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This is a speech directed to the audience of the 2003 Academy Awards arguing that feature films are made for money, rather than entertainment.
... are easy to accept. They do not challenge the set of beliefs that society has placed upon us; the good guys are good, the ... themselves in a world that confronts the very core of their beliefs. Just answer me one last thing: In a society that considers itself ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History
How do any of the film-makers that you have seen, during the course of this module, make the cinema itself, their primary subject of investigation.
... recall David Hume's belief that the mind is but a "bundle of perceptions." Snow's own description that the film was a ... to the contemporary period, all the while maintaining qualities that are interesting to the cinematographic apparatus. The film begins ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
The American Dream (discussion of the problems that arose when trying to reach the American Dream, based on three films, "Citizen Kane", "Grapes of Wrath", and "Death of a Salesman.")
... actual accomplishments are. He chose to follow the American Dream, the belief that with just working hard, any man can succeed in life ... and lack of self-confidence. It was through this that Willy decided that he could not deal with being a failure, and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Baz Lurhman describes 'Moulin Rouge' as "Audience Participation Cinema". Analyse the techniques he uses in the opening of the film, to remind us that "we are watching a movie"
... as these do not permit the audience to fall under the belief that what they are watching is real life. In the next sequence ... vibrancy of the interior of the Moulin Rouge . The first glimpse that that audience gets of the Moulin Rouge in its prime is as ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Reservoir Dogs - The Movie.
... . He was oh so gruesomely true to his belief that cops weren't people that he begins to prove this through his torture "techniques ... messed up dude. His whole personality was a contradiction. Maybe that's why he was so hypnotizing. His bizarre behavior and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
American History X : Synopsis.
... blue-collar parents. But the beliefs that get passed to from father-to- son, brother-to-brother are not all that nice. At the ... old friends are now influencing Danny. This family lacks the belief system once had before the fathers death. Derek tells Danny ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Paper Plane
... is an Igbo saying that when a man says yes, his chi, or spirit, says yes also. The belief that he controls his own ... . The belief that he controls his own destiny is of central importance to Okonkwo. Later, several events occur to undermine this belief, and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
Deadly Unna? By Phillip Gwynne - Racism, Discrimination and Stereotyping of Indigenous Australians
... that are different and believe that their cultural beliefs are better or more right than others. After all it is our own cultural beliefs that ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
This is my response to the video, Tibet: The End of Time, that I viewed as part of my art history class.
... found the culture to be amazing and unique in their beliefs and religious practice. Most appealing was, as you predicted, ... to ultimately escape the bondage of rebirth. The Tibetans believe that the cycle of life follows three distinct phases: birth, death ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Comparative study of Aldous Huxley's novel 'Brave New World' and Ridley Scott's film 'Bladerunner'...including teacher notes for improvement. (the essay was uploaded to include notes)
... individuals of such and such quality". The World Controller's belief that what he does is "good if it promotes the ... Consumerist certainly ideology presenting an allegory encompassing the fears and beliefs of Huxley's contemporaries. Written in the midst of ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis