CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Tom Hank’s new movie‚ Captain Phillips‚ can easily be summed up in one word‚ intense. Yet‚ the intensity of the film still couldn’t avoid shaky camera shots and extremely lengthy scenes. The true story of the 2009 hijacking of an American cargo ship is a story that most of us remember vividly. Tom Hanks‚ who was born to play Captain Phillips‚ brings this terrifying story to life. The movie starts out with an uptight Captain Phillips obsessing over emergency drills and making sure
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Directed by Chen Kaige‚ a highly acclaimed fifth-generation Chinese film director‚ Farewell My Concubine has received many international film awards and nominations; among them are the Best Foreign Film and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. In the film‚ Cheng Dieyi‚ a Peking Opera actor playing the leading female characters‚ becomes obsessed with his role as the concubine of the King of Chu and blurs his stage role with the real life he leads. The circumstances in which one grows
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REACTION PAPER ON THE FILM RAIN MAN (1988) SUMMARY: Well written‚ smartly directed‚ and sensitively performed‚ RAIN MAN depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. A self-centered Los Angeles hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and the older Raymond (Dustin Hoffman)‚ a mentally challenged resident of a home for the mentally disabled. Charlie never knew of his existence‚ until the day he returns home from Los Angeles to attend his father’s funeral. He is enraged
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the odds and ends that make each movie good or bad. The movie‚ Smoke Signals‚ written by Sherman Alexie‚ is not a terrible movie‚ but it isn’t one I would recommend to all my friends if they were looking for a good movie. The acting was probably the best part of the film‚ closely followed by the script. The main thing that I noticed that ruined this film for me was the use of flashbacks. It was a little excessive and it made it harder for viewers to follow along. Smoke Signals is a movie based on
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to the singing voice‚ you have to look hard to find a flaw in his marvelous performance. I don’t think that anyone could have made Cash shine as Phoenix did. Witherspoon as June Carter Cash‚ did such an amazing job fulfilling the role she won an award for her part. I think that the two
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Thesis Statement I think James Dean is important because he is one of the best actors that has ever lived and he shows that if you work hard at what you want to do‚ you can succeed. He was great at sports and worked hard to become a good actor. He wasn’t perfect at acting but he took his criticism the right way and used it to grow and become a better actor. He didn’t always have good times and he struggled a lot but in the end he had the success he deserved. Background 1) At a young age Dean was
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The movie And Justice For All was released in June 1979 and stars Al Pacino‚ Jack Warden‚ John Forsythe and Lee Strasberg and. A academy award nominated movie it takes place in Baltimore. Arthur Kirkland‚ played by Al Pacino is a defense attorney in Baltimore who is known as an incorruptible attorney who attempts to initiate reforms in the Maryland justice system. The movie starts with Kirkland in jail on contempt of court charges he received while arguing the case of an innocent defendant. Kirkland
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In Shakespeare’s Macbeth we see a decline in Macbeth’s sanity. In the beginning‚ we see Macbeth a very honorable man‚ so we need a man who can play a very honorable man then see a decline in their sanity. Our best option right now is Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp can play an insane person very well. But the real question is can he play a very honorable person? We’ll see during auditions‚ but another option would be Heath Ledger. We have seen him play a honorable witty person in “A Knight’s Tale” and we
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“Who Am I This Time?” Essay Character Development/ Change: The character‚ Helene Shaw‚ developed exceedingly throughout the duration of the short story from being a shy girl who hides behind her phone company job to falling in love with an even more bashful individual. In the beginning of the story Helene is a person who is highly devoted to her demanding job‚ jumping from place to place 8 weeks at a time to instruct fellow phone company workers how to operate an automatic billing machine. As well
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programmer who comes to the realization that the world is not what it seems and is soon drawn into a rebellion against the machines. The Matrix‚ one of the most technically brilliant films‚ won Academy Awards for film editing‚ sound effects editing‚ visual effects‚ and sound. It also received BAFTAs for Best Sound as well as Achievement in Special Visual Effects and was nominated for production design‚ cinematography and editing. In 2012 it was added to the National Film Registry for
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