The Crying Game The Crying Game brings up many disorienting points. One of the main oppositions is male versus female. Imagine a child opening up his presents on Christmas day. There is a box underneath the tree shaped exactly like the toy he’s been begging for for months now. When he opens the box he is disappointed to learn that it is just a set of pajamas and some tube socks. This situation is a little disorienting for the boy and he learns that he won’t always get what he wants and that
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Film Techniques Used in the Great Debaters Racism is the belief in the superiority of a particular race (Canadian Oxford High School Dictionary). From hundreds of years ago till present day‚ racism has and always will be an injustice in society. Back in mainly the 1900’s‚ racism was very dominant in communities‚ specifically in the Southern States of the US. For example‚ the film The Great Debaters focusses on a black debate team in Marshall‚ Texas in 1930. The team starts off debating other black
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Filmmakers were forced to adapt‚ changing the industry. By the Second World War‚ the film industry cooperated with the government‚ to gain support towards the war effort. Cinema began to have a great cultural impact‚ becoming the mass medium for consumption of information and ideas. This influence occurred slowly and sublimely‚ deeply rooted and enduring in society. Following the Great Depression and World War Two‚ the film industry became lucrative before the advent of the home television during the late
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How does the director Gus Van Sant use camera‚ sound and lighting to explore the importance of acceptance and forgiveness in the movie “Good Will Hunting” The movie Good Will Hunting was directed by Gus Van Sant‚ written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and was produce in 1997 by Lawrence Bender. The director‚ Gus Van Sant uses many different camera shots and angles‚ along with music for the background sound and different types of lighting to explore the importance of acceptance and forgiveness in Good
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The movie Get Out is a horror-thriller that tackles systematic racism. Jordan Peele‚ who directed the movie was nominated best original screenplay‚ best picture‚ best actor‚ and best director. He ultimately won best original screenplay. With that being said‚ it has incredible visual effects‚ forecasting‚ and symbolism. The movie occurs in a modern day society with an African American male (Chris) dating a white female (Rose). Five months into the relationship she then introduces them to each other
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Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List has had a profound effect in my understanding of an important historical event. It also illustrated for me the triumph of the human spirit in one of the darkest moments of the human journey. In his portraits of both the powerful and the powerless and is his transcendent final scene‚ Spielberg defines for us a very personal vision of the Holocaust. Oscar Schindler appears for the first time in the film as an opportunistic entrepreneur mingling with the Nazi
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Jews were being shipped to Krakow” or something like that. In Krakow the ghetto is overcrowded with Jews. The Jewish people are organized into working groups by the Jewish council‚ comprised of some elected Jews responsible for the order. Oskar Schindler ‚ a German businessman‚ who wishes to see a Jew that owns a pot-making factory visits the ghetto‚ because Jews are no longer allowed to own businesses‚ so Oskar makes a deal with Stern‚ and plans to take over the factory after trading money and appointing
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were the primary target of the Germans and they were used as scapegoats anytime Germany faced a problem. Many films were made in order to emulate and replicate the horrific scenes of World War II. One of these movies is Schindlers List which reveals the story of a Nazi who risked his life in attempting to save thousands of lives by allowing them to work in his factory. Oskar Schindler‚ the Nazi goes through plenty of trouble and witnesses the cruelty that the Jews have been facing by his own comrades
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1950’s Over past nine weeks we’ve embarked on a journey spanning seven decades of cult films and also received a brief education of our not so distant past. We’ve seen the outrageous‚ the good‚ the bad and the ugly‚ the weirdly dramatic‚ and the just plain weird of the last seven decades of cult films and how in the end somehow find away to incorporate a piece of American culture at the time. However‚ by far the most intriguing decade to me would have to be the nineteen fifties. There are many reasons
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As once said by a famous film directer named John Lee Hancock who said that directing a film whilst integrating your own personal touch is as if it is more of your signature than a mere piece of writing. “When you direct a film‚ that’s more of your signature than writing” John Lee Hancock. This quote made by the film director John Lee Hancock introduces the idea that a film is a part of a person just as a signature indicates someones identity and that it is a part of them‚ this philosophical idea
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