...The 2001 French film Amelie, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a romantic comedy film about an introverted and isolated waitress set in Paris, France. The protagonist, Amelie, discovers a hidden box containing childhood memories in her apartment. After she eventually finds the man that this box belongs to, through several complications, this sets the course for the remainder of the film. She attempts to better the lives of others by covertly implementing schemes and make them appear as positive coincidences in everybody else’s eyes. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet imaginatively employs the usage of several traditional film characteristics, such as color implementation, special visual/sound effects, and character representation in order to portray...
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...irresistible urge to pop bubble wrap, or hearing that crunch on your first bite *bite breadstick*. Australia has a unique history that has shaped us to be known worldwide as one of the most culturally diverse countries based on our attitudes, values and beliefs. Ladies and gentleman, it is an honour for us to be given this opportunity today to show you why our chosen movie deserves a spot at the Brisbane Film Festival. This brilliant movie has surely captured many hearts around the world. Today we present you the romantic comedy, Amelie. With its dynamic range of historical and cultural elements, we promise you that this film is the best choice. Being the pinnacle of success out of all international movies, 2001 had the word Amelie pressed on the lips of millions of people. This movie allowed our hearts to become lighter and reminds us that we should never let go of hope. Awarded best film at the European Film Festival and 18 other awards, Amelie continues to spread the message that random acts of kindness like a boomerang will always return. DIRECTOR: For the past 20 years, Jean Pierre Jeunet is known as the dominant director of French industry. Blessed with the talent to create such unique and colourful films, Jeunet always manages to capture his audience. With an initial background as a filmmaker in cartoons and animation, Jeunet it now known for creating visually magical productions. Jeunet continuously transforms the...
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...et vous attirer dans le film comme il est différent. Lorsque les crédits sont jouées après, la musique est jouée qui est calme mais aussi très heureux et je pense que le réalisateur a utilisé cette musique pour montrer ce que le film serait comme ce qui est édifiant et émouvant. Il montre Amélie faire des choses différentes comme jouer avec du papier et des pièces de monnaie et portant les lunettes drôles il court clips, ce qui montre Amélie d'être innocent et content et heureux. Le directeur a identifié les différentes choses qu'elle fait avec les crédits, par exemple, quand il dit l'artiste de maquillage, il montre une peinture d'un visage sur sa main et de la cinématographie, il montre son porte des lunettes, ce qui montre le réalisateur a pensé à tous les petits détail. Cette scène est très bande dessinée comme le directeur et utilise différentes façons de montrer que nous voyons le monde à travers les yeux et l'imagination Amelies. Quand elle prend des photos des nuages, les formes des nuages dans un lapin donc nous montrent qu'elle est créative et la considère comme plus que juste un nuage. Dans cette scène quand elle doit mettre son poisson d'or de retour dans le canal, Amélie est triste et les changements climatiques de Nice à horrible et la pluie. Je pense que le directeur a fait et modifie le temps avec son humeur à montrer comment le film est Amelies monde et le temps représente comment elle se sent, ainsi que la couleur. Les couleurs utilisées dans le film sont...
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...highest in level of avoidance according to Hofstede’s Dimensions of Culture. Amelie seems to live in her own comfortable world, typically drifting towards solitude and regularity. However, things soon begin to change when she finds a small toy box hidden long ago by a young boy. Amelie’s mission to find this boy is a step outside of her comfort zone. She has cast herself into an uncertain situation that once the outcome is realized, will totally shift the way Amelie lives her life. Amelie does find the man who hid the box and feels that she has done something worthwhile, causing her to become a “do-gooder”. Though she makes this decision to try and help people in their daily lives, Amelie takes many actions to avoid ambiguous situations. To start, when Amelie finally does track down the man she avoids actually confronting or conversing with him. Instead, she attracts his attention by calling a phone booth as he walks by. When the man answers the phone she quickly hangs up, but she has left the box in the phone booth for the man to find. Another occurrence of avoiding a situation actually comes during the search for the boy who hid the box. During her search to knocks on the door of a neighbor who has long lived in the building. She quietly asks if the lady knows the boy that lived in the apartment long ago. The lady quickly invites Amelie into her home for a drink. This obviously unnerves Amelie and she is very hesitant to enter the woman’s home. Once she learns what she believes...
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...Rosaline Ham’s novel The Dressmaker and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Amelie both capture the idea of people getting what they want out of life: be it love, power, acceptance or revenge. The ambitions of the characters are shown through the use of character, colours, shots, settings and language techniques. Ham’s Teddy McSwiney and Jeunet’s Nino Quincampoix are looking for love, as is Amelie Poulain, who is also after acceptance, alongside Tilly Dunnage of The Dressmaker. Both texts explore the idea of having power, and the want for power to be destroyed through Collignon and Lucien in Amelie, and Evan and Marigold Pettyman and Percival and Irma Almanac in The Dressmaker. The central characters of the two texts, Tilly and Amelie, both share a common...
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...Marie Amelie Augustine Victoire Clementine Leopoldine was born in 1840 to King Leopold I of Belgium and Louise Marie d’Orleans, eldest daughter of King Louis Philippe of France.1 She was christened Marie Charlotte Amelie. Her mother Louise suggested calling her Charlotte in memory of King’ Leopold’s first wife, Princess Charlotte Augusta, who died in childbirth at Castle Clermont near Esher.2 Charlotte was extraordinarily intelligent. She was able to read before she was three years old. Charlotte worshipped her father, even though characteristically, King Leopold preferred not to have had a daughter, but a third son to assure his dynasty. By her fourth birthday, Charlotte had become her father’s pet, and he showered her with presents and a crown of roses. She was much like Leopold, interested in talking like a grown up and using complicated words. She was a happy, beautiful child with large dark eyes and black hair. She was very affectionate with her family and loved to play with her pet cat.3 In the summer of 1850, her grandfather, King Louis Phillippe, died in England. Her mother Queen Louise of Belgium never recovered from her father’s death. By October 10, 1850, she was dead. King Leopold, who had never been close to his sons, found consolation in his daughter’s company. The gay, affectionate child changed almost...
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...Amelie Response An idee fixe is an idea or desire that dominates the mind; an obsession. Usually a minor fixation where the average person had a strong like or dislike about a specific thing. From the moment the film Amelie starts the narrator talks about Amelie’s dysfunctional family and all their bizarre idee fixe . Her parents are odd people, as detailed in their "likes" and "dislikes" by the narrator which later causes Amelie to develop some fixations of her own. Amelie’s father Raphael was an emotionless man. He dislikes peeing next to someone, catching scornful glances at his sandals, and clingy wet swimming trunks. He really likes to peel large strips off wallpaper, emptying out his tool box, cleaning it out, and putting everything back. Amelie’s mother Amandine is a schoolmistress with a nervous tic in her eye. Amandine has an fixaton with figure skaters costume on TV, polishing the parquet, emptying her handbag, cleaning it out, and putting everything back. She dislikes puckered fingers in the bath, having her hands touched by strangers and finally pillow marks on her cheeks in the morning. Amandine was killed when a woman committing suicide landed on her. From that day Amelie’s father developed a new idee fixe, he became obsessed with building a shrine to her ashes . Amelie's father gave her yearly check-ups, and his nearness made her so nervous (because he was not demonstrative in their love, and Amelie wanted to be hugged) that her heart would beat very fast....
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...Communication - Kelly & Amelie’s Case Communicating efficiently at work is very important as having efficient communication prevents confusion to others and prevents possible major problems from happening or make problems that already exist worse. We have to ensure we use the appropriate communication channels according to the situation we are dealing with. For this unit, the problem that Amelie described to her boss Kelly, is that there is an athlete who is a candidate to appear in a sports drink commercial and the company wants to hire him. The hiring agent heard this candidate has been taking steroids per this agent’s investigation. The hiring agent called her supervisor seeking advice as to what direction to take due to time constrain, the supervisor must provide direction in a timely fashion and must ensure the candidate is not lost due to this. The candidate is not willing to take a drug test and the hiring agent is in the risk of losing this candidate to a coworker or to a competitor. Amelie’s coworkers want to overwrite her findings and sign this athlete. If I was Kelly the boss, I would ask this employee to draft an email providing details related to the issue or problem with this candidate and clearly indicate the key points of the conflict. When issues of this nature are communicated via phone call or voice mail, it leaves room for misinterpretation due to a lack of communication or verbal skills. Also, there is always the risk of having outside noise when having...
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...During the colonial time, as European domain spread physically on the map, they bring their culture and values abroad. While two different cultures coincide, a lot of problems are revealed. Alienation and feminism are two prominent themes during the colonial period. Both problems are revealed through novels Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Bronte’s Jane Eyre with Rhys’s focus on the cultural and racial difference whereas Bronte’s focus on economic power and moral strength of female. Fanon in the “Wretched of the Earth” says that the only solution for the colonized people is through violence. This radical idea underlies premises which draws from the social norms during the time period. Fanon says “The colonial world is a world cut in two” (38, Fanon). When colonizers come to the colony, they deem their culture better than the indigenous one and their goal is to put their values above the local ones. Hence it draws a clear line between the colonizer and colonized people. Because of the stark dichotomy, there is always tension in the colonies. It is only through the eyes of characters who stand in between the dichotomy and the through the different reaction as they maneuver between different classes that shows the problem during colonization. In Wide Sargasso Sea, Ryes rewrites Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre. Instead of describing her through other people’s eyes, she gives Bertha her own voice; she has a history and goes through different emotions. It is a text which represents the issue...
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...Corentin, ich komme aus Lüttich und wohne in Rouvreux mit meiner Freundin Amélie. ( jamais de „in“1988 en allemand!)Ich wurde/bin Im Jahre 1988 in Lüttich geboren, also bin ich 24 (vierundzwanzig) Jahre alt. Ich habe eine Schwester aber keinen Bruder. Meine Schwester ist 18 (achtzehn) Jahre alt und wohnt immer noch mit unseren Eltern in Beaufays. Meine Mutter ist Architektin in Chaudfontaine und mein Vater arbeitet bei der TEC in Lüttich (er ist Busfahrer). Meine kleine Schwester möchte eine Grundschullehrerin werden. Derzeit studiere ich Geschichte an der Universität Lüttich. Ich möchte mich besonders/vor allem mit den mittelalterlichen und Burgundischen Geschichten befassen. Ich habe schon einen Bachelorabschluss in Graphik von der Hochschule Saint-Luc in Lüttich. Als Hobby mag ich mittelalterliche Rekonstruktion. Ich begeistere mich auch für die graphische Kunst. Ich liebe die Kunst von (den) vierzehnten und fünfzehnten Jahrhunderten. Ich lese viele Geschichtsbücher oder noch Science-Fiction. Ich liebe besonders Alternativweltgeschichten und Zukunftsromane. Ich sehe viele Serien fern. Betreffend den Sport fahre ich gern Schi im Winter und schwimme ich gern im Sommer. Schlieβlich zeichne ich sehr gern. Ich zeichne auch sehr gern Tierskelette am Aquarium Lüttichs. Über das Essen esse ich alles und besonders italienisches und japanisches Essen. Ich liebe Sushi und roher Fisch. Mit meiner Freundin Amélie gehen wir oft in japanischen und chinesischen Restaurants. In Maastricht...
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...describe situations in which the lone character got into big problem(s), and ultimately, was unable to reach full success. Things just did not work out. The question is, is there evidence in the text, is there reason to believe, that the author would have wanted the character to do anything differently, so that the end result was successful? That is, might the author like us to think that these two situations, Santiago’s fishing trip(s) or Amelie at Yumimoto Corporation ----2. that the author never intended for the character to succeed, never cared about succeeding; the character failed in a big way because it was a story about failing; the point was not to advise the reader ‘don’t do it like this’; the point was, ‘there are important lessons people should learn about failure and humiliation. Answer Both the stories, Old Man and the Sea and Fear and Trembling have similarities. The main character go through hardships, suffering till the end, Santiago with catching the fish but losing it and Amelie getting hired at Yumimoto as a translator ends up cleaning bathrooms there. I believe that Hemingway never really cared about succeeding. I agree that the character failed in a big way but the point was not to advise the reader ‘don’t do it like this’; the point was, ‘there are important lessons people should learn about failure and humiliation.’ Santiago does not catch a single fish for consecutive eighty-four days and then when he goes determined...
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...Tourist Studies http://tou.sagepub.com/ Paris offscreen: Chinese tourists in cinematic Paris Yun-An Olivia Dung and Stijn Reijnders Tourist Studies 2013 13: 287 originally published online 30 August 2013 DOI: 10.1177/1468797613498164 The online version of this article can be found at: http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/3/287 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Tourist Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://tou.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/3/287.refs.html >> Version of Record - Nov 18, 2013 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Aug 30, 2013 What is This? Downloaded from tou.sagepub.com at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on January 5, 2014 498164 2013 TOU13310.1177/1468797613498164Tourist StudiesDung and Reijnders ts Article Paris offscreen: Chinese tourists in cinematic Paris Yun-An Olivia Dung Stijn Reijnders Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tourist Studies 13(3) 287–303 © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797613498164 tou.sagepub.com Leiden University, The Netherlands Abstract This article examines from a European-Asian perspective the relationship between media representations and the tourist’s imagination...
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.... 4. A) Physical development (3-8) – Margot is starting to do activities independently, she can probably start walking up stairs and holding pen and pencils. B) Intellectual development (3-8) – she’s going to start learning her manors, she will also learn how to eat and drink independently. Her behaviour will get better as well. C) Emotional development (3-8) – They can tell peoples emotions and they might copy someone else’s emotions. D) social development (3-8) – around this age she might start making new friends around the area. 5. Her life style will be good in the future as she does sport with her father, she lives in a clean environment as well. It also doesn’t say anything about her loving technology so that’s good! 6. Amelie is a good role model as she stays at home with Margot sometimes, but Margot sometimes has to be with the childminder. Its also good as Margot is learning two language’s, she’s started speaking French and English. Her mother speaks...
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...M.A. Digital Culture and Technology Digital Effect Dissertation Proposal Introduction The aim of this dissertation is to question the nature of digital cinema and its relationship to analogue filmmaking. I would like to argue that “pure” digital or analogue cinema does not exist anymore. Even films which are shot and edited using digital technology, in most cases, eventually will be printed onto film in order to be projected. I am interested in the transformation of storytelling and narration caused by digital revolution. I will analyse the shift that occurred in cinema after 1997, when the video techniques became more popular. I would like to avoid simplifying or dismissive statements about the aesthetics developed by digital techniques. It is a very rare occurrence for a film to be entirely analogue or digital. Therefore, I intend to talk about the intersection of digital and analogue techniques and the effect that digital practices have upon the tradition of storytelling. In their analysis of new media, Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell describe this intersection of analogue and digital with a term “digitextuality”. This fusion of “digital” and “intertextuality” illustrates the process in which old media acquire new shape and form: M.A. Digital Culture and Technology New digital media technologies make meaning not only by building a new text through absorption and transformation of other texts, but also by embedding the entirety of other texts (analogue and digital)...
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...Egypt has one of the richest cultural and religious histories in the world. The level of advancement of the ancient Egyptian culture was higher than that of its neighbors. The Egyptian culture helped in the advancement of various aspects of humanity. The significance of the Egyptian culture in the modern day world makes it one of the most studied cultures in the world. Contemporary mathematics has its roots in the ancient Egyptian culture. Ancient Egyptians used various form to express their culture. Of all the forms used to express Ancient Egyptian culture, none is more significant than the Egyptian art. Ancient Egyptian art give insights into the ancient Egyptian culture. In ancient Egypt, sculpture had a significant religious and political importance. Art symbolized various seasons and religious practices. Sculpture continues to have a significant political and religious importance in the contemporary world, just as it did in the ancient Egyptian culture. The giant stone head of King Amenhotep III is one of the sculptures that symbolize ancient Egyptian culture. The giant stone head of King Amenhotep III is 2.5 meters high and is a portrait of the king with very youthful features. The head has double crowns, which represent the unification of the Upper and Lower Egypt. The upper crown of ancient Egyptian kings was white with the lower crown being red. In essence, the king was the symbol of the unification of the ‘two lands’ (Kuhrt 125). Egyptian art for kings was usually...
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