...prominent changes is the theme of morality; the movie removes a lot of the morality present in the book. In the beginning of the book, the girls are set a moral goal by their father: “conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women” (Alcott chapter 1). This is a very important scene of the book but the movie does not make any reference to this goal. Even though I feel like the book over-emphasized morality, by removing a lot of that morality, the movie removes the piety from the family and doesn’t sow the journey the girls make from little girls into little women, which is the crux of the book. The movie seldom talks about religion or what it is to be good and instead gives a modern take on morality; Meg refuses to wear silk dresses because of child labor used in producing them, which reflects a more modern moral concern. Many moral lessons in the book were removed from the movie, such as the girls buying Christmas presents for Marmee instead of themselves, Jo’s conversation with her mother about her temper where her mother admits that she is: “ I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do so “(Alcott chapter 8). I believe the omissions were made as they did not fit in with the new modern ideas being integrated in the movie. The movie has a modern feminist theme and it is made clear...
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...Since I was little, I’ve been raised in a loving and caring household. However, I’m conscious of what violence is and how it surrounds me, outside of my little bubble. I understand white because I know what black is. “Precious” is a perfect movie to contrast my lifestyle and to explain all of this. Being based on Sapphire’s book “Push”, it has a literary background and interesting way of telling the story as if it were a diary. Now, how can we compare these two masterpieces? Lets start from the top, its name. As we the movie lovers know, there’s an action film titled “Push” too. Therefore, we conclude that to avoid confusions, Claireece P. Jones’ film directors and producers decided to change the name. Throughout the book, we can see that the word push is often used to indicate Precious that she has to “push it to the limit”. Situations where it happens are when she is about to give birth to her child and Ms. Rain inducing her to learn how to read and write. Therefore, the novel’s name goes better with the social problem that Sapphire was trying to reflect through her lines. People that live under marginalization or other limitations have to give a little extra in order to survive in this world; society can’t win the battle. The movie was more about the protagonist. Lee Daniels had the job to make us get into Precious’ life, feel her suffer and understand what she went through. That’s why the film name was more appropriate. Now, I’m going to confess that I saw the movie a long time...
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...Film Comparison The power and intrigue of a story is determined by the subject matter, and how that subject matter is presented. People who make films have the freedom to manipulate any story, or subject matter. Films which portray real historical, and personal events need to be viewed with the understanding that the form of the film needs to coincide with the content in order for it to be credible. The film Tarnation is a documentary film about a man’s life. John Caouette combines hours of filmed footage from his life. Home movies, photographs from before he was born, answering machine tapes, snippets of short films, and 1980’s pop culture come together to create a fast paced, unsettling, tragic, and dramatic story. This part documentary, part narrative tells the story of his life, and how every aspect of it was affected by the mental instability that his mother experienced from a very young age. Tarnation deals with the themes of family, rape, child abuse, drug addiction, promiscuity, abandonment, and psychosis. The form of the film takes on a very dramatic, and anxious feel. A lot of the footage is shown in fast and short clips. There are times when videos cut in and out at a speed that relates to which part of John’s life is being portrayed. This diary in the form of a movie is raw and emotional. The chaos, and aggressiveness is portrayed not only through the events in John’s life, but the form of the film. The editing of the footage shown in this movie...
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...1. Francis Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and many short stories. He is worldwide recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and the time called the „Jazz Age”. His most famous works are „The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and „The Great Gatsby” which have been adapted into films. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for many movie adaptations of the same name in 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and the latest in 2013. 2. Baz Luhrmann Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (1962 - ) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Australia and the newest version of The Great Gatsby released in 2013. 3. „The Great Gatsby” – the plot of the novel The Great Gatsby is an American novel written in 1925 that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young, handsome and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his unrealistic illusion and passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Major characters Nick Carraway – a Yale graduate originating from the Midwest, a World War I veteran, and, at the start of the plot, a newly arrived resident of West Egg, who is about 30 years old. He serves as the first-person narrator of the novel. He is Gatsby's next-door neighbour and a bond salesman. He is an easy-going, occasionally...
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...2016 Paper #2, Topic 1 Cleopatra Throughout time Cleopatra has been distinguished with many different characters, some as a kind hearted others as the ruling queen that can conquer anything. When relating to the Horace’s Odes and Plutach’s Life of Mark Antony to the 1999 movie of Cleopatra directed by Franc Roddam. Cleopatra might have taken many characters throughout years but when comparing everything she has some characteristics that are the same and some that are pursued differently. She was smart and clever woman that knew everything that was going around her. Cleopatra was also considered a strong independent women by being able to rule Egypt without any King. Even though she was powerful queen she always had a love for men. Cleopatra can be portrayed with many different characteristics but will always have be loving and powerful queen of Egypt through all points of view. Cleopatra was recognized as a very smart woman that has the capabilities to outsmart anyone. She knows the plans of men in which she is able to outmaneuver them when needed. Cleopatra shows her cleverness through the actions with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar. For example in the movie, Cleopatra is being seen as a sneaky women that just wants power and does things strategically to get what she wants. She wanted to become queen and by taking over Caesars heart she was able to marry and get what she always wanted. People hated Caesar for having Cleopatra become queen of Egypt and people always thought...
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...believe during this particular time in our history, that money is doing more harm than good; I spend my money faster than I can make it, just like many Americans do. The morality part of this topic is that money is not the answer to the privileged people’s problems (though we think it is). However, money in the right hands can literally save lives. All that I have to do is give money to charity. Do I sacrifice that new television to give a little to the extremely poor? Or do I buy the latest one (even though I already own three good working televisions)? The answer is simple, spend less, save more, and give as much as I can to the less fortunate. Topic My definition of happiness 07:43 PM 10/3/2011 Happiness means a lot of different things to a lot of people in my time. Many people consider happiness to be big houses and big cars, and being able to afford expensive wardrobes from many fashion designers. This is not what I consider happiness to be. To get to know me just a little, I will fill in a bit of background information (the abridge version). My early childhood was terrible, being raised by poor, abusive white trash family, bouncing around the country, missing a lot...
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...Jackson Martin #1 The Myth-and Symbol School is generally regarded as the first theoretical contribution of American Studies to scholarly interpretations of the past. Richard Slotkin is part of a group called “Old West” historians who ascribe to the Myth-and-Symbol School when interpreting American history. This thought-process stresses a collection of popular sentiments of the Frontier era in order to create an environment that has some structure. A result of this approach is that it allows continuity to the reader when studying the frontier. For instance, Slotkin notices in his analysis of “The Adventures of Col, Daniel Boone that: “Filson creates a character who becomes the archetypal hero of the American frontier, copied by imitators and plagiarists and appearing innumerable times under other names and in other guises -- in literature, the popular arts, and folklore -- as the man who made the wilderness safe for democracy” (Slotkin 268-69) This shows how his character became an archetype to himself and all other frontiersmen. Because of this, the circumstances may change in the frontier, but its actors do not. As Slotkin describes the character of he furthers this argument and identifies “the most distinctive trait of Boone’s character was his love for the wild land” (Slotkin 298). While this approach is valuable due to minimal historical documentation, its methodology is intrinsically too simple to be taken seriously. Additionally, “Old West” perspectives usually...
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...Introduction The report is based on a movie “Kinky Boots” and the character ‘Lola’ who has played a strong and inspirational role, with great lessons for the people in our society. As a student, it is a good movie to watch and learn many things from the character Lola. The story of the movie revolves around the character “Charlie Price”, who was forced to step in and save his family’s shoe factory, due to the sudden death of his father in Northern England. Charlie was helpless and has no idea how to save his company from bankruptcy. He found an unexpected inspiration in the form of Lola, a fabulous drag performer. Lola helps Charlie discover that there are cross dressers who demand high heeled boots and there is an opportunity to serve this niche market segment. The movie shows how an unsuccessful business can be transformed into a successful business. How leaders should play its role, what kind of approach is required to make a difference. The movie has many lessons on leadership, personality, & behavior for business school students. How an effective leadership of Lola brought changes in the life of Charlie. It all became possible through acceptance of diversity, commitment and bringing new ideas to the table, an important message for the business owners of today. The report will focus on the character ‘Lola’ in relation with the class lectures. Discussion Identification & Application Kinky Boots is a great inspirational movie, with strong lessons for business leaders...
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...Looking over various articles from writers I used sound reasoning to break down and analyze their work. Picking a couple of articles out to focus on from the book Monsters I began reading their view points and perspectives from which they wrote the piece. How they decided to argue their case of their choice of subject matter and any fallacies that were possibly used within the text that they felt helped their case. Some fallacies I see helped to make their points better off with a little exaggeration of the situation or comparisons while others seemed a bit more too far off for me. All writers have a different style with variations from the language and words used to the approach they take getting their view across. Let’s begin looking into these articles and see what the writer is trying to tell us through their unique choice and approach they take. In The...
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...passively watching movies and actively looking at movies. ✔ understand the defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art. ✔ understand how and why most of the formal mechanisms of a movie remain invisible to casual viewers. ✔ understand the relationship between viewers’ expectations and filmmakers’ decisions about the form and style of their movies. ✔ explain how shared belief systems contribute to hidden movie meaning. ✔ explain the difference between implicit and explicit meaning, and understand how the different levels of movie meaning contribute to interpretive analysis. medium. With so much experience, no one could blame you for wondering why you need a course or this book to tell you how to look at movies. After all, you might say, “It’s just a movie.” For most of us most of the time, movies are a break from our daily obligations—a form of escape, entertainment, and pleasure. Motion pictures had been popular for fifty years before even most filmmakers, much less scholars, considered movies worthy of serious study. But motion pictures are much more than entertainment. The movies we see shape the way we view the world around us and our place in that world. What’s more, a close analysis of any particular movie can tell us a great deal about the artist, society, or industry that created it. Surely any art form with that kind of influence and insight is worth understanding on the deepest possible level. ✔ understand...
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...Analysis of Major Characters Lennie Although Lennie is among the principal characters in Of Mice and Men, he is perhaps the least dynamic. He undergoes no significant changes, development, or growth throughout the novel and remains exactly as the reader encounters him in the opening pages. Simply put, he loves to pet soft things, is blindly devoted to George and their vision of the farm, and possesses incredible physical strength. Nearly every scene in which Lennie appears confirms these and only these characteristics. Although Steinbeck’s insistent repetition of these characteristics makes Lennie a rather flat character, Lennie’s simplicity is central to Steinbeck’s conception of the novel. Of Mice and Men is a very short work that manages to build up an extremely powerful impact. Since the tragedy depends upon the outcome seeming to be inevitable, the reader must know from the start that Lennie is doomed, and must be sympathetic to him. Steinbeck achieves these two feats by creating a protagonist who earns the reader’s sympathy because of his utter helplessness in the face of the events that unfold. Lennie is totally defenseless. He cannot avoid the dangers presented by Curley, Curley’s wife, or the world at large. His innocence raises him to a standard of pure goodness that is more poetic and literary than realistic. His enthusiasm for the vision of their future farm proves contagious as he convinces George, Candy, Crooks, and the reader that such a paradise might be possible...
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...Character Comparison A character is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. They are usually a person in a novel, play, or movie. There are many types of characters in a fiction writing. A well written fiction story should have an array of different types of characters to strengthen the plot and keep the context well rounded. The most important character, the major or central character, are vital to the development and resolution of the conflict. Minor characters serve to compliment the major characters and help move the plot events forward. Dynamic characters change over time and static characters do not. Round Characters have a personality while flat do not. Protagonist is referred to as the stories main character and...
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...So, I’m going to have to do to this one what I did to the first one, and again, I fully acknowledge the Plinkett reviews as a source for me to draw from. The big difference here is that while I was more than willing to give a little leeway to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones gets no such love. Plain and simple: this movie was terrible. The Direction First and foremost, we need to remember one big thing about the first 3 movies: only one was directed by George Lucas. The other 2 were done by directors Lucas respected (Kershner and Marquand). These movies are 100% Lucas and, in the case of Clones, he elected to direct a movie that was nearly entirely filmed against a green screen. This allowed him to do filming of characters against a blank canvas while allowing him to basically design whatever world he wanted around them. Green screens had long been used for special effects and matte fills, but hadn’t been used this heavily at this time. While Episode II wasn’t a full “digital backlot” film, there were tons and tons of shots that had actors doing their thing with nothing around them but green cloth. The upside here is that digital backlots can save a lot of money in film production since you don’t have to build sets that are either very complicated (aka “expensive”) or utterly impossible. The downside is that if your director isn’t, you know… an actor’s director, the actors all end up like they’re acting in front of a bunch of green cloth because they have nothing...
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...Introduction Mass culture would have most readers and viewers believing that the Post-modern American male is a simple creature. Common stereotypes margin male satisfaction in a minimal setting – a Lazyboy armchair in a lounge with a flat screen TV playing ‘the game’ along with primal banter regarding women. More often than not, this is washed down with a beer. With this array of comfort and leisure we are inclined to believe that male lifestyle has reached its peak on the timeline of satisfaction. This was until David Fincher took Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club and made it into a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. With the male demographic being the hardest to pinpoint in the literature sense, David Fincher’s adaptation helpfully put Palahniuk’s thoughts into the cinematic forefront. This increased the popularity of Palahniuk’s other works and placed him in the cannon of Post-modern American fiction. It is the issues of modern masculinity that grasps critics’ attention more so than any other Palahniuk themes. It is very apparent that masculinity has changed as a natural progression of modernisation. This dissertation will analyse masculinity as it is depicted in Palahniuk’s writings and explore Palahniuk’s intentions and beliefs. I will interpret the responses of select critics in order to gain some understanding of what Palahniuk deems to be the ideal model of masculinity in the modern world, beneath his post-modern twists, transgressive characterization and...
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...The media and womens body image Its been argued that the western culture is a culture so consumed by image that those with fame give praise for being thin and disapproval for being fat, birthing a generation of women and girls that are often extremely self conscious about their appearance and body image. Media images of the unattainable thin body can be found almost anywhere. There has been continual interest in women’s body image throughout the years. Is there truth in the fact that women’s self-esteem and eating patterns are affected by what a woman sees in the media? Have this been researched enough to show the link between poor body image and the media’s portrayal of women and could this research allow for successful interventions to be evaluated and implemented. Could and intervention lead to fewer cases of anorexia and bulimia and could this lead to increased self-esteem and a more positive body image amongst women? The question many people want to know is if this is the case, where did these stereotypes come from exactly? Is it from the movie, television industry, fashion and beauty magazinesor is it from social and cultural influences , or maybe its just something we learn naturally. Does it really affect women and adolescent females selfworth, or does it go beyond that, leading to serious medical conditions? This paper explores the different factors that influences women body image and if the media is soley responsible for how adolescents and women view their body...
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