The film Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro depicts the journey of a determined young Maori girl‚ Paikea‚ who strives to do the impossible‚ of claiming her birthright position as chief from her very traditional grandfather‚ Koro. Koro who is the chief now‚ searches for the right individual who can lead the tribe since the original leader his son‚ Paikea’s father‚ left when his son‚ Paikea’s twin brother‚ dies at birth. To be the leader of the tribe Koro displays the working styles of examine and execute
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3:30-4:50 Films: Available in the format of E-screening Instructor: Prof. Ping-hui Liao (Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair) Reader: TBA Office hours: T /Th 2:00-3:00pm‚ and by appointment Email: piliao@ucsd.edu Office: Literature Building Room 443 Objective/Requirements: The class is an introduction to Taiwan cinema‚ regarding its rise in the local‚ regional‚ national‚ and international stage. We will examine the multifaceted dimensions of aesthetics and politics as revealed in the films from the
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Director John Boorman commented that a lot of film critics don’t understand the language of film as it’s directed. They’re more interested in traditional values of narrative and construction rather than other virtues such as the rhythm and flow‚ the underlying imagery and the underlying theme. (Boorman‚ 2009). In more traditional films‚ the plot dictates character development and is a crucial factor as to how we respond to their decisions and how we evaluate and learn the moral of the story. However
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I watched the film Vegucated and overall I thought the film was educational but very graphic. Watching the scenes with the slaughter house were very eye opening to what we do to these animals all because we want to eat meat and dairy. It was just very sad to watch and it made me wonder if all of this was necessary and do we really need meat and dairy to survive? I also like how it follows the lives of three people as they go through the transition of becoming vegan or vegetarian. I also didn’t know
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Film analysis - Drive The movie Drive stars Ryan Gossling as the dark and mysterious “Driver”. He works as a wheelman for hire in Los Angeles. At daytime he stunt drives for film productions‚ and at night he’s steering getaway vehicles for armed heists. When he meets his neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan)‚ a vulnerable mother‚ he falls in love. When her boyfriend Standard (Oscar Isaac) returns from prison‚ Irene and her son gets dragged into a dangerous underworld. Driver acts as the superhero in
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title may mislead some viewers‚ as this is not a film about a football code‚ anymore than Bend it with Beckham is about soccer. This powerful‚ brave and rather brutal feature is the debut of Paul Goldman‚ who co-wrote the screenplay with the novelist Phillip Gwynne. Both the storylines and characters from Gwynne’s awardwinning novel Deadly Unna? and its sequel Nukkin Ya‚ have been combined in the film‚ which was commissioned by South Australian Film Corporation for the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002
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[pic] [pic] [pic] Film Duration: 153 minutes Name: Jane Doe Form: 11K Due Date: 06/08/09 Introduction The purpose of the following report is to critically analyse and deconstruct the character of "the Joker" within the film "the Dark Knight" and discuss the reasoning of why this character was interpreted in such a way. The Joker‚ played by late Heath Ledger‚ is a terrifying villain who will stop at nothing to manipulate and corrupt his victims. However it is not
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The Outsiders – Film or Novel People like to watch movies because it is animated and they can watch with others. Some like to read novels because they can escape from the world and prefer some time to themselves. People who love to read novel have a different personality to those that love to watch movies. Most modern teenagers would say that they would prefer watching the movie than the novel‚ but even those film lovers would prefer the novel with these two texts. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
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Matthew Foster Intro to Documentary Film Midterm Paper What Is Documentary Film? I once heard a quote from an unknown man who said‚ "Words are only words until you invest some meaning into them." I didn ’t fully comprehend what he meant by this statement. Surely every word has its own definition‚ giving it some type of meaning. So why would they being meaningless without me? Not until I entered this class and focused on documentary film did I re evaluate this statement. What the man meant
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Snigdha Singh (n8779171) KFB210: Fashion and Costume in Film Assessment: 1 “A good costume must be material enough to signify and transparent enough not to turn its signs into parasites.” (Barthes Roland‚ 1972 pg 5) That is exactly what is portrayed in Marilyn Monroe’s white halter dress in “The Seven Year Itch” (1955) directed by Billy Wilder. The movie revolves around Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell)‚ an employee at an advertising company who resolves to eat healthy food‚ and quit smoking
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