wooden sidekick were never considered cool by anyone I knew. I did not grow up in Singapore so I don’t know if‚ had I attended one of his performances‚ I would have reacted with as much excitement as the children shown screaming in Tan Pin Pin’s short film‚ Singapore GaGa. In fact‚ Charlee still looks rather sinister to me‚ perhaps because I associate him with the “insane ventriloquists” and their practically-possessed dummies (Davis 136) featured in popular culture. Khoo‚ however‚ with his mullet
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Experiment 112-5 Thin Film Interference Introduction When two waves of equal intensity combine‚ the intensity of the resulting wave can be anywhere between zero and four times the intensity of the individual waves‚ depending upon the phase difference between them. When they are in phase (the maxima coincide with maxima and the minima coincide with minima)‚ maximum intensity results. When they are exactly out of phase (the maxima of one wave coincide with the minima of the other wave)‚ the
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thrillingly intelligent films to be released last year. The follow-up to his low-budget debut Following (1999)‚ Memento is a technical and imaginative tour-de-force that wrenches you from your normal popcorn slouch and demands attention; this is a film that makes you work and makes you think‚ and one which‚ unlike Lenny‚ you won’t forget in a hurry. The opening image - a Polaroid developing in reverse‚ the image slowly fading into obscurity - is a perfect metaphor for a film which thrives on the
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Politics and Film Shane Shane may be a film about what happens when our hero comes to Joe Starett’s property and ends up becoming the reluctant gunfighter‚ but it also places the viewer front and center between two distinct and opposing ways of life. Ryker and Starett hold two very different ideas on property and progress‚ and these ideas shape their behavior in accordance to their own ideology. By way of signs‚ the film portrays Ryker as a businessman and Joe Starrett as a man of the community
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Everyone wants to have the power‚ the power to change someones life or control it. In The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols‚ Benjamin Braddock has just graduated college and returns home. He has no control over his life‚ his parents still control him and then so does Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson demands control over every scene she is in and even frames of scenes she is not present in. Camera draws all the attention to Mrs. Robinson when she’s on screen. In the scene where Mr. Robinson returns
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The The Shame of Family Films In the article “The Shame of Family Films” the author‚ Julia Baird‚ discusses how there is a lack of female heroines or female main characters in children’s movies. She then goes on to describe a study done by Stacy Smith and Marc Choueiti at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California‚ who analyzed 122 family films‚ including the fifty top-grossing ones during the years 2006 to 2009‚ ranging from G to PG-13. In
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Film Comedy: Trading Places Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Film Comedy: Trading Places Movies are created with the intention of entertaining all the while sending a message to the society. The producers therefore have the duty of making sure that the work is not tangential to the original situation as much as possible. The different ways in which they declare the best way of sending the message to the community defines the genre of the movie. It could either be a drama‚ mystery
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The camera cuts to them in the garden sitting with each other. This is significant because this clip is shown throughout the film however‚ the children’s faces are never shown and as the camera cuts back to Cobbs and throughout this clip the non-diegetic music is hear more and is much louder than Miles which suggest the music is playing a bigger role. The non-diegetic music slows
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A Film Review: “RASHOMON” Presented to: Mr. KC Daniel Inventor Presented by: Shemaine P. Peregrina II-Daniel 1.)How significant is the color used in the film? It is very important to have and decide what will be the color of the film or movie because color show us the dramatic and narrative effects of the film or movie‚ also it gives life to the
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of Species‚ and Animal Populations) were easily spotted in the duration of this film. The director/writers of the film wanted to depict just how greedy and controlling developed nations can be towards undeveloped nations. In the real world this is currently happening with the US and UN trying to change cultures and customs in different nations thinking that they’re looking for what’s in their best interest. In the film the humans did the same thing with the Na’vi people‚ they invaded their planet
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