Despite working with low-budget and a small crew‚ Orson Welles makes his Othello interesting and memorable through several techniques. He generates a sense of suspense by placing the final scene in the beginning of the movie. When translating play into film‚ he creatively rearranges the scenes while keeping the text intact and shoots from odd angles to produce interesting lighting and shadows. Even though some of the characters in the film do not quite live up to the viewer’s ideals of the characters
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played by Matt Damon‚ remains unaffected by the virus due to his immunity. Contagion‚ unlike other movies‚ keeps the hero‚ Damon‚ oddly detached from the viewers. The director‚ Steven Soderbergh‚ decided to keep Damon out of the minimal action in the movie by immediately putting him into quarantine. This automatically dismisses any possibility of suspense‚ no finding out at the last minute if he makes it or not. Mitch takes his daughter (Anna
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This movie is about a girl wanting to make a difference in her community. Certain people in her community‚ known as Chicanos‚ don’t have the same rights as others. One of the main characters‚ Paula‚ gets tired of how fellow Chicanos are being treated and therefore joins a group to help improve the environment‚ particularly the East LA schools. These students get punished for the silliest things and their treatments are unjust. For example‚ talking in Spanish will lead to a beating. The bathrooms
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An emotionally stirring movie taking place in Jackson‚ Mississippi in the 1960s‚ “The Help” stars Emma Stone‚ Viola Davis‚ and Octavia Spencer as three women who share a common motive. This racially tense setting creates the perfect foundation for a drama film such as this. The characters’ personalities in combination with the emotion of the plot develop a socially accurate depiction of the struggles faced by the people of the time. While the racial aspect of the movie is dominant‚ viewers may also
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1776 Film Critique When critiquing this movie I have to first begin with was it historically accurate‚ overall the film was quite accurate there were a few liberties taken. The reason for historical inaccuracies in 1776‚ comes from the fact that the Congress was held in secrecy and there are no contemporary records on the debate over the Declaration of Independence‚ the authors of the movie created the narrative based on later accounts and educated guesses‚ the need to invent scenes and dialogue
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Plot: Harvard senior student‚ Montgomery Kessler (Monty) is in the middle of writing his thesis when his computer suffers hard drive failure and lost all the data stored in it. Monty was able to print a copy of his thesis making it the “sole” copy of his thesis. Afraid that something might happen to it‚ he sets out in the middle of the night with Courtney (his roommate) to make more copies. Monty trips over a bike rack‚ breaking his ankle and dropping his thesis on the boiler room of Harvard’s library
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death‚ Hughes inherits the small family fortune and moves to Los Angeles to become a film Director in Hollywood. His movie Hell’s Angels‚ a huge film success‚ takes three years and a large sum of money for him to finish with a change from silent to sound. When he becomes romantically involved with Katharine Hepburn‚ she helps Hughes alleviate his symptoms of OCD. Even in the movie‚ his passion for aviation maintains constant throughout his life‚ as he designs new planes‚ sets flying records and
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A legally themed thriller starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman‚ The Firm was one of the movies revolving around Partnership and the related laws. Mitch McDeere‚ played by Tom Cruise‚ is a newly employed associate at Bendini‚ Lambert & Locke and a graduating law student from Harvard. Although gladly absorbed by the company through tempting salary packages‚ McDeere finds out the firm’s illegal activities causing him to be in action. Generally‚ The Firm is not only a partnership concern. It includes
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About thE movie The Firm is a 1993 legal thriller directed by Sydney Pollack‚ and starring Tom Cruise‚ Jeanne Tripplehorn‚ Gene Hackman‚ Ed Harris‚ Holly Hunter‚ Hal Holbrook‚ and David Strathairn. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Firm by author John Grisham. Plot Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man with a promising future in law. About to graduate from Harvard Law School‚ he is approached by Bendini‚ Lambert & Locke‚ ’The Firm’‚ and made an offer he cannot refuse. He and his
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Twilight Here’s the deal with Twilight: Edward Cullen‚ a 100-something-year-old vampire who doesn’t look a day over 17‚ is attending high school along with his adoptive vampire family. He’s beautiful (Robert Pattinson is on the path to being the most sought-after man-child since Romeo + Juliet-era Leonardo DiCaprio)‚ he can read minds‚ and virtually all of his female classmates alternate between lovesickness and trepidation (the Cullens are all a little unsettling in their beauty). In any case
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