Tony Moore

Columbine is a documentary that takes a focus on this issue and tries to find why Americans are so fascinated with guns. The film, released in 2002, won several awards and was critically acclaimed. The director and star of the documentary, Michael Moore, travels across the country to confront the gun issues that the United States has. Mass shootings still affect us even today, with more and more happening every year. The topic of gun control has been a huge controversy these past few years. The…

Sleep Now in the Fire: How Rage Against the Machine Shut Down U.S. Capitalism In Henry David Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau defines civil disobedience as an act of willful resistance, achieved by not obeying the laws one views as hypocritical. Thoreau achieved this by refusing to pay taxes, which Thoreau was jailed for, because he did not support paying the government to fund things against his morals, such as slavery. Many believers of the Everyman movement use protest…

The male gaze is the way in which visual arts depicts women for a masculine point of view. Mulvey suggests that visual media exposes a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking. Mulvey believed mainstream movies are filmed in a certain way in order to satisfy male scopophilia. Therefore, according to this theory woman are regulated to the status of objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any…

Before explaining the setting of the interview for the ethnography, I must first introduce my friend Roger, who will be my main participant in this process. Roger and I first met at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg during my first semester and we soon became friends, due to the fact that the both of us loved critiquing movies. Although his major is in Anthropology, he stated that the Big Bang Theory was one of his favorite sitcoms. Despite the series based on the physics and associated…

Bond, James Bond. The infamous phrase heard from the James Bond series. The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming; who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Ian Fleming once stated, “I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.” In the nearly 50 years since he first appeared on the big screen, James Bond’s character has evolved…

Oliver Stone is a renowned filmmaker and considered one of America’s best. Like most other filmmakers, Stone attempted to capture the turbulent times of the sixties and seventies. However, unlike most filmmakers, who consistently avoiding controversial issues, Stone was determined to shine light on such issues and provide his audience with what he believes are truths. Stone openly admitted that he sometimes manipulate historical facts and footage to create an imaginative and influential film.…

Sicko Documentary by Michael Moore is a great movie and an exposure to the heretical actions of the insurance industry. It discussed that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States were higher than other countries. His comparison of Frances, Cuba, Canada and the United Kingdom were correct. However, other scenes within the movie seemed over the top and lacked real evidence. I researched and I will analyze the documentary by providing facts found on the internet at my presentation.…

James Bond films are, and always have been, more similar than innovative. Even in the 1960s they were portrayed as superheroes who wore street clothes instead of colorful tights and mantles He ran, jumped from building to building, drove over broken bridges, jumped from a helicopter and fell in the garbage truck without even getting a scratch on to his body, popular in action cinema at that moment and amped them up with more beautiful locations, bigger explosions, with loud and thundering music.…

A documentary is believed to be real and full of true facts, though there are some films which have been heavily edited which result in manipulation of their audience due to change of facts. Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore, a documentary released in 2002, demonstrates the ways that composers manipulate their audience through editing, showing partial amounts of a story, taking advantage of the audience’s lack of knowledge and the selection of participants. Through the use of editing,…

Have ever seen the James Bond movies or books before? While watching a movie have you ever thought “I don’t agree with that?” You want to know the opinion on this movie? People have families and live together with happiness. Some people do not have families and live alone because they decided not to get married. Some people around me who does not have families say it is really comfortable being alone, if they have to care about someone else it is too much effort. Also it is uncomfortable. There…