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"Hope never dies" A crime film is a feature of cinematic expression that connects its audience through a means of a life that is contradictory to their own. This means that one would enjoy crime films because it gives them a way to bypass their everyday stresses by living a life of crime through the portrayed character. Crime films carry a pattern that is unmistakable within the realm if movie genres. This analysis will cover the topic of crime films and will discuss this by putting the Frank…

Shawshank Redemption: Text response Opening scene: - What happens to Andy du Fresne and Red? Andy du Fresne was accused murderer of his much loved wife. He was sent to 2 life sentences in Shawshank prison. Red on the other hand was convicted of murder as well and he was sent to 1 life sentence before Andy. It started out with Andy in the court room with slight glimpses of the night he was accused of murdering his wife. Red was introduced in a parole calling to see if he had changed or had been…

A face in the crowd was a movie put out in 1957 where a man known as Lonesome Rhodes is found in a southern jail and by a radio reporter named Marcia Jeffries. Jefferies reports from the local jail sometime to here the stories of people in the jail and see If they have any unknown talents. She was quickly impressed by lonesome’s guitar skills and his huge personality so after his four-day jail stretch she hunts him down and makes him a offer to be on her uncles radio station were he quickly…

Minority Report Packed full of action, mystery, and deception, Minority Report tells the story of the year 2054 in Washington D.C., where police utilize a psychic technology to convict murderers before their crime has been completed. The film Minority Report is categorized as a dramatic mystery and directed by Steven Spielberg in the year 2002. Tom Cruise, who plays the leader of Precrime, is convicted of murdering a man that he has never met. At the beginning of the movie, Tom’s character is…

and Shawshank Redemtion.” The movie is about Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) who goes to Shawshank prison for two life sentences for a crime he did not commit. There he meets a group of men and starts making friends with one of them, Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman), or Red as he is called. Andy slowly gets on the guards’ good side and is e.g. allowed to renovate the prison library. This masterpiece shows the blunt anger and the class divison inside the prison with a lot of surprising and well…

In the “Autobiography Of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley, by Malcolm X. Malcolm X is a man who undeniably changed the United States in numerous ways. There were many changes that Malcolm X had gone through in his life, as he fought and advocated about what he believed in about segregation, prejudice, and racism. To me, there were a few major things that Malcolm X went through that changed how he thought and advocated about his beliefs was the way he followed Alijah Muhammad in the Islamic…

Double Indemnity, a film based on fraud and betrayal in regards to insurance money, carried out by Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson. This film is a perfect classic example of film noir, as the film has various aspects of depicting characters in an ambiguous manner with the addition of dark shadows, moody aesthetics, intense music and mis-en-scene to express the shots well. In particular, the opening scene of Walter entering his apartment building to his room is divided into five simultaneous…

his case began 76 miles away from me on the day of April 4, 1968, At the Lorraine Motel Room 306. (NCRM, unknown). Dr. Martin Luther King was in Memphis, TN waiting to hear if the federal courts would lift the ban on holding a Sanitation Workers march. As he and several friends exited the Lorraine Motel to go out for dinner a shot came forth from across the street at the Legacy building. (NCRM, unknown). At 39 years old Dr. King died from a gunshot room to the head before ambulances arrived to…

The clang of iron doors, bleak concrete walls, windows blocked by bars, these attributes of prison are the universal signs of freedom lost. For leaders of peaceful resistance, these are the signs of freedom won. The most influential guides of civil disobedience, including Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., have all spent time in prison for their resistance. These unrepentant men return from jail only more motivated for their cause. These just mentors have found…

Olivia Lovito 2.16.17 Extra Credit Shawshank Redemption When Andy Dufresne takes his first few steps off of the dusty prison bus and onto the unfamiliar grounds of Shawshank Prison, there are lines of men awaiting his arrival. Many of the already convicted were there for personal entertainment ; to properly welcome the “fresh meat” you could say. Although, amongst the hundreds of convicts, one group happened to stand out. An assembly of four men were standing upright and observing the new…