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Blade Runner Final Scene
729 wordsThe plot of the movie "Blade Runner" becomes unrevealed till the end of the movie. Many assumptions about the plot and the final of the movie appear in the spectator's mind, but not one of these assumptions lasts long. Numerous deceptions in the plot grip the interest of the audience and contribute for the continuing interest to the movie eighteen years after its creation. The main character in the movie is Deckard- the Blade Runner. He is called for a special mission after his retirement, to "a...
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Brilliant Lies Comparison Between Film And Playwright
1,014 wordsDavid Williamson wrote the serious comedy, Brilliant Lies in 1993. Three years later the play was adapted into a film. The play was about how a young sexy party girl, Susy, was sexually harassed by her power-demeaning boss, Gary. Throughout the story we are kept in the dark about what the truth really is concerning the account in the office when both parties worked late alone. The film introduces changes to both enhance and develop the plays main ideas and themes. When plays are made into film, ...
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Gender In Horror Films Carrie Alien And Amityville
2,069 words... e escaped from, however, what is most interesting here and indeed unexpected is that while the novel by King provides no other maternal roles in the novel instead focusing primarily on Carrie and her mother, De Palma adds a mother for Sue and even creates a scene whereby the two mothers meet and Carries mothers extreme religious fanaticism is demonstrated more clearly against the backdrop of a normal home with a normal mother who after politely attempting to get rid of Carries mother eventua...
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Meet John Doe Fighting For Social Integrity
1,013 wordsMeet John Doe: Fighting for Social Integrity Each age range has it own way of looking at itself. In the United States, as an example, the late 1930 s and the 1940 s was the age of the common man. Millions of Americans gloried in being average and unsophisticated. They saw themselves simply as faces in a multitude of poor people struggling to get along during hard times. In Meet John Doe, Frank Copra illustrates the common man with someone named John Doe. It is one of the classic films that Copra...
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Natural Born Killers World War Ii
3,005 wordsThe distinction of emotional tone in Stephen Spielberg's And Oliver Stones cinematographic works. Stephen Spielberg and Oliver Stone are the notorious contemporary directors who have been determining the cinematographic tastes from more then three decades. Spielberg and Stone succeed no only in directing but also in producing and writing scripts for their own movies and for other directors. The films of Spielberg and Stone have a very wide thematic range: they shoot historical dramas, war dramas...
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Webster Husband
1,637 wordsAmy Czech Professor Lebanon-Rostovsky English 30 March 3, 2000 The Shrew? s Illusion HORTENSIO: Now go thy ways, thou hast tam? d a course show. LUCENTIO: ? Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam? d so. Indeed, Hortentio? s assurance in the taming of the? course show? Katerina seems a wonder to all the audience in the final scene of? The Taming of the Shrew. ? After hurling furniture, pitching fits and assaulting her sister, Katerina delivers a speech that lauds obedience and censures roug...
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End Of The Play Oedipus Rex
2,621 wordsBoth Nina In? The Seagull? And Oedipus Both Nina In? The Seagull? And Oedipus In? Oedipus Rex? Make Their Fates Even Worse Through Their Ow? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The inevitability of fate is a key theme in Sophocles? ? Oedipus Rex? and in Chekhov? s? The Seagull? . I was fascinated by the ways this inevitability was conveyed by Chekhov and Sophocles respectively and the ways in which the actions of the characters contributed to and heightened their fate. I shall attempt to compare and contrast th...
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Good Or Evil Taming Of The Shrew
1,294 wordsExploring Sexuality in Taming of the Shrew Andrea Blacksten Shakespeare Plays Professor Christopher Human sexuality underlies many of the happenings of Taming of the Shrew. It affects the conflicts, theme, and resolution of the play. It becomes evident throughout the play that sexual behavior denotes whether a character is thought of as good or evil (not necessarily good evil as meant in conventional terms, but rather as a nice character versus a waspish or mean character). In the beginning of t...
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Sense And Sensibility Ice Storm
886 wordsThe Ice Storm and Scene and Sensibility Ang Lee Merritt McMullen Ang Lee directed both Ice Storm and Scene and Sensibility; these are stories of dysfunction families that have to deal with the variety of problems that occur. Even with the known fact that one story takes place in modern day while the other occurs in Elizabethan times; there are a number of similarities. As characters search for stability, long for lust or love, and keep their feelings locked inside; their downfall soon follows, b...
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Grand Canyon Final Scene
844 wordsHailey Thomas April 6, 2001 Feeder 3. 2 Thelma and Louise In the final scene from Thelma and Louise the cinematographic effects are astounding. Panning, reaction shot, and dissolve are all used in the last section of the movie clip extensively. These three cinematographic terms are perfect for this clip because of the intensity they add to the scene. Through the use of panning, reaction shot, and dissolve the actresses portray two extreme emotions of desperation and the tranquility of freedom. D...
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Holden Caulfield Pencey Prep
694 wordsAuthor: J. D. Salinger Major Characters: Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is the main character and narrator of the story. The story consists of what he is telling a psychologist about several days that Holden spent in New York after being dismissed from Pencey Prep School. During the time he talks about he had been having a nervous breakdown. The death of his brother Allie, which he blames himself for, has made him depressed and sapped his motivation. Allie s death shows that Holden doesn t kn...
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Hamlet Madness Shakespeare Hamlet
2,556 wordsThe issue of madness is one of major importance in this play. Is Hamlet truly mad, meaning insane? Or is he merely angry? Does he feign madness and use it as a guise? Or does he place himself so dangerously close to the line between sanity and insanity that he crosses it without even realizing it? Or is he so intelligent, cunning and in control that this is merely the playing out of his completely conceived and well-executed plan of attack? The patient is a thirty year-old male. He is Hamlet, Pr...
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