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Why Saving Private Should Be Considered a Classic WWII Movie Imagine how it would feel to be trapped behind enemy lines with no communication to base. During the Second World War, this was a reality for paratroopers during D-Day. A movie that tells that story of a paratrooper behind enemy lines is Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg). However, there is a twist to not only being trapped behind enemy lines, but having men come to extract the private to tell him his brothers are dead. Saving Private…

The film American Beauty was written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes. The motion picture was released in 1999, and was distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. Although this movie was very controversial it won awards that include: best picture, actor, and screenplay. In this film, actor Kevin Spacy stars as the main character Lester Burnham, a forty-two year old man who is enduring a life transformation during his mid-life crisis years. Lester was living the typical ‘American Dream’; he had a…

I would like to write an essay about the definition of culture and subculture following by the two-supported major theory that I would be using, One of the theory I would be using is Psychoanalysis theory as it would be focusing on the aspect of DreamWorks as discussed in Freud’s book Interpretation of Dream (Freud, 2009) and Followed by Frankfurt school (Adorno & Hokheimer, 2009) in the discourse of culture. (Williams, 2009) According to Williams (Williams, 2009:32) culture is separated into…

Films have been a major part of America’s history, as well as its identity, for many years, and they have developed alongside our country. Movies have been popular since their debut in the late 1800s, and the people’s fascination and pure adoration of them has not died down since. This infatuation has led to the development of filmmaking, because, as Americans, we are always striving for better; therefore, American filmmakers have been creating numerous ways to advance movies to become more…

Overview In 1923, Walter Elias Disney along with his brother Roy formed Walt Disney Studio formally known as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Walt created a series of short lived-action/animated films titled Alice Comedies. The inspiration of the comedies came from a short film Walt created while living in Kansas City called Alice’s Wonderland. Walt’s work eventually attracted the attention of M.J. Winkler a distributor in New Work. The brothers began working out of a small office located in…

Pixar Animation Studios is a well-known creator for movies, shows, and short films. They have made films such as Toy Story, The Incredibles, and WALL•E. Pixar animators are the storytellers of legend. Their tale is a long and hard one, with trials and speed bumps. Through the hard times they have faced, Pixar has remained victorious. The company has gone through an amazing transformation and really has become one of the wonders of the digital age. In the beginning, it was George Lucas, the…

movies watched, thus increasing our sample size and limiting the potential of our results being due to chance. Additionally, in future studies, researchers could break away from Disney movies and begin to analyze other forms of media outlets such as DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, and Pixar. Then researchers can evaluate whether similar gender stereotypes are present in other media outlets as has been found in Disney media. We did not find these results, but Junn (1997) did. Next, further research can…

In total, between the five movies evaluated contained 55 characters of which 40 were males, 14 were females, and one was omitted because of its gender ambiguity. Gender was noted in order to evaluate whether or not there appeared to be differences in behavior between males and females more specifically whether there was gender stereotypical behavior in Disney films. Males are represented in these films far more often according to our results appearing almost 3 times as often as females. This is…

With the invention of the Internet has come with the creation of a whole new way people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or…

Instructor Marina Dzougoutov GSR 220.01: Deaf Cinema 9 December 2014 2001 MVP- Most Valuable Primate, Warner Brothers Production Released: October 20, 2001. Director: Robert Vince. Actors: Jack the monkey (Bernie, Louie, Mac) Lomax Study (Dr.Kendall) Russell Ferrier (Darren) Kevin Zegers (Steven Westover) Jamie Rene Smith (Tara Westover) Ingrid Tesch (Susie Westover) Philip Granger (Mark Westover) Rick Ducommun (Coach Marolowe) Deaf Characters: Jack(monkey) Tara(sister of the main…