An Adopted Champion of the Youth Movement The Graduate‚ directed by Mike Nichols and starring Dustin Hoffman is not only critically hailed as a one of the greatest films of all time‚ it is also one of the most financially successful films of all time.1 Although initially looked over by the established Hollywood elite‚ the film found a home with an underrepresented and frustrated youth culture that was taking root in the 1960s. Its success lay in its effective portrayal and communication of the
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Spurlock follows a 30 day diet in which he only eats McDonald’s fast food in order to expose how the negative effects the toxics in fast food has on the body. Not only does the unhealthy diet affect him physically but psychologically as well. The film goes further to examine the fast food industry’s influence on society and how it encourages poor diet for profitable gain. Spurlock’s diet consisted of indulging in McDonalds fast food three times a day (breakfast‚ lunch‚ dinner) and eating item that
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1776 Film Critique The musical comedy film 1776 takes place in a very important time in American history‚ the birth of the United States of America. The film begins with the months and days leading up to when the Declaration of Independence is actually signed. The majority of the film takes place in Independence Hall‚ Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania with the meeting of the Second Continental Congress. The event that is the main focus of the entire film is the effort of‚ Massachusetts delegate John Adams
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effective or original production techniques. Joe Wright’s film Atonement is an excellent example of how even if a storyline is one we have heard before‚ a text can make it new and refreshing. The film is essentially a love story‚ but Wright creates interest through playing with the ideas of perspective‚ time and happy endings. By doing so he refreshes an overused storyline‚ making it an original twist on an otherwise clichéd story. In the film‚ the perspective someone has on various events are shown
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Since the invention of film‚ many movies have earned their place as benchmarks in cinema history‚ such as Casablanca‚ citizen kane‚ and The Wizard of Oz. All of these have been (and still are) looked upon as iconic examples of creative and intuitive filmmaking. In today’s society‚ films are chock full of special effects‚ whether its gunshots‚ explosions‚ or aliens; some films nowadays can even make money without a good plot‚ peppering the viewer with nonstop action sequences with no thought for story
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A filmmaker is endowed with the creative responsibility of understanding what needs to be allowed to be created by using the camera and the film rather than what the camera and the film creates. A safe conclusion: a director has to deal with what happens within the image which considerably enhances the area and scope of his responsibility of being merely a caretaker of the photographed world. The filmmaker and more precisely the director has the big task at his hand to transfer his vision to the
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The film adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone portrays the text substantially well in several ways. The filmmaker’s interpretation encourages the audience to be discerning as their perception of the Greek tragedy is enhanced. The play becomes profound and reverberant because of the many interesting elements of production. These include musical score‚ set design‚ and the strategic costuming all of which advocates an improved comprehension of Antigone. The musical score proficiently provides the
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toxic spill‚ and needed to be excavated solely for urban expansion. Situations such as the toxic spill featured in the film is one example of how environmental disasters can devastate a variety of different things such as historical sites and resources. Environmental disasters occur much more frequently as it should‚ or is even acknowledged in the media. As was portrayed in the film‚ local native communities are generally the population who are effected by such disasters the most and receive minimal
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Director Martin Scorsese’s Academy-Award winning movie The Departed shows Billy Costigan having a character epiphany. Billy early in the film is set on being a cop. He goes through the Academy and graduates as a trainee. He wants to be a cop so badly that he takes Captain Queenan and Sergeant Dignam deal to go undercover. He does so only after Dignam takes several jabs at his pride telling him he isn’t a cop and will never be a cop: “Hey asshole‚ he can’t help you! I know what you are‚ okay? I know
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1. Opening Scene General Vision and Viewpoint: The serious and heavy opening music suggests that the events of the film are serious‚ that serious issues are at stake. In the opening narration freedom is seen as desirable‚ and the “Americas” seen as somewhere it can be found‚ a desirable destination for those who wish to escape. The footage of the fleeing refugees elicits our sympathy for them – the innocent victims of the war. After the French Resistance agent is shot the camera points upward
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