...Review of the film The film, which really starts a few years before 1492 and closures a few years after the fact, begins off with a great deal of grave and traditionally successful scene-setting as Columbus' child and biographer, Fernando, reviews his father, the visionary of inconceivable dreams. The myth of Columbus-as-legend propagated in 1492: Conquest of Paradise just on the grounds that I didn't generally think about chronicled correctness. But rather I focused around the moderate moving plot line or the motion picture's sensational enhancements. With such a lazy sympathy toward history, it is not hard to see how 1492: Conquest of Paradise's over-rearrangements of history went unnoticed. It is this present exposition's objective to analyze how the film depicts the Tainos and Columbus' connection to one another, and hope to measure up these depictions to different authentic records to perceive how the motion picture sustains the homogeneous "history of civilization" by keeping Columbus free from any accuse that Spain's colonization involved. The Columbus-as-legend myth remains to a great extent in place in spite of the motion picture's endeavor to make him a more mind boggling character. Examples of historical accuracy "I want to travel all over the seas," the father tells the young Fernando as they remained in attractive profile looking at the western skyline. "I want to get behind the weather."Give or take 45 minutes and a few throne-room scenes later, Columbus sets...
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...United 93 Review – Unorthodox Award Paul Greengrass’ raucous portrayal of film United 93 demonstrates and explores the unexpected tragedy of the 9/11 only 5 years ago, through the impotence of the characters, pace and overall cinematography. Greengrass’ use of characterisation conveyed the clear sense of powerlessness over the tragedy, illustrating the enmity between eastern and western beliefs and cultures revealing a dominant divide between cultures and religion which may not have been considered previously by some viewers. Meanwhile, the use of little to no known bought the film home as it enforced the realness of the events that took place in the movie and made the audience look into not only the true meaning of the film but look deeply at themselves, giving them a reality check about the society we live in today; not just the dilly dallying of the ‘to see’ actors of that month. However, although many may applaud Greengrass’ portrayal of the characters, (many of whom were based on people who were really effected in the 9/11), the film has also been ‘criticized for its portrayal of German passenger Christian Adams,’ who was the only passenger the plane ‘demonstrated with counselling appeasement.’ All in all, we must ask ourselves, did we go to watch it to get a good laugh out of it or get an insight into our increasingly cracking society? Likewise, the cinematography in all aspects can be applauded by the audience as Greengrass’ sheer impudence demonstrated...
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...Film Review Barbara Rushing ARTS/100 December 10, 2012 Brenda Durden Do the Right Thing was produced and directed in 1989 by Spike Lee (The IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, 2012). Spike Lee is known for creating controversy with his movies. Lee was a pioneer of capturing and bringing attention to societal issues. Lee’s primary focus for many of his movies is to address racial stigmas, stereotypes, and issues between races. Consequently, Do the Right Thing is debatable for its portrayal of the racial tensions in Brooklyn, New York (Smith, Turner Classic Movies Film Articles, 2012). The major themes Lee tries to convey through this film are the day-to-day lifestyles of people in Brooklyn, a community struggling without leadership, and the ethnic tensions within the community. Lee effectively relays these themes to the audience through realism by depicting the period, showing the lack of leadership and community togetherness through a host of scenarios, which leads to the destruction of the neighborhood pizza shop that had been a part of community for technically three decades. Lee also mastered the art of demonstrating the lifestyles and attitudes of the community through music specific the era and the ethnic upbringing, by using prompts that give the illusion of how hot the temperatures were, which lends itself to the mounting tension among racial divide. An overview of the film or performance Do the Right Thing is a movie that takes place...
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...Film review rebuttal Objective: to use current level of knowledge regarding film (production, marketing, distribution, editing, sound, cinematography, elements of miser-en-scene, narrative etc.) rebut or critique the opinion of a professionally prepared film with which you personally disagree. Rebuttal critique guidelines: the paper should be at least three full pages, excluding supporting material and citation pages. the paper should be written in an essay format- that is, an opening thesis paragraph clearly stating paper�s intent, points to be covered, and direction; followed by well-developed paragraphs on each concept to be covered; and ending with a clear summery and conclusion. Direction: choose a film which you believe peer audience commonly would or should see and appreciate. Recent films are preferred (in the last three years) American films only. After you have selected a film, find a review of the film which you disagree with in whole or in part. The review to rebut must be written by a professional reviewer (a fan posting to a blog is not a professional review, for instance.) your disagreement with the said film review may address factors you believed the original reviewer left out or did not develop well enough. A copy of the review used must be attached to the final draft of the essay. Film review content and focus: the paper�s focus should be to write a rebuttal to the professional review chosen. The rebuttal review must cite at least three points in which you disagree...
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...Film Review I was asked to watch the film Mauilapolis and write a review on what I thought was important about it and also what I found to be shocking or interesting. I just wanted to start out by saying that watching this film made me a little emotional because I have very close friends who are Hispanic and they have told me of struggles that their family has had that are very similar to this. With that being said, the film is about Hispanic workers along the border of the United States and Mexico who work in sweatshops trying to make ends meet. One of the very first things that surprised me was in the intro of the film. Carmen said that she had worked in 9 assembly plants in her life. This really surprised me because it shows that not only do these poor people have to work in these terrible factories, they also are tossed around to different plants throughout their lives when one of them closes or gets shipped off to another country like what happened to the Sanyo plant. At the Sanyo plant, I was horrified to find out that one of the workers said that her nose used to bleed from the chemicals that she was inhaling and that she wasn’t allowed to drink water or go to the bathroom so she had kidney problems. I found this absolutely terrible that these factories could get away with treating their employees so badly. When Sanyo left, they took off without even giving their employees severance. One of the workers quoted this as saying, “they departed with their hands full and...
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...The Book of Eli Film Review In the film The Book of Eli, we are introduced to a character that is never exactly named who is walking west on a journey that God has led him to take. Throughout his journey, there are many scenes that relate to the Print Era and there are also very many scenes that are extremely significant in the film. In my paper, I will be discussing these scenes and I will also be discussing my interpretation on the film’s meaning, and my final reaction to the film. In the film, we are introduced to a post-apocalyptic society where things we find to be extremely common, and maybe even useless, are very rare and prized possessions. Books are one of these rare items and something that only the wealthy have, the wealthy being Carnegie. This relates to the beginning of the Print Era because in the beginning of the era, only the wealthy had books due to the fact that they took so long to produce. Books took so long to produce in the beginning of the Print Era because they had to be written by a scribe instead of just being printed which takes about an eighth of the time it takes to write out an entire book. Books in the town that Carnegie runs are very rare due to the fact that there was an apocalypse and majority of the books were destroyed. Carnegie is the only wealthy one and the only one in power, therefore he has majority of all of the books that he steals from others, even though he is only looking for a certain one. Throughout the film, there are very...
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...j'ai choisi de parler d'un film que j'ai regardé dans le class il y deux semaines. La film était appelle ‘Au Revoir les enfants’ et il a lieu aux en France au cours de la guerre. Il s'agit d'une école pour les garçons qui est se cache peuple juif, comme jean bonnet et son frère. Finalement, la peuple juif sont trouvé et et fait prisonnier par les Allemands. Je pense que il y a deux personnages principaux qui sont tous les deux comme important comme l'un l'autre. Une est jean bonnet et la autre est Julien Quentin. Premièrement, julien est a élève dans l’école aussi est son frère qui est appelle Francois, Julien est plus de un besoin de sa mère que Francois mais obtient dans la troubler quand meme. Jean est un nouvel élève à l'école et est aussi une des personnes juives dans la clandestinité. Il est très intelligent en plus il est bon en maths et est étonnant au piano. je crois l'acteur interprete très bien le role de jean bonnet. Selon moi, l'histoire est vraiment émotionnel par consequent c'était trés émouvante, cependant, le film démarre lentement et s'éternise un peu trop long... cela vous rend pressé d'arriver à la fin pour découvrir le sort du personnage jean bonnet. je n'ai pas aimé ce film autant que 'les choristes', autre d’un film j’ai regarde dans le classe, parce que C'était moins passionnant que 'les choristes'. En conclusion, je apprécié le film et je recommend ça si vous aimez l'histoire parce que tu vas trouver ça interessant mais malheureusement je ne veux pas...
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... It sticks with it’s own genre as a contemporary American-Italian romantic comedy. I feel like Moonstruck offers a special element that separate itself from the other American romantic comedies. For instance, the movie tells the importance of family involvement in the character’s love affair. It could be something that degrades the level of the romance between Loretta and Ronny but instead, it makes the story even meaningful and warm. Furthermore, Loretta is being situated to be older (she looks older than Ronny, as seen on her grey hair) to suggest that she is more dominant and experienced in terms of dealing with life (her husband’s death should be something that could be further mourned by her, but she didn't show such attitude in the film). Whereas Ronny looks more fragile and more emotional than Loretta (he fancies Operas and complains a lot more than Loretta.) Despite being different from other romantic comedies where characters are being designed to be individualistic, Moonstruck not only tell the interference of the family in Loretta’s own affairs (her mother is conscious about her daughter’s affair with Ronny and so does her father, who caught her dating Ronny while being engaged to Johnny), but the story also tells the parent’s romantic life, where, as it being so realistic that as Loretta’s parents are getting old and their romance gradually fails. Moonstruck fits the criteria for genre to be watched on thanksgiving or Christmas. Furthermore, I find it interesting...
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...The Hunger Games Review and Critique The Hunger Games is a fantasy adventure love story about a young girl from a poor district who volunteers to take her sister place to fight to the death in the 74th Annual Hunger Games in the country’s capitol city. “Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains.” (www.thehungergamesmovie.com) Prior to being a film, The Hunger Games was an award winning novel. The film was transformed from novel into a successful award winning fantasy film that captured the hearts of audiences world-wide through storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing and sound. The purpose of this review is to explore those elements and the film’s overall textual themes from a formalist approach. The film derives from the science fiction novel written in 2008 by Suzanne Collins. “The Hunger Games is directed by Gary Ross, with a screenplay by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel, the first in a trilogy published by Scholastic that has over 23.5 million copies in print in the United States...
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...Bianca Washington Professor Ruiz English 0990 4 March 2013 Just Married Just Married (2003) directed by Shawn Levy and written by Sam Harper is a romantic comedy. The two main characters are played by Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy. These two individuals have such great chemistry that it shows throughout the whole movie. This film is rated pg13 and is appropriate for teens. The acting in the film was really good and believable. There was many parts in the movie that kept me laughing. Characterization is very important in the movie because the actors have to connect to each other and also to their own characters. Out of all the reviews that I have seen I have only found one positive review. I don’t know why because in my opinion the movie was not that bad to me. It was not my favorite but I enjoyed watching it. Many of the reviews talked about the movie having old jokes and that the characters didn’t have any chemistry. This movie is pretty old so the jokes are played out now but back then it was just immature humor that people liked to watch. The characters did shout at each other a lot in the movie but that is just there role in the movie. I feel that many of the reviewers were hoping for more inappropriate scenes and since this movie didn’t have enough of that they didn’t approve of it. John J. Puccio was one of the reviewers and he says “The movie is deceptively awful. It stars two attractive charming people who are not given a thing to work with in a script...
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...Title: | Pride and Prejudice | Release Date: | November 11, 2005 (Limited) November 23, 2005 | Genre: | Romance, Drama | Director: | Joe Wright | Writer: | Deborah Moggach (from the novel by Jane Austen) | Cast: | Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Talulah Riley, Penelope Wilton, Simon Woods | Studio: | Focus Features | Film REVIEW Pride & Prejudice Film „Pride and Prejudice” was directed by Joe Wright in 2005 based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name. (It was originally titled „First Impression”. However, Austen found the title „Pride and Prejudice” more appropriate). This film is very well known also as the Jane Austen’s novel. During her lifetime, Austen's books brought her only a few positive reviews, they were published anonymously, and her work was admired only by a literary elite. Almost 200 years after it was written, Pride And Prejudice is now probably the most popular novel in English literature. The film is set in 18th century England, where marriage is extremely important for girls from less-than-wealthy families. Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters (Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, Lydia) live in comparative financial independence as gentry on a working farm in rural England. When a wealthy young gentleman, Charles Bingley, occupies the nearby estate, Mrs. Bennet sees an opportunity for her daughters...
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...Chau Tan Ping 14091747D APSS112- Introduction to Sociology- Film Review Name of Movie: A Late Quartet Teacher: Mr. LO Hung Kei, Kenneth After watching ‘’A Late Quartet’’, I found that there are lots of sociological theories and I think there are four theories that are best relate to this movie. First, it is about Emile Durkheim’s organic solidarity that holds member get together. Second, Talcott Parsons’ AGIL paradigm is the essential function for the society. Third, the social mobility is very important to the society to pass the good things to next generation. Fourth, the conflict of family ignores the existence of consensus. According to Durkheim (1893), in modern society, functional interdependency can hold members together. Durkheim named this relationship organic solidarity. In this film, Peter, Juliette, Robert and Daniel hold together to form Fugue Quartet because they hold the same belief that they love music and they want to perform to the audience and therefore, they form Fugue Quartet and perform over 25 years. They are organic solidarity because they think that they cannot perform without each other. According to Parsons (1951), the entire complex is governed by four functions and the four functions are usually referred to AGIL. In this film, Peter, who is the cellist in the Fugue Quartet, has been diagnosed of Parkinson’s disease. He cannot have the whole performance anymore and tell the other three members that he want to have his farewell show and...
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...------------------------------------------------- Review of John Q. John Q is an emotionally-packed movie that surrounds the unfortunate medical circumstances of John, played by Denzel Washington, and his son. The purpose of the film was to raise the many issues surrounding poor health care in the United States, and even less empathy from hospital administration and insurance companies. After John’s son collapses at a baseball game, the doctors diagnose him as having a heart that is too large for his body and declare that he must receive an immediate transplant to survive. Quickly, the hospital administration informs John that his insurance plan does not cover such an operation and an immediate payment of $100,000 must be made just to get his son’s name on the donor list. The overall goal of the movie is to communicate the importance of health care reform and the problems surrounding the current health care system with employer-sponsored health insurance. Within the first half hour of the movie, the villain becomes clear: “it’s all the fault of a healthcare system that caters to the rich and well-insured middle classes while denying quality care — or even life itself — to the uninsured and to poor people” (Lockard). This villain becomes magnified through the events of the plot; whereby, the employer has changed John’s insurance plan without notification and the hospital administrators and doctors are unsympathetic towards the pleas of the family. Through the use of...
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...The Watsons Go to Birmingham Mahatma Gandhi, once said ''I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, but the evil it does is permanent. After reading the book and movie called ''The Watsons Go to Birmingham'' I knew that violence been going on longer than I expected it to be. In my opinion, all violence is bad because at the end of the day people are still dyeing mostly every day. The world needs to be a better place and most of the people dyeing are from shootings, suicides, and murders, but does anyone every think about how those people family feels. First, do you know that in any violence, innocent people still get hurt every day, for no reason and half of them don’t even get to say goodbye....
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...Film Review: When Strangers Click In today’s society, dating is not very easy to come by once you get older or think you have no hope in finding the one. Robert Kenner’s 2011 film, When Strangers Click, is a documentary film that is well worth the time to watch. The documentary focuses on five people that have used the internet for dating and their stories. From a woman turning thirty and having the fear of never finding love to a gay man that struggles being who he is, Kenner’s film is full of twisting and turning stories. As you watch with astonishment, the stories of these five strangers become absorbing and very unoriginal. We follow Kim, Dave, Beth, Ryan, and Jonas all very different from each other with their own unique stories. Kim is looking for her perfect guy in the tri-state area and ends up flying to Prague to meet a guy she has never spoken to besides on email. Her family is in for a very big surprise! Dave is a man that has confidence problems and turns to online dating to stay hidden from the truth for as long as possible. Beth is turning thirty and is terrified she is never going to find love. Internet dating gives her reassurance on her love life. Ryan is from a small town that looks down upon gays and never understands himself until he Googles the word “gay”. From there the internet opens up a wide variety of things he never knew and gives him an array of people to talk to. Jonas is your typical guy, always wishing he had something more in life. He lives...
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