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Los Angeles Bad Luck
1,807 wordsWhen the mention of the name Rudolph Valentino happens, it is mostly likely that the response received would be, The Great Lover and The Sheik. Valentino's jaw-dropping appearance and great looks aside, he was also a very fine comedian, something that very few people realize. It was through Valentino that the now very common concept of hot actors such as Tom Cruise came about. (Stiff 2 / 23 / 02) Valentino was a fine actor, a film pioneer, and a film icon. (Hill 2 / 3 / 02) Born May 6, 1895 in C...
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Movie Star York City
1,779 wordsThere is only one word to describe Bette Midler: Divine. She is the bold and brassy, fragile and flamboyant, gleeful and glorious star of stage, screen, and television. And in my opinion there is no one that compares to her. She is a one of a kind individual with this enormous amount of talent. From the little insecure Jewish girl who grew up in Hawaii to star of sold out performances at Madison Square Garden. Bette Midler is someone who makes everyone feel nothing is wrong. Her climb to the top...
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Powerful Analysis Of Schindler List
1,358 words... he most powerful performance is by Neeson. He begins the movie just wanting money and women and power. In the end, he has turned his heart to saving all the Jews that he has employed. He does it so gradually, that we believe what we are seeing. There haven't been many performances better and more believable this year. The changing from a flawed Nazi to a flawed Nazi with a heart of gold is remarkably well done and should get the Oscar for best performance by an actor. The leap of creative im...
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Kung Fu Hong Kong
1,427 wordsBruce Lee. Its one of the most recognizable names in the world. Many people know that Lee was a budding motion picture star at the time of his death. Others recognize Lee for his great foresight and innovative contributions to the martial arts. But few people know of Lees tumultuous struggle to overcome racism and bridge the gap between White and Asian Americans. Lee was actually born in America. The year was 1940, the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese calendar. His parents were touri...
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Vanessa Ewing Feminism In Mainstream Hollywood Cinema
1,202 wordsMainstream Hollywood cinema has for decades represented an erotic realm by using language and images of our patriarchal culture. It has satisfied and reinforced the masculine ego and repressed the desire of women. Feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey's essay, 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' published in 1975 has proved to be one of the most influential articles in the whole of contemporary film theory. Mulvey's essay is heavily invested in theory. The essay makes use of Freudian psychoana...
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Catcher In The Rye Tabula Rasa
814 wordsI received word that the editors of the Little Brown and Company are considering changing the cover of JD Salingers novel, The Catcher in the Rye. I strongly recommend that the cover be left alone. The book has been commended on its exemplary literary meaning for the past fifty years; the present cover is a visual representation of this meaning. The blank cover expresses the overriding theme of controlling ones own fate, similar to John Locke's idea of the tabula rasa (blank slate). Indirectly, ...
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Code Of Conduct Main Characters
772 wordsSince the earliest days of earth, the art of storytelling has been the primary form of communication for all civilizations. It is present in the hieroglyphics of ancient empires and even in the movies in which our present cultures find so dear. Although countless stories have been told, only a handful of the plots that guide these stories are completely original. It is true that various elements of many stories are original, but once you chip away these elements, many revised aspects of previous...
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Margaret Thatcher Film Industry
1,254 wordsBritish film industry has never been booming, but during 1970 s it found itself in the most permanent crisis. The Oscar triumph in 1981 gave a hope and started a so-called British cinema renaissance, but it was still very questionable in British Cinema could live up to the expectations. I would like to discuss crisis and the attempts of getting of productions slumps in different levels: production level, the number of movies produced, style level, how many of the international awards have been w...
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Life Is A Game Fell In Love
1,414 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye / J. D. Salinger Main Character Preface This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after its first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to...
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World War One British Society
862 wordsComment on any one of the leisure activities featured in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Explain if it was a new development of the interwar era. The interwar period witnessed an explosion of a variety of leisure activities within British society, some of which were new and some of which were not. One such leisure activity was that of the cinema, and featured as a popular pastime in Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies. Whilst the cinema was not a new leisure activity during the interwar era, there were however...
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Reverend Parris Reverend Hale
488 wordsEver since Hollywood begun to make movies, Hollywood has attempted to movies that are based on celebrated literature. More often than not, the directors are so concerned with making the film entertaining that they stray from what makes those original literatures themselves popular, the ability to arouse strong emotions within its readers. This practice usually turns a masterpiece into a piece of farce. Fortunately, such mistakes are not made in the film adaptation of Arthur Millers play the Cruc...
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Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone
731 wordsGrisham s Gripe, Stone s Reply In a suburb of Muskogee, Oklahoma, this morning started out just as any other morning should. School children woke up at the same time as always, got ready to go to school, and left their homes. While preparing for school, a thirteen-year-old takes his father s nine millimeter handgun from his home. The boy walks into a school, and unloads the gun on his classmates for no reason, but fortunately no one was killed. Although this news is devastating and hard to imagi...
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William Randolph Hearst Wanted To Make
1,209 wordsWilliam Randolph Hearst &# 038; Marion Davies: The Truth of their Relationship Things are not always as they seem. People who are always in the public eye often have their live stereotyped because they are rich and famous. This was the case with William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. Many people believed that because of his power and money she was using him to advance her career and that the relationship would not last due to the 34 -year age difference between them. The truth is that their ...
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Wyatt Earp Ten Years
753 wordsViolence has been a problem in America since the colonies were first established. During the past ten years, there have been many acts of violence performed in schools throughout the nation. Many arguments have been brought forward as to what all of this violence has stemmed from. What has led these children to bring guns and bombs into schools and perform such horrifying acts? Littleton Massacre Seems So American by Charlie James and Chuck Shelton s When White Boys Kill, White Dads Fail both ex...
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Avant Garde Mass Culture
827 wordsIs Popular Culture Subservient To High Culture Is Popular Culture Subservient To High Culture And If So, Why? Is High Culture Superior to Popular Culture, and if so Why? For about a century, Western Culture has really been divided into two cultures, the traditional type of high culture and a mass culture manufactured wholesale for the market. High culture is the arts that require some form of intellect to comprehend, so therefore can only reach a tiny segment of the population, whilst levelling ...
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Mass Hysteria Eric Harris
831 wordsIt may just be an unescapable human trait, or it could be that we have psychologically evolved less than we actually believe, but the tendency for human beings to search for other reasons and explanations for bad incidents has alway been present. The book, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, focuses on the Salem Witch trials. The book was written about the same time as the Red Scare, and the McCarthy trials, and compares the mass hysteria surrounding both events, hence the name, The Crucible. On Apr...
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Mc Murphy Nurse Ratched
1,046 wordsAnalysis of? One Flew Over the Cuckoo? s Nest? Every sixty minutes, when the clock strikes the hour, the cuckoo bird of a cuckoo clock will come out of its hiding place and herald the time with it? s chirping of? cuckoo! cuckoo! ? In the film, Nurse Ratched and her assistant, like clockwork, call the patients to form a line and receive their medication. Everything has to follow a certain order for Nurse Ratched and those who don? t conform are dealt with severely. But the poor treatment of menta...
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Orson Welles Citizen Kane
948 wordsThe Orson Welles Orson Welles The term genius was applied to him from the cradle, first by the man who would vie with Orson's father to nurture the talent all agreed resided in the fragile boy. (Leaming, 3) George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 6, 1915. He was the second son of Richard Head Welles, an inventor, and his wife Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist. His mother was the child of a wealthy family. She had been brought up to revere artistic achievements, and began playing...
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Victimless Crime Violent Crimes
1,335 wordsWhat is prostitution? Prostitution is the After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. This is from section one of the eighteenth amendment of the constitution, making alcohol illegal in the United States. To this day it is still the only am...
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Grace Kelly Hollywood Royalty Dress
448 wordsPrincess Grace: A Fashion Fairy Tale It was once said that the most romantic Cinderellas are the stars of those riches-to-royalty fairy tales in which the princess grows more and more beautiful, graceful and kind in her elevated position. Grace Kelly is the focus of this particular Cinderella story. Not only was she an icon after which women the world over tried to emulate but a fashion leader as well. She, however, made a gradual transition in her dress to accompany her transition in her social...
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