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The Hollywood Western has a rich history stemming all the way from America’s social and political events in the late nineteenth century (Bandy & Stoehr, 2012). With it came filmmakers and stars, like John Ford and John Wayne, whose names would become synonymous with the genre. The Western’s longstanding history has undoubtedly created conventions that audiences have come to love and expect. However, just as other genres have combined into hybrids or evolved, the classic Western is no exception.…

but also many enemies. The brothers held each other and their family up in times of grief and heartache. They were the two brothers who were raised the same but chose the opposite paths. Works Cited Cooper, Scott, director. Black Mass. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014. Padnani, Amy, and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE. “Whitey Bulger: The Capture of a Legend.”The New York Times, The New York Times, 6 Mar. 2014, www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/bulger-timeline.html#/#time256_7542. Rimer, Sara. “A Tale of…

In Los Angeles, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a new case for General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) in Los Angeles, a wealthy old gentleman seeking to stop a man named Arthur Gwynne Geiger (Theodore Von Eltz), who is blackmailing his youngest daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers). General Sternwood wants Marlowe to stop Geiger from extorting his family for money. But Marlowe has inadvertently stepped into several other mysteries involving he Sternwood family…

emerging threats of war led particular film-makers to create historical films on Tudor England that echoed anti-fascist sentiments. Furthermore, the greatest and “most consistent assault on Hitler’s Germany and Fascism” came from the film studio Warner Bros, who produced The Sea Hawk. One will notice the films anti-Fascist message resonating through the tyrannical portrayal of Spain, most notably in the opening scenes when King Philip II declares his intentions to…

Her. Screenplay by Spike Jonze. Warner Bros., 2013. Film. Spike Jonze’s Her is a critically-acclaimed film with its main plot featuring a sensitive, lonely man named Theodore Twombly, a ghostwriter for BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com, who writes in the “customer’s” point of view to their intended recipient. He has been pondering over despair ever since his ex-girlfriend Catherine left him. One day, he discovers a new artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha, who develops into…

There has always been interest in drawn out stories involving multiple strong main characters. The successes of franchises, literary or cinematic, often depend on the efficient execution of a created world wherein such strong characters interact. With fulfilling the fantasies and desires of the fans being the primary goal, the idea of “ shared universe” was born. A “shared universe” is a collection of multiple stories in books, movies, and video games set in the same world, mainly used in pop…

“The fact is, you don’t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you’ve got to get five shots and you’re only going to get two.” - David Fincher, director of Fight Club and The Social Network spoke these words about film directing. Those words can truly sum up the rewarding yet stressful career of a film director. Film is a broad spectrum that has been shaped throughout history, from silent films to the invention of sound and color. To advance in the film industry, directors need to…

the album so it had one more track, as requested by the record company. The song they wrote: Paranoid. This song would be their first step to American dominance. “None of us could believe how well the album was doing in America. It was a monster. Warner Bros. was so pleased” (Osbourne…

purchase a vehicle (Cantwell, 2000). The vehicle that was being advertised to kids the most was a minivan or sport vehicle which was advertised to an age group of 6 -14 year-olds (Cantwell, 2000). Ford vehicles had partnered up with Nickelodeon and Warner Bros to create more advertisement on shows like Looney Tunes which shows ford vehicles throughout the show (Cantwell, 2000). This goes to show how eMarketers target kids and manipulate them into purchasing a product for themselves or…

In all my years of education, no teacher has inspired me in a subject as much as Mr. Karmali, my calculus teacher in my senior year of high school. Mehebub S. Karmali, was a old asian-indian, in his mid sixties, who was proud to be teaching high school students the concepts of calculus. At the beginning of the year, I thought that he would be my worst nightmare from how my sister, and my upperclassmen friends talked about him. However, at the end of the year, I realized he was the complete…