Long Vu / November 17‚ 2012 / Women Studies / Sally Winkle / Film Analysis Mean Girls In Mean Girls‚ the main character is Lindsay Lohan who plays the role of a 15 year old high school student‚ Cady Heron. Cady is The 15-year-old‚ Africa-raised high school girl begins her high school life by learning what it’s like to be a normal girl by making friends and talking about other classmates. The first thing the students thought when they heard there was a new transfer student in class from Africa
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Film analysis of Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a film about a young boy who discovers and starts dancing ballet. His father and brother work in the mines and are working class people. But still Billy’s father manages to let Billy go to boxing lessons. Billy doesn’t love boxing and isn’t very good either. When the local ballet dancers start practicing in the same venue as he does‚ he develops an interest in the dancing and soon joins the ballet group. Billy has to hide the ballet dancing from his
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but two of the directors approach the same two scenes from the film “The Merchant of Venice” in an extremely different perspective. John Sichel’s version of “The Merchant of Venice” was created in 1973; major characters are Shylock (Laurence Oliver)‚ Portia (Joan Plowright)‚ Bassanio (Jeremy Brett)‚ and Antonio (Anthony Nicholls) (“The Merchant of Venice” (TV 1973)). In 2004 director Michael Radford produced his adaptation of this film starring Al Pacino (Shylock)‚ Jeremy Irons (Antonio)‚ Lynn Collins
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The film subgenre “Coming-of-Age” has been around since American Graffiti in 1973 and continued to flourish with movies including‚ but not limited to‚ The Breakfast Club (1985) and Almost Famous (2000). These films started off as a way to express the transition from childhood and adulthood‚ while including current issues of the time. For example‚ American Graffiti was able to reflect the time period in which it was made‚ taking issues from the current day. American Graffiti can be described as‚“Taking
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Within the industry of film there are countless genres. Each genre has specific characteristics that make it unique from the rest. For example‚ action is filled with fight scenes and explosions‚ comedy make us laugh so hard we cry‚ and suspense leaves us on the edge of our seat in anticipation. There is one genre of film that not many people are aware of but one that is intricate to American society; Film Noir. Noir is a unique blend of dark iconography‚ tough guy characters‚ and criminal investigations
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this is important to note is; Raging Bull rejects many of these tried and true methods‚ yet still offers an aesthetically exciting alternative to Hollywood’s system. What the film takes from the conventional structure of Hollywood‚ such as classical narration structure‚ continuity‚ and realism‚ seem to offer stability in a film with sharp
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FILM ANALYSIS The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis‚ Tennesse and featured Michael Oher‚ an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life‚ 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton‚ coach of Wingate Christian School
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with the film Made in L.A.‚ a film that follows the struggle of three Latina immigrants working for fair labor conditions in Los Angeles’s garment factories. Note: This film has bilingual subtitles throughout and is fully accessible to English and Spanish speakers. This lesson compares current conditions in the garment industry with those at the turn of the 20th century. Note: The filmmaker’s version of Made in L.A. contains one incidence of strong profanity about 12 minutes into the film that may
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Beyond Borders Film Analysis 7:30- 9:45: This scene of Beyond Borders shows how America and other European countries would support Ethiopia and some other countries in Africa because they were communist. America stopped sending food to underprivileged countries and let people starve just because they were communist. Also during this clip it talks about the statistics and people dying from diseases like measles. Later in the movie at 59 minutes and 39 second there is another example of this in
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Marion North 08/04/14 2.10 – Close analysis of film Heavenly Creatures is based on a true story about two teenage girls who murder one of their mothers in Christchurch‚ New Zealand. The film‚ directed by Sir Peter Jackson‚ uses many techniques in the opening scene to efficiently show how vital this scene is to the film. These techniques include a documentary clip‚ costume‚ cinematography and sound. In the beginning of the opening scene‚ a documentary clip is used to introduce us to the town
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