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1. Over a hundred people were involved in the production of this film. The entire cast and crew are not given equal credit in most films. The majority of the camera crew and other production workers are not given as much credit for their work as the actors and director/producers, even though they play a huge role in the development and production of the movie. The making of a huge blockbuster like ‘The Departed’ involves the use of an immense crew. There is a large-scale division of labor as…

Invictus and Mandela: “Is it Hollywood or is it History?” Have you ever watched a film that is supposedly “based on a true story” and wondered how much of it was actually true and what part was made up? Whether it be a horror film or an influential story, when they say that is inspired by a true event it always grabs your attention and has you wondering more. I thought of this as I was watching the movie Invictus and wondered if most of it had really happened. In this research paper I will…

There are some extremely talented people, they are have something interesting, and different events in their life that can change history.Liberace did that very things and know what can take that away. Liberace was born on 16 May 1919, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA.He was raised by his parents,and grew up with his older brother and his older sister .He had a twin brother that died at birth.His mother was Frances Liberace, his father was Salvatore Liberace, his brother was George Liberace, and his…

that brings clean water to people in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and to Caribbean. They have numerous completed projects such as hand-dug wells and drilled wells in parts of India, Africa, etc (Charity:Water). Water.Org was founded by the actor, Matt Damon and Gary White to help provide clean water and sanitation in struggling countries. According to their facts 1 in 10 people lack access to safe water and 1 in 3 people lack access to a toilet. Their mission is to change these statistics…

About five minutes from my house, in between Holmes Road and Wornall Road, on 107th street, sits Red Bridge Elementary. A brick school that was not very big, but had a massive playground behind it spanning what seemed to be the size of 3 football fields, Red Bridge taught grade kindergarten through fifth grade. Walking in the front entrance, the office of the principal is straight on your right and there is a hallway going left and right and off of that hallway are two hallways that go straight.…

Title: Invictus: “Is it Hollywood or History?” In this essay I will prove the movie, Invictus,was mostly historically accurate by pointing out the real historical people and events, summarizing the movie and comparing how the movie displayed the true people and events that came to pass. By doing this I am going to point out what does and does not really happen in history by looking at the movie and other sources that will aid me in finding this information.I will look at the time period,…

The film Dogma (1999) is a sarcastically filled film that centers on a woman named Bethany Sloan who is given a holy quest, so to speak, by the archangel Metatron. Metatron is the voice of God and God has deemed that Bethany is the one person who can stop two angels, Loki and Bartelby who were banished from Heaven, from cleansing themselves of their sin and re-entering Heaven. By this re-entrance of their banished souls, God would therefore be undermined and human existence would cease to exist.…

South Boston from the eyes of Good Will Hunting Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s first production Good Will Hunting, is a movie about an orphaned teenager from South Boston struggling to stay out of jail. unbenounced to most, Will is a mathematical genius, but has meager motivation to showcase his talents to the world. South Boston has harbored Will from seeking opportunities to his genius and plagued him with low expectations that surround him. The movie portrays low class struggles of South…

The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, produced by Warner Brothers 2009, and includes Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. (Invictus) The movie starts out by looking at a rugby field and a soccer field, that are separated by a road. One thats healthy looking and has men practicing rugby, and the other one was…

This paper will be comparing the theme of how directors Gus Van Sant and Russell Mulcahy use father figures as a tool for character development. This strategy is present in both good will hunting and swimming upstream. Both main characters in these films suffer from different types of abuse from their fathers and find different ways of coping with the damage done by the abusive childhoods that they had suffered from growing up in dysfunctional homes with horrible fathers. The following…