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Number One Hit Truth Or Dare
1,251 words... new what he was thinking. I said: whatever youre thinking Ill say yes to. That was his chance, so he popped it. " On the 16 th August 1985 they married in a Malibu media circus, 13 helicopters with paparazzi photographers were soaring in circles during the wedding ceremony. The groom Sean Penn tried to beat some paparazzi photographers, who were spying there in the bushes. The Bride Madonna was wearing a beautiful and traditional wedding dress. Madonna remembers: "I didnt think I was going t...
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Pee Wee Tim Burton
1,238 wordsAlthough the typical layman would immediately label him an oddball, those who are a little bit more familiar with Tim Burton would say that he's a beautiful mess. Burton was born August 25, 1958 in Burbank, California. He lived in typical suburbia, along with his brother and parents, although he never felt very attached to them. He felt much closer to the films of Vincent Price and the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. While his parents wanted him to go play outside and be "normal, " he would rather ...
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Buster Keaton Gold Rush
3,911 wordsIn the first years of American cinema, comedies appeared only occasionally among the numerous documentaries, dramas, and actions Edwin S. Porter directed at Thomas Edison&# 39; s New York studio from 1900 to 1909. His earliest comedies, up until around 1902, were one-joke shorts in various series: Grandma and Grandpa, Happy Hooligan, Old Maid. In his 1906 The Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend, Porter deftly employed the fantastic trick-photography humor which France&# 39; s George M? li? s had developed ...
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Spike Lee Daily Telegraph
1,757 wordsHaving read Mel Dear Mel Having read the avalanche of outraged articles in the UK press that preceded the UK launch of The Patriot, I readily admit that I was expecting to see a distinctly anti-British Movie. One such headline complains for example about a blood libel on the British People. Some considerable way into the film (which, putting the controversy to one side, was otherwise enjoyable), I found myself questioning whether such criticism was justified. Characters on both sides, including ...
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Organized Crime Academy Award
1,074 wordsThe Godfather Ii Armando Powell The real importance of any movie cant be adequately appraised solely by box office success or critical response. The Godfather Part II is an example of how a carefully crafted sequel to a great film can become both a box office and critical success when attention is paid to its artistic quality. The movie continues the tale of the Corleone family, and presents to the viewers a world filled with greed and betrayal, family union and loyalty. A companion piece in the...
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2,608 wordsOverview David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, an American filmmaking pioneer, screenwriter, producer, and director, was born January 22, 1875, near Louisville, Kentucky. Best known for his controversial perceptions of race and class in American society, D. W. Griffith left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. He died July 23, 1948, in Hollywood, California. I. THE MOVIES FIRST GENIUS II. GRIFFITH AND FILM LANGUAGE 1. The State of the Art 2. Revolutionizing Perception III. INVENTING HOLLYWOOD: BLO...
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World War Ii D W Griffith
2,022 wordsIn the final years of the twentieth century, rare is the documentary that attracts mass audiences or attention. At a time when people get to declare their desire for entertainment in a multitude of media, the fate of the non-fiction film that attempts to tell a true story is not a happy one. But there are documentaries that succeed at the box office and even achieve status as popular fare, mostly either by appealing to a specialized audience of sufficient size, or taking a point of view that mas...
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Producer Director Deep Throat
3,169 wordsThe ability to sexually stimulate an audience is one of the earliest distinctions of film. Before the turn of the century, an exotic dancer named Fatima performed her act for the motion-picture cameras and for at least those segments of the public who saw the film uncensored. In the brief peep-show films of the early 1900 s, scantily-clad women posed, danced, or undressed in such then-daring efforts as Her Morning Exercise and The Pajama Girl. Municipal censorship boards started appearing in Ame...
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Times Book Review Andromeda Strain
1,984 wordsFor almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to his reader = s imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichton = s writing stands out as much as his 6 = 9 @ frame. He has become one of the most widely read and bought science fiction authors of the past three decades. From his first novel The Andromeda Strain, which he published while in medical school, to his most recent Airframe, Crichton has captivated his readers and left them craving more. What ma...
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Citizen Kane Wuthering Heights
2,916 wordsExcellence, Popularity, Typicality Discuss The Relative Excellence, Popularity, Typicality Discuss The Relative Merits Of Each Of These As A Basis For The Inclusion Of Films In A Film History Excellence, popularity, typicality discuss the relative merits of each of these as a basis for the inclusion of films in a film history Any attempt to study film history requires the consideration of films, which occur within the categories of excellence, popularity and typicality. They are three very diffe...
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Film Industry Box Office
384 wordsIt seems Australias film success is not determined by its quality but by its box office returns. The national identity of Australia has become nothing but a market strategy. The future of the Australian film industry seems doubtful, as it cannot command the crowds necessary to sustain high enough box office dollars, or market films sufficiently to attract local audiences. Sustaining a productive innovative film industry seems dependent on the complex process of acquiring film funding, and the pr...
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Fair Lady Box Office
510 wordsis an element of comedy in the s There tory Pygmalion and in the film My Fair Lady. In the play and the film alike, a woman of the streets named Liza Doolittle is transformed from a dirty low-life from the streets to a respectable high-class woman in only six months by two wealthy gentlemen named Higgins and Pickering. Pickering challenged Higgins to make this young girl a respectable lady and this becomes the object of the story, which is filled with several comical scenes dealing with the chan...
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Tells The Story Film Noir
3,624 wordsOverview Fritz Lang (1890 - 1976), an Austrian-born film director, was one of the commanding figures of German and American cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he pioneered entire new genres and modes of cinematic expression. From the distortions of German Expressionism to the malignant brooding of American film noir, Langs films depicted a fatalistic universe where all possibilities are predetermined. Fascinated by the psychology of violence, his movies were populated by murderers, ...
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Good Will Hunting End Of The Movie
922 wordsNot often today does a movie survive at the box office without computer generated landscapes or dozens of special effects. Recently, a movie broke that barrier and set a few records of its own. Good Will Hunting not only survived, it prospered at the box office this season. Doing so well at the box office against such stiff competition as Titanic, As Good as it Gets, and other blockbusters is also notable. It was nominated for a remarkable twelve academy awards, including Best Picture of the Yea...
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Seven Days Box Office
1,493 wordsJohn Frankenheimer In 1969, a critic and biographer of director John Frankenheimer, who has died of a stroke aged 72, wrote: In the comparatively brief span of 10 years, &# 91; he&# 93; has become probably the most important director at work in the American cinema today. This comment was based on a formidable body of television drama and movies, including All Fall Down (1962), Birdman Of Alcatraz (1962), and the political thrillers The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Seven Days In May (1964). Ye...
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Academy Awards Box Office
659 wordsOne Julia Roberts Julia Roberts One of the most widely known actresses, Julia Fiona Roberts, was born on October 28, 1967. This now 5 9, brown eyed, certain clair haired girl was born in Smyrna, Georgia. She attended Campbell High School, also in Smyrna, Georgia, where she graduated in 1985. Julia s favorite of only a few past-times is knitting, which she sometimes does while waiting on set. Her favorite quote is, What changes with fame, I think, are perceptions of an individual, more than the i...
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Alfred Hitchcock Norman Bates
3,094 wordsHe Alfred Hitchcock ALFRED HITCHCOCK He was known to his audiences as the Master of Suspense and what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task of taming his own imagination. Director of many works such as Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots, witty dialogue and tales of mystery and murder. In doing so, he inspired a new generation of film makers and revolutionized the thriller film, making him a legend ...
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Number One Hit Truth Or Dare
2,563 wordsOne of the most famous controversial women in the world is Madonna Louise Ciccone. She is one of the biggest female popstars of the twentieth century. Madonna is an artist that knows how to take everything she does to an extreme. Madonna was born on the 16 th of August 1958, in Rochester, Michigan. She was the first girl born to the Ciccone family, which already consisted of five boys. She grew up in a very strict environment. When Madonna reached the age of six, her mother grew ill from cancer ...
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Blacks And Whites Negro Leagues
1,629 wordsAfter the Civil War, even though slavery had been outlawed, there was still a great amount of tension between blacks and whites. The southern whites were bitter toward the loss of their slaves, and although the north fought for the slaves freedom, they did not want them to have equal privileges. As a result of this, segregation was born. Segregation is the seperation of two different groups, in this case, black and white people. Blacks and whites were separated in many ways such as having differ...
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Fairy Tale Star Wars
3,062 wordsOverview Ray Harryhausen (1920 -), a master special effects artist, innovated a host of techniques using model-animation and composite cinematography. His trademark Dynamation method made possible a whole genre of science fiction and fantasy filmmaking. Often drawing from Greek and Roman legends, Harryhausen created unprecedented visions of imaginary worlds. By the time he retired in 1981, Dynamation had been surpassed by computer-assisted animation techniques like Go-Motion, and more recently, ...
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