named PETAs person of the year for his role in abolishing animal cruelty(3). Furthermore‚ he has had a great influence on British culture and society and some have even gone so far as to describe him as the most influential British comedian since Charlie Chaplin(4). He has reached his status of being influential by being immensely popular and having a large social media following to voce his opinions and concerns about
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How does the director create a sense of drama and tension in the first five minutes of the Usual Suspects? The Usual Suspects is a gangster film made in 1996‚ directed by Bryan Singer. The film is influenced by Film Noir. Film Noir was a style of film making which originated in the 1940’s. It was a very dark and tense style‚ using drastic lighting and camera angles to enhance the drama and tension of the film. The trade mark of the film company is Metro Goldwyn Mayer
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No Place to Be Somebody Review The show‚ No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy‚ took place in the Pavilion Theatre on October 4th at 7:30 pm. The show was written by Charles Gordone in 1967. The show takes place during the Civil Rights era and basically consisited of an african american bartender and a white mobster being at conflict. The show was very powerful and played out extremely well. The three main things that made the show wonderful were the actors‚ the objects used in the show
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American culture‚ the film industry underwent a massive transformation during the 1920s‚ with the emergence of the silent film. Warner Brothers Pictures was also incorporated in the early 1920s. Some prominent movie stars of the ’20s include: Charlie Chaplin‚ Rudolph Valentino‚ and Greta Garbo. There is a change in almost every aspect of society‚ which makes for one of the most exciting eras of American
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FTV 106A – Midterm Study Guide TA: Matthew Perkins 1A IDs – People to Know: • Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) o Born in Britain‚ emigrated to US early in life‚ by the 1870s had become a very prominent photographer‚ mostly photographed nature and animals; very well known o 1872 – Leland Stanford (one of the richest in the state) questions whether or not a horse has all its feet off the ground when it gallops‚ hired Muybridge to take pictures of racehorses and prove or disprove this o 1877 –
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utilization of the z-axis as Kobiyashi‚ Keaton and Finneran are now all in the frame. As Keaton is threatened by Kobayashi‚ we get a narrow depth of focus on Keaton. This is to to the fact that this is a direct on Keaton. The other suspects are out of focus because they aren’t directly affected by this attack. The directors give Keaton no nose room in this shot and I believe this is to be interpreted as the end of their failed attempt to kill Kobayashi. Keaton knows he can go no further with the plan
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Everyday people learn how to be a better English writer and it is successful because mostly everyone in the United States speaks English. In my experience‚ I’m learning how to become a better English writer everyday by reading books and writing essays. I’ve taken English 60A‚ English 60B‚ and now I’m taking English 50. Writing essays and reading article’s in English 50 helps me to become a stronger writer. In my portfolio I am going to edit my best essay that I did in class and I am also going to
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Before World War I the country remained culturally and psychologically rooted in the past‚ but in the 1920s America seemed to breakaway from these attachments and usher in the birth of modern America This dramatic break between America’s past and future was shaped by the evolution of technology‚ sports‚ entertainment‚ and women’s roles. Many of the trends that converged to make the twenties distinct had been building for years. The 1920s were a period of technological change that transformed the
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at the cotton club‚ the most popular club in Harlem to hear Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington. Al Jolson’s‚ “the jazz singer”‚ was the first movie to ever be made with sound in 1927. Before there were only silent films which were dominated by Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino. Also‚ people enjoyed illegal clubs called‚ speakeasies‚ which allowed
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The movie bicylce theives directed by Vittorio De Sica was a drama/crime film released in 1948. The movie was about a poor father who was searching for his bicycle after it was stolen while putting up fliers. The bicylce ment everything to him because without he wouldnt be able to provide money to his family. His job required a bicyle for transportation and for it to get stolen made him go crazy and desperate. The father and his son search the city of italy and throughot the journey the father got
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