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engine became louder, the flashing lights on the dashboard showed the car was having a very hard time. The wheel turned without Samuel moving it. The tires spun out of control the, the car flipped and flew into the wilderness continuing up and down the hills. Samuel blacked out once again. The car was ruined, and Samuel was helpless. About an hour later he woke up, disoriented. He didn’t know where he was come from or where to go back. Samuel started walking, and then looked at his phone. The screen was shattered and and wouldn’t turn on again. Samuel was going to have to figure a way out of this mess. As he kept walking beyond the luscious brush was a house. Abandoned most likely, so he knocked. “BAM BAM BAM” he knocked. The house echoed inside. Samuel tried once more. “BAM BAM BAM” he knocked again. The house again echoed. He figured no one lived there anyway, so he opened the door, completely unaware of what he had just unleashed. The door creaked behind him, and slammed shut on its own. He quickly turned around to see no one. Samuel shook off some dust and kept walking through the house. “Hello?” He yelled, “Is anyone home?” No one responded, except the creaking of a door in the house. He went up the strange stairs. They had a beautiful rug on top of them which Samuel admired as he walked up them. “Is anyone here?” he shouted. He opened the first door to a small bedroom at the top of the stairs. The place looked ransacked, the chairs flipped dresser emptied, and…

The Hurt Locker showcases the experiences of a United States Army bomb squad stationed in Iraq after US invasion of foreign soil. On the surface, the film is ostensibly a story based on the actual experiences of a journalist embedded with US military forces in Iraq. If audiences choose to dig deeper, there are multiple meanings that can be drawn from the storyline. Its most noticeable theme is established immediately with the film’s opening quotation, “The rush of battle is a potent and often…

tell if a scene is happy, depressed, mysterious, scary or dangerous. Sound refers to everything we hear in a film such as background music. It determines the location of the scene and foreshadows what is bound to happen. All of these elements identifies how a character is represented. In the film Blue Steel, there is a lot of gender representation on the female heroine, Megan Turner. She faces a huge crisis when she is accused of shooting and killing an unarmed man in a market. Turner claims…

The Hurt Locker tells the intense day of a specialist bomb disposal unit during the Iraq war led by Sergeant Thompson. It follows the daily work in Baghdad of three U.S. Marines, who make up a bomb disposal unit, as they specialist. These soldiers are in charge with carrying out one of the most dangerous jobs in the world that is defusing enemy bombs planted in war zones. When he dies during a mission, Sergeant James an unpredictable and reckless soldier takes his place and commands the unit.…

James Joseph Mr. Miller ENGL 1301 21 September 2015 The Hurt Locker: Production and critic reviews The critically acclaimed low budget movie about a bomb disposing team The Hurt Locker was released in 2008. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the first women to win an Academy Award for best director. The Film was nominated 94 times and won 132 awards. Though she is a women people say that she “…is a man’s director who happens to be a woman”. . Jeremy Renner stated that Kathryn was more masculine than…

the scene for the movie as we see the negative consequences that war has on the people involved. Kathryn Bigelow has directed the two war films, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty in which she has a very clear style which can be analysed to make meaning of the texts. Both texts explore the idea of voyeurism and are focussed on the battle that the main protagonist has with themselves and others they associate with. Kathryn Bigelow’s style includes challenging the expectations of the audience…

Film acting at its core is designed to replicate the way we, humans, naturally behave to a certain degree. Certain films may feature characters more believable than others on their exterior, but an essential quality of nearly every protagonist is to be imperfect. Just as humans are flawed on an individual basis, characters in film have their own unique set of disadvantages. Because of this, we see a reflection of ourselves in the character as they are always looking to improve themselves or…

“The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, is about an American bomb unit during the Iraq war. This movie stands out to me because it is realistic and makes me feel as if I am the fourth person in the humvee. The first scene, the audience is introduced to the unit and the dangerous environment they are in. Three soldiers led by Sergeant Thompson are investigating a bomb. While Thomson looks at the bomb first hand, a secret bystander activates the bomb, and kills…