be discussed by close analysis of two post-1990 Hollywood romantic comedies such as Something’s Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers‚ 2003‚ USA) and Bridget Jones’s Diary (Sharon Maguire‚ 2001‚ UK). Romantic comedy films which are also known as ‘‘romcoms’’‚ are a sub-genre of comedy films and romantic films which can be traced back from the ‘‘screwball comedies’’ in America and which became popular during the Great Depression era in the early 1930s until the early 1940s. As Deborah Jermyn states‚ ‘‘romcom’’
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Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the
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The Power of Film Living in a society where media permeates every realm of our lives‚ one can see the importance of film in the modern world. Often times‚ we only see films as source of entertainment‚ or an escape from reality. But sometimes‚ films can tell a story of reality in a way that makes you open your eyes to a world unbeknownst to you prior watching the film. A film can disseminate information faster and broader‚ thus‚ a wider audience is able to be educated about certain issues and
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Which tells us how men and women differ in so many different ways. Creating myths like “ You are not normal‚ if you won’t find anyone”‚ “You can’t be good without man”‚ many variations of “Beauty myths”. This essay will focus first on the film The Ugly Truth (Luketic‚ 2009) arguing about gender issues‚ furthermore the films The Princess Diaries (Marshall‚ 2001) and Legally Blond (Luketic‚ 2001) will be analyzed to support the argument in which the heroines portrayed as pathetic beings‚ not able
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Rocio Rodriguez Platoon: The Film on the Vietnam War “Somebody once wrote: ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That’s what this place feels like. Hell” (Platoon). The controversial issues concerning Platoon were not on the film itself‚ but about how this film portrayed the war in Vietnam and the affects the war had on the soldiers morally‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Oliver Stone directed and wrote the screenplay‚ using his own experiences as a reference. Oliver Stone chose to
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The The Shame of Family Films In the article “The Shame of Family Films” the author‚ Julia Baird‚ discusses how there is a lack of female heroines or female main characters in children’s movies. She then goes on to describe a study done by Stacy Smith and Marc Choueiti at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California‚ who analyzed 122 family films‚ including the fifty top-grossing ones during the years 2006 to 2009‚ ranging from G to PG-13. In
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Horror can make you scream and cry‚ yet we alway come back asking for more. Scary Tales by Jackie Torrence is about scary stories being good for children. I disagree with her because horror can give you blood clots‚ nightmares‚ and paranoia. To begin with‚ scary stories can give people blood clots. According to http://hellogiggles.com/horror-movies-bad-for-health/‚ a study was done on the movie Insidious‚ which gave people higher levels of coagulant factor VIII‚ which can create blood
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ADAPTATION AS INTERPRETATION The debate on cinematic adaptations of literary works was for many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts‚ as “minor”‚ “subsidiary”‚ “derivative” or “secondary” products‚ lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive
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The Patriot Film Analysis The Patriot is an American historical film starring Mel Gibson and directed by Roland Emmerich. It is set in South Carolina‚ one of the thirteen British colonies set in America. The film follows the story of a “Patriot” named Benjamin Martin. This character is a portrayal of American Revolution War hero Francis Marion. In the film Benjamin‚ is recognized as a war hero from the French and Indian War. However he has retired from a life of battle and is attempting to follow
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Soul Food ENG 225 Introduction to Film Soul Food Have you ever wondered why mom wants everyone to come over for Sunday dinner? In this paper I will share the beauty of having Sunday dinner with the family and how important it is to keep it going. Here I will show you a family nearly falls apart until it is saved by love‚ understanding and good cooking. Most Sunday dinners are gathered around plenty of food and a bunch
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