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Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

The famous story “Anthem” written by Ayn Rand and the true stories of North Korea really have great similarities but also have big differences. Both governments have a strange way of controlling their people,disciplining and also rewarding them for their good and the bad. Plus their branches of government are a little different from the U.S and other countries. These countries, both show a little of selfishness a no care for the people whatsoever besides profiting off of them in different ways.…

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Is 3D Worth It? Sarah Hannush Erik Moellering Eng 112 - YD4 10 September 2014 Category Excellent Fair Poor APA Formatting Number (4 total) & Quality of Sources (scholarly and 1 website) Annotation: Summary Annotation: Evaluation Annotation: Reflection Abstract This paper takes a look at the use of 3D in the film industry and how it affects people. Also looked at are some possible good and bad things coming from the use of 3D in movies. 3D movies are…

but the only way he would be willing to give him the money was if he coached a little league baseball team in order to receive 500 dollars a week. The movie takes place in the inner city of Chicago at a field behind housing projects. According to Roger Ebert (2001), "Hardball" uses gambling just for motivation and atmosphere (p.1). The film can be viewed as inspirational while, showing realistic ways of oppression a certain race suffers from. Specifically, speaking of the misguided…

In the world of Seahaven the producers and creators did anything to keep Truman in Seahaven. Including newspapers, with the most to the point headlines. Like when Truman showed signs of wanting to leave they came up with a headline that said The Best Place on Earth: Seahaven voted the world’s top town. Truman was trying to leave Seahaven to go find Sylvia in Fiji, who was an actor who tried to tell him the truth and Truman fell in love with her. Someone overheard him or they tapped the phone…

10 "Fight Club: Punching in the Dark I Scanners Roger Ebert." Al l Content. N.p. , n.d. Web. 01 Mar. 2015. . 8 VIDEO AUDIO Tyler is just a product of his own mind when the Narrator is on the plane . Same shot from Fight Club. NARRATOR (good): In this shot the Narrator of Fight Club, which we will…

Introduction: Which film? When asked to “name the film” based off of the following description: a commercially successful American production about the Vietnam War; based (loosely) on a book; prominently featuring a popular song, and directed by an Academy Award winner, the average moviegoer may be surprised to learn that two films would actually fit the bill. The first is the extremely well-known Apocalypse Now , which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola (then credited as Francis Coppola) and…