Slumdog Millionaire and Poverty Porn In the article Slumdog Millionaire and the Troubled Place of Cinema and Nation‚ Nadine Chan discusses how the rag-to-riches romance‚ Slumdog Millionaire has more often than not been labeled as “poverty porn” due to the way it exploits a poverty stricken Mumbai society and promotes “slum tourism”. While some critics accuse the film of exploiting western perceptions of India‚ with its depictions of impoverished slums ruled by gangsters‚ as well as other unwholesome
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Violence and Corruption – Distinctive Images in the Opening Scene The opening sequence of Slumdog Millionaire creates distinctive images that overwhelm the audience and foregrounds the concept of violence and entrapment. The film confronts the viewer from the first frame where an extreme close up of Jamal’s restrained torso is presented. The camera then pans to again focus on an extreme close up of his frightened face to emphasise the brutality and helplessness of his situation The juxtaposition
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Ram Mohammad Thomas is a boy from the Indian slums who has entered a "Who wants to be a millionaire" style television quiz show. Despite his lack of formal education‚ his life experiences have perfectly equipped him to answer each question that comes up. Because the show’s organizers are sure that he must have cheated‚ they ask him to explain how he was able to answer such difficult and obscure questions. Each chapter deals with another question and answer‚ and as the book progresses his very colorful
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Analyse the ways conflicting perspectives on events‚ personalities or situations are represented in your prescribed text‚ ‘Birthday Letters’ and the film‚ ‘Sylvia.’ In your response you should refer to at least two poems from the “Birthday Letters” Anthology and the ONE related text‚ “Sylvia.” Conflicting perspectives on events‚ situations and personalities are created when respective composers write for a different purpose‚ directly linking back to their context‚ both personal and of production
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Camera angles used in the opening scene of Slumdog Millionaire It starts off with a low angle looking at the cricket ball being hit into the sky‚ followed by a close up to Jamal’s face. Then switching shots from the falling ball and Jamal’s face‚ as he is getting ready to catch the ball. As the ball is about to hit the ground there is another low angle‚ at that moment a plane flies over‚ to emphasise the plane is much higher and going extremely fast. Next there is a tilted angle looking at
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Schill a perspective is “a impression that is given by viewing something from a certain position.” Due to the inherent subjective bias of interpretation‚ conflicting perspectives surrounding Hughes and Plath’s controversial relationship are inevitable. This duality of viewpoint is seen in “Fulbright Scholars” and “Sam” by Ted Hughes and of the poem “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath‚ where both poets manipulate language‚ sound and textual form to attest to the veracity of their own personal perspectives while
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of conflicting perspectives support this statement? Manipulation is present in any representation‚ as a result of an authors inherent bias towards their own perspective. This bias causes an author to attempt to influence the perspective a reader will take on the text‚ whether this influence is intentional or otherwise. Geoffrey Robertson is one such author‚ whos collection of essays titled The Justice Game contains a number of techniques in order to sway readers to support his perspective on
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Composers represent conflicting perspectives through their own unique experiences and values as their political and social contexts. Geoffrey Robertson’s self styled memoir ’The Justice Game’ written in the late 1900’s heavily reflects these conflicting perspectives in the ’Trials of Oz’ and ’The Romans in Britain’ through the employment of emotive and persuasive language and ridicule in the form of satire to which convey Robertson’s view through his eyes. Such conflicts also portrayed in Charles
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‘At the heart of conflicting perspectives in texts is that the protagonists believe their viewpoint is correct.’ Evaluate this statement in light of how Shakespeare‚ in Julius Caesar and TWO other composers have represented different viewpoints through the actions of their key protagonists? Perspective does not exist without this egocentric bias that occurs in the private sphere of characters. In Julius Caesar‚ Shakespeare explores inner turmoil’s and indeed exterior ones to depict how “at
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CS8119 Midterm Assignment – Sound This essay is based on the opening title sequence of “Slumdog Millionaire (2008)”. Throughout the scene‚ the filmmaker uses the soundtrack titled “O Saya” by A. R. Rahman and M.I.A‚ which focuses heavily on orchestra and moves at a fast pace. The scene was started with a group of children‚ who lives in slum of Mumbai‚ playing baseball and screaming‚ anticipating the main character‚ Jamal‚ to catch the ball. Audience would have expected the continuation
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