typical (stereotypical?) main character or rather a detective character (I think for any main character.) By his looks/appearance‚ “He [Spade] looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan” (p. 3). Suggesting he is not angelic looking like lets say Humphrey Bogard (an indication that the movie isn’t true to the novel). The film ruined the ironic un-charming hero concept the novel have and so do I as one of my first example of the “things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammett’s message.” Spade
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The term film noir can be defined as a style of film which was marked by a period of pessimism‚ self doubt and fatalism. The term was applied by French critics in the 1946 to a group of US films that were made during the war and that were released in quick succession after 1945. Ultimately there has been much debate surround the ambiguity of the term‚ but it is now understood that film noir is more of a narrative and stylistic tendency and ultimately “a critical category” rather than a genre in
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Casablanca Introduction to Film English 225 Professor Stave September 29‚ 2008 Casablanca The movie‚ Casablanca‚ based on the play "Everybody Wants to go to Rick’s‚” still captivates audiences around the world. This movie was a pleasurable afternoon of great movie watching. The setting of the movie is Casablanca‚ Morocco during the Second World War. Casablanca is the jump off point to get to Spain and then to America. I think that all four factors of a setting have an
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contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&docId=A108551755&userGroupName=mlin_s_bristcc&version=1.0&searchType=BasicSearchForm&source=gale The Big Sleep. Dir Howard Hawks. Perf. Humphrey Bogart‚ Lauren Bacall. DVD .Warner Brothers 1946.
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from an outspoken denial of any overt promotion of the U.S. involvement in the war to an active on-screen support of that involvement. The cast was very international‚ of all the principle and supporting actors in the film came from Europe‚ only Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson were born and raised in America. The rest of the actors either cam to U.S. for work or as refugees from the Nazis. By using characters of different ethnic races from other countries allowed the film to give it more of a
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Value is the capitalist’s most important tool. Carl Marx and Hubert Marcuse both understood that commodities were the driving force in a capitalist society. They understood that our capitalist economy is based on persuading men that happiness is achieved by buying things that someone else has produced and that buying these things will keep other men happy and employed. Progress and mechanization cause people to appear independent‚ but in fact‚ it has made people more reliant on these “things”.
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Not all the audience will understand it is a signature of respectfulness to the actor Humphrey Bogart‚ just like Patricia‚ not knowing the meaning of the gesture. The reason of Godard applies the gesture here is an iconography of Bogart and the gangster films that associate with him. In the film‚ Patricia is testing Michel to know if she loves
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The sharp‚ strained movements and demonic screeching in Anna Halprin’s 1975 improvisational piece‚ Darkside Dance‚ make it is easy to understand the amount of despair Halprin went through upon hearing that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer a second time. In an interview‚ Halprin described her feelings regarding this diagnosis when she said‚ “For those of you who have cancer or have had cancer‚ you know how life threatening it can be. You’re unprepared suddenly to face the possibility of dying
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B-FH103 Cultural and Contextual Studies‚ Fashion 2. Social changes had great influences in Fashion in the 1950s. Analyse two aspects of such social changes as discussed in the lectures‚ which is reflected in Fashion Design. Cite no more than two designers as case studies. Tan Xue Hui Amanda Name FMI-1B/ 14161 Class /ID No. Lucinda Law Lecturer 2012 LASALLE College of the Arts Faculty of Design Singapore Accepted by the Faculty of
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In this first novel‚ life is beautiful for our teens from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They’re rich‚ they’re beautiful‚ and they know it. Blair Waldorf is the ringleader of the crew‚ which includes her handsome but weak-hearted boyfriend‚ Nate. This femme fatale in training relishes her role and is confident that she and Nate will be together forever. Then the teen every girl loves to hate‚ Serena Van der Woodson‚ returns from her Connecticut boarding school‚ and the young women start fuming
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