...awards include – AFI life achievement award, Academy Awards, Palme d’Or, Cannes film festival the Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and DGA awards. He has directed many landmark movies and has a great name today in the world of Hollywood industry. WORD COUNT – 121 Abstract Jordan repeatedly said, “There’s no nobility in poverty” (Scorsese, M. (Director). (12/25/2013). The Wolf of Wall Street [Motion picture on DVD]. United States of America: Paramount Pictures); the research is bout a young aspiring entrepreneur Jordan Belfort and about his lifestyle, convergence in the lifestyle, ethics, business culture, addictions and many more. Being an R Rated film due to many sequels presented in the movie, (The Motion Pictures Association of America. (n.d.). Retrieved March 29, 2016, from http://www.imdb.com/partners/mpaa?ref_=tt_stry_pg); therefore, his lifestyle was seen. A propaganda of change, a growth of a normal individual who aimed to be a millionaire and rule the streets. Mark Hanna thought him a game “The...
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...REVIEW ON THE DARK KNIGHT RISES The Dark Knight Rises(New York , July 16, 2012) is a superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan. It is the sequel to The Dark Knight (2008).The film introduces two main characters to Nolan's series: Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) and Bane (Tom Hardy). It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane, a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane. Making of The Dark Night Rises seems very excellent, because it is focused on nice editing style, camera focusing, attractive environment & technology. I enjoy every scene and it attracts me a lot. In this movie director hasn’t give any extra power to the hero. He uses his technological power to attain his mission. Christian Bale can perform his shooting excellently. He played the role of Batman perfectly. It mainly entertains me by its main theme & script writing. I find many...
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...1. Movie Review The movie Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, taught me more about South Africa. It made me think that the world is so big and I just know a tiny dot of it. The movie consists of situations wherein they experience social problem, social movement and social change. They overcome these situations after a long period of time through tough situations and countless meetings of the British Government and Nelson Mandela. 2. What social problems have you observe in the movie? Explain why it exists. The social problem that existed in the movie was the discrimination being received by the South African citizens in their own country. They were treated as slaves. This is what triggered them to revolt and fight for their rights. This social problem started small from opinions in neighborhood to group organizations. They wanted to overthrow the government and fight for their rights. 3. Define the meaning of social movement and social change by citing scenes in the movie. Social movement is a collectivity acting with some continuity to promote ore resist a change in society or group of which it is part. (Turner and Killian) It may also refer to those activities in which people unite in an organized, long-term effort to change their society or in which they resist and express dissatisfaction with the existing order through outright and prolonged actions. (Hollnsteiner) 4. Define the stages of a social movement by citing scenes in the movie. The stages of...
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...Movie Review for The Social Network (Project in CS Fundamentals) Movie Review for The Social Network * Name of the film The Social Network * Prominent Actors Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss * Plot Summary In October 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg has the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates after his girlfriend Erica Albright breaks up with him. Over the course of a single night, Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, he creates in a few hours a website called "FaceMash.com", where male students can interactively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's computer network, and he becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the...
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...2 fast 2 furious Review 2 fast 2 furious is one of the best car street racing movies to watch. The Miami police department has been tracking down a drug lord, Carter Verone, but cannot find any evidence to arrest him. The department has Monica Fuentes, an undercover agent, as Verone’s girlfriend. They need street racers in order to capture Verone, so they arrest the main actor Brian O’ Connell at the end of a street race and take him to the department. At the department, they give him the breakdown about Verone and try to assign him a partner. He does not like the partner they try to give him, so he decides to pick his own, Roman Pearce. Their main job is to work undercover and arrest Verone so that their records will get cleared and they can walk away as free men. I like this movie because of the great acting performed by the main actors and the cars. 2 fast 2 furious has great acting. Paul Walker and Tyree Gibson do an excellent job playing the parts of Brian O’ Connell and Roman Pearce. Brian, a former cop, plays a good role as an undercover cop. Roman on the other hand, plays the role of a thug. He is tattooed and dresses with baggy clothes. He uses a lot of slang and likes to use the word “bruh” a lot, which is a slang term for brother. He is a thug because he had to spend three years in jail. He blaims Brian for that and when he first sees him in the movie he punches him in the face out of anger and they begin to fight. As the movie goes on, the hate that he has for...
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...Movie review The action of the clones The Island is a remarkable and must-see action and science fiction. The film features the life of the clones and the sponsors which is directed by Michael Bay, the director of Transformers, Pearl Harbor and I Am Number Four. A young man Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and a young woman Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson) live in an underground organization which is full of strict regulations and created by a selfish scientist Dr. Merrick (Sean Bean). They think that one day they will go to the paradise by being the winner of the lottery, which called ‘The Island’. However, Lincoln starts having different dreams which look like his past memories. Dr. Merrick discover the situation of Lincoln and tries to remove his memories in order to keep the huge secret. On the other hands, Dr. Merrick uses a special tunnel to another station secretly. Because of a moth, Lincoln finds that secret tunnel. In this station, Lincoln find that the so call 'winner' of the 'lottery' is only an excuse for the company. In the reality, the 'winner' is used for providing organ and giving birth to their sponsor. Lincoln’s world turns topsy-turvy when he discovers the truth that all of them are just a product of an insurance plan. Afterwards, the screenplay talks about the escape of Lincoln and Jordan. Lincoln and Jordan seek help from James McCord (Steve Buscemi). While they are find their sponsor in Los Angeles, Dr. Merrick hires mercenary, Albert Laurent...
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...Movie Review Fireproof Zelder Dickerson April 14, 2013 The movie, Fireproof, is a Christian based movie drama which was released in 2008. It is based on a married couple who is experiencing issues which could lead to divorce. Caleb was a heroic fireman who saved lives every day but was allowing his marriage to go up in smoke. He desperately needed to change in order to save it. As a result, he decides to shares his dilemma with his father. In turn, his dad suggests that he postpone the decision for forty day and complete an exercise called “The Love Dare” which helps him to realize that divorce is not the answer but change is. The Review This movie has a Christian marriage coaching theme incorporated in it because the husband shares his problems with two people he trusts. As a result, they provided him with support encouragement, accountability, honesty, biblical truth, and guidance. In essence, they became his coaches, “Christian marriage coaching is the application of Christian coaching concepts and skills to facilitate growth, healing, and change for couples” (Collins, 2009, p. 253). There is a scene where Caleb is confiding in his friend at work about his wife desiring to get a divorce. William listens carefully and then imparts insight regarding the situation. He begins by reminding Caleb about the vows of marriage, placing a major emphasis on for better or worse. William continues to add that most people do not take their vows seriously enough. In addition, he...
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...Review of “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” The movie “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” is a biographical drama recounting of the colorful life of legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee. The film is written based on the Bruce’s window Linda’ book "Bruce Lee: the man only I knew", and directed by Rob Cohen and starred Jason Scott Lee. This biographical drama released in the United States in year 1993, and inspired a Kong Fu hit in Hollywood. The film gives audiences the closest account of inner Bruce Lee and represents his childhood in Hong Kong, to his days as a dishwasher, a teacher of martial arts and eventual martial art super star in Hollywood. Bruce Lee is an absolute legend of martial art, and he was prominent figure that represented strength and mastery. This film is a retelling of Bruce’ life, but also shows how Bruce went up to the top and fought against obstacles along the way to his success. I was deeply impressed by Bruce’s talents and efforts, and fascinated by his mental capacity. In the film, Bruce was plotted against by another martial art master Chinatown and nearly died from injury. However, with his wife’s encouragements, he changed his fight methods and created his own concept of Kong Fu called Jeet Kune Do. This film also shows discrimination towards Chinese, which made me so sad. Racial discrimination presented in this film was great and targeted not only towards Bruce but also other Chinese in the United States. I still remember there is a scene that when Bruce...
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...A well-known filmmaker Robert Zemeckis got a reputation as a state of the art filmmaker in 1985 when he directed the comedic time travel “Back to The Future” film series. He went on to make Academy Award movies such as ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and “Forest Gump” (June 3, 2011). “Flight” stars a well-rounded acting veteran Denzel Washington. Washington plays a flight captain, Whip Whittaker, who is at the difficult time in his life battling drug and alcohol addiction as a flight captain. He becomes a hero and has to make a decision that can change his life. After reviewing the movie we can determine the reason for him becoming a hero, the "real" Whip, and my final review of the film. In the movie “Flight”, the major character Denzel Washington presents a bad portrait of professionalism. He plays an airline flight captain addicted to money, sex, and alcohol. Whip decides to use cocaine to wake up after a night with little sleep to fly the next morning. That morning during the flight Whip meets intense turbulence. In fact, while at cruising altitude, Whip falls asleep leading the copilot to take over. Finally, a mechanical noise wakes him abruptly. Here is when we see the characteristic that appears to make Whip a hero. His confidence to land the plane during mechanical malfunction is very symbolic in terms of being seen as a hero. The standout heroic moment in the film is when the plane travels at high speeds straight for the ground and Whip purposely turns’ the plane upside...
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...To explore Pandora's biosphere, scientists use Na'vi-human hybrids called 'avatars', operated by genetically matched humans. Jake Sully is a combat marine who has been injured in battle. As a result, he’s a paraplegic and in a wheelchair. After his twin brother is killed, Jake takes his place in a project on Pandora, a distant planet. Sully takes control of an "avatar" - a body combining human and Na'vi elements that is controlled while in a deep sleep - in a bid to infiltrate the alien race and get them to move from their home. Sully succeeds in joining the tribe, but he soon finds himself indebted to a beautiful member of the Na’vi tribe, Neytiri, who saves him from death -- either by her poisonous arrow or by the terrifying creatures that inhabit the land. Neytiri takes Jake to her father, the leader of the Na'vi, and it is decided that he will be allowed to live, and to learn their ways. Jake lives the life of the Na'vi and returns frequently to report his findings. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. With the exceptions of Jake, Norm, Max and several other scientists, all humans are expelled from Pandora and sent back to Earth; where after Jake is transferred entirely into his avatar with the aid of the...
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...My favourite movie is “The Dictator”. It was produced in year 2012 and starring one of the most renowned actor, Sasha Baron Cohen. It is a comedy film and it features a little mockumentary. As a form of parody to current world issues revolving around the topic of democracy and dictatorship, it tells the story of how a ruler risked his life for the sake of oppressing democracy. The movie takes a straight pinch at the world politics by making jokes of those we called our leaders. The brave act from the actor cum script-writer to film such a mockumentary is indeed worth the praises. The reason why I chose this as my favourite movie is because of the following reasons: Firstly, the movie is indeed a great joy to watch. I am very sure that it captured my attention from the start of the movie, where it paid tribute to the late dictator of North Korea - Kim Jong-Il, till when it ends with the ruler finally giving in to democracy. The plot of the movie is entertaining throughout. Secondly, I could not remember laughing as much from other comedies I have watched in my entire life. It is really a humorous movie throughout and the contexts of its parodies are indeed easy to grasp. Lastly, I have always been a fan of Sasha Baron Cohen. He is an intelligent and genius, I would call it in script writing for such films. One other notable film produced by him is, Borat. This movie is definitely suitable for people who are stressed up and in need of some laughter to brighten up their...
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...be the Cinderella story, a small town school goes up against the big boys to win the Indiana state basketball championship, a David vs. Goliath story. I believe perseverance and desire, desire to not give up and that nothing is impossible is the intended message the movie is trying to get across. A coach persevering with the whole community and his players, and the players and coach having the desire to believe they can win and that they belong. The Major Characters The biggest character in the movie was played by Gene Hackman as Coach Norman Dale. Norm was an old college basketball coach who returned to coaching after twelve years to coach at a small High School in Indiana. The next major character was Myra Fleener, a fellow school teacher that looked after Jimmy and did not treat Norm very well at first. She eventually respects him and believes in the coach and they form a relationship. The third major character in the movie was Shooter, a drunk father to one of the players. Norm took him under his wing and built up his confidence and helped him to get sober. The fourth major character in this movie I felt was Jimmy Chipwood. Yeah, he didn’t say much throughout the movie, but he was a major theme in the movie and was seen throughout it. Jimmy was the star player who decided not...
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...Hancock Being a movie fanatic, life is measured by when the next big movie release is going to be. One of the movies I have been looking forward to for a while was Hancock. Unfortunately, the movie was released in theatres during the summer when I was visiting Hong Kong and by the time I got back, it wasn’t in theatres anymore so I had to wait for the movie to be released on DVD. The movie is directed by Peter Berg and stars Will Smith and Charlize Theron. The movie takes place in modern day Los Angeles and revolves around an alcoholic superhero named Hancock that doesn’t care about his appearance and seen as a homeless, played by Will Smith. Unfortunately, due to his alcoholic problems, when he is saving people and taking out criminals, he causes a lot of property damage and puts other civilians in danger, which makes the citizens of Los Angeles somewhat despise him. The beginning of the movie follows Hancock in his adventures around Los Angeles bringing criminals to justice while causing a lot of destruction along the way. The movie then goes to another main character; a public relations manager played named Ray Embrey who just unsuccessfully tried to pitch a new charity logo to some corporate executives and is on his way home when he gets stuck on some train tracks while a train is coming. Hancock then comes just in time to save him, but derails the train in the process. The people around the scene start to boo him, but Ray thanks him for saving his life and offers...
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...Armageddon 1. name of film – Armageddon 2. date film released - 1998 3. running time – 150 min 4. director – Michael Bay 5. screenwriter – Jonathan Hensleigh 6. writer – Rober Roy Pool 7. cinematographer – John Schwartzman 8. editing – Mark Goldblatt 9. make up – Fred C. Blau Jr. 10. producer – Jonathan Hensleigh, Chad Oman, Jim Van Wyck 11. Actors 1. Bruce Willis – Harry Stamper 2. Billy Bob Thornton – Dan Truman 3. Ben Affleck – A.J. Frost 4. Steve Buscemi - Rockhound 5. Michael Clarke Duncan - Bear 6. Ken Hudson Campbell - Max 12. Rating by the MPA (PG-13) The movie Armageddon is a disaster movie that is about a group of men trying to save the world form a huge asteroid headed straight at the earth. After several smaller meteorite showers Nasa discovers the enormous asteroid and realize they don’t have much time to figure out how to somehow stop the asteroid or else the human race will become extinct. Their plan is to land on the asteroid and drill into the middle of it and drop a nuclear bomb. This would cause the asteroid to break in two halves and hopefully miss the earth. But in order for the plan to work Nasa needs the best oil driller there is. Harry Stamper is a very experienced driller who has his own oil rig in the ocean and he is the one they want. Meanwhile, Harry is having his own set of problems; one of his workers, AJ is taking many risks with the drilling which endangers his whole crew. On top of that His daughter is also in...
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...Scenes Stephenson’s play theory When mike transfer to Abby’s show, the ratings got high. More audience watches Abby’s show. Consistency theory When Abby accidentally watch the late sow of mike “the ugly truth”. She disagree on what mike says that sex is the only glue in the relationship. Uses and gratification theory When Abby agree that mike can be the host of her morning show. Spiral of silence When Abby’s show didn’t get much high ratings, her boss decided to hired mike, host of the late show “the ugly truth”. At first Abby didn’t agree because she still wants to have her show but in the end, she agrees because she doesn’t want to lose her show. Social learning theory When Abby and mike get close to each other. Mike started to make over Abby in order her to have Colin. | Comments and reaction In this theory, more audience watch Abby’s show because it is now interesting and relaxing because mike transferred to her show.Abby only believes in herself. She believes in true love and a girl can change any man, which is mike contradicts it. Abby agree because she knew in herself that mike can make their ratings higher than before. And to satisfy the needs of their audience.For accepting mike in her show, the ratings of her show increase in a matter of time and she didn’t expect it.It tells us that using media, you adopt new ideas or behavior. New ideas can use in everyday life. Just like Abby, she gets Colin by changing herself just...
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