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    lady's man. At the beginning of World War 2 Schindler moved to Poland because he saw a chance of a new opportunity. He would open his factory employ Jews at starvation wages. This was his chance to become a successful millionaire! Schindler( Liam Neeson) likes to dress fancy and attend night clubs weekly to get on the good side of people. He buys Nazi officers and their girls caviar and champagne to get pictures with the top brass. Schindler has pristine black market contacts and is capable…

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    Modeled after Edith Wharton's novella of the same name, the 1993 adaptation of Ethan Frome does a pleasant job in retelling the original story. In the film, as in the novella, Ethan Frome depicts the story of a scandalous love triangle between Ethan (Liam Neeson), a farmer, Zeena (Joan Allen), Ethan’s sickly wife, and Mattie (Patricia Arquette), Zeena’s caretaker set in a dull New England town. These three characters, all with very different in personalities, trapped in a claustrophobic…

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    “Advertisers frequently use the testimony of a celebrity to support a claim”(Jozui). Sue Jozui, in her passage, explains that advertisers mislead the buyers/consumers by using celebrities to promote products and that buyers should boycott these products. The author supports her claim by first listing examples of celebrities advertising products and saying that this misleads and insults the audience. She continues by saying “We should boycott this kind of advertising and legislate rules and…

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    to my body and tried to channel Liam Neeson’s facial expressions from the first Taken movie. It didn’t take me long to realize that was being a little uptight. I wasn’t traveling in Europe using my ex-CIA skills to find my lost daughter, I was walking around St. Paul and looking at people. This wasn’t a war zone, it was a street; a street with people pushing strollers and smoking cigarettes and waiting for the bus. I decided I could manage without the Liam Neeson facial…

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    Stars Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, and Forest Whitaker. Written by Chris Weitz off a story written by John Knoll and Gary Whitta, and it will be directed by Gareth Edwards. "A Monster Calls" is in post-production. Stars Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Geraldine Chaplin, and Toby Kebbell. A boy seeks to cope with his single mom's terminal illness with the help of a tree monster. Written by Patrick Ness, and directed by J.A. Bayona. This film is drama, fantasy. "Inferno"…

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    Splinter Cell Conviction

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    Cell Conviction was one of my favorite games of all time. I just loved the way the game turned out to be and Sam Fisher was gritty and fearless. It reminded me a lot of the movie Taken. Similar to Liam Neeson going after his daughter, Sam is hunting for the person who allegedly killed his daughter. Both Liam and Sam have extraordinary abilities when it comes to hand to hand combat and gun fights. Apart from this, Conviction is the last game that Michael Ironside did the voice for Sam Fisher. His…

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    Steven Spielberg’s impeccable capturing of the Holocaust makes viewers feel as though they are in Schindler’s List. Liam Neeson delivers an extraordinary performance in the title role of Oskar Schindler, the Catholic German businessman, who initially exploited Krakow Jews and later became their friend, protector, and savior from the Nazis. Spielberg made sure that neither he nor the Holocaust will ever be thought of in the same way again. Schindler’s List is a masterpiece with astonishing…

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    Taken Movie Comparison

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    actuality families face that are affected by the horrors of sex trafficking, which the movie attempts to portray. Taken mainly portrays the fear a family faces when coming face to face with the heinous acts of sex trafficking. Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) plays a retired CIA agent attempting to regain lost years with his daughter Kim…

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    Vengeance has been a popular theme that has been used in many stories and movies for many years. For example the 2008 movie Taken, starring Liam Neeson, is about a CIA agent, whose daughter is taken, or kidnapped. He gets a hold of the criminal on the phone and promises him that he will find him and his daughter. Neeson eventually receives vengeance when he kills all of the bad guys and successfully saves his daughter. One simply cannot understand the true meaning of vengeance with just the…

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    Schindler's List Essay

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    By the time Steven Spielberg got around to developing Schindler’s List, the film industry was already flooded with movies about the Holocaust. But no one had ever presented that horrifying genocide like Spielberg’s 1993 film did— for that matter, no one has since been able to reach its level of mastery. From the poignant dialogue, to the cinematographic style, to the convincing performances by both seasoned and newcomer actors and actresses, Schindler’s List is the barometer by which all other…

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