Academy Award for Best Actor

In the movie, Awakenings, there were many actual depictions of what happened during the trial. The actual events of the drug trial were performed by Dr. Oliver Sacks who asked that his name be changed in the movie. During the 1920s there was an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that spread worldwide. Symptoms of encephalitis begin with high fever, headache, and sore throat. Progression of the disease has symptoms of muscle pain, tremors, slowing of physical and mental response as well as…

Charlie Chaplin The Speech Charlie Chaplin directed, produced, and starred in the film “The Great Dictator” in 1940. The film was considered by most a propaganda film that showed through comic satire that those that were against us as a country were incapable, untrustworthy cowards. The idea was to create something that would lead the audience to those same conclusions. The speech included in the film became an iconic proclamation of our own issues in the United States at the time. In the film,…

no one in particular, “Anyone know how to read French? It’s in my cell phone.” Jenny replied, “No, but Google does. Hand me your phone.” The doctor scrolled up to the picture he took that night in the museum. “Here you go little lady, take your best shot.” “What did you find?” John asked. “I found a small handwritten book, and what appeared to be a note and a quatrain that was not yet entered into the book. All of which I found in a secret hiding place in the wall.” “I see.” “That’s…

If you want to see a movie that is unashamedly retro in style and content, you will not do better than this amusing, if historically wide of the mark depiction of a gang of con artists from the 1970s who get snared into pulling off a sting for the FBI, which of course does not go according to plan. Directed by David O. Russell, this movie is meant, so it is said, to be based on the 1978 Abscam investigation. This involved the FBI instigating a major sting by using used fake Arab sheiks, in…

explicit through the dehumanising effects of war on innocent lives. Despite inhumane conditions being present amongst humanity, through the protagonist Guido Orefice, Benigni highlights that such horrendous suffering also has the power to elicit the best in humanity. Furthermore, Benigni reveals that whenever an individual faces adversity with enormous strength and fortitude, life becomes more ‘beautiful’ and they can transcend life’s tragedies. By utilising various filmic features, Benigni…

The movie Flowers for Algernon and Awakenings are both the same in some areas and then different in other areas The movie Awakenings is about a doctor named Oliver Sacks and a patient named Leonard. Leonard who survived the encephalitis epidemic now has a brain Syndrome which allows him to be in a catatonic state. After Dr. Sacks many hours of research he came across the totally new drug at the time L- Dopa. L- Dopa would allow the patients using it to come out of the catatonic state they were…

As I was glancing through the list of movies I could choose from to watch this weekend, one stood out and grabbed my attention. I had seen at least one of each actor’s film on the list but I wanted to watch something I’d never seen before and I decided to see Manchurian Candidate with Denzel Washington. I knew that it was a remake of the original movie starring Frank Sinatra so it only drew me closer to seeing it. I thought it was a great movie and that Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber did…

Forrest Gump: Book vs. Movie Written in 1986 by Winston Groom, Forrest Gump was made into a movie in 1994 and actually won an Academy Award, which is cool. Both the book and its film have the title character in it, is a man who goes through many obstacles and a number of signifigant historical events around the world. Although both works explore the character of Forrest Gump and his lifelong journeys, the original book has many different things that go on in it. The film portrays Forrest Gump as…

“Fight Club” (directed by David Fincher) is a 1999 American film based on the novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, all of whom were praised on their performances in the film. Edward Norton plays the unnamed lead role but it referred to as the Narrator in the credits. He works at a dehumanizing office job as he explains that all you have to do is follow a formula which a computer could do. The sequence I looked at starts…

I decided to write my paper about the movie “Rain Man.” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was produced in 1988 and was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. Rain Man depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. The movie is about an autistic savant name Raymond, who is a resident of a home for the mentally disabled, is played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking, self absorbed, self centered hustler, egocentric, younger brother, Charlie Babbitt, played…