Frank Luntz

“I saw it in a movie once!” Everyone has heard these words at least sometime in their lives and everyone knows that whatever came before it is most likely not true. Most movies are meant to entertain with various fantastical events that one way or another couldn’t really happen in reality. However, movies like this don’t present themselves as informational. But what about those that do? Documentaries by definition are movies that contain factual information. The documentary genre has, in recent…

Allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight”- Anne Frank (Frank). Anne Frank was a thirteen year old Jewish girl in the Holocaust. Her family and four other people went into hiding in a place called the Secret Annexe. During their stay Anne had many conflicts with her “Mum”, Mrs.van Daan, and Dussel. Most of her conflicts were internal because she really didn’t like to express her inner turmoil to others. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne experiences daily conflicts with other…

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was born June 12, 1929. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but later moved to Amsterdam. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis had already taken over Germany and were beginning to try to take over Amsterdam. Anne’s family went into hiding along with some other family friends. The hid in this place called the Secret Annex. The Secret Annex was the small upper layer of the building that Anne’s dad worked in. The Secret Annex was secret because it was all behind a bookcase. There was…

Documentary and War Photography “Is it in the interest of purity that society should hang its morally stained linens upon its lines to be stared at?” Jacob Riis, a documentary photographer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries asked this very question in an effort to stir the thoughts of documentary photographers around the world, as well as their audiences. Documentary photography can be defined as a type of photography that documents historically relevant events and scenes as well as…

Mari Frank was born on June 12,1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was quite described as “ a talkative, teasing, and intelligent girl full of curiosity”(Kersell, Nancy) type of female. Margot, her older sister, was born on February 16,1926. Their father was a businessman while her mother stayed home. Anne frank went to Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam. While she attended Montessori she learned how to “speak Dutch”(kersell,Nancy), a language that is Germanic, in quicky method. Her parents,Otto frank and…

Anne Frank lived a carefree life until the age of thirteen. She had dark hair and dark eyes, and she was the kind of girl who says what’s on her mind. Her sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfort-on-Main, and Anne was born on June 12, 1929. The Franks moved to Holland in 1933, where Mr. Frank got a job as the manager of a company. Anne and Margot were enrolled in the Montessori School until 1941, when they had to switch to the Jewish Secondary School. On July 5, 1942, Margot Frank was…

The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) is completely different compared to the novels The Sunflower and The Reader. Unlike both stories, The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) focuses on a Jewish family hiding from the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, while the two other novels describe the aftermath after the Holocaust and using characters to sympathize members who were part of the Nazi regime. Anne tells her story in a cheerful manner; however, their fear was prevalent throughout the film, which clashed my…

Anne Frank and the Secret Annex In the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank there are many pieces of information that were surprising. What was interesting in the book was Anne always tried maintain a positive attitude. By having the Secret Annex to live in, always being optimistic about surviving the war, and by having Peter to talk to and keep her happy are just some of the reasons Anne Frank was able a positive attitude. Anne Frank was always thankful for having…

From the time of the creation of the first films, films have reflected the values society holds at the time of the films creation. The film Imitation of life is no different, in two films adaptations it is easy to see the society and ideals reflected in both movies. Both of the films are similar in the issues that are dealt with in them, but are depicted differently on screen because of the vast time difference between the two periods. In the 1934 Version of the film by Director John M.…

The two movies I choose are Talladega Nights and Hardball. Hardball is an inspiring story in which a man who is on a bad path in lights loses all his money, and is forced to coach a baseball team of underprivileged kids and ends up caring for them. He leads the tea to a championship, and they lose a player to a gunshot, but they join together and win! Talladega Nights is the story of Ricky Bobby, a race car driver who was mistreated and abandoned by his father. He thought that he had to win to…