agree or not. Use quotes from Gilliat and Kael. The film Chinatown (1974) is a neo-noir‚ psychological drama film‚ based on the California Water Wars. If the film had ended the way Robert Townes’ had anticipated it to‚ the private eye/detective‚ Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson)‚ upon realising the nightmare that Evelyn Mulray (Faye Dunaway) had been through‚ and after she had killed her father who had raped her‚ would have helped Evelyn’s daughter escape to Mexico to be safe. However‚ Polanski has
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Donnie Darko - English assignment by Emma Bak Sauer Donnie Darko is a film by Richard Kelly from 2001‚ with Jake Gyllenhaal in the main lead. The film is supposed to look like it’s from 1988. The film is about a schizophrenic teen that lives in the American suburb of Middlesex. When an unidentified giant plane engine crashes into his room‚ a chain of mysterious events is triggered. Donnie is plagued by visions of an evil-looking rabbit named Frank. Who makes Donnie commit acts of violence‚ and
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Nicole Lopez ENC1101 In the movie China Town Jake Gittes depicts some of the traits of your typical indifferent private investigator dealing with his clients’ marital issues including recording their adulterous acts. Jake was never fazed by anything and was a big advocate of provocative humor‚ even when he seemed to always find a dead end when he has a strong hunch about something. Jake seemed to be sort of a underdog of the film even from his grungy brown worn out jacket that made
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individuals accidentally skewed together by a pipe and how their stories became connected with each other. The center of the story is love with different plot twists. It begun with the melancholic yet romantic story of Fiesta (Eugene Domingo) and Timbancaya (Jake Cuenca). Unlike the other love stories the spark between these two is not easily seen. Even the idea of it doesn’t seem possible‚ not because Fiesta is not princess like but because her personality can eat Timbancaya alive. The fact that these two
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Lyzelle D. NSTPTwo Section: A1E Reaction Paper for the Movie “HIV (Si Heidi‚ Si Ivy at Si V)” I. MY OWN SUMMARY OF THE FILM (strictly 250-300 words only‚ no copying) Virgilio “Gil” Bustamante (as played by Jake Cuenca) was a commissioned of Department of Health (DOH). He weaves a tale that combines various stories of people infected with the virus‚ using the San Lazaro Hospital. Among those having their story told are heterosexuals‚ homosexuals‚ prostitutes
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Cited: 2001 A Space Odyssey. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Perf. Keir Dullea‚ Gary Lockwood‚ and William Sylvester. February 3‚ 2004. DVD. Warner Studios‚ 1968. Donnie Darko. Dir. Richard Kelly. Perf. Jake Gyllenhaal‚ Holmes Osborne‚ Maggie Gyllenhaal‚ Daveigh Chase‚ Mary McDonnell‚ Patrick Swayze‚ Drew Barrymore‚ and James Duval. September 7‚ 2004. Videocassette. Fox Home Entertainment‚ 2001.
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Spanish and Other Signs of the Times‚" by Jay Nordlinger‚ delivers a message to Native Americans and immigrants who speak many different languages. This message states that in America‚ English must be used as the only common and official language. Jake Jamieson redelivers the same message in his writing “The English-Only Movement‚" Government‚ companies‚ or bosses at construction jobs. As Nordlinger describes‚ America nowadays faces a challenge of keeping English the only official language. Spanish
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Greek tragedies were often seen as the foundation to literature not only for the Greeks but also on a universal scale as well. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex was one of the more infamous tales because of its provocative and unorthodox nature. The tragedy features a man on a quest to prevent the events of his prophesized life from coming to fruition. The key components of fate‚ destiny and time can be paralleled to the cult classic film Donnie Darko. In the movie‚ Donnie suffers from predictions of the
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Suppose you are watching television‚ a commercial comes on and portrays a man with a whole in his throat‚ with a breathing mechanism keeping him alive and a voice box speaking for him. He says that smoking cigarettes were the cause of his cancer‚ which then he needed this surgery to stay alive. After watching this graphic commercial‚ would you be less likely to smoke cigarettes? That’s the argument I am critically evaluating throughout this paper. This concept that I just exposed is referred to
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(Merriam-Webster). Daria represents narrowcasting because its target audience is female adolescents‚ especially those who have purchased cable television. According to Ivins-Hully‚ if Daria was shown on a broadcast network‚ the should would have completely flopped. However‚ since it was narrowcasted on a cable network‚ its turnout was high due to its selective target audience (Ivins-Hully). To examine additionally‚ cable television is a rather expensive luxury and in an intersectional perspective
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