Analysis of The Movie of The Big Sleep The Big Sleep‚ written in 1939‚ is known as most famous hard-boiled novel by Raymond Chandler. In recent decades‚ unsurprisingly‚ this novel has been made into two movies. The first one which produced in 1946‚ by Howard Hawks‚ is the better one. Actually‚ there are still a lot of differences between the film and the novel. Even though I enjoyed The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks‚ I prefer the book‚ but I can see how someone hooked by the silver screen would
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The American Dream The Great Gatsby is a movie directed by Baz Luhrmann. The movie represents the novel ‘’The Great Gatsby’’ written by Scott Fitzgerald. It is Scott’s analysis on the American society during the Roaring Twenties. The characters represent the American Dream. The main-characters in this story are Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Daisy Buchanan. When Nick Carraway moves to New-York he buys a house on West Egg‚ Long Island. His neighbour is the wealthy and mysterious man named
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Literary Elements Book/Movie Analysis Activity Have you ever thought why most of us are interested in the stories we read or the movies we watch‚ the characters‚ the action‚ the suspense and the love stories? The writer has to think of how the story must be told‚ what effect it must it have on a reader or movie-goer‚ and what is the best way to present his/her ideas. To get the reader’s attention‚ literary elements‚ the techniques or kinds of writing‚ are used by authors/screenwriters. The
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May 4‚ 2011 Discussion Paper # 1 The movies we’ve watched and the articles we’ve read‚ have given an insight as what may happen‚ and what is already happening to the world. The movie “Wall-E” has shown the possibilities of world destruction‚ while the movie “A Civil Action” shows the kind of destruction that is occurring now‚ and the cost that is associated with both scenarios. To coincide with these two movies‚ the articles “The Tragedy of the Commons” and “The Problem of Social Cost”‚ also tell
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The Gold Rush Effects on Gender “I have enough- God bless them- I will return.”1 These are the famous last words of men who had ventured into California to partake in the Gold Rush‚ only to realize a yearning to see their family. Many men underwent the hardships and the sacrifices in order to strike rich in this gamble‚ many men succeeded while many more failed. Often forgotten are the families that remained back home while the husband‚ father‚ or brother went west to strike gold. The families
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The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it‚ such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed‚ double-crossed ‚ ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat‚ who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie
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Gold Rush Gender Roles During the 1840s men and women of the United States heard of money making opportunities in California known as the California Gold Rush. Learning of the fortune to be had middle class families packed up their things in wooden wagons and trekked across the Overland Trail. This decision not only changed the gender roles of men and women but also caused them to share the different chores of day-to-day life. The reason behind the shift in gender roles was the vicinity in which
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Film Analysis: American Hustle American Hustle is a 70s crime comedy; it contains a level of commentary about the nature of America and the illusion of Hollywood. The plot is simple yet confusing; it involves cons on top of cons‚ it involves love and deception. The director choose costumes that really brings back the feel of flashy dressed mobsters and he chose certain songs so the audience really gets a feel for the emotions that the actors are trying to portray. In the beginning of the film there
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Black Death‚ directed by Christopher Smith in 2010‚ it a movie‚ which’s main idea is to show how the Black Death was in the Middle Ages. The movie is about a young monk‚ Osmund‚ who says to the woman he loved‚ Averill‚ to go to the forest because he wanted to protect her from the bubonic plague that had arrived at their city. After this‚ a village leader called Ulrich came with his army‚ which’s members were Wolfstan‚ Hob‚ and Dalyway‚ to tell the monks that they’re going to investigate about
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AUGUST 1st August: 1. Bhim Sain Bassi‚ the 1977-batch IPS officer of AGMU (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories) cadre took over the charge as the next Delhi Police Commissioner on 31 July 2013. He succeeded Neeraj Kumar. 2. The Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar retired from his office on 31 July 2013. He served to the police force for 37 years. His tenure as the Delhi Police commissioner was 13 months. He will be succeeded by Bhim Sain Bassi. 3. Faced with a tight liquidity condition
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