A common goal for most modern directors is to engage the audience emotionally. It’s a seemingly simple task that is often left by the wayside‚ half finished and ineffective. Those directors that do achieve this task‚ tend to make better movies. Two such directors are Ang Lee and Quentin Tarantino. The ways that they manipulate their audience’s emotions are completely different yet they are both effective. Where Tarantino’s manipulation of tension is unmatched in the modern world‚ Lee’s grace and
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Have you ever heard something go thump in the night? Do you believe in monsters? In the movies "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T."‚ the monster like characters the captured the hearts of viewers of all ages. They both involve two characters that are thrusted into lifestyles that they are not used to. The beast and E.T were both unique creatures‚ had close relationships with humans‚ and were great works of fiction. In both stories‚ "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T."‚ the main characters are
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Quentin Tarantino has greatly improved his career since his first script in the late 1980’s.One of his latest achievements is his film Django‚ which grossed an astounding $425 million worldwide. However‚ his most iconic films are those that kick started his career such as: Pulp fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Although both movies are similar in content and dialogue‚ Pulp Fiction differs in its complexity‚ plot‚ budget and high profile cast. Tarantino’s first movie‚ Reservoir Dogs‚ had a lower budget
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Dennis Dugan launched a career as a television and film director‚ making cameo appearances in many of his films. He earned his reputation with big hits like Happy Gilmore (1996) (in which Dugan plays Doug Thompson‚ the golf tour supervisor)‚ Big Daddy (1999) (with Dugan as a man who reluctantly gives candy to a trick-or-treating Julian)‚ and Grown Ups (2010). His films can be identified most of the time by comedy and the actor Adam Sandler‚ who stars in Happy Gilmore‚ Big Daddy‚ and Grown Ups (to
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unintelligent or dimwitted‚ but rather because he is not restricted by the conventional ideals which are embedded within his culture; thus‚ challenging the conformities and principals that most people are accustomed to. The contrast that Robert Zemeckis‚ director of the film‚ is attempting to convey through the character of Forrest Gump is how most people are too smart for there own good; and thus‚ try to escape the realities and actualities of life. While other characters in the story are suppressed by
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Directed by Chen Kaige‚ a highly acclaimed fifth-generation Chinese film director‚ Farewell My Concubine has received many international film awards and nominations; among them are the Best Foreign Film and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. In the film‚ Cheng Dieyi‚ a Peking Opera actor playing the leading female characters‚ becomes obsessed with his role as the concubine of the King of Chu and blurs his stage role with the real life he leads. The circumstances in which one grows
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by Peter Weir‚ the director used a variety of visual and verbal techniques to develop the character Truman Burbank. Wier used the movement of actors‚ dialogue‚ props and symbolism to show how Truman progressed from being a typical all-American guy to a courageous man who ’s willing to face his fears to break free from the chains that binds him to his ’creator. ’ Truman Burbank is a star of his own show- The Truman Show- and everybody knows except him. He lives in the best place in the world
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War is and always has been a topic of discussion in the world whether it be in the daily newspaper‚ a presidential campaign speech or a history classroom. Often we focus on past wars‚ current wars‚ fatalities‚ battles and countless other topics. Then‚ there is the occasional talk about men that have fought in history’s brutal wars. Veterans could tell story after story of the pain and suffering that they saw and experienced themselves. But you can only begin to imagine. Also seen in the movie Apocolypse
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Miss Congeniality was the first of three Sandra Bullock films to be directed by Donald Petrie. Rated ‘M’‚ due to its low level violence‚ the all American comedy film was released by Warner Bros in 2000. Miss Congeniality later went on to claim the ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy’‚ ‘Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture‚’ and ‘Favourite Actress – Comedy’ .The success of this film is based upon Bullock’s acting abilities and a great script that includes adventure
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aspects that we ignore. James Cameron also created Avatar to also raise awareness and to criticize the U.S desire to expand by the use of greed. The film Avatar is a movie with vivid colors and images. The director and writer of Avatar is James Cameron won Best director and movie of the year and best picture. In 2009 it was one of the highest grossing films that came out. It was budgeted at over 237 million dollars. The movie Avatar starts off with a young handicapped marine named Sully takes the place
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