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    Lincoln by Steven Spielberg. Unite trailer: http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_PfTl63qQQ Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln‚" a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President’s tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change‚ Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war‚ unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed‚ his choices during

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    Saving Private Ryan‚ directed by Steven Spielberg in 1998‚ is widely known for its accuracy and realism in portraying World War 2‚ particularly the invasion of Normandy. Steven Spielberg uses a wide variety of camera angles‚ sound‚ and special effects to allow viewers to feel as if they were storming the beaches right alongside 2nd Ranger Battalion. All of this is intertwined to show the sacrifices that eight men‚ under the command of Captain Miller‚ played by Tom Hanks‚ had to make in order to save

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    When Steven Spielberg boldly created one of cinema’s most audacious films with Jaws‚ one would contemplate how he would attempt to outdo himself in his next going. This project would become an Close Encounters of the Third Kind a film that doesn’t transports its audience into the startling terror of its characters‚ but instead it conveys the unrelentless force of dazzling awe. It’s worth repeating that Steven Spielberg is a genuinely captivating director‚ a filmmaker who manages to balance his

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    to you in life. Now imagine what life would be like if you never saw or heard from them again. This is what happens to Celie‚ the main character in the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker and the movie The Color purple directed by Steven Spielberg. The novel The color purple was published in 1982. The story is told through letters written by Celie to God. The only sentences outside the letters are the first two “You better not never tell nobody. It’d kill your mammy.” The story follows

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    in the film “Jaws” The film ‘Jaws’ is about a shark that goes about eating some people on the beach. The director of the movie is Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that goes about terrorising the town Amity Islands. A lot of people go out to kill the shark but the only people who succeed are Quint‚ Brody‚ and Hooper. In the movie Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his direction of the movie camera angles‚ lighting‚ sound effects and music. The characterisation

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    film Jaws was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975. It was a good film at the time‚ and still is because Steven Spielberg is known for creating films that build suspense and scare people. Jaws is about a shark that attacks people on the beach at a fictional holiday resort‚ called Amity island. Jaws was set on the 4th of July‚ because it was Independence Day and that is a holiday in America when people would be able to visit a beach – so it is realistic. Spielberg set the film on this day because

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    Lincoln is a 2012 American historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg‚ starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln‚ Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln‚ and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life‚ focusing on the President’s efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Ethical Issues in The 2002 Steven Spielberg Movie Minority Report Technology is progressing every day. We have come so far in the past ten years. Imagine life in 2054‚ and what life will be like. That is what Philip K. Dick did in 1956 when he wrote the short story Minority Report‚ which was later produced as a movie. In the movie Minority Report‚ a team of officers led by John Anderson (Tom Cruise)‚ work together in the precime division. They collect information given by precogs to find

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    Based on Philip Dick’s 1956 science-fiction novel‚ Minority Report is a film directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2002. Set in the apparent utopian society of 2054 in Washington DC‚ murder has been virtually eliminated as a result of a specialised division of law enforcement known as “pre-crime”. Three children‚ called pre-cogs‚ with the ability to foresee murders allow them to arrest criminals before any harm is done. John Anderton heads up this department‚ until he is convicted of the future

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    Biographical Criticism The novel Invisible man can be interpreted through many other literary criticisms but in order to achieve a more concrete interpretation of the novel‚ biographical criticism should be used. Biographical Criticism is the best choice for this novel because Ellisons experiences of his life‚ beliefs‚ and the time period in which he was raised‚ have direct influence on his writing of Invisible man. After reading Invisible Man and doing research on Ralph Ellison’s life

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