affairs of an African-American family: the Youngers. However‚ in order to capture the complexity of the family’s financial and social reality‚ Hansberry offers a multitude of perspectives with her characters that strive to accomplish their own dreams‚ yet refuses to condemn or commemorate the actions of the characters to better their situation. It is this refusal‚ on the playwright’s part‚ that allows characters — like Walter Lee Younger — to be performed differently by actors. By contrasting Sidney
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Film 106 23 November 2011 Comparative Essay: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on a popular 1998 film by the same title. The storyline is about two conmen‚ (1) Lawrence Jameson who is played by Patrick McBride and (2) Freddy Benson who is played by Tom Andrew/Reed Willard‚ living on the French Riviera. Now Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money by pretending he is prince of a small country that doesn’t exist and
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great film icons. A truly gifted actress and two talented actors‚ Paul Newman‚ James Dean‚ and Marilyn Monroe have helped to shape and mold our generation‚ and are still a great influence with in our society today. We Americans are famous for worshiping dub ions demigods of the miraculous moment. The celebrities‚ who have inspired‚ identified with and transcended screen roles to become an active part of popular culture and people’s lives became icons. Based upon their bodies of work in films‚ Paul
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Analyzing animated films with The Hero’s Journey The Hero’s Journey was developed by Chris Vogler‚ based on the work of Joseph Campbell Analyst: __________________________________________________________________________ _ Film: __________________________________________________________________________ ___ Date Viewed: _______________________________________________________________________ Stage in the Hero’s Journey Film Component Ordinary World The hero’s normal world before the story begins
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Jared Potts Ms. Reeves Film/Capstone 4 November 2012 Mise-en-Scene: The Strangers The Strangers (Bertino) is a 2008 horror/thriller film‚ directed by Bryan Bertino‚ and starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. Based on true events‚ The Strangers‚ tells of a young couple‚ Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman)‚ who stay in the Hoyts’ rural summer home after attending a wedding. Throughout the night‚ three people in masks (Kip Weeks‚ Gemma Ward‚ and Laura Margolis)‚ one man and
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D s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s g g g Essay: "Red truck" This sort story "Red truck" is written by the writer Maria Behan. “The red Truck” it is about a guy called Fintan‚ Fintan is artist and he is nearly to become fifty years old there are just around one month to it is his birthday. The story starts where Sylvian had duped Fintan in the belief of‚ that they were going to the planetarium‚ but Fintan he was being deceived by Sylvian‚ so instead of going to
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spontaneous form which shows that he was giving non-scripted responses to the press. The purpose of his scripted Oscar speech is to accept the award for which he won for his performance in the film Dallas Buyers Club and to thank all the people that helped him in the process‚ which included fellow actors such as Jared Leto‚ the film’s director Jean-Marc Vallée and his family. In contrast to this‚ the purpose of the backstage interview was to answer some of the questions from the press who are providing
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What you get from “Vantage Point” is a lot of vigorous actors – Dennis Quaid‚ William Hurt‚ Forest Whitaker‚ Sigourney Weaver et al‚ doing vigorous work in the service of a crafty‚ fast-moving story. Directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L. Levy‚ it feels like an episode of ‘24’‚ lean and efficient but frustrating and unbelievable at the same time. The Plot begins in Spain‚ where an anti-terrorism summit is about to be capped off by a speech from U.S. President. First our perspective is
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Film review The Manchurian Candidate Synopsis The Manchurian Candidate‚ directed by Jonathan Demme‚ is a political thriller made in 2004 as a remake of the film from 1962. Denzel Washington plays Captain Bennett Marco‚ Liev Schreiber acts as Sergeant Raymond Prentiss Shawa candidate for vice president and Meryl Streep as his mother Eleanor Shaw‚ a US senator. In Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1991 an incident happened to the convoy of Captain Marco. Raymond Shaw supposedly rescued all but
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THE CONSPIRATOR This is the debut film from the American Film Company- a production company who has made it their goal to produce history based films with a high level of accuracy‚ yet still be accessible. The story here concerns the trial of Mary E. Surratt‚ the lone female accused of being a conspirator in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. This film had the pedigree to be a Best Picture contender - interesting‚ true‚ and rarely told story; brilliant ensemble cast; insane attention to detail
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