A Bronx Tale is a movie about a boy named Cologero who is torn between his bus drivning father‚ Lorenzo (Robert De Niro) and a local mob boss named Sonny (Chazz Palaminteri).Cologero witnesses a shooting outside his apartment involving Sonny. Cologero is then asked to identify the shooter. Knowing what the conciquences would be‚ Cologero lies and says he doesn’t recognise the shooter all the while knowing it was Sonny. Sonny then sees something within Cologreo and takes him under his wing and
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Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012) Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including: Pastiche Nostalgia Disjointed narratives Emotional detachment Self-referentialism Time bending Altered realities ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods
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The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is an all American teen film that was introduced to the world in 1985. Even though this film is a couple of decades old‚ the storyline still fits in with most adolescence’s lives today. The film takes place in a high school library‚ where we are introduced to our five main characters in the movie. They are all in Saturday detention because they broke school rules‚ and they are not happy at all about being there. All of the students are from different cliques
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Kay’s first appearance in the film is when she is a child running through the fields‚ representing innocence. Then she becomes sick and her cousin Gale takes her to the hospital. To her families’ horror‚ the Government officials take Kay away as part of the Stolen Generation. In another scene Cynthia and Gale (cousins) vist Kay in Melbourne to inform her that they are going to Vietnam to perform for the soldiers. Instead of welcoming them‚ Kay comments with racial judgements like ‘If it’s money
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the most legendary‚ but an exceptional actor in the whole film industry. He was a hobo before he started his acting career‚ and kept a hobo’s heart till he died (Clarke). He was an actor who was famous of acting as a “western” over 100 movies as well (“Robert Mitchum”). He was so special that until 1970s‚ a new generation of critics placed him in the first rank of screen actors‚ before that‚ he didn’t get any Oscar. Robert Mitchum‚ the most all-powerful actor in the movie stars’ history ever. Unlike
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character’s point of view from within it. Bickle is a veteran Marine who can’t sleep and decides to take the job of driving the long hours. He narrates the film as well using dialogue from the journal that he keeps. Through the imagery and symbolism of the taxi itself‚ the musical backdrop‚ and the artistic editing‚ Martin Scorcese’s American psychological thriller captures the filth and futility and filth of a city through the eyes of the very thing that keeps it running‚ the taxi driver. Bickle
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The recurring motifs common to these two films. Leaving Behind In both the films‚ the protagonist at a certain point in their life goes through an event where they decide to leave the routine of their life and pursue‚ out of intuition‚ something else that is away from their past. In Double Life‚ Weronika leaves to visit her aunt in Krakow after telling her father that she doesn’t feel like she’s alone in the world. She leaves her lover and father behind to arrive in Krakow‚ where she spots her double
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in this film. Dax tries to get them out of the trenches but the soldiers will not move because they know they will die. When Dax goes up the ladder out of the trench to try to lead the charge shows why the soldiers won’t move because Dax can’t get out of the trench without a dead body rolling onto him. Another infuriating scene in Paths of Glory‚ that’s shows how greedy the people in charge during the war is the trial scene. This scene is why this film is highly regarded as a great film. This scene
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Medicine Game is a fascinating documentary film about lacrosse players‚ Jeremy and Hiana Thompson. The Thompson brothers are living in Upstate New York with their parents and siblings and belong to the Onondaga Nation. Since they were little‚ they have dream to play for the Syracuse University lacrosse team. This film in short is a documentation of their struggles to achieve their dreams. I‚ personally‚ really like the way Jeremy perceives lacrosse game. He says that they should respect the game
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Many examples of how the morals of the youth changed were in the film. The first one is the breakage of the 18th Amendment. Roxie Hart‚ the protagonist‚ consumes alcohol illegally with her lover Fred. Roxie Hart and her boyfriend are shown consuming alcohol on the stairs‚ a direct stand against rules and standards. During the 1920’s‚ drinking in public was taboo‚ but the dare factor of alcohol was an exciting challenge which was meant to be rebelled against by the younger generation (Lazin). Another
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