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    (Lucy Liu) and Monkey (Jacky Chan) and wastes no time to witness the competition. By an extreme clumsiness and unfortunate luck‚ Po ends in the middle of the courtyard and is declared by aging Master Oogway to be the Dragon Warrior. Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) reluctantly takes on the task to train the supposed savior of their village but the battle Po must first win is with himself and his insecurities as well as the resentment of the five star students who have no respect for him at all. Kung

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    Mike Nichols’‚ The Graduate‚ produced in 1967 is based on a young college graduate who is unsure about his future. Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has recently graduated college‚ with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "homecoming" party‚ Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft)‚ the wife of his father’s business partner‚ has Ben drive her home‚ which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends‚ but comes back to haunt him when he finds himself falling for Elaine (Katharine

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    Serivello. 1. Marathon Man Number one in our list and with good reason. Has there ever been a better idea for an evil villain than a Nazi war criminal dentist? In the role that won Laurence Olivier an Oscar for best supporting actor‚ his torture of Dustin Hoffman is enough to put anyone off going back to the dentist’s chair. That’s the list and frankly I’d be surprised if anyone still has the nerve to get there bite problems fixed or see about teeth replacement for a

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    Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise)‚ upon hearing of the death of his wealthy father travels to Cincinnati in effort to get his piece of the inheritance. Charlie merely receives some rose bushes‚ which happen to be all dying due to neglect‚ and a convertible. This same convertible is responsible for his poor relationship with his father due to him taking the convertible out for a ride with his friends and his father reporting it as being stolen and allowing for Charlie to sit in jail for two days. Clearly

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    ARH264: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA (Class #8616) Rob Edelman‚ Lecturer Fall 2013 TUESDAY‚ 5:45PM-8:35PM‚ LC 23 During the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ great social changes were occurring in the United States. These changes were sparked by the emerging youth culture‚ the progression of the Civil Rights Movement‚ opposition to the war in Vietnam‚ and the advent of the modern-era feminist movement. This course will explore the manner in which these changes impacted on the American cinema. Editing

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    Webster 1  Kiahna Webster  Mr. Jackson  English III‚ 7th Period  April 14th‚ 2014  Death of a Salesman​  vs. ​ A Raisin in the Sun  Death of a Salesman​  and ​ A Raisin in the Sun​  are definitely a criticism of capitalism and the  American way of life. They’re are millions that are going through similarities that are exhibited  in the films. Many feel as if money is everything in life when truly it is not. In the film ​ Death of  a Salesman​ ‚ Willy felt as if money was everything. Willy literally gave his life away so that his 

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    He Garfunkeled Your Mother: A Psychoanalytic Reading of The Graduate The 1967 film‚ The Graduate‚ staring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft contains a plethora of human idiosyncrasies that would be of the utmost interest to the psychoanalytic minds of both Freud and Lacan. For this reading‚ I will focus on the theories of both Freud and Lacan in accordance with textual evidence to prove that Benjamin Braddock never achieves happiness in the end of the film‚ but has only just prolonged his quest

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    In fact‚ there is a rumor that the latter had to turn down the lead role in The Graduate that was eventually played by Dustin Hoffman because he had already signed on to act in Batman. Even after performing for three seasons and a theatrical motion picture in the roles‚ the two never seemed to grow tired of playing Batman and Robin. Throughout the 1970’s‚ they would go on to

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    Graduate was released in United States on December 22‚ 1967. The screenplay for the film is done by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry‚ and the cinematography by Robert Surtees. A few of the main cast members include Anne Bancroft (as Mrs. Robinson)‚ Dustin Hoffman (as Benjamin Braddock)‚ Katharine Ross (as Elaine Robinson)‚ William Daniels (as Mr. Braddock)‚ Murray Hamilton (as Mr. Robinson)‚ and Elizabeth Wilson (as Mrs. Braddock). The Graduate is a story about Benjamin Braddock‚ a twenty-one year old

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    The title of my selected movie is “Rain Man”. I chose to write about this movie because it shows the attitude that people get when they are placed in uncomfortable situations. This movie is about a wicked unadventurous man name Charlie (Played by Tom Cruise) who was going through a financial crisis. He was the type of man that lived his life with one purpose‚ and that was to earn money and to exclude everything else. His relationships with others was shallow‚ and only with the aim of gaining benefits

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