from his strict confines by his fellow brethren – men from different regions who were readily available to release him from the “hands of justice”. Tsáfú was not just a tailor, but a…

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    The glo that applies to Eliot Ness is number 3 complex thinker. The way that Eliot Ness was a complex thinker when he figured that the police force was being payed by Al Capone so how Ness solve this problem of not having the cop on his side was where created a team of his own called the Untouchables which consisted of Jimmy Malone, George Stone and Oscar Wallace. Another way Eliot was a complex thinker was generating this creative idea of basically going to Canada Where the next ] of liquor…

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    The Shawshank redemption is a film set in the 1940's where a young banker by the name of Andy Dufresne is sentenced to life in Portland, Oregon based Shawshank prison on a false accusation of murdering his wife and another man. The rest of the movie is based around his journey to find his identity as well as his freedom and hope in order to survive. In this maximum security prison of Shawshank, prison life is designed to be harsh and breakdown the inmate’s spirits. On the inside the inmates…

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    The movie “Good Will Hunting” is about a genius leveled young janitor, Will Hunting who gets discovered to be a math whiz by a professor. One day a professor named Gerald Lambeau writes two complex math problems on the board for his students to solve. This is how professor Gerald Lambeau discovers the janitor Will Hunting has solved the equations. At the same time, it is discovered that Will Hunting has assaulted a police officer therefore, he gets himself in trouble with the law. Luckily,…

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    How To Be A Good Writer

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    Stephen King is a highly successful and popular author. He has written many stories and novels using what he calls “ 22 lessons on How to be a Good Writer”. There is strong evidence of Rule 8 “Avoid adverbs and long paragraphs with no flow”, Rule 10 “master the art of description”, and Rule 11 “Don’t give too much background information” in his stories “ The body” and “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. In these stories, it is clear that he takes his rules seriously. King…

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    Life for Stanley Yelnats is good, family, friends, school. One mistake changed his life. Finding a pair of shoes, and keeping them, getting chased by the cops, this is no mistake, this is bad luck. Four generations of bad luck, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has a choice, jail, or sent to Camp Green Lake for 18 months. He decides Camp Green Lake instead of jail. Camp Green Lake changed his life, digging holes everyday for 18 months. One certain hole changed his family’s curse and…

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    Arguments For Andy

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    When Tommy Williams entered prison, he quickly made friends with Andy, Red, and the others. After a year later, James revealed to Andy and Red that he met the man who killed Andy’s wife and lover. After knowing the truth, Andy tried to get the warden on board with getting Andy another trial to prove that he was innocent all these while but warden refuse to. The warden wanted to keep Andy so that they can make money. Because of this, the warden would restrict Andy to go anywhere. Andy was trapped…

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    punished by the warden when he brings this information to light. In the novella version Tommy is sent away to a minimum security prison in exchange for his silence, this guarantees that Andy will never be able to attain justice. On the other hand, in the film…

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