Fall Take-home Exam 3) Tom Gunning writes: “Mabuse’s claim to be a state within a state not only expresses his megalomania but acknowledges the fragmentation of power‚ especially the control of force and violence in Germany after the Great War.” (p. 138) Drawing specific examples from the film(s)‚ demonstrate how Lang’s Mabuse illustrates the chaos of the Weimar era. How does the struggle between Mabuse and Von Wenk articulate the larger struggle within Germany? Throughout the hardship
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Poster Analysis In the poster I have used is heart-warming and sentimental image to convey to the audience that the film is about the friendship and love of a boy and his dog. The mise-en-scene suggests that it is set in a rural place which also carries conventions of a tragedy genre. The poster suggests that it is a family drama and maybe even a tragedy film. The name of the film is ‘A Dog’s Life’; I picked a typography that suggests that it is written in chalk or crayon type texture to shows
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years old‚ I was watching a film with my father and it was the first time when a film had made me cry. The film was “Green Mile”. Since that time I have been fascinated and surrounded myself by films. I always used to say that one day I will make a film‚ which makes people cry‚ but for this task I chose a film which not only made me cry‚ but also changed my view of the world and made me see previously unnoticed things. I’m not saying that it was easy to decide what film to analyse. It took me quite
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The Corporation Film Analysis The Corporation was based on a book written by Joel Bakan. It is a documentary film that looks at the history of corporation and follows them up until present day to illustrate their dominance in society. I found this film very interesting with me once being part of the corporate world and finding my way onto another career path for many of the reasons illustrated in this film. This film had an underlying statement of corporations’ number one concern was profit
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Historical Analysis Paper: Film Analysis Paper “Ridicule” Desperate for a solution to the sickness and death plaguing his village‚ Baron Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy journeys to the palace of Versailles in hopes of receiving monetary support and assistance from King Louis XVI. Along his journey‚ Ponceludon comes to know and acquire the support of Marquis de Bellegarde‚ who conveys to him the importance of wit‚ and stresses that wit‚ and wit alone‚ is the only way that would allow him to make
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This is relevant to the 1998 comedic and adventurous animation film Antz directed by Tim Johnson and Eric Darnell‚ since it reflects the opposing types of government democracy and autocracy. From the beginning of the film‚ it is evident that Z‚ the individualistic worker ant resembles the democratic type of government‚ while General Mandible‚ the militaristic ant resembles the autocratic type of government. To begin‚ a close analysis on Z’s character reveals that Z favours a democratic system of
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The Departed is a film centered around organized crime that involves a wide array of characters. With drug deals‚ shootouts‚ scandals‚ and espionage‚ the movie has many tense scenes that have notable staging‚ costumes‚ props and settings. At about fifty-two minutes in‚ Costigan and French enter a man named Brian’s house to assassinate him. Dressed in dark clothes and with French wearing leather gloves‚ they are dressed to kill. The setup of the room has two conceivable exits‚ that are instantly
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Film Noir is most often seen as a man’s world- the hard boiled detective is the ultimate masculine hero‚ and the he fits right into the dirty world around him. However‚ with a shift in perspective‚ we see that just maybe the opposite gender are the ones who are the heroes of the genre. The women are certainly memorable. Through analyzation of the typical hero’s journey and comparison to the stories of the women in film noir‚ we see that they are the true heroes of the genre. This again begs the
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Stacy Dudnic Psyc& 180 10/12/2014 09:00 AM Analysis Paper #3 Wooow! Three weeks went by so fast and I haven’t even noticed it. Ooh well chapter 10 was the best out of all the ones I read so far. I feel like this chapter will bring the most use to me and my sex life. I often wondered if Earth would be as populated if sex wasn’t pleasurable. Or what would happen if condoms didn’t exist or if condoms came around 50 years later or 50 years earlier. I just have so many questions and I would love to know
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Film Analysis: Taken The movie Taken is about a Father’s quest to rescue his daughter from her abduction and nearly immanent disappearance into the dark world of the international sex trade. Brian’s worst fears are realized when Kim and her friend are immediately abducted from the Paris apartment at which they’ve just arrived. While Kim is being dragged away by the as yet unknown abductors‚ she manages to phone Bryan‚ who begins to piece together clues that will take him to the darkness of Paris’s
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