Diana Soto African American History Mr.Shust January 30‚ 2015 Selma Movie Review The movie Selma is about a civil rights leader and his journey to fight for the freedom of his people. It was the dream of this man to put an end to the mistreatment of blacks in the United States. The African Americans fought for their freedom in south of the United States. These people were facing racism and mistreatment from the whites during this time period
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letter saying that she was sorry she couldn’t be with him‚ and Rick was feeling like his inside had been ripped out. Feeling very betrayed by Ilsa‚ Rick being a very hard headed character himself‚ begins to hold a grudge against Ilsa. Well‚ as the movie plays out you can see she comes back to his casino‚ and he doesn’t behave in her favor. He’s actually quite mean to her‚ but only because he feels so betrayed by her. They have a long conversation about Paris and he finds out that she was married.
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The Jose Rizal movie tells the actual life of our national hero‚ intertwined with the story of his novels – Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. It uncovers Rizal’s childhood until his execution in the hands of the Spaniards‚ as well as the glimpse of the life of suppression of the Filipino people under the Spanish friars. It also introduces his imaginations and how he viewed the Philippines during the colonization of Spain through his novels. The depictions of violence and torture during those
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Scott did not accurately portray the biblical version of the Hebrew Exodus. Many things portrayed in the movie either didn’t happen in the bible or were very different than the Exodus. Some examples would be that Moses had a different personality in the movie‚ Moses didn’t perform the three miracles‚ God wasn’t a little boy‚ and several other things. These are a few of the problems that lead the movie away from the text. In the Exodus passage‚ Moses was a timid man and when God first asked him to go to
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Ren in the older movie has an edge to him but it doesn’t give us more detail on why. In the newer movie‚ we see a scene where the viewer is told that Ren used to fix cars to make money. Ren‚ in both movies‚ is involved in gymnastics and is a good dancer. The Ren in the newer movie gives us more insight into how he feels about the law. Being accused of being the “Bad influence” in a small town starts earlier in the newer movie than in the older version. By the end of both
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The film Apocalypto‚ by Mel Gibson is full of suspense and adventure. It tells a story about a young man Jaguar Paw and his tribe members getting brutally captured by another tribe as slaves. For some‚ this movie might be shocking due to the violence we get to be exposed to. In the movie‚ Jaguar Paw manages to escape from the men who want to kill him and experiences very awful moments trying to survive in his forest. “I am Jaguar Paw! This is my forest! My sons and their sons will hunt here after
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The movie is based upon a graphic novel by Frank Miller (of comic book fame). They are both based upon a one of the most famous battles in the Persian Wars (492 - 449 BC)‚ The Battle of Thermopylae. The Battle of Thermopylae goes down in history for being one of the most heroic feats of bravery in any war. The Spartan King Leonidas led 300 Spartan warriors in a fight to block the Persian Army from passing into Greece through a two meter wide pass through the mountains of Thermopylae. The Persian
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Pamela Rhodes SOC 101 14 April 2015 The Suspect The movie starts out in a small southern rural town of Midland with Sheriff Dixon listening to the radio as it talks about how Carolina Credit and Trust Bank had been robbed earlier that day in the all-white town. The suspect happens to be a college professor running a social experiment on the racial dynamics and bias in small town law enforcement. In the experiment Mekhi Phifer and Sterling K. Brown play the roles of the social scientists running
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"The Hustler" Most movies that come out today are practicable‚ I’m not saying that this is bad thing‚ but in the movie "The Hustler" the unsuspecting scene’s drove the movie. I really enjoyed watching this movie and I was really surprised to enjoy a film this much that was made in 1961. Robert Rossen was the director of this movie‚ and I thought he did a wonderful job picking out the cast for this film. Every character was believable‚ and they all played excellent roles‚ but the role of "Fast"
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Summary of the movie “Memento” The movie “Momento” staring Guy Pearce as Leonard was interesting as well as confusing in the same sense. The plot of the movie was recreated backwards to the way Leonard saw it and left many questionable gaps throughout. Leonard suffered a head injury because he went to go help his wife who was raped and murdered in their bathroom. The altercation with the murderer in his house caused his head trauma which resulted into him losing his short term memory. I believe
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