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    focuses on the physical and sexual aspect of a relationship. An example of this is when Theodore states, “I wish you were in this room with me right now. I wish I could put my arms around you. I wish I could touch you(Spike). To which Samantha replies, “How would you touch me?” (Spike). These quotes provide insight on how even though Samantha is an operating system, artificial intelligence that isn’t actually real, the sexual tension between the two is undoubtedly evident throughout the film.…

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    Where the wild things are in 1963 published by Maurice Sendak and also the story of the same name was made into a movie by Spike Jonze in 2007. It was a different experience to read the book (where the wild things are) and to watch the movie. The producers also made changes that made the movie more appealing to a diverse audience. This essay will talk about what the differences are between the book and the movie of the same name. The book ‘’Where the Wild Things Are’’ is a children’s story that…

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    Spike Jonze's Her is an ordinary love story with a restriction--one of the lovers is a lot like other human beings. Usually, romances depend on a small stable of expected, but effective, ways of doing things. The more simple of these ways is the two-shot, in which the director puts both individuals in the same shot. A sequence of two-shots affects the audience, which we begin to expect to see these two characters together in every shot. When shots that only contain one of the lovers begin to…

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    has. This further proves my theory that the movie was about the script and what was going on in his life at the time. If you were to put my theory that the movie is actually his script and what’s actually going on in reality, you would see that Spike Jonze is basically showing how Susan also is “adapting” along with Charlie. This is what causes confusion in the eyes of me and the other critics. All of these different elements not clearly adding up how they normally do in other movies can twist…

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    Through the film, Jonze shows how an artificial intelligence program can pervade on many aspects of one’s life. Theodore, who writes a letter for a person as a job, purchases an operating system and calls her “Samantha”. By actually communicating and interacting deeply with…

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    relationships have been becoming more popular. The movie Her, directed by Spike Jonze, follows the relationship of a writer and his operating system. Many aspects of this relationship mirror those of strictly online relationships, aside from the large difference that the operating systems do not have a real person behind their thoughts and words. Throughout the movie Her and through Theodore’s relationship with Samantha, Jonze emphasizes the downfalls of having a relationship solely through…

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    Michelle Williams and daughter Matilda Ledger were spotted at Broadway's "Finding Neverland" on September 27. The show "Finding Neverland" is a musical that explores the power of the imagination to open up new worlds, and the pressures put upon those worlds by the inevitability of growing up. Matilda Rose Ledger was born on October 28, 2005, in New York City. Her parents are Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger, who met on the set of the film Brokeback Mountain, in which they played…

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    Naiivity In Film

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    Shot#2 (CU. Straight on; low level): Then the black and grey sneaker is shown on its side view tapping in time with same non-diegetic music as shot #1. A blue and white wrapper falls right next to shoe on the stone pavement as soon as the shoe taps again to the non-diegetic music. (3 secs) Cut to Shot #3 (ECU; straight on): An extreme close- up of a hand is shown opening the top of a red- and white-colored milk carton. In black letters it reads “Thank you for buying Adhor Farms products”. (7…

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    responders to challenge accustomed notions and beliefs not only in relation to the construction of texts themselves, but also ideas about the transparency of language and the existence of universal truth. Spike Jonze’s critically acclaimed 1999 film ‘Being John Malkovich’ explores postmodern ideas such…

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    The protagonist Theodore living in a modern technological era strolling in solitude while in a process of getting divorced, he writes love letters as a career for himself in his artistic media open cubical, in the meantime he acquires a female operating system that evolves, and falls in love with. The desire to understand another significant other brings out the best and the worse in you “But not all others are of equal significance in our lives, and therefore not all others are of equal impact…

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