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Outlook On Life Forrest Gump
714 wordsThere is a huge difference between very bad movies and very good ones. Thats because films can be on either side of the quality scale. A good movie has the ability to burrow deep into the subconscious, with unpredictable and occasional remarkable results. A great work of art can cause euphoria, touch a deep emotional chord, or, in rare cases effect fundamental changes in a persons outlook on life. A movie that can do all of the above and more is Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is a movie with a great...
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People With Aids Tom Hanks
856 wordsTom Hanks plays a homosexual male in the movie Philadelphia. He is a strong character whom is suffering from the Aids virus. The story goes on to show his trial and triumphs over the company that fired him for the wrong reasons. Tom Hanks plays a man who has to struggle with the conscience of having risky behavior where in which, he was infected. He must now face death and the struggle of finding a lawyer who will fight a major corporation, in his defense. His character is strong and stubborn at...
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Tom Hanks Robin Williams
1,411 wordsPenny Marshall has directed six films in her career: "The Preachers Wife" (1996), "Renaissance Man" (1994), "A League of Their Own" (1992), "Awakenings" (1990), "Big" (1998), and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1986). We know Penny best from her stint in Laverne and Shirley (1976 - 1983) as the hilarious Laverne De Fazio. After the series was cancelled Laverne appeared in some pictures until her directorial debut in "Jumpin' Jack Flash." This film was pretty much a bomb and Penny gained credibility as a d...
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Saving Private Ryan Tom Hanks
958 wordsSAVING PRIVATE RYAN Democratic processes and laws will be made and modified so they are considered fair and just by the majority of society. Yet, in war, all these laws can be broken, and all hell breaks loose. War is conducted in the most gruesome and extreme methods by countries in order to supposedly help other countries. Yet in a way, we are not privy to the real motives of why countries go to war or support war activities. There is no fairness in war. It is a threat to humanity's existence ...
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The Green Mile And Capital Punishment
991 wordsThe Green Mile and Capital Punishment Capital punishment is on the rise as one of the most controversial topics throughout the world today. American society has developed such an interest with this topic that more and more entertainment films are being based upon this issue. Whether the film is for or against the death penalty, many of the movies take the viewer on an emotional roller coaster. Since my assignment for this class was to write about capital punishment and review The Green Mile, I h...
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Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg
553 wordsIn critiquing Steven Spielberg? s movie Saving Private Ryan, I realized that you can not base a move only on realism. A good movie has got to have some kind of character or formalism to carry the viewer through these realistic scenes. Spielberg not only uses these tools but also showed stereotyped images in his characters. In my critique I wish to point out some uses of realism, formalism, and stereotypes in the movie Saving Private Ryan. In my eyes Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece. Even tho...
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Saving Private Ryan World War 2
1,204 wordsSaving Private Ryan is a fairly new World War 2 movie, which is a blockbuster hit. It? s about a private named Ryan who lost three of his brothers in action. Being the only brother left in the family he gets the ticket home. He was dropped on D-Day in German occupied territories. Unfortunatly no one knows where he is beacuse of mis drops so a team of eight rangers are sent out o find him. During the mission they go through many hard tasks of war. They also lose two of their men and at one point ...
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Prison Guards Tom Hanks
1,104 wordsFilm Review on The Green Mile For my film review on an epic, I watched The Green Mile, staring Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb), David Morse (Brutus Howell), and Michael Clarke Duncan (John Coffey). Frank Darabont directed the film. Darabont also wrote and produced the movie. This movie had a very diverse, involving, and changing plot. And to keep this film review somewhat short, I will only share the main, and very important events that happened throughout the film. The beginning starts in a retiremen...
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Tom Hanks Young Couple
274 wordsFilm Review (The Money Pit) The Money Pit is a love comedy directed by Richard Benjamin in 1986. This movie was performed humorously by Tom Hanks who usually perform comedy. The movies he has performed before were The Man with One Red Shoe, Splash, Bachelor and etc. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young couple just married. They spend most of their time dealing with managing their new house. The performed the unstable love of the couple clearly. Alexander Godunov plays Mac, th...
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Tom Hanks Robin Williams
1,413 wordsPenny Marshall has directed six films in her career: The Preachers Wife (1996), Renaissance Man (1994), A League of Their Own (1992), Awakenings (1990), Big (1998), and Jumpin Jack Flash (1986). We know Penny best from her stint in Laverne and Shirley (1976 - 1983) as the hilarious Laverne De Fazio. After the series was cancelled Laverne appeared in some pictures until her directorial debut in Jumpin Jack Flash. This film was pretty much a bomb and Penny gained credibility as a director in Big. ...
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Saving Private Ryan World War Ii
643 wordsSaving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan is an excellent movie. It gives an accurate picture of what happened on the fateful day of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Steven Spielberg directed the movie. He did an awesome job in keeping up with the accuracy and authenticity of the weapons, buildings, and props. Tom Hanks, stars in the movie along with Matt Damon and Vin Diesel, two rising stars. The movie is set on June 6, 1944 on D-Day in Normandy. In Saving Private Ryan, Captain John Miller (Tom ...
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Saving Private Ryan Tom Hanks
965 wordsSaving Private Ryan Oh my god! Thats really about all I can say about Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's new World War II epic. Im afraid I wont be able to do justice to this movie in my review. My senses are still numb from experiencing the film. Not watching, experiencing. Because Spielberg throws you right down there in the middle of all the action, and you have no choice but to experience it. You are there, on Omaha Beach, as you watch thousands of civilians, with homes and families, ge...
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Saving Private Ryan Machine Gun
326 wordsSaving Private Ryan Director: Stephen Spielberg Produced by: Stephen Spielberg &# 038; Ian Bryce Staring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore Saving Private Ryan starts with a flashback of the Normandy invasion. Although this part of the film is not what the film is truly about it seems to hold the most significance. When the door of the transport opens the German machine gunners begin firing. The first few rows of men in every transport are instantly shot up. The rest of the m...
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