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Robert Deniro Truck Driver
1,528 wordsIn this masterpiece of a movie from one of the greatest after directors of our times, goodfellas was one of the most captivating movies it has ever been my privilege to watch. Martin Scorsese directed brilliantly in one of his greatest works since raging bull. He got together a wonderful cast of actors who all portrayed very convincing roles. The movie stars Ray Liotta, and co-stars Loraine back, Robert Deniro, and Joe pesci. All three co-stars won Oscar nominations, but it was joe pesci who act...
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Drug Dealing Playing Cards
1,552 words... my until he agrees to give the money. During this time henry gets a phone call from karen who says shes in trouble. Henry then picks up karen who explains to him that her neighbor harassed her. So henry pulls up to her house and then looks in his rear view mirror which then focuses into the harassing neighbor. Henry then walks over and proceeds to bash his head in with the but of a gun. He then gives karen the gun and tells her to hide it. She then says to her self that it turned her on. We ...
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Martin Scorsese Robert Deniro
1,484 wordsMovie critic, Roger Ebert, has called him a "directing god." He has been called the "most influential and best director of their time" by fellow director, George Lucas. Director Martin Scorsese has been an influential director for the past twenty years. In the 60 's class of directors that included, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, and Steven Spielberg. Scorsese ranks with this class of artists, and his movies have changed the film industry of America (Friedman I). The impact ...
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Black And White Alfred Hitchcock
1,758 wordsScorsese Auteur By the end of the 1990 s, Martin Scorsese was recognized as one of the most significant of American film directors. His uncompromising cinematic examination of New York Citys underbelly, beginning with Mean Streets, has exerted a profound cultural influence on cinema goers and filmmakers. The fact that he was not much recognized by the Academy Awards, indeed, adds to rather than detracts from his reputation; after all, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were also ...
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Age Of Innocence Martin Scorsese
1,739 words... theme by Martin Scorsese. According to () has done more to demythologize organized crime than any other major contemporary film, while cementing its makers reputation as, arguably, Americas greatest director still living and working at the end of the twentieth century. GoodFellas was based on Nicholas Pileggis 1985 bestseller, Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family, which recounted the true story of Henry Hill. A low-level mobster who rose up through the ranks, Hill was involved in the biggest cash...
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Francis Ford Coppola Harsh Realities
1,659 wordsCinematic violence has been in films since the start of movie making. From Orson Wells tearing up his estranged wives room in Citizen Kane to Anthony Perkins slicing up Vivian Leigh in Psycho, violence has always been present in film in one form or another. It was not until the late sixties and seventies that such visionaries as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah, and William Friedken, to mention a few, came and put on film what was to become a trend in America...
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Religious Affiliation Martin Scorsese
1,594 wordsHollywood's Attack on Religion The section that I have chosen to analyze from the book Hollywood vs. America is The Attack on Religion. In this part of the book, Michael Medved discusses the shift in attitude Hollywood has made toward religion, from acceptable to contemptible. He takes a look at the messages being sent in films, music and television in the last 15 to 20 years and analyzes their effects. In general, Hollywood depicts religion in an unfavorable manner, according to Medved. Moreove...
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