many of Leigh’s films. In his book Mike Leigh (contemporary film directors)‚ Sean O’Sullivan discusses the “line of mysteriously pregnant women in Leigh’s cinema” and how in some of the films “the pregnancy is a problem: to be gotten rid of‚ to be pursued to its end‚ to be debated and queried” (cfd). This is true for both Secrets and Lies and Vera Drake. O’Sullivan explains that in Secrets and Lies‚ “We may never find out who Hortense Cumberbatch’s father is‚ but the entire film rotates around one
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Edward Scissor hands The movie Edward Scissor hands is the typical creepy and cute film directed by Tim Burton and showed to the public in the 1990’s. The movie itself shows a different combination of backgrounds and stereotypes from different decades of the typical American culture. One of the main features we can mention is the snow‚ which is the breach that helps the audience to understand the connection between Edward and Kim. The snow is the enjoyment of the movie which covers all and in
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In the movie Aliens ‚ we see various patterns found in society. We see the gender role stereotype competitions and the motherly instinct to go to death to save a little girl. We also come across the conditioning that we have been taught for centuries ¾ that women are weak and should leave the big jobs to men. The director uses the military as a microcosm of our world. Each character plays an important role found in society. As we see each character slowly fall to pieces‚ we begin to distinguish what
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The movie Pride‚ is the movie that had two different groups that have different point of view and beliefs. One group was seeking for change in the community and the other was of keeping the tradition going. They created the group to see if they can get their voice heard‚ but it was hard with a lot of challenges on the road. Mark Ashton whom seemed to lead the group of gays‚ lesbians. They wanted to get their voice heard through the support of miners. The group was named Lesbian and Gay Support the
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influence on us as the viewers. Based on those portrayals we form our own stances and judgments. The indigenous people of this country are no different. There are many negative portrayals of indigenous people in multiple films and television shows. It can be hard to change these stereotypes because they have been crafted and enforced for the last couple hundreds of years. Regardless of how much of a challenge it may be though‚ there are some organizations that seek to battle this. A prime
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The film “Higher Learning” portrays the many prejudices and race issues that existed in America around 1995‚ when the movie premiered. The movie takes place at Columbus University‚ which serves as a fictional university undergoing the transition of America being a more diverse‚ free nation. From the time when America began its struggle with race and culture boundaries‚ people of the United States have shown their true beliefs towards other people who may look differently than they do; and the movie
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Watergate scandal‚ which shook the American public’s trust in the federal government even more than the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination. However‚ the film does not focus on the scandal itself‚ but rather the process by which Woodward and Bernstein broke the story. The film is a staple for many journalists‚ and it presents many stereotypes of what it means to be a “classic” journalist. The journalists and editors shown smoke like they’re betting on who will need a tracheotomy first‚ and they
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Do Australian people have a distinctive culture or are stereotypes of in texts true? Australians are perceived in text as‚ beer-drinking larrikins‚ people who use kangaroos as a transportation‚ crocodile wrestlers‚ lack in fashion‚ foster beers‚ desert‚ sparsely populated and bushmans and mateship. However these representations are not true. Stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. National identity is a person’s identity
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decisions against immigration solely because of stereotypes that have been around for centuries. A great film that replicates the first sign of U.S. immigration and it’s first stereotypes in the late 1800s is Gangs of New York (2002). This movie takes place in New York where at this time there was a huge flow of a variety of Immigrants that had no one to relate to other than their own gang (people). A more present representation of immigration stereotypes today is really well conveyed in a tv show called
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between nation’s governments‚ rather than anything else. So it’s a shame to even comprehend that many innocent lives are at stake because of the bad decisions of their leaders. Many people do see this and understand war’s atrocious goals‚ and in many films‚ directors choose to approach this theme in their use of cinematography.
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