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    A Few Good Men Analysis

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    A Few Good Men The film A Few Good Men by Rob Reiner is the best example of the judicial drama, a very popular genre in American cinema. It is a dynamic, uninterrupted even for a second, detective intrigue with a great actor's play: one of the best performances of Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon and Jack Nicholson. The movie, edited in 1992, contains some ethical and moral issues related to the judicial system and immoral army orders, which turn into a crime against humanity. On the one…

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    Dunkirk Film Analysis

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    The concept of time, and how it can be used to alter the structure and story of a film has intrigued filmmakers for years. Whereas time's rules are usually unflinching, the creation of film has allowed these rules to be bent and broken in previously unseen ways. Stories with a non-linear structure can now be told fluently and dramatically, such as Christopher Nolan's ‘Dunkirk', or instead complex story arcs can be explored, utilising time in a unique way, like in Shane Carruth's ‘Primer' in…

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    Suspense is a state of anxiousness or uneasiness about a situation. This tension is easily felt in movies, such as The Fellowship of the Ring.This movie is a very adventure filled and action packed story. Director makes this film very tense and makes viewers what to know what is going to happen next. Many different techniques are used to give the movie its edginess. The suspense in The Fellowship of the Ring is created through POV shots and angles, sound effects, and pace. The…

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    Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) portrays a man's (John’s) passion for control and the dangers of idealisation and desire. Vertigo; "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height”1 is a metaphor of protagonist John “Scotty” Ferguson relationship with Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster. The narrative structure of Vertigo is fundamentally driven by the encounters between John and Madeleine/Judy. The relationship between the two progresses on the…

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    Even though film experts still debate what genre it best falls into, the 1950 Billy Wilder-directed film Sunset Boulevard is, in many respects, the archetypal film noir, and is also widely regarded as one of the most brutally honest depictions of Hollywood, by Hollywood. One of the biggest reasons Wilder’s film is viewed as such an exemplar of the film noir movement is its innovative use of lighting effects. Use of lighting can make or break a black-and-white film much more than it can one in…

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    “Man’s Search for Meaning” is a book that is told in first person perspective from Viktor Frankl about the holocaust. In this book Frankl explains all the ins and outs of his time spent in the concentration camp. As he encountered many other men and heard their stories, he learned more about himself through his journey. Although Frankl had dealt with such humility, he still held his head high to find his true meaning after such distraught. In the beginning of the book “Man’s Search for…

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    Jj Abrams Research Paper

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    JJ Abrams is a very popular director in today's cinema and widely considered as an auteur. He has helped rejuvenate the Sci-Fi genre in many ways. First off if you have seen any of JJ Abrams movies or TV series’s they all have one major similarity which is; whatever you think is going to happen next, something entirely different will happen, as the case in Lost. Also all of JJ Abrams work have been strongly character driven something that doesn’t always appear in movies, especially in the…

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    age, the term auteur is commonly used to describe a director who’s style is unique and who’s films are recognisable by that style. Various directors commonly regarded as classic examples of Hollywood auteurs include: Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock stand as examples of classic Hollywood auteurs (Yasinkutuk…

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    Scorpio Rising Analysis

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    Post World War II, the Homophile movement was consciously disavowing openly homosexual acts in attempt to shift the attitudes of social majority by shaping an image aligned with –philia (fondness and love) in opposed to sex (Suâarez 127). Meanwhile, filmmakers under the scrutiny from Motion Picture Production Code were made to abide by the rules of “don’ts and be carefuls”, unable to employ passionate, sexual, and “pervasive” scenes in the plot (Mondello). During this time, Kenneth Anger made…

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    the present, all interesting. But what fascinated me the most, was when we covered Alfred Hitchcock, discussing his movie “Psycho” and “North by Northwest”. Although as a graduate student I was given the opportunity to do my final paper on any topic, but I just had to do mine on the “Master of Suspense”, Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Since I was a kid, we use to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Presents, a T.V show hosted by Alfred Hitchcock which aired in 1955 to 1965. It featured dramas, thrillers, and…

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