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Novel "The Great Gatsby" repeatedly onto the movie screen, leaving a distinctive mark on the vast Hollywood movie production. 1974 edition became one of the shining star, broad interest, and she won an Oscar three awards, namely the Oscar for best costume award, the Oscar for Best Music Award and an Oscar for best supporting actress. The film used the distinctive pluralistic narrative technique, portraying distinct characters and showed the profound theme. 1. Movie Story presentation The film…

“We’re here to connect, love, time, death -- these three things connect every single human being on earth” the first 6 seconds into the trailer of Collateral Beauty voiced by Will Smith. An extremely powerful trailer that includes well known and award nominated actors. Firstly, I saw a poster of this movie in the metro, the first thing I noticed was Will Smith -- as he was the center of attention in the poster which, therefore, was enough for grabbing my attention and interest. According to the…

Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, David Trueba’s 2013 film won five Goya Awards, Spain’s equivalent of Hollywood’s Oscars, after its release and became Spain’s nomination for the category of Best Foreign Film at the 2015 Academy Awards and for good reason. With a meaningful message and an ode to the effect The Beatles had on the world, accompanied with the images of the sun drenched, warm Andalusian landscape and an award winning music score written by Pat Metheny, the film “is both a farewell to…

Historical movies of specific events in time have always fascinated the audience in the motion picture industry. To the Chariot race portrayed by Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur, to the famous World War II speech by George C. Scott in Patton, these movies were iconic at the time and portrayed real life events in history. Never in U.S cinema history had there been a parody of historical events, until the ingenious director named Mel Brooks made a movie called History of the World Part I. Brilliant,…

A common recurring theme in literature, cinematography and even in life is the theme of good versus evil. Not only is it recurring, but it is the main focus of the legendary cinematic masterpiece Star Wars: A New Hope. Not only is it intricately weaved into its dramatic plotline, it is also displayed in a fine visual aesthetic. The first display of the idea of Good vs Evil is displayed through the characters. The protagonists Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are visually displayed as good…

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.” Christopher Nolan is undoubtedly one of the best directors in Hollywood, and he set fire to the film world with his groundbreaking film Interstellar. From its jaw dropping visual effects shown with elegant cinematography to a goosebump inducing score, Interstellar became an instant classic. Visuals are a very important to movies nowadays. But most of these impressive visuals are going towards creating and bringing to life fictional…

The classic Star Wars movies have been around for forty years now. You can enter the Star Wars universe through the LEGO Star Wars building sets. With the X-Wing Fighter set, you can battle the Galactic Empire and help destroy the massive death star. Do this along with the other Rebel alliance pilots. This X-Wing set takes place on the planet Hoth, during episode five of the installment. It was released in 2006 with the classic Lego Star Wars line. The x-wing offers many opportunities for…

In the novel The Odyssey, Homer tells the story about Odysseus and his journey to return home. In the story we see that Odysseus can be characterized as the hero who is intelligent and curious. The movie Star Wars - A New Hope shows us Luke Skywalker’s journey to rescue Princess Leia and discover “the force.” In the movie Luke can be characterized as brave, courageous and quick thinking. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is the archetypal “hero” going on a journey, full of adventure, similarly in…

George Lucas is one of the most successful, creative, and legendary movie directors of all time. Not only has he made movies with techniques that went beyond what the other directors were doing at the time, he made a movie trilogy that a large population of people can enjoy. His full name is George Walton Lucas Jr. He grew up in Modesto, California and was incredibly interested in drag racing. His dream, as a teen, was actually to become a professional racecar driver until he got into a…

Forrest Ackerman, a renown Science Fiction specialist, was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles. His grandpa and grandma, George and Bell Herbert, made a huge impact on Ackerman’s interests in monsters and aliens. As a child, his grandmother influenced him by reading ghost stories while his grandpa drew pictures of monsters and aliens and brought him to as many as seven movies a day. His eccentric imagination of extraterrestrials encouraged and sparked his career as a Science Fiction…