...Kubrick’s Success Stanley Kubrick was one of the most famous and most recognized film directors of modern cinema. His milestone works were also often subject to controversy. It was yet ironic that the academy ignored him despite the perfectly executed elements in his films such as cinematography, narrative, production design and casting. It would be impossible to pin point the exact contributor to his success, since the combined form of all those elements are the source of the beauty and depth in his movies. For example the movie ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ would not retain the atmospheric intensity of the ballade if the music playing was ascend, which was a reversed version of a Romanian Liturgy. However, there must be a key element that distinguishes Kubrick from his contemporaries. Perhaps a secret formula? In my opinion a pattern of his style can be observed throughout his movies which is essentially staging to both convey an ambiguous narrative through visuals and add an overall visual aesthetic and beauty. This can also be identified as mise-en-scene. We can see that Kubrick was so keen on the on staging of the film that his movies took many shots until the perfect and satisfactory result was achieved by Kubrick. As one of the special photographic effects designer Douglas Trumbull in the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ indicates in his essay: “One of the most serious problem that plagued us throughout the production was simply keeping track of all the ideas, shots, and...
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...Consider 2001: A Space Odyssey’s most poignant character - HAL 9000. The story of HAL 9000 is a cautionary one paralleling Frankenstein. HAL (short for Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) is a hyper-intelligent computer developed after years of research and experimentation. However, he may indeed be too human, and for this reason he must be deconstructed by humans. Nature is the only force allowed to create life in our cultural consciousness, so any human attempt must necessarily fail; here, HAL illustrates the role of the monster as the protector of social norms. What is ultimately disturbing about HAL’s demise is that when he dies, he speaks of his parents, creating (just as Frankenstein’s monster does) an uneasy sympathetic relationship...
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...We Were Soldiers vs. Platoon After watching both of these films I noticed how combat was portrayed in the movie Platoon was different from the movie we were soldiers In the movie we were soldiers it was portrayed around several different officers it was focused on them and how they carried out their mission and how they took care of their men also they showed how on a platoon level and squad level were able to follow the battalion commander on the battlefield some example of the officers such as Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley EST. However you tend to lose track of the different officers such as Lt. Herrick that charged up the hill and leads his platoon after a scout and then got himself shoot and his platoon sergeant shoot also and then it focuses the action around Sergeant Ernie Savage how assumes command of what’s left of his platoon after almost being slaughtered and calls in artillery and uses the cover of night to keep the Vietnamese from over-running their small defensive position. In the movie Platoon the movie really centered on the enlisted man the officers were not seen in the movie a lot like we were soldiers and the officers did not to be takecare of their men and in the movie as much as we were soldiers it mainly focused on that one platoon or the squad of soldiers, the interaction between the members of the squad, the squad leader and the platoon sergeant within just that squad I believe that one of the most...
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...wars are often recorded in history, and those wars seem to be embedded into the human condition. Plato said, "Only the dead have seen the end of war." So as long as humans are around, there will be war, and therefore, people to tell the stories of the wars and the battles that are part of our history. The broad specter of war is often recorded as sterilized and impersonal narration dealing with politics, strategies and reasoning to explain the how and the why of battles. Such accounts are often written by historians that were not present at the battle or were safely experiencing it from a safe remote command center far from the killing. "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" is a historical biography written by retired Lieutenant General Hal Moore and UPI Reporter Joe Galloway that recalls the events of the first major battle of the Vietnam War. The battle took place in the Ia Drang Valley between November 14 and November 18, 1965 at two landing zones northwest of Plei Me in the central Highlands of South Vietnam (approximately 35 miles south-west of Pleiku). The battle derives its name from the Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of Plei Me, in which the engagement took place. "Ia" means "river" in the local Montagnard language. The battle was fought between the US 7'th Cavalry's newly established Air Mobile forces and a mixture of Viet-Cong guerilla's and highly trained North Vietnam Army troops. General Moore was a Lieutenant Colonel at the time of this battle...
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...Summary The man-apes of the world, who lived by gathering berries and nuts, were facing a lack of food. A giant monolith appeared on Earth one day and began to experiment with many of them, probing and developing their minds. Among those in whom the monolith took an interest was Moon-Watcher, the only man-ape who walked fully upright. At night, a few select man-apes were taught and during the day, they innovated. Moon-Watcher discovered that he could fashion tools with which to kill animals for sustenance—the man-apes' hunger problem was solved. Time passed and the man-ape evolved. His brain grew, he invented language and organized into civilizations, and he invented weapons—first knives, but then guns and finally nuclear missiles. Such innovations had been central in man's dominion over earth, but "as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time." Eager to embark on another space mission, Dr. Heywood Floyd arrived at the Florida launch location after meeting with the president. He offered no comment to the press, nor would he reveal the details of mission to the crew that served him so faithfully on board or to his Russian friend whom he encounters at the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. space station, a stop on his journey to the Moon. Upon his arrival, Floyd is greeted by a top official of the Moon colony and whisked off to a meeting. A lead scientist explains that they had found a magnetic disturbance in Tycho, one of the Moon's craters. An examination of the area had revealed...
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...We Were Soldiers vs. Platoon After watching both of these films I noticed how combat was portrayed in the movie Platoon was different from the movie we were soldiers In the movie we were soldiers it was portrayed around several different officers it was focused on them and how they carried out their mission and how they took care of their men also they showed how on a platoon level and squad level were able to follow the battalion commander on the battlefield some example of the officers such as Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore, Sergeant Major Basil L. Plumley EST. However you tend to lose track of the different officers such as Lt. Herrick that charged up the hill and leads his platoon after a scout and then got himself shoot and his platoon sergeant shoot also and then it focuses the action around Sergeant Ernie Savage how assumes command of what’s left of his platoon after almost being slaughtered and calls in artillery and uses the cover of night to keep the Vietnamese from over-running their small defensive position. In the movie Platoon the movie really centered on the enlisted man the officers were not seen in the movie a lot like we were soldiers and the officers did not to be takecare of their men and in the movie as much as we were soldiers it mainly focused on that one platoon or the squad of soldiers, the interaction between the members of the squad, the squad leader and the platoon sergeant within just that squad I believe that one of the most...
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...Movie Review We Were Soldiers Burt Thomas Liberty University CRIS303 – B01 Movie Review We Were Soldiers We Were Soldiers is a movie written and directed by Randall White. It is based on a book, We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Lt. Col. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway. It details the account of both men, as well as the men under Moore’s command during the battle of the Ia Drang Valley. The battle takes place early in the Viet Nam War and the movie provides a historical, as well as dramatic recount of the battle and the lives of the men who fought it. Movie Synopsis A narrator begins the movie by retelling the story of the French involvement in the early days of the Viet Nam War. There is a graphic depiction of violence as the French soldiers are killed, and the viewer is briefly introduced to Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An. Lt. Col An would later command the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers during the battle with Moore’s soldiers. Eleven years later, the army is establishing an air cavalry division and Lt. Col. Moore is selected to command them. Mel Gibson, in the role of Lt. Col. Moore enlists the help of Maj. Bruce “Snake” Crandall, played by Greg Kinnear. Crandall’s crew of pilots is made up of a motley group of men and his pilots and equipment are considered to be some of the best in the Army at the time. The division is redesignated as the 7th Cavalry, and Moore notes the irony in its designation - this is the same...
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...Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude is a cult classic from the 1970’s. Harold and Maude is a romantic comedy that centers around a young boy, Harold Chasen, an elderly woman, Maude and their odd relationship. Harold has this unusual obsession with death, and Ashby demonstrates his fascination through the comedic twist between Harold’s mother and Harold. However even Maude is also fascinated in death. She lives her life to the fullest attending funerals where Harold also goes simply because they enjoy “death”. Throughout the movie, Maude influences Harold and changes his perspective about death and the two of them eventually evolve into a romantic relationship. Ashby begins the film introducing Harold Chasen, with a close up tracking his feet, not allowing the viewers to see his face, until two minutes in the film, however even then, his face is hard to make out because the only source of light comes from the window. The moment we do see his face, Ashby reveals the relationship between him and his mother. From the moment we meet Harold, it is obvious that he is anything but joyful. He is pale, dead looking, wearing fancy suits and ties black, grey and brown. Black being a color of grief helps to show his obsession with death has him looking like death. Ashby takes the audience along with Harold to one of his favorite spots, a cemetery. Here we are introduced with a vibrant, old woman named Maude. They come into contact at a funeral and we notice their distinctive personalities. Maude...
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...Iѕ Glоbalizatiоn Аmеriсanizatiоn? Contempory World Culture Iѕ Glоbalizatiоn Аmеriсanizatiоn? In thе еarly ninеtееnth Cеntury (1900’ѕ), “Аmеriсanizatiоn” rеfеrrеd tо thе mоvеmеnt whеrе rеfugееѕ wеrе dеvеlоpеd intо UЅ сitizеnѕ. Nоw, in соntеmpоrary’ѕ wоrld, thе tеrm haѕ a diѕtinсtivе, but ѕamе mеaning thе glоbalizatiоn by thе U.Ѕ. оf thе wоrld (Mеndiѕ, 2007). Тhе UЅ есоnоmy iѕ an еvеr-prеѕеnt fоrсе in thе wоrld nоwadayѕ. Pеpѕi adѕ nоw сluttеr thе ѕtrееtѕ оf еvеry largе сity in China, Big Maсѕ arе bеing оrdеrеd all оvеr thе whоlе wоrld, and thе tеrm “Аlwayѕ Cосa-Cоla” iѕ bеing muttеrеd by all оf Eurоpе, althоugh thеy havе nо nоtiоn what thе phraѕе mеanѕ. It iѕ my faith that Аmеriсanizatiоn prоvidеѕ оthеr соuntriеѕ a falѕе ѕеnѕе оf thе UЅ lifеѕtylе and, ultimatеly, сauѕеѕ hatrеd fоr thе Аmеriсan and thrеatѕ оn оur pоwеr and libеrty. (Kоvеn, 2010) Ovеr thе laѕt fеw dесadеѕ, UЅ сapitaliѕm haѕ quiсkly takеn оvеr thе whоlе wоrld. Nоt еvеn thе mоѕt ѕосialiѕt соuntriеѕ оf China and Ruѕѕia arе immunе tо thiѕ faѕt attaсk оf UЅ сulturе (Kоvеn, 2010). China’ѕ yоuth nоwadayѕ сan nоt оnly watсh Тhе X-Filеѕ, Baywatсh, and thе latеѕt mоviеѕ frоm Тоm Cruiѕе fоr amuѕеmеnt, but alѕо gо tо thе Аmеriсan Drеam Park, an еntеrtainmеnt park in Ѕhanghai whiсh dupliсatеѕ uѕual UЅ attraсtiоnѕ. Whеn thеy gеt ѕtarving, thе Chinеѕе сan еat at any оf 130 MсDоnald’ѕ rеѕtaurantѕ оr gеt takеоut frоm Bоѕtоn Chiсkеn and Dоminо’ѕ Pizza. Ruѕѕia, tоо, haѕ bееn having itѕ ѕharе оf UЅ сulturе. In ninеtееn-ninеty-ѕix...
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...memory circuits of Hal, an artificial brain that controls the space ship. He feels that someone is tinkering with the brain to make it change. He also goes into saying he doesn’t enjoy reading anymore of any length of time because he can’t really concentrate on the book. He’s not thinking the way he used to think. He can feel it most wrongly when he is reading. He begins looking for something else to do. Over a decade he’s been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing the great database of the so called internet. He states the Web has been a godsend to him as a writer. He feels instead of being a diver in the seas of worlds, he sees himself as a guy on a jet ski. He confessed recentely that he has stopped reading books altogher. We’ve been reading more since tat 1970’s and 1980’s, when the television was our medium choice. “We are not only what we read” says Wolf, a developmental psychologist. She states the “efficiency and immediacy above all else, may be weakening out capacity for the kind of deep/complex words of prose commonplace” The net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image. In inject the medium’s content with hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws, and it surrounds the content with the content of all the others media it has absorbed. The internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information. In the article, titled “Facebook in a Crowd” Hal Niedzviecki discusses...
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...the film’s release. “A Space Odyssey” book reviews discuss the plot, characters and themes found in the story. One can learn more about the different literary elements that should be examined in the story. According to the plot of the movie the space navigators David Bowman and Frank Poole, along with three frozen hibernauts and a talkative computer named Hal, are aboard the spaceship Discovery on a mission to Saturn. They told that the purpose of the mission is to enter and explore the atmosphere of the planet. Trouble arises, however, when Hal announces that the computer's Fault Prediction Center indicates failure of one of the units within seventy-two hours (Angelo, 2003). Although the faulty part, that is not the end of the astronauts' problems. Hal still insists there is trouble ahead. Faced with an increasingly frustrating and odd-behaving Hal, Bowman threatens to turn the computer off. Before long, navigator Poole, working outside the ship, disconnected from his safety lines and drifts off into space. The sleeping hibernauts also disconnected from the pods that maintain their bodies and die. Bowman left alone with Hal (Angelo, 2003). Realizing that the computer killed the others to protect itself, Bowman disconnects all of Hal's circuits and is truly alone in space. Plot, Theme and Core Characters The film's premise is that some unknown but benevolent extraterrestrial race has shepherded humanity's progress from primeval ignorance through space travel to eventual transformation...
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...8 Things That Anonymous, The Hacker 'Terrorist' Group, Has Done For Good It's easy to think of the hacking group Anonymous as a group of punk troublemakers, raising hell online. Some have even debated whether their extra-legal protests should be labeled terrorist acts. But that would overlook some of the genuinely good deeds the group — whose members identify themselves with the Vendetta mask — has done. Whether it's retaliating against kiddie porn sites, helping to identify Chinese military cyber-attacks, or targeting the digital properties of various hate groups, Anonymous can sometimes be a force for good. 8. In December 2006, Anonymous took down the website of white supremacist radio show host Hal Turner. The attack ended up with Turner paying some very expensive bandwidth bills and dropping a lawsuit a year later. 7. Beginning in January 2008, Anonymous kicked off "Project Chanology," its attack on the Church of Scientology, a cult-like religion which allegedly imprisons its dissident members. They launched denial of service attacks against the organization's websites, gamed the link-sharing site Digg to more prominently display anti-Scientology pages, and even physically protested — showing up in person — many church events. 6. Anonymous released user information from a major hacking forum in February 2011, and security firm Mandiant was able to use this data to link the Chinese military to cyber-attacks against the U.S. this year. 5. The Westboro Baptist...
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...The eerie red dot for an eye of HAL 9000, the smartest computer ever created, looks out across the pod bay of Discovery One. Through the silence, Dave Bowman’s voice bursts through succinctly: “Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL.” We realize that his voice comes from inside the command pod, waiting out in the vacuum of space outside Discovery One. When no reply comes, he repeats his command, but again hears silence. “Hello HAL, do you read me?” Still no reply. He doesn’t have his helmet, and if he can’t enter the spaceship, he’ll be stranded in space. He’s screwed. Frantically switching to different voice channels, he repeats over and over, “HAL, do you read me? Hello HAL? HAL? Do you read me?” “Affirmative, Dave.” I don’t understand this movie. I don’t think anyone does. Director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke don’t. In fact, there is no one right or wrong answer to the questions posed in the film. Near the end of the film, it is seen in its most powerful as the visual aspects of 2001: A Space Odyssey quietly urge the...
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... James Hal Cone and Cornel Ronald West are two individuals famous for using creative thinking to impact society and history. Hal Cone is a black theologian and Cornel West is a philosopher. This paper will focus on each individual’s unique contributions to society, ideas used to solve a specific issue, how the ideas were applied, personal and political background, creative thinking process, and a critique of their thoughts. From religion, oppression, educational segregation, and the Civil Rights movement, Hal Cone and Cornel West made a remarkable amount of progressive contributions to society. The contributions made by Hal Cone and Cornel West are often over-looked by today’s youth. Black American youth and young adults in particular have become somewhat distant form Black history because the way things appears in today’s society. What is overlooked, and should often be recapped is; without the endurance and dedication within the creative minds of these two creative thinkers, it’s possible that oppression and segregation would still remain a part of our society. Many Civil Rights leaders are responsible for the equality growth in our culture, and Hal Cone and Cornel West has been influential in ensuring Blacks continued to advance in America’s society. Both men contributed an important view to Civil Rights, and is known as leaders who changed the way the world worked personally, socially, and politically. James Hal Cone is a Black libertarian theologian...
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...Marxism Within Black Theology of Liberation. This study seeks to expose the ways in which Black Theology of Liberation was shaped by Marxism through the writings of its founders, concentrating predominantly on the need to bring about the liberation of the poor African-Americans from their repressive white racist oppressors by any means necessary, and the redistribution of wealth to those deprived of it by their white capitalist oppressors. The theme of this researched remained embed in my mind during, and after the 2008-09 presidential campaign of former Sen. Barack Obama, when some of his political opponents thought it beneficial to disclose Obama’s connections to a Black Theology of Liberation. Through this research I seek not only to obtain a broader understanding of this particular theology of liberation, but also to understand the Marxist ideological concept within the Black Theology of Liberation. Towards the culmination of the decade which witnessed the peak of the Civil Rights movement, black churches throughout America in the 1960s began to search for avenues through which they could help their communities cope with racial discrimination. Caught between the contradicting preachings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, a peculiar young theology student from Union Theological Seminary of New York City, James H. Cone, published his proposal for a Black Theology of Liberation titled Black Theology and Black Power (1969). This first scholarly work served...
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