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    Million Dollar Baby is an inspirational film. Directed and filmed by Clint Eastwood in 2004, Million Dollar Baby is a motivational film featuring a young women living in the lower class who follows her passion for boxing. Part of the reason I believe it was a good film was since it was a comeback movie. It started with a thirty-one year old waitress named Maggie Fitzgerald who comes from a lower class family in which they do not all get along well. Maggie Fitzgerald has a passion to one day…

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    him. Look towards his meeting the female lead Tiffany, which only occurred because of Pat agreeing to attending a dinner party with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica even though he knows Veronica doesn’t care for him, but happens to be Nikki best friend, something he sees as a way to get Nikki attention if Veronica believes him to be better. Where once Pat and Tiffany have meet during the dinner party, where we come to learn more about Tiffany’s character who on top of her depression…

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    In the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger” author Frank R. Stockton creates make believe kingdom. In this kingdom the ruler was a semi barbaric king. The king had an arena, and when a crime was committed the accused were put into to prison. They would await their day till they were put in the arena. The king let them decide their fate by picking between two doors. Behind one door held a hungry, ferocious tiger waiting for his next victim to open his door. Behind the other door was a fair,…

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    Muhammad Ali Impossible

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    Muhammad Ali is insisting that ‘impossible’ is used as an excuse to avoid taking on new, seemingly difficult endeavors. In one part he says that ‘impossible’ is used by people who “find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” This indicates that people use this word to do what they know they can in this world, and count everything they supposedly can’t as impossible. Ali says that they have the choice to validate more activities as…

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    The Movie Awakenings

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    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…

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    James Horner: Some of the best movies made today are so great thanks to the advances in video production technology and special effects. However, one of the biggest contributors to a successful motion picture is the soundtrack. The soundtrack to a movie sets tone for the action on the screen and has the ability to truly enchant the audience, creating an emotional stage of relativity between the movie storyline and the audience. We recently lost one of the greatest American composers of such a…

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    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,…

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    Drinking: A Short Story

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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