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    Americans. William F. Cody was on tour with his Wild West show during 1883-1917‚ which reenacted battles against the Plain Indians. Similarly‚ Robert J. Flaherty distinctly focused on capturing the old ways of the Itivimuits tribe in his 1922 docudrama film‚ Nanook of the North. Under the direction of these two men‚ both types of entertainment were explosively popular across North America and Europe. The creators of these crowd-pleasing forms of entertainment held Native Americans at a high level of

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    fascination with pirate tales like many of the film’s viewers. In some ways‚ the characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean perpetuate romanticized pirates tales‚ but in other ways they fall short. Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of blockbuster films inspired by a Disney attraction and many classic pirate stories. "The Curse of the Black Pearl" is the first movie in the series and it is set in the Golden Age of piracy. The filmmakers clearly made an effort to reproduce the Englishmen’s way of life

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    Conrad Jarrett is the protagonist of this film. He is a teenage boy who has just came back home after staying in a psychiatric hospital for a few months. He was placed in said psychiatric hospital because he had wanted to commit suicide. Now that he is back home‚ Conrad feels distant from his friends and family members. We find out later in the film that Conrad is actually dealing with post-traumatic stress which was brought on by a sailing accident that took his own brother’s life. Beth Jarrett

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    In the film industry they use something called elements to explain what is going on in the storyline‚ and in the movie Forrest Gump‚ the way they used different film elements helps in the explanation of the plot and assists in moving the storyline along. The different elements that I will be talking about are Effects‚ Costumes‚ and Camera movement/transitions. In Forrest Gump they used many different effects to emphasize and explain exactly what is happening. One way that they describe what is happening

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    tending to the domestic duties. During this period of time the struggle of racial discrimination had exist and played a role onto to the main characters of the film. Through the film it showed that African Americans were both often incarnated‚ out of jobs‚ only can obtain low wage jobs‚ and couldn’t assimilate with the rest of the community. This film was able to showcase the rising of the black middle class‚ and the ability to obtain a “better” life then what the government standards has stated for African

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    horror movie. I can’t assure you that this film is definitely bloody and includes some disturbing bloody imagery one might expect from a R-rated thriller flick. However‚ was this movie held up as the people were anticipated as? Well‚ technically‚ the answer is definitely a ’No’. Why? Because‚ it is very miss-marketed‚ hilariously awful‚ was an absolute flat comedy not a horror nor thriller‚ and one of M. Night’s worst movie ranked. The central story of the film does not make sense at all. The story is

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    North by Northwest – Hitchcock’s Shining Moment To the average viewer‚ each of Hitchcock’s films are individually suspenseful‚ nerve-wrecking‚ and enticing. The 20th century director managed this by having a formulated and scientific approach to creating his movies. In North by Northwest‚ these elements all come together to create the epitome of Hitchcock. A popular and reoccurring theme in Hitchcock’s movies is the case of "the wrong man‚" or mistaken identity and being wrongfully accused

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    The film jumps from scene to scene showing the lives of the police officer (Bruce Willis)‚ the Bishops (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand)‚ the scout camp and Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton Jr.). These scenes never add anything really to the plot but allow

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    "Gasland" and "Fracknation" are two documentary films based off hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing as indicated by dictionary.com is the forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure‚ especially to extract oil or gas. Hydraulic fracturing started as a trial in 1947. It is a technique where a high weight of liquid (more often than not chemicals suspended in water) is infused into a wellbore to make splits in the profound rock arrangements through which

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    East is East is a film about a Half-Pakistani family lives in England. The father‚ George/Jahangir Khan is from Pakistan and wants his children to feel connected to his home country. Ella Khan however is the mother of the family and is from England. Because of this there is a struggle for the seven children to find their identity. Mr. Khan expects his children to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways‚ but the children does not really feel like they belong to Pakistan. After having lived their whole

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