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Although the moral stories that constitute Polish director Krzyszto Kieślowski’s The Decalogue (1989) were inspired by the Ten Commandments (as per the films’ umbrella title), the way the…
The ‘Old Spice’ advert is a short 33sec advert, which introduces a well toned, sporty and attractive looking man to the viewer (the quintessential dream man). The on-screen protagonist ask…
The Motorcycle Diaries, directed by Walter Salles traces an 8000-mile journey of two close friends, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, who would become the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara and his f…
American Beauty tells the story of one man’s search for happiness. The film introduces the audience to Lester Burnham, an ordinary- looking married man and father in his forties. Lester is in a …
Generally the term “World cinema” is used for films produced in different countries of world, especially non-English speaking countries, i.e. why some people tries to explain it as a foreign langu…
How and why did the French New Wave upset traditional film grammar?
Firstly we must look at the period before French New Wave came about to understand why this movement upset tradition. The French Ne…
“What is the mother fucking procedure when you have a gun to your head” (Set it Ooff- Frankie). Those are the last words Frankie says before she is shot and killed by the LAPD. Set it off Off is a…
INTRODUCTION
Cinema is one of the few mediums which have managed to successfully depict the true reality of society in general and our lives in particular. As like other art forms, it depicts the mult…
This report is based on Matrix movie. The Matrix movie is a science fiction-action film which was released in America on March 31, 1999. This film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.it i…
Research Proposal Commentary
‘Blade Runner 1982 – Ridley Scott’
Postmodernism, after the modernist movement, is a term now almost as ‘ubiquitous, disliked and misunderstood as its pare…
“The whale rider”
Abstract
“Whale Rider” is a drama film of the 2002, based on the novel of Witi Ihimaera, and directed by Niki Caro. The world première was on September 2002, at the Toronto …
Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Background
Section 3: Main
Section 4: Conclusion
Section 4: Bibliography
Section 1: Introduction
There were always a lot of different wars going on…
The four texts used in this essay are ‘Crash”, ‘The Help’, ‘American History X’ and ‘Gran Torino’ that are based on the two connections Prejudice and Character Develop…
Shane Meadows is known to make movies about his own experiences. This is England is no exception. The idea for the movie came from the director s childhood, and it is the most personal film Shane Mead…
Getting it Right: An analysis of Timing and Language in Hamlet and Sure Thing
This essay explores how language is used to reveal the hidden inner thoughts and feelings of characters, and how timing ca…
The characters in Joy Luck Club differ from “Chan is missing” characters by, the first by having gender differences, second (C.I.M) characters arent trying to form mother/daughter bonds and third …
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
In this essay I will be analysing Edward Lear’s poem ‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ (Appendix 1), first providing a technical stylistic analysis concentrating on s…
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the book examines a variety of aspects of ambition. For instance, with Victor, ambition proves to be his undoing, and, in turn, Victor’s example beco…
The ideological development of Winston Smith in 1984
One of the two most famous books of George Orwell, 1984, depicts a pessimistic vision of the future world consisting of three totalitarian states; …
Mr. Lockwood remembered he was sleeping on a wooden bed and the wind and tree branches were hitting the window. He was so upset by the noise, while, in a dream, got up and tried to open the window. He…
