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defeating the villain and living happily ever after. In reality though the books and movies that people know ,love, and still watched today are actually from a darker story with gore, death, and people with darker personalities from the movies and books that are known by many and even though there has been a lots of changes from the original fairy tales there are still a lot of similarities to the books and movies that people know today. One of the similarities are that the meanings behind…

Thinking of You Small waist, round hips, an hourglass shape. This is the ideal shape that women in cartoons are supposed to have. If they're considered evil or bad, they're more curvy like me. So am I evil? Cartoons seem to have a way to share a secret message that we don't see unless we're looking closely. The message that you're not beautiful unless your skin is light, you have a small waist, and have long skinny legs. This is one of the many ones you can get from watching closely. As kids we…

rather quickly with neighbor, also single, Mr. Turner. Her son, Kale, begins to become suspicious of Mr. Turner because of how quickly he is trying to bond with his mother. He then accuses Mr. Turner of the murders happening around their town and is worried Julie would be his next victim. One night, Julie goes to her neighbor’s house to apologize for Kales behavior and accusations of Mr. Turner, but it quickly escalates into an abusive argument. Mr. Turner strikes Julie with an object strong…

Not only had they become much darker in mood, but also the themes had become much more serious. It was in 1946, when the term “film noir” was coined for the first time by the French film critics Nino Frank and Jean-Pierre to describe this genre of movies (Silver & Ursini 2004). Part of what makes these…

The classic way of studying history in high school and many college courses is by memorizing facts, regurgitating them, and throwing in a little analysis that was also memorized. However, history is more than just dates and facts. History is the why behind the facts and events. History is how people felt about the events, and whether they were expected or unexpected, and what the responses to those events were. And studying history is more than just textbooks. Classically, history relied on…

neighbors out their windows to pass the time, and they both have friends that come over and try to help him prove that they are telling the truth about the supposed murderers in their neighborhoods. The only thing that is noticeably changed between movies are the specifics of the general plot (time, place, circumstances), and the specifics of each character (name, age, physical characteristics). Composer Franz Waxman was born on December 24, 1906 as Franz Wachsmann in Konigshutte, Upper…

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Implicit ideologies are seen in film dialogue, music, and content. Through a deeper level of interpretation, viewers can understand what is implicitly implied through a films messaging. Pocahontas, a classic Disney movie, is based on a legend that surrounds a Native American woman. Pocahontas reinforces the normative ideologies of interracial relationships, the misinterpretation of Native Americans, and gender stereotypes in an effort to appeal to children…

satirical film Blazing Saddles directed by Mel Brooks in 1974 his main objective was to poke fun at the genre of western films. Mel Brooks is famous for producing many other satirical films but Blazing Saddles is considered one of the most comical movies of all time. Every western film contains the same three elements which are a sheriff, gunslinger and a villain. With these elements in mind Mel Brooks decided to add a more modern twist to a western film and that twist was racism. Mel Brooks…

In this film, Laura (1944) we are introduced to a group of corrupt and fittingly shady upper-class social order types. The focus is on particular conventions of content, like themes or settings and/or form, including structure and style (Goodykoontz & Jacobs 2014). This film will be critiqued by the author through the lens of the genre theory (AMC, n.d.). The genre theory allows critics to take a short cut to categorize films. The director woks with the time-period and has a vision and that…