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Alien

A rather unglamorous looking spaceship floats through the darkness of space. Its name is The Promise, and it carries with it a population of 131,079. There are only seven crew members, the rest are all part of a cargo of men, women and children in hyper-sleep stasis. These are the elite and wealthy members of the human race who have used their privilege to leave behind an ecologically devastated Earth for the untainted new frontier of a planet orbiting the Alpha Centauri star.The Promise is a paradoxical craft. Although it...
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Social Realism Film Review

Whoever said that “art for art sake" is enough should think twice.Even in the earlier centuries, art has played a very vital role in arousing social consciousness. Art has been used to express contention over repressive social phenomena. Works of art which depict social issues are more likely to be appreciated than those which are mere expression of the artist's personal interests.In the United States, during the Great Depression in the 1930's, the American Scene Painters became known for its works depicting social realism. These social realists are into exposing...
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“The Hound of the Baskervilles”

This paper is a review of the BBC movie “The Hound of the Baskervilles", (2003), starring Richard Roxburgh as Sherlock Holmes, Ian Hart as Dr Watson, Richard E. Grant as Stapleton. The movie is a dramatization of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel of the same title, first published as a monthly serial in The Strand Magazine in 1901. The paper proposes to discuss the following elements of the movie, as outlined hereafter: The storyline, in which it will give a basic breakdown of what occurs in the movie...
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Runaway Jury

SummaryA trader in New Orleans was killed at his workplace by a disgruntled man who ruthlessly open fired on his former colleagues. The widow, Celeste Wood, sued the gun company whom she held responsible for her husband's death (John, 2008). With the help of her attorney, Wendell Rohr, a man of principle, they went against a ruthless behemoth, a jury consultant Rankin Fitch. Fitch has years of experience in manipulating the decision of the jury to the favor of high paying clients. “He will know everything about their lives, and...
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Starship Troopers: Of the Cinema Situation and the Creation of Media Spectacle

“In the darkness of the cinema…lies the very fascination of the film (any film)," writes French literary critic Roland Barthes (as cited in Lopate, 1994, p.419) in his essay ‘Leaving the Movie Theater'. He was referring to the way darkness in a cinema hall gives off a hypnotic effect, encapsulating a viewer and giving him/her freedom. Barthes writes further:….the movie spectator could easily appropriate the silkworm's motto: Inclusum labor illustrat; it is because I am enclosed that I work and glow with all my desire. (as cited in Lopate, 1994,...
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Your favorite movie character

The females in the movies "Psycho" (director Alfred Hitchcock) and "The Graduate" (director Micke Nichols) are drawn as being very immoral. They could be easily charged with stealing money, adultery, incest, and even murder.Marion Crane (actress Janet Leigh) is young and pretty, she works as an estate secretary. During her lunch breaks she meets her lover, Sam in cheep hotel rooms. He comes all the way from Fairvale only to spend a little time with her. She is obviously very much in love with him, but very unsatisfied with her...
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Your favorite program on Television

I choose the comedy-drama Desperate Housewives. (2004) It is a contemporary take on the fairytale "Happily Ever After" where the woman expects to have a happy life with her husband after the wedding. Desperate Housewives is said to have saved television from reality shows by bringing back well-written original writing. It is the first written television show in a long time that does not only relay on editing video to create a story. It is a television show with a written plot, characters, sub-plots, and plot points written by actual...
8 min

Serial Killers

By definition, one is labeled or called a serial killer when he/she murdered three or more people in three or more separate events over a period of time, resulting to his/her great psychological fulfillment and satisfaction. With this definition, anyone can be a serial killer: no race, age, and gender boundaries. Anyone can also be the victim under specified circumstances where the killers are and willing to slay.Another important term that is necessary to extract its legal definition is capital punishment. Capital punishment is also popularly known as Capital Sentence...
10 min

Saving Private Ryan

This was a remarkable film, depicting one of the landmark fights between the allied forces and the Germans, during the world war II. One of the most remarkable aspect of this film is that it is film based on human grounds, though it is set in one of the bloodiest clashes, during the world war II. Not one or two, but eight brothers of the same family had died during the American civil war, and this inspired the writer of a plot, which is set in the world war II....
7 min

Schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind

The movie A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001) tells the story of John Nash, a mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia. The movie begins when Nash is working on his PhD at Princeton in the 1950s. Treatment for schizophrenia was different in the 1950s than it is now. This paper, which addresses the treatment of Nash, will be written as if Nash was being diagnosed and treated today and not 50 years ago. The movie was based on the book by Sylvia Nasar.University Students Usually Tell EssayLab specialists:Who wants to write...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun

The essay about film The Marriage of Maria Braun deals with life in post-World War II Germany and especially the way in which women's lives were changed by the social and political movements that came onto the scene. Throughout the film there are many elements present that help to show the historical representation of World War II and its effects on the people who had to rebuild Germany following the end of the war, two of the most important being the issues of memory and history and how they shape...
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Mythology in Movie

Moral Conflict and Mythology in 3:10 to Yuma MovieStories about moral conflict and mythology have been parts of American films for the simple reason that they effectively depict the innate and fundamental nature of American life. This is aside from the fact that Americans, through such films, are given the chance to recognize and accept myth in its most fundamental condition. One such specific or concrete example of American mythology, which likewise manifests ethical conflict within a society, is the Western tales. Myths, when told or visualized in movies, allow...
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Multinational Firms in Asia

Coca-Cola in China: Challenges and Strategies of Multinational Firms in AsiaBeverage giant Coca-Cola Company's entry into the Chinese market began in 1927 but it was not until 1979 that the company built its first bottling plant on Chinese shores following Deng Xiaoping's decision to open China to foreign investors (Weisert, 2001). Today, Coca Cola's China operations account for up to $1.2B in its earnings and is currently one of Coca Cola's fastest growing markets (Jagger, 2007), providing the company with a significant source of revenue to counter declining sales in...
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Movie 300

300 is an action/adventure film that has classifications of violence, nudity and sexual situations. Released by Warner Brothers, 300 is a Zack Snyder film whose main cast includes Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan and Rodrigo Santoro. The plot of the movie retells the Battle of Thermopylae back in 480 B.C. where a troop of “300" Spartans under the command of Warrior-King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) battled the estimated 200,000 to two million Persians. Greatly inferior in number to the vast force of Persians who were ruled...
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Latinos in Films

A silent motion picture released in the year 1920, The Mark of Zorro showed Douglas Fairbanks as a heroic representative of the Spanish colony of California. He was Don Diego Vega alias Zorro, a kind of batman or superman against forces of evil. He was also the Robin Hood hiding himself behind a mask. When he acted on behalf of Spain, he was weak, effeminate and a traitor besides. But, when Zorro took his stand against evildoers he was strong, powerful, and all words connected to the faithful – he...
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