Matt Cameron

This movie begins with a man named Will Atenton who is an editor in New York. He was very successful at the work he did but he wanted to make a change in his life. So he left his job and the city life to live in the quiet suburbs. A small town with him and his wife and their two daughters. He wanted to write a book. He was concerned about his neighbors Anne and her ex-husband Jack. Will was outside on one occasion when Jack was picking up his daughter from Anne and he could see the tension and…

Nancy Farmer throughout the story with the help of others, Matt changes greatly. Tam Lin changes Matt, Maria changes Matt, and El Patron changes Matt. Maria makes matt kinder. It is after El Viejo’s funeral and maria and matt are in the computer room. “‘So you have to promise to be good’ ‘okay,’ said Matt, who would have promised her anything at that point,” (pg. 158). This is partially what made Matt feel more human. This is the first time Matt has really tried to be nice and it has a large…

In the film ‘Invictus,’ the director Clint Eastwood describes Morgan Freeman’s character, Nelson Mandela as an inspiring, pure and hardworking leader by standing up for his own beliefs and follows his vision of excluding racial inequality from South Africa. Mandela is revealed to us as a determined man who shows great defiance through particular scenes within the film and is shown to us through the use of camera shots and dialogue. We can see that he is defiant and has determination from the…

Body: A Good Day to Die, Olivia Polos Head: The film A Good Day to Die is a documentary following the life of Dennis Banks, a founder of the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.). The documentary begins with a synopsis of Banks early life, consisting of family life and boarding school. The film continues to follow Dennis Banks through his service in the military. After that, Dennis moved to Missouri. He was married and had 4 kids. Also, it explains how Banks turned to alcohol. This resulted in a…

A house is often regarded as a home, however this is debatable in many respects. Through globalisation and literature, the representation of a home is not necessarily a ‘house’, as is a house is not necessarily a ‘home’. There are many representations of home within literary contexts, and through an examination of James Cameron’s 2009 highest grossing film of all time, Avatar, I will discuss how deterritorialisation identifies with the idea of home, and how the film exemplifies this idea. In…

Every Wednesday, current Prime Minister, David Cameron, meets in the House of Commons for half an hour to answer questions from Members of Parliament. These questions are meant to address current events both international and domestic, and have come to be known as Prime Minister Questions (PMQs). All Members of Parliament must write their questions for the Prime Minister on the Order Paper several days prior to the PMQs. Once submitted, the questions are then sorted through, scrambled, and…

The movie I decided to watch for my Film Review was Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron. Avatar was presented by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and in association with Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners, and Lightstorm Entertainment. Written originally in 1994, and eventually get filmed in The United States and New Zealand, James Cameron watched his script get brought to life. Avatar was just another success on Cameron’s record, following Titanic (1997) that broke all…

Cameron turned this idea into a screenplay, eventually selling it to producer Gale Ann Hurd for only $1, with the agreement that Cameron would direct the movie (Breihan). Ever since its release, The Terminator has been a crucial part of pop culture and has helped set the tone for Action/Sci-Fi movies that came after.…

A major theme in the film was rebirth- where a person is reborn spiritually, physically, and or mentally. The main character Jake Sully was the representation of that theme throughout the movie, where in the end he is physically reborn and now an Avatar. The film follows an ex-marine named Jake Sully who is paraplegic. He gets the opportunity to take his brothers place on a mission to a world called Pandora where he will be working with the scientists to learn, and understand the people who live…

In the film Avatar, Jake Sully is faced with multiple ethical dilemmas. Including taking his brothers spot on the mission, whether to help the soldiers destroy the Home-Tree and the decision to fight the humans and send them back to Earth. I would like to focus on the internal conflicts that Jake suffered when he decided that he wanted to protect the Home-Tree from Colonel Quaritch. When Jake Sully first came to the planet of Pandora he was absolutely focused on his mission of infiltrating the…