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    Slumdog Millionaire If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day‚ the benefits of globalization never come to you. – Jimmy Carter As described in Tom Zaniello’s book Cinema of Globalization‚ there is no shortage of films espousing anti-globalization messages. Whether railing against international corporations‚ big oil‚ United States foreign policies or Wal-Mart‚ world cinema filmmakers have no shortage of topics. In a refreshing change of pace‚ the film Slumdog Millionaire

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    Celia Roth 6-4-13 Per.6 Jamal and Salim Jamal and Salim are two very different people. The two boys are brothers and come from the same background and started out very much alike. Every path you take in life will entirely affect your future. They both began as poor‚ underprivileged‚ Indian boys. They live in the slums of Mumbai with each other and their mother. Salim is a couple years older than Jamal‚ but at the beginning of their childhoods‚ they lived very similar lives. As time goes on

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    Jon Soudan Mr. Ptacek Per. A 9 September 2014 Slumdog Millionaire What does the title mean? how does the title and contrasts within it provide a symbolic summary of the movie? Just the title "Slumdog Millionaire" holds significant signs as to what the core messages of this production are. The title signifies the capability of ANYONE to achieve what they strive for no matter what their background is. It is an exemplary symbolic summary of how the poorest of the poor gain valuable experience to

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    Slumdog Millionaire Essay In the movie Slumdog Millionaire‚ the director Danny Boyle explores the role of destiny in the life of the main character Jamal Malik‚ and also shows the significance of his success in the poverty of a developing country such as India. Jamal is a kind‚ honest and generous person who always does good things for others and the audience is positioned to value his character. In the movie Jamal endures horrific events throughout the impoverished conditions of his childhood but

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    Slumdog Millionaire Essay An interesting and important character: Slumdog Millionaire was a worldwide movie sensation as it engages with a wide range of social issues and universal desires. An important and interesting character in the film is Salim Malik‚ brother to the main character‚ Jamal. Salim is heavily contrasted to his brother and becomes a main antagonist in the narrative. Director Danny Boyle uses multiple visual and verbal techniques to reveal Salim’s violent and greedy tendencies

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    Concepts and Vocabulary Name: Khalid‚ said Page: 129 #1-8 28/04/2011 1. Stimulus means something external that influences an activity. The examples of stimulus is Hitting the skin with a needle or pin is an example of stimulus and the sudden removing of the hand or jumping away is the response. 

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    The Life Of Pi by Yann Martel I.SETTING The story is initially set in India in the late 1990’s. The author has traveled to Pondicherry‚ a coastal town in the former French territory of India‚ which joined Independent India in 1954. The territory of Pondicherry still has many French citizens‚ as well as an unusually wide variety of churches/places of worship. The author then travels to Canada to interview Pi Patel‚ the narrator of the story‚ but little of the actual story is set there‚ save

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    Discrimination takes place all the time. Slumdog Millionaire shows discrimination in all shapes and forms. Physical attributes and measurable attributes is the basis of stereotyping. Physical attributes include race‚ gender‚ and religion. The measurable attributes would be how educated one is‚ how much someone makes a year‚ and their age. Slumdog Millionaire shows how all of these traits are interrelated to create the ultimate image that the other characters portray Jamal (the main character in the

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    The film ”Slumdog Millionare” tells a compelling story of an eighteen year old Indian boy from the dirty slums of Mumbai who manages to cash in the main prize of the TV-show ”Who wants to be a millionaire?” Combined with the directing of Danny Boyle and co-direction from Indian Lovleen Tandan‚ this 2008 movie is a great mash up between Hollywood and Bollywood. The film based on Vikars Swarup’s novel tells a dramatic and romantic story with a twist of humour through a set of very cogent actors.

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    Slum Dog Millionaire- Narrative Structure Director Danny Boyle has called the film ‘a tale of two chairs’. 2. Explain in detail how the ‘two chairs’ are used to anchor the storyline‚ and how the TV quiz show provides a framework for the narrative? * The ‘Two Chairs’ in the movie symbolize the two places where he was thinking about his past and his present. One chair at the TV show and the other chair at the police station when he was trying to justify that he were not guilty‚ of cheating

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