Essays Tagged: "based on a true story"

Donnie Brasco

'Donnie Brasco' was released last Friday. This movie stars Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. The movie is ong>basedong> on a true story about Joe Pistone and FBI agent who infiltrated the New York mob ring. Johnny ...

(2 pages) 42 0 3.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

This is a reveiw on the novel "The Wave". It discusses the goods, the bads, and my thoughts on the novel.

rmany might have been like.SettingThe story takes place in the Palo Alto, California in 1969. It is ong>basedong> on a true story.Main charactersLaurie Saunders: editor-in-chief of the Grapevine. She is a ver ... od. But they have learned a very good lesson.My OpinionI think it is a very good book. The story is ong>basedong> on a true incident. I can't believe people are still so stupid to do something like this after ...

(3 pages) 63 0 3.0 Jul/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

A Film analysis of the beginning segment of the film 'Welcome to Sarajevo' (good for film orals)

WELCOME TO SARAJEVOThe story, directed by Micahel Winterbottom, is ong>basedong> on a true story, follows Michael Henderson and his news team, ITV, to war-torn Sarajevo. It's ... hout the early 1980s. In1990, elections in Bosnia resulted in a governing group of three ethnically-ong>basedong> parties which corresponded to the three major ethnic groups. Muslims and Croats in the governi ...

(6 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Analysis of The Movie "Patch Adams" using Communication Models.

The analysis of the movie Patch Adams: Is humor the best medicine?Patch Adams is a movie that is ong>basedong> on a true story. It is about a man who has experienced many things in his lifetime, from being ...

(8 pages) 158 1 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Details the leadership skills demonstrated in the film Norma Rae.

Leadership in "Norma Rae""Norma Rae" is a film ong>basedong> on a true story set in a Southern mill-town. The title character and fellow mill workers start ... best under the title of the operant approach. The operant approach modifies rewards and punishments ong>basedong> on observable behavior. If someone's direction, intensity, or persistence needs to be changed, ...

(6 pages) 85 0 3.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Film Review: Remember the Titans, (2000)

"Remember the Titans", is a film ong>basedong> on a true story. It took place in a small town in Virginia named Alexandria in 1981. It is abo ...

(2 pages) 95 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

WOYZECK Summary and Critique

s also credited with the most accurate English translation.The script's plot if very cryptic but is ong>basedong> on a true story that took place during 1821 in Leipzig, Germany. The character of Woyzeck is m ...

(3 pages) 32 0 3.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

This is a film review of the "Amityville Horror" which I wrote for my college newspaper.

but still has not figured out how to solve the ending. With the ominous (and highly suspect) intro "Based on a true story," this version cuts quickly to the premise. A young man living at home wakes o ...

(3 pages) 17 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Politics of Representation of Crime and Criminalization.

y powerful film that deals with troubled youth in the heart of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. This film is ong>basedong> on a true story but it is the story that is being 're-presented' to us that we should be most ...

(10 pages) 55 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

"Lean On Me"

This movie is ong>basedong> on a true story of a principal at Eastside High, a multicultural school located in New Jersey. ...

(2 pages) 20 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

History Meets Imagination: "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.

the Clutters family is what inspired Truman Capote to write his most famous work, "In Cold Blood". Based on a true story with a couple twists of Capote's imagination, a nonfiction novel is introduced ...

(2 pages) 39 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Marathon

Marathon was an award-winning movie I have just recently watched. It was ong>basedong> on a true story of a young autistic boy training to become a marathon runner. It was also on t ...

(2 pages) 14 0 2.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Elements of "Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks

Loosely ong>basedong> on a true story of a Derbyshire village, Eyam, which was struck by the plague in 1666, Year of ...

(5 pages) 24 0 4.8 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

The Lost Boy

Title: The Lost Boy (Based on a true story) Author: Dave Pelzer No. of Pages: 340 Major Characters: "¢ Dave ...

(4 pages) 6 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers