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    confident writing the script in English and settled on setting the film in Spain and making it in Spanish. The New York Film Festival was the film’s American debut and both leading actresses as well as Almodovar were present for the occasion. Julieta relates to the trends identified in global art cinema by displaying symbolic and ambiguous aesthetics, depending on festival circuits rather than studio distribution, and employing…

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    Global Art Cinema

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    being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic...or excessive in its visual style, use of color, or characterization (2010, p.6).” Films branded as art cinema are often marketed to audiences and film festivals in reference to an auteurist director with recognizable stylization and aesthetics. In addition…

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    An existential legend is somebody who makes his own particular quintessence (like "character" or 'life significance '), as opposed to assuming that she was conceived with one. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that demonstrates an incredible change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in neediness, she offers blossoms to acquire her living. Eliza does not have a training. This shows through the way that she doesn 't have the most legitimate method for talking. This happens…

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    he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

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    through the narration of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick). After serving at the Battle of Antietam, Colonel Shaw is offered the command of the first all-African-American regiment. During his leadership, Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, are confronted with discrimination from both Confederate soldiers and Union officers. Along with the gravedigger John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman) and escaped slave Trip (Denzel Washington), Shaw and his infantry must fight to not only…

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    Jfk Significance

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    The Assassination of JFK was hugely significant to New Zealand as where the events that followed it. The significance of the event can simply be determined by the importance of the event. And how people perceived the event. Internationally, New Zealand’s people saw that the assassination of JFK as huge event that deeply affected people at the time. Some accounts, record information such as “the importance she felt… that she was able to follow an world event for the first time”. This account…

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    Pygmalion Research Paper

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    In class we read a play, Pygmalion, and learned about the greek myth to compare and contrast the two. There was a lot of differences between the two, but there was also a few similarities. I thought that the play was different then the myth because a lot happened in the play. The greek myth was about Pygmalion who fell in love with a statue. The play was about Higgins who turned a flower girl into a lady. They are both have the same concept just different ways of going about it. In the play and…

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    Breaking Social Norms in the 19th Century Mrs. Warren’s Profession by Bernard Shaw is a play about a 22 year old named Vivie Warren who has been at several different boarding schools all her life, because of this she doesn’t have much of a relationship with her mother, Mrs. Warren, who is a former prostitute and now owns a string of brothels yet she has always left her daughter in the dark about what her job is and what’s paying for her to go to Cambridge.Vivie Warren defies the norms for a…

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    The movie Paths of Glory is an epic saga of a leaders struggle between accomplishing the mission and the welfare of his men. Kirk Douglas plays a Colonel in the French Army during World War One. He is a fierce fighter and has the respect of the men and the Generals as well. The year is 1916. The war has been stuck in a stalemate for the past two years. The gains are measured in feet not miles. There seems to be no end in sight at this point. The movie opens up to General Mireau getting a visit…

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    Though many scholars may harshly criticize My Fair Lady for not adhering to Bernard Shaw’s intentions for Pygmalion, it is my conviction that the musical’s additions to his play should be celebrated, not castigated. The costumes, scenery, actions, and especially the songs significantly develop the characters, greatly enhance its comedic aspects, and fine tune many of Shaw’s themes; they are indispensable in gaining a full appreciation of Pygmalion. Songs play a vital role in developing Shaw’s…

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