Actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gives a powerful performance in the action drama Snitch opening in theaters this weekend. The film‚ based on true accounts‚ takes you on a suspense filled ride under the fine direction of famous stuntman Ric Roman Waugh. Although the film does provide insight about how the justice system works‚ the hard knocks story does add a lot of ‘Hollywood’. As the movie opens‚ we find 18-year-old Jason Collins (Rafi Gavron) talking to his best buddy on Skype about
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In the 2013 film Snowpiercer‚ humanity is portrayed in a very complex light. The ultra-defined social class system outlined by a person’s place on board the Snowpiercer train gives way to a much deeper meaning than just that of class warfare and social mobility‚ but to the importance of freedom and why some would risk literally all they have and could ever attain for just the opportunity for freedom. The most recurring line in the film is one variation or another enforcing the idea that everyone
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Click film review What if you had a universal remote control that remote controlled your universe? Click follows the story of Michael Newman (Adam Sandler)‚ an architect whose long hours and unkind boss (David Hasslehoff) have driven him to a near breakdown. Whist watching TV‚ he longs for a universal remote to control everything and he finds exactly that in department store ‘bed‚ bath and beyond’. He soon realises that ‘everything’ is not as it seems as he mutes a barking dog and pauses his
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Dramatic Structure in Film Chapter 3: Fictional and Dramatic Elements The Elements of a Good Story Unified Plot (storyline) Carefully selected and arranged to make relationship to theme clear Single thread of continuous action (casual relationship) With sub-plots and complexities that make the otherwise simple story interesting Rejection of chance‚ coincidental or miraculous happenings. Plot Exceptions (episodic plots) e.g..:Monte Python and the Holy Grail‚ Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Blade Runner- Film Noir Technique Christine Groom Stuart 9/22/10 Debate rages over the definition of what constitutes a Film Noir. The consensus seems to center on the time period in which noir films were created which is early 1940’s through late 1950’s. It was an era of film making that used low budget sets‚ light and dark elements of lighting‚ altered space (sparse)‚ and sharp photographic focus shot at odd angles. Scripts were often based on pulp novels from the 1930’s. The protagonist
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Jessica Jackson Film Review (Batman) 13 November 2012 Batman rated PG-13‚ released in 1989 was directed by Tim Burton and stars Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne/Batman‚ Jack Nicholson as Jack/The Joker‚ and Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale. The movie’s dark theme and so-so effects and stunt left me less than impressed. Throughout this summary‚ I’ll go over the plot‚ key character roles‚ and film techniques. Although I did not particularly enjoy the film‚ I’ll leave my opinions until the end. The
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Gandhi Film Analysis Towards the end the movie‚ Gandhi is laying down on his bed‚ weak‚ and unable to move. He has vowed to fast until the fighting between the Muslims and Hindus has subsided. A man comes to see him‚ and confesses that he has killed a boy and that he is going to hell. Gandhi simply responds with “Why?” The man responds by saying that the Muslims have killed his own son‚ and that anger caused him to get revenge. Gandhi‚ unfazed‚ says that he knows a way out. He tells the man to
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used in the medium of painting‚ poetry and architecture as well as by the ideas from German romanticism of the 19th century; gothic literature‚ myth and folklore; which spread to other medium such as film. German expressionist became popular in the 1920’s during the Weimar years. Expressionist films were heavily influenced by modern art (paintings)‚ Expressionist movie used exaggeration and distortion to create images that expressed a emotional and psychological despair and chaos through mise-en-scene
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Julito G. Tapic Jr. Film Critique (The Lost Secret) 1. Give the summary of the film. The film is about the main character‚ Orwell‚ who lost his memory. Sabina and Sline enter the story. Orwell recalls a conversation on an airplane and going through customs with a South American plant. Orwell remembers riding in Sline’s car and checking in to his hotel. Orwell recalls a phone call from Sline‚ the one who steal Orwell’s manuscript. Sabina puts something in Orwell’s drink in a restaurant during a
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S participation. During 1914 to 1918‚ film industry propaganda was infinitely good because it got people to enlist‚ promoted liberty bonds‚ and exposed the atrocities Germans were committing. The U.S. had no intentions in joining the war when it began. As a result‚ the U.S. army was in need of more recruits to help with the war effort. As a solution‚ the U.S. used propaganda to spark patriotism and fear among American boys. For example‚ in a propaganda film it shows a young man receiving a threatening
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