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Coming from a small country in west Africa called Ghana, it was my dream to travel to a place where they have everything, countries like the United States, England were on top of my list. When I watch movies and documentaries from these parts of the world on television, I have this great images in my head how these countries would look like, these places have great opportunities that my country otherwise would never have, example are better job, good pay and better living standards. In August…

UTV Motion Pictures UTV Motion picture is basically a film unit of UTV software communication, which is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. It is dominant player in Indian film industry. The last decade in Indian Cinema UTV delivers some of the most iconic movies including Swades, Rang de Basanti, A Wednesday, Udaan, Peepli live, Paan singh Tomer, barfi, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Chennai Express, The Lunchbox, Kick, 2 States, Haider and PK. In the last 10 years, 4 of the…

1 INTRODUCTION In this Master’s thesis, I will examine the audio-visual translations of the songs performed in the Walt Disney animation Frozen. The movie offers the watcher two translations of the movie in Finnish, which are subtitles and dubbed language. My aim is to compare the two song translations to each other and to the source language and analyse the translations through the perspective of music and its’ characteristics. In my research I have two hypotheses. My first hypothesis is that…

Fairy Tales Have Ruined Marriage Marriage is often a life goal for many people all over the world, but the ideals and reasoning for marriage have greatly changed throughout the years. One of the possible reasons for this drastic change of expectations about the institution of marriage is the influence of media and big businesses such as Disney and the fairy tales they create. Do companies comparable to Disney create fairy tales such as Cinderella to make changes to the way the world goes about…

The Progression of Personal Responsibility The duty for individuals to demonstrate personal responsibility is a theme that is not new to human culture. Biblical principles imply the fact that human creation possesses the freedom to act however they please. However, this freedom is accompanied with consequential results dependent on how the individual chooses to live. In another era, young Greek boys were taken away from the comfort of their mothers at the age of seven and expected to begin a…

Introduction Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 5, 1941. His early career begin in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga . Hayao has involved in many early classis of Japanese animation. In 1971, he moved to A Pro with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, which Hayao was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. Hayao get his first TV series directed in 1978, the series is called Conan, The Boy in Future.…

Introduction Frozen (2013), a Walt Disney film, the academy award winner is the movie that I chose to write the critical response on. Preproduction Walt Disney planned to modify Hans Christian Anderson's tales since they started out animating; The Snow Queen had been one too. This individual collaborated having Samuel Goldwyn in 1943 to make a biopic associated with Anderson, which might include animated sequences through many of Anderson's tales - like The Snow Queen. Even so, difficulties…

Having won 13 awards and 37 nominations, which includes 1 Oscar nomination for the Best Achievement in Costume Design, the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory successfully made it to the international film industry. Directed by Tim Burton, the movie is derived from a children storybook written by Roald Dahl and its main casts starring 3 times Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, who played as Willy Wonka, and Britain born Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket. (Anon, 2005). The movie began by an…

Rhythm & Hues is the world’s leading producers of in Animation and VFX in the entertainment industry, this feature film division is an Academy Award winning state of art production facility led by Arish Fyzee and Gary Nolin. This studio offers filmmakers of highly creative and resourceful creative production team that combines expertise’s draw upon the studios unique array of technology, talent and skills. They have the capacity to produce simultaneously large productions. They are committed to…

Pancho Villa Early Life San Juan del Rio, Durango, Mexico on June 5, 1878 is where our little war master was born and he was soon to be known by a lot of people ( Source 3 ). Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula was the name of the hero that would soon arise into his new world of Mexico ( Source 2 ). Villa was born in the mud and dirt, he was very poor and he helped his family on the farm ( Source 4 ). Once Villa started growing and getting into more action a lot of people started saying that he…