Philip Marlowe

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    The crime drama ‘Heat’ (Mann) tells the story of a criminal, Neil, and a cop, Vincent. One is content, calm, and has a budding love interest. The other is unhappy, brash, and is at the end of his third marriage. In any other movie, the first description would characterize Vincent and the second would represent Neil. ‘Heat’ flips these roles and makes the criminal behave like a cop and the cop act criminal. Michael Mann, the director of ‘Heat’, chooses to portray these characters as opposites to…

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    shadows and Dutch camera angles by looking at the mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound elements of noir are revealed. From the beginning of the scene the audience see’s Marlowe walking towards a book store. The cinematography uses elements of deep focus as everything in this wide frame is clearly focused even as Marlowe approaches the bookstore. Looking at the mise-en-scene in this frame the audience can see a very real setting, an urban one. A bustling street with a dense…

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    The femme fatale became a very popular character in crime fiction in the United States during the mid-twentieth century (Jaber, 1). This character is a woman who is portrayed to be hyper-sexual and is manipulative towards men. The femme fatale appears in hard-boiled crime fiction and film noir. She also was featured on many pulp covers making seductive poses because of the rise of sex in books (Horsley). Throughout the mid-twentieth century, the femme fatale character changed. Throughout this…

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    sequence, “You’re obviously not a golfer,” similarly communicates a vague irritation, rather than authentic torment (Coen). The Dude’s carefree style could be compared to Gould’s Marlowe, although the stoned culture that made the latter appear uptight, seems to define the former. When two police come to investigate Marlowe at his house, he sidetracks them with a similarly disinterested improvisation, joking, “my name is Sydney, uh, Jenkins,” as if lazily composing an alibi (Altman). In This…

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    Ismael Dembele Week 6 English Language Homework It was a slightly hazy, albeit sunny morning in the south of Los Angeles on that day. Meanwhile, the big story was all over the news; “Global manhunt for wanted criminal continues in Compton, Los Angeles”. Three policemen were shot dead, two airlifted to Mount Zonah (the biggest and safest hospital nearby), and one taken hostage – all by one fierce human being. There was no sign of him for at least a couple hours, but we weren’t going to cease…

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    Title: Sleepwalker Author: Robert Muchamore Text Type: Extended Text Date Finished: 6/08/2015 Ryan Tong The Sleepwalker is a story about children agents going on a mission to find out why a distressed boy called about a terrorist attack. Lauren and Jake and their guide Mac all go in to interrogate Fahim while trying to earn some information and stop the terrorists. I think the author was trying to show us how terrorist attacks is such a big problem and yet is not dealt well enough and how it…

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    In my essay I will first sate the traits of an ideal knight and then discuss the characteristics of an ideal knight as represented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while comparing and contrasting them to the characteristics of ideal knights in traditional texts. Quoting examples from the text, I will then discuss, analyze and come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many…

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    On November 20th, my sister and I attended an astonishing play called The Pillowman at the Newnan Theatre Company in Coweta. The Pillowman was originally written in 2003 by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. The play takes place in an interrogation room in an unnamed totalitarian state. A middle aged writer named Katurian (played by Arden Avery) is being questioned by two detectives Tulposki (played by P. David miller) and Ariel (played by Robert Stowe) while his older brother Michal (played by…

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    slower than girls. She was also told that twins developed their own language. The movie started out with the boys being children and ended when they were in high school. They did not have any form of verbal communication as children. One of the boys, Philip did however, repeat everything that he heard others say. They did not have any social interactions while at school or their home. They…

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    When one thinks of Sir Walter Raleigh he or she might pinpoint one aspect of him. Raleigh was not just a writer, explorer, or soldier, but he was all three and many more. He wrote countless manuscripts, discovered many foreign places in the New World, and led the English Navy in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Even though it is the lesser known side to him, Raleigh had an impact on the way English literature was shaped. He did not write in the style typical of the time period, but instead…

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