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    Movie Review

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    Submitted by: Neiryll Judith ♥ Submitted to: Madam Maricel Llobedo I. Introduction A. The Bucket List Director: Rob Reiner Actor/s and Actress/es: Jack Nicholson as Edward Cole Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers Sean Hayes as Matthew/Thomas Beverly Todd as Virginia Chambers Movie Company: Warner Bros. Pictures B. Synopsis Mechanic Carter Chambers and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole

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    Dreams and Aspirations

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    I have a dream… you have a dream… our nation has a dream… our world has a dream. We all have a dream. We all have a dream‚ but the difference is how we realise our dream‚ how we obtain our dream‚ and how our dream changes us. This is evident in our learning of dreams and aspirations through the texts Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys‚ What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? by Lasse Hallström‚ and through my own studies of Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood. These three highly acclaimed texts represent

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    Shawshank Book vs Film

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    hope‚ friendship and retribution." Years later in 1994‚ Shawshank Redemption was again recognized by a wider audience. It was released as a major motion picture directed by Frank Darabont. The film presented very respectable actors‚ such as Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. "The Shawshank Redemption creates a warm hold on our feelings because it makes us a member of a family. Many movies offer us vicarious experiences and quick‚ superficial emotions. Shawshank slows down and looks‚" said Roger

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    getting sent to jail. The only thing: he didn’t do it. This is one of my most favored movies to watch‚ it also happens to be a good short story by Stephen King. One of the main things that rally grabbed my attention was the casting. I feel that Morgan Freeman as Red was a great choice. His acting is always superb in any movie‚ and he really shines in Shawshank. Then of course there is Tim Robbins as Andy‚ and he seemed like a perfect fit. Andy is a soft spoken banker and Tim portrayed him well. Some

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    The Bucket List

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    tells the story of two ailing men from completely different worlds become roommates in a hospital‚ after being diagnosed with a terminal lung cancer‚ which led Carter Chambers and Edward Cole to a journey in search for life changing connection. Morgan Freeman plays the role of Carter Chambers‚ whom in his early years aspired to have a profession in History‚ but landed as a mechanic; a job appointed by life. Black‚ broke and baby on the way‚ Chambers embraced the first decent job given to him and made

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    Shawshank Redemption

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    Dufresne‚ a successful young banker who is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sent to Shawshank prison‚ place where brutality from both guards and other prisoners is common. Andy makes friends with Red (Morgan Freeman)‚ a lifer who has already spent many years inside. Red smuggles items into the prison for the other prisoners. Red soon discovers that Andy is a most unusual prisoner‚ although at first it seems to do him little good.   He starts to get both other

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    where he seems to take on a positive and optimistic attitude despite his perceived innocence to the viewer and assumed guilt to the inmates; this is peculiar and admirable to those around him given his dire surroundings‚ especially so to “Red‚” (Morgan Freeman) a fellow inmate‚ who ultimately becomes Dufresnes closest friend. The latter represents symbolic interactionism: people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them. And Dufresne‚ conceivably innocent‚ approaching things

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    world has to learn to get by in the brutal‚ cutthroat confines of prison life as he is subjected to vicious attacks from the guards and his fellow in-mates. His quiet strength slowly earns the respect of his fellow inmates‚ most notably‚ Red (Morgan Freeman) and even much of the prison staff. His previous experience as a banker also earns him favor with the guards and the warden as he begins to launder money for them all. In return‚ Andy is permitted special privileges which include working in the

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    Lean on Me

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    Lean On Me Kimberly Hill English 225 – Introduction to Film Mr. Ernest Littler October 18‚ 2010 Lean On Me is a biographical-dram film released in 1989 by Michael Schiffer and directed by John G. Avildsen. The movie stars Morgan Freeman‚ the protagonist‚ as “Crazy” Joe Clark‚ the principal of Eastside High School in Paterson‚ New Jersey; Beverly Todd and Robert Guillaume‚ two of the foils‚ as Dr. Frank Napier and Ms. Levias‚ the school superintendent and the assistant principal‚ respectively;

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    The Shawshank Redemption

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    interesting and when they are combined they create a very fascinating plot which looks at prison life in a interesting and different perspective than one normally thinks. The main characters are Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Eliss "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman). These characters are well complimented by the wise and simple old man‚ Brooks (James Whitmore)‚ and the evil warden. The personalities of the Shawshank prison combined to form a sort of community. One never really thinks of a prison as such

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