Bahliby Kidane Pd. 6 Word Count (736) The Crucible: An Adaptation Worthwhile All of your memories of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible won’t prepare you for the scene that opens up director Nicholas Hytner’s powerful movie adaptation. In 1692‚ a group of teenage girls gather in the woods of Salem‚ Mass.‚ to conduct a ritual. In the late night‚ the girls all dance‚ chant‚ and strip in order to fulfill their wishes and dreams. This stuff is disturbing to say the least. One of them‚ Abigail Williams
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The movie‚ Titanic‚ opens with treasure hunter Brock Lovett‚ who is searching the Titanic wreck for a necklace named the Heart of the Ocean. Lovett hopes to find the Heart of the Ocean contained within a safe he uncovered from passenger Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley’s safe. He instead finds a sketch of a naked woman wearing the desired necklace. A woman of 101 years‚ named Rose Calvert‚ sees this photo shown on the news and contacts Lovett. He is uninterested at first in what she has to say‚ but becomes
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Rosewood A great story based on real example‚ which happened in small town of Florida. This movie was directed by John Singleton‚ and based from real incident‚ that took place in 1923 in Florida. It is a story about how middle class African-Americans were living and enjoying life‚ until an incident happens in town. A white female is accusing colored person in raping her. From this point main goal of three main characters is to save people from mob attack‚ and lynching of colored people. This
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Movie Title: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain) Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Cast: Audrey Tautou‚ Mathieu Kassovitz Genre: Romance Comedy Amelie is a movie that was filmed in french language with english subtitles. The movie takes place in Montmarte with the main character a young girl named Amelie. The story is mainly about how Amelie grew up with odd parents and had a deprived childhood and didn’t have friends or nice things growing up. When she was old enough to move out‚ she
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Based on a true story‚ The Fighter is an excellent sports drama film. It is an inspirational movie about a boxer struggling in and outside the ring. There have been several great boxing movies in the past such as Rocky and Million Dollar Baby that have won several awards and The Fighter should join this list. Boxing‚ drugs‚ family‚ prison‚ strong personalities‚ and heritage come into play throughout this movie. Written by Scott Silver‚ Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson; produced by Paramount Pictures; and
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The Crucible The movie the crucible is based upon a play that was written by an author by the name of Arthur Miller. The movie is based around the Salem witch trial which took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts in 1692. Where a bunch of young girls in the community of Salem had just simply went into the woods with an African American slave woman named tituba to create a love potion for young men to fall in love with them like any other normal young girl might think would just be fun. The girls were then
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The title of the movie should actually be "Salieri"‚ because the whole movie is really about his jealousy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and how Salieri was overshadowed musically by Mozart. In the beginning‚ Salieri makes a "deal" with God so He will make Salieri a musical genius‚ and Salieri believes he has been granted this gift until the day Mozart comes to Vienna. Salieri immediately becomes jealous that God has bestowed upon Mozart the power he himself worked so desperately to achieve. From that
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Despite working with low-budget and a small crew‚ Orson Welles makes his Othello interesting and memorable through several techniques. He generates a sense of suspense by placing the final scene in the beginning of the movie. When translating play into film‚ he creatively rearranges the scenes while keeping the text intact and shoots from odd angles to produce interesting lighting and shadows. Even though some of the characters in the film do not quite live up to the viewer’s ideals of the characters
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played by Matt Damon‚ remains unaffected by the virus due to his immunity. Contagion‚ unlike other movies‚ keeps the hero‚ Damon‚ oddly detached from the viewers. The director‚ Steven Soderbergh‚ decided to keep Damon out of the minimal action in the movie by immediately putting him into quarantine. This automatically dismisses any possibility of suspense‚ no finding out at the last minute if he makes it or not. Mitch takes his daughter (Anna
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This movie is about a girl wanting to make a difference in her community. Certain people in her community‚ known as Chicanos‚ don’t have the same rights as others. One of the main characters‚ Paula‚ gets tired of how fellow Chicanos are being treated and therefore joins a group to help improve the environment‚ particularly the East LA schools. These students get punished for the silliest things and their treatments are unjust. For example‚ talking in Spanish will lead to a beating. The bathrooms
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