Essays Tagged: "Dustin Hoffman"

All The President's Men

ted with being the men that helped bring down a president.Robert Redfore stars as Bob Woodward, and Dustin Hoffman is the chain- smoking Carl Bernstein. With an Academy Award winning actor portraying ...

(2 pages) 93 0 3.3 Mar/2002

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

Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans in the movie Little Big Man, compared to real life Native Americans

ot the usual savage cannibal crazy dancing Indians that Hollywood has made them look like. It stars Dustin Hoffman stranded in an overturned wagon with his sister after their wagon team was destroyed ... ring to themselves as "real human beings" and referring to the white men as not human. In the movie Dustin Hoffman's character, Little Big Man would sometimes get criticized by some of his Native Amer ...

(3 pages) 95 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Critically analyse the opening sequence of Mike Nichols "The Graduate"(1968)

ire to Benjamin Braddock, "The Graduate"(1967)"The Graduate", directed by Mike Nichols and starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft , was released in 1967 to a generally rapturous reception. Along wi ... ialogue to set up character and the movies themes.The Graduate tells the story of Benjamin Braddock(Dustin Hoffman), a college graduate heading back home to Los Angeles from his education in the east. ...

(6 pages) 67 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Review of The Graduate

ion of sexual satire and the corny desires for freedom.This was the motion picture breakthrough for Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, and the amazing director Mike Nichols. Te Graduate has a late 60's a ...

(3 pages) 76 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Graduate

were joyous rebels at the cutting edge of the sexual and political revolutions. Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), the clueless hero of ``The Graduate,'' was swept in on that wave of feeling, even t ...

(3 pages) 79 2 4.3 May/2004

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

I Heart Huckabees

loaner suit, calls upon the help of Existential Detectives Vivian (Lily Tomlin) and Bernard Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman).All of the characters are introduced in their own quirky ways. We meet Albert when i ...

(4 pages) 30 0 0.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Film synopsis of the graduate

John GomezJustin GarciaFilm Ap.The GraduateMain CharactersDustin Hoffman (Benjamin Braddock)Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Robinson)Katharine Ross (Elaine Robinson)Willi ... film that tells the story about the coming of age of a young man named Benjamin Braddock played by Dustin Hoffman. Ben who recently graduated from college with a Bachelor's degree is confused about h ...

(4 pages) 47 0 3.0 Apr/2005

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

'Wag the Dog'?

s addressing the press in regards to his sickness and denying the claims of a situation in Albania, Dustin Hoffman's character tells the advisor to say, "I know we are all concerned for the President. ... a. They would be green because "it symbolises pride and dignity" (one of the president's advisors). Dustin Hoffman also produces a song "The American Dream", as it would symbolise to the American peop ...

(12 pages) 139 1 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Art Essays

Film Review - "Wag the dog."

ve it has everything to do with the B-3 bomber. During this phony campaign, the Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) had the president win the hearts of the people by paying attention to an Albanian gi ...

(2 pages) 65 1 3.3 Sep/2005

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

"The Journey of the Fifth Horse" by Ronald Ribman

akes us into 19th-century. It takes place in Petersburg, Russia where life was much different then. Dustin Hoffman plays the role of Zoditch, the self-important and self-loathing "first reader" at a p ...

(7 pages) 2722 0 3.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Sphere

Dustin Hoffman plays the role of Norman Goodman, a psychologist. He is a person who is brought to pl ...

(2 pages) 943 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Rain Man, Autistic Savant

Babbitt, the main character in the movie RAIN MAN, has become the world's best known savant due to Dustin Hoffman's remarkably accurate and sensitive portrayal of Savant Syndrome in that film. That 1 ... is a memorable movie about a memorable savant. It won four academy awards, including Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Picture for 1988. I was pleased to have been a consultant to that film. Beca ...

(15 pages) 37 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

All the President's Men and Investigate Journalism

and wrote the book All the President's Men, which later became a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. The story is centered on their reporting during the Watergate scandal. Woodward and ... d have gone straight to the archives.Works CitedAll the President's Men. Dir. Alan J. Pakula. Perf. Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford. DVD. Warner Brothers Pictures, 1976."Biographical Sketch." HRC. 28 O ...

(5 pages) 27 1 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

All The President's Men Movie Review

nary representation of the true account of two Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein, played by Dustin Hoffman, and Bob Woodward, played by Robert Redford, who helped uncover the most famous polit ...

(2 pages) 14 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

The Graduate: Cinematic Elements

film that tells the story about the coming of age of a young man named Benjamin Braddock played by Dustin Hoffman. Ben who recently graduated from college with a Bachelor's degree is confused about h ...

(5 pages) 22 0 3.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Art Essays

The Human Chameleon: Essay on Meryl Streep

her first Oscar win: Best actress in a Supporting Role (IMDb). The movie, starring Streep alongside Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry, showed Meryl in a mildly darkened light as Joanna Kramer, the mothe ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Mar/2012

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors