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    The performing arts hold a historic grip on the American entertainment industry. With its initial burst of popularity in 1917, Hollywood cinema paved its way to becoming a dominant force in the entertainment industry. Most Americans take personal interest in performing arts, whether it be in film or live theatre. Despite this, a rift had formed with some critics of theatre expressing their concern for the shift in demand toward cinema. This raises an issue in examining the difference between…

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    In the article “Hollywood Warms to Asian Movies, American-Style,” by Renee Graham, she discusses Hollywood’s trend of remaking Asian movies into English. She informs readers that movies such as The Grudge and Shall We Dance? were both based on Japanese originals. Major studios are continuing to snap up the rights to films from South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong with the intention of remaking them with American actors (Graham 229). Throughout the article, Graham outlines the pros and cons of…

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    My friend Cheyenne Clements, she is my best friend and me and her do lots together. To me we seem to not do a lot, but really we do. We go to the movies together all of the time. The two favorite movies that we have seen to gather is Star wars the force awakens and Jurassic world the first one that came out and we made a pact that we would go see the second one that came out. We did that the day that we went and saw the first one. We had found out that they were making a second one and we were…

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    Ani Hovhannisyan Enoch Anderson English 101 03 December 2015 The US Army in World War II within 2:00 Minutes Aundrey Hepburn, one of the most famous British actresses, once said, “Everything I learned I learned from the movies” (Lamoureux). The role that motion pictures have in people’s lives is distinct and undeniable. As a matter of fact, being a mixture of art and technology, movies have always been considered to be the core part of a nation’s culture and the whole country itself. “So it is…

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    Turning a novel into a feature film can be very challenging for a Screenwriter. Ideally their main objective is to have the film and the novel complement each other perfectly. And In most film adaptations of this kind it is difficult to achieve, for the filmmakers tend to focus solely on major events in the subjects life. And In the case of Addario’s it’s what I do: A Photographer’s life of love and war, there are subjects of her work that are also very important but they may be difficult for…

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    being held solely for "The Walk of Sony, for a reason that it deprived "The Martian" of some healthy additional advantage. Where the Twentieth Century Fox backed the Gravity film with $108 million production and pushed the motion picture out to 3,831 theaters. Chris Aronson, Fox's domestic distribution chief, said "There's been lots of talk about social media and the strong effect it has on movies," "It usually alludes to an impact that's negative, but that cuts both ways. It can also be…

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    Books and movies are just two ways that people entertain themselves nowadays, but books made into movies make reading and watching them ten times better. Sometimes books that are made into movies can leave some important details out, but The Freedom Writers is one of the most portrayed movies. The Freedom Writers is one of those books made into a movie. The Freedom Writers book was written by Erin Gruwell and published in 1999. The movie “Freedom Writers” was produced in 2007 by Richard…

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    Influence of 1984 in Film The year 1984 was a significant year for film due to the introduction of several influential movies, unique use of special effects, and a new rating system. Several of the movies that were released in 1984 “set a template for sequels”(Truitt 1) and created “the franchises of today”(Truitt 1). The Ghostbusters franchise took off after the movie turned out to be a massive success. Spawning spin-offs (and knock-offs), cartoons, comics, tv shows, and of course, sequels,…

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    After watching all four video, on the most famous speech in literature it is hard to chose which is the "best". If had to pick the top two I would say that Ethan Hawke was the best followed closely by Oliver's Hamlet Film's. Both of these videos were easy to watch and enjoyable. They both were able to gain the listener's attention from the beginning of the speech. I believe the Ethan Hawke rendition to be the best since it was the most interesting. Ethan Hawke's speech took place in a…

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    L. A. Live Research Paper

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    Downtown Los Angeles holds L.A. Live, a sports and entertainment district that houses a wide variety of live entertainment all in one location. Whether you are looking to enjoy a sports game, go to a club or watch the newest movie in a cinema, the campus of L.A. Live can offer live entertainment for almost anyone’s taste. Located at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street, L.A. Live is directly across from the STAPLES Center, which is an arena hosting over 250 events annually…

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