...MAJOR ACTOR The main actor in this case is Hai Gan. He is 56 years old, of the Colony, Texas. He is a legal permanent resident who lives outside Dallas, used three homes he owned in Albuquerque and Moriarty to establish residency in New Mexico for 51 undocumented immigrants living in other states. Gan is one of several people who have been prosecuted in recent years for running such rings in New Mexico, which is one of just a few states that let residents get driver's license regardless of their immigration status. Castellano said Gan disguised his New Mexico properties to look like apartments, he advised people against talking to authorities, and he rarely accompanied his clients to the Department of Motor Vehicles to avoid being recognized. But Gan's attorney, Francisco Mario Ortiz, said his client believed he was acting lawfully when he advertised his services to immigrants around the country. And he said he never asked if the customers were in the country legally or not. He also pointed out that many spoke good English, were well-dressed and well-educated. The complaint alleges he charged clients upward of $2,000 each to secure driver’s licenses between 2009 and 2011. He found guilty on 51 counts of fraud in connection with identification documents, eight count of transporting undocumented immigrants, three counts of money laundering and two counts of witness tampering. In May 2011, Border Patrol agents stopped Gan and two clients in a black Chevrolet Blazer at an Interstates...
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...experience in school. When he was first in London he worked in theatres as an apprentice becoming familiar with that setting. He started acting and doing different scenes. He was known to be a good actor. Later on he started to write plays. He did this from all his past experience with acting and his knowledge of different pieces. He wrote them based on his life in England, religion upcoming, and his childhood. Shakespeare has written hundreds of pieces over his life span you wouldn’t ever think to accuse him of being a fraud right? Well not everyone has the same view on Shakespeare. If you really think about it you begin to question it too. Think about yourself in this situation. Imagine being a teenager who hasn’t gone off to college yet but you hung around theaters and started to become very familiar with them and acting. Do you think just off this experience you could write what is now known to be the best playwrights in history? I don’t think so. When you start to dig deeper in Shakespeare’s life you will seem to find nothing of great importance relating to his many works. It just stated that he was simply and actor and slightly a writer. There has been no evidence of any diaries or letters actually written by Shakespeare himself. His name just seems to appear on some legal documents and his supposedly playwrights. Some people have found secret codes in his plays that hint Shakespeare wasn’t real. For example, by counting the difference in total words in two passages from...
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...Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in the 1982 neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, John Book in the 1985 thriller Witness, and Jack Ryan in the action films Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). Most recently, Ford reprised his role of Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). His career has spanned six decades and includes roles in several Hollywood blockbusters; including the epic war film Apocalypse Now (1979), the legal drama Presumed Innocent (1990), the action film The Fugitive (1993), the political action thriller Air Force One(1997) and the psychological thriller What Lies Beneath (2000). Seven of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry: American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Blade Runner. In 1997, Ford was ranked No. 1 in Empire's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. The U.S. domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total over US$4.7 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $6 billion, making Ford the highest-grossing U.S. domestic box-office star.[1] When adjusted for inflation, Ford has appeared in five of the top thirty highest-grossing movies...
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... "Heneral Luna" Reaction Paper I first watched the film "Heneral Luna" last summer vacation, my dad insists that we should watch this historical biopic movie beside the fact that we are interested about history, this movie became a trending topic on the internet and it was the philippine entry on "88th academy awards" for "Best Foreign Film". After watching the movie, I can say that this may be the best historical local film that I have ever watched. The movie was so great to the fact that I almost cry while watching how cruel happened, noted that I'm with my family watching. The movie got me and I can't clearly determine what my emotion is, there are parts of the film that I laugh , stunned , cry , and mad. The actors of the film really suits the character that was given to them, the character and acting itself was portrayed very well. I am impressed by the cinematography of the film , the way they show the fight scenes or war scenes. The flashback scene is as good as it is, it was cool to watch but it confused me on the first time I saw it, because there we're no effects that shows the audience that the scene was a flashback. The music of the movie was good and the music was made by the director itself. What captures me and what I like the most about the movie was the script itself. There were cussing lines on the film but they were creative and poetic, beside the fact that Antonio Luna was also a poet. His lines and dialogue made the viewers remember...
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...Events January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise [edit]January January 2 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World. People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry, Northern Ireland in support of civil rights. Ohio State defeats USC in the Rose Bowl to win the national title for the 1968 season. January 5 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus. January 6 – The final passenger train traverses the Waverley Line, which subsequently closed to passengers. January 10 Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry. The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus. January 12 Super Bowl III: The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the National Football League 16–7. Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin's first studio recorded album, is released. Martial law is declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested. January 14 An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4. January 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5, which docked with Soyuz 4 for a transfer of crew. January 16 – Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; 3 days later...
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... set design and directing. Directing was also established by Stanislavski but only as a byproduct of his illustrious acting technique (See Figure 1). He positioned himself as a director and guide to implement an acting method (Stanislavski). Years passed before the formal title of director appeared on the playbill. Of the thousands of years theatre has existed only within the past century has the director been considered a necessary part of theatre production. In modern theatre, the director is exalted. They are considered the authority for any creative decision. However, the director can do nothing without the actors. Directors are completely dependent upon others to express their message. This connection creates artistic progression but not without friction. Some experts do not believe directors are necessary in theatre, and it is true. Actors can provide an entertaining and meaningful performance without a director. Theatre has been thriving for millennia without one. The director does not make the production, they improve it. The director’s absolute control was fostered by development of motion pictures. Intense technical...
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...embarrassment for 50 Cent. “Freelancers” sounds like another one of 50 cents’ stereotypical films that contains an extraordinary amount of violence, along with an excess of unnecessary profanity. For example, 50 Cent’s previous movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin’ is an autobiographical film of his own life. The film portrays 50 Cent’s disturbing life that consists of drugs, sex, violence, robbery, and most importantly, rap music. I believe that since 50 Cent wants to be represented as a convict, he should have no business in trying to continue his success as an actor or producer. If 50 Cent was such a great actor and producer, I’m sure he would of had many films out by now, but it seems to me that he is just in need of something that can boost his declining career. Additionally, 50 Cent should be ashamed of his lyrics in his rap songs. Therefore, why would anyone want to hire 50 cent. I do not see 50 cent as a producer or an actor and should stick to rap music, if even that. I believe “Freelancers” is going to be too explicit, however I’m sure there will be some people who will thoroughly enjoy this film. Nevertheless, I do not think of a masterpiece when I envision 50 Cent as a star...
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...Interpretation ‘AS YOU LIKE IT’ (W.Shakespeare) Act II, Scene 7. William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist, considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time. ‘All the world’s a stage’ is the phrase that begins a monologue from W.Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’, spoken by Jaques in Act II, Scene 7. This poem is a master-piece of Shakespeare’s keen observation and fine poetry. In this poem Shakespeare has masterfully described various stages of human life where people are actors playing their roles. At first man appears on this stage as an infant who is helpless and cannot walk, or speak, and is greatly limited in his ability to act with purpose. He must be carried if he goes from one place to another. It means that he is dependent on others. That it’s why he is crying in the nurse’s arms. Then he is seen as a school-boy with a shining morning face walking slowly and unwillingly to school. He doesn’t want to go to school because it makes him to feel unhappy, but on the other hand, it’s the happiest period of human life which is called childhood. You have very few responsibilities. For example, you don’t have to go to work, pay bills, or do the shopping, cooking, or cleaning. This means you have plenty of free time to do whatever you want. Soon a school-boy grows into a young man who is called in W.Shakespeare’s poem as a lover. Love inspires him, he becomes very romantic, but on the other hand, love obsesses him, because he writes a ballad made...
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...Robert Downey Jr. Robert John Downey, Jr. born April 4, 1965, Downey was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger of two children. His father, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie, is also an actress and appeared in Downey Sr.'s films. His father is of half Russian Jewish and half Irish ancestry, and his mother is of German and Scottish descent. As a child, Downey was "surrounded by drugs". His father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father has said that he now regrets. Downey stated that drug use became an emotional bond between him and his father: "When my dad and I would do drugs together, it was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how." Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and "making a thousand phone calls in pursuit of drugs.” During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his father's projects. He made his acting debut at the age of five playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound in the 1970 and then at age seven he appeared in the surrealist Greaser's Palace (1972). When Downey was 10 years old, he was living in England and studied classical ballet as part of a larger curriculum. He grew up in Greenwich Village and attended the Stage door Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California...
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...Successfully marketing a prejudice A dark skinned girl walks in for an interview for a position as an air hostess. Everything about her shouts LOSER and she is virtually mopping the floor with herself. Even the receptionist laughs right at her face and it’s implied that she didn’t even make it to the interview room. Cut to 7 weeks later after having applied Fair and Lovely and what we see is a “beautiful” girl who screams of confidence. Everything about her personality has suddenly transformed and not just her skin. This time the receptionist is speechless and needless to say our protagonist lands the job. When I first saw this TVC I was overwhelmed with disgust. How can such blatant racism be allowed on TV? I mean it’s almost like saying the fairness is a virtue and being fair is the key to success. Once I had this parasite of a thought in my mind I began to notice how prevalent racism is in our society. You pick up a newspaper and open up the matrimonial section, all you will see are ads which read something on the lines of “Wanted, fair and beautiful girl”. How many times have we heard the statement from one of our distant aunts “Bilkul gori chitti ladki layenge tere liye”. Even if you take our very own Bollywood, how many dark skinned actress’ can you remember having figured in a homely, beautiful girl’s role. It’s always the sensuous, sultry roles that the dark skinned actress’ potray. In fact, come to think of it, how many dark skinned actresses can you think of? What’s...
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...In class, we read the Book of Devils Arithmetic and we watched the movie. I would recommend the book over the movie. They were about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was very sad, but very interesting to read about. Now, here are some reasons why I liked the book more than the movie. The book gave more description on the concentration camp. The movie couldn’t even begin to show what actually happened in the camps. In the book, the night sounded harsh , but in movie, they didn’t look that bad. The book had more details on what kids did in the camps, but the movie didn’t show them at all. The book gave more description on how mean the guards were. In the movie the guards seemed mean, but nothing compared to the great description of the book. In the book, I liked that Hannah was younger. I didn’t like the scene of the character getting Tattoos with her friends. It made her look a lot worse than the book. I liked how she was our age because it related to us more. If we were in her situation, this is similar to what we would do. In the book before the sedar meal she was at her Catholic friends house and they were celebrating Easter. They were eating Jelly Beans and Hannah was Jealous and wanted to become Catholic. I liked that scene in the book over her getting Tattoos in the movie. The book had more characters and more description on characters. Gitl was one of my favorite characters in the book and he wasn’t in...
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...SessioFreud’s Last Session On August 31, 2013 I went to “Freud’s Last Session” By Mark St. Germain at Cookeville preforming Art Center its directed by Mathhew Wilson. The show is about the existing of god and the first war about Hitelr . There was just two actors taken the main characters, Evan Cole as Sigmund Freud and Ryan Steele As C.S Lewis. The audience was sitting in the stage very close to the actors. The organization was very good. Good lighting and suitable sounds effects such as, dogs parking, old telephone ring tone and the radio sounds. The decorations were very simple and admirable which that picture to us British nobility of the past. Sigmund Freud is the main character in the show. He is a Psychiatrist fighting a heart disease. In the show Sigmund Freud made me confused because he was speaking fast with that deep British accent. I really like his acting he was very confident and has very good aye contact. He was debating with C.S Lewis about the existing of god and religions. That session was in the middle of the war because they were listening to the radio and the Siren goes off. C.S Lewis is a youthful man believes that there is no god in the world. Professionally speaking, Ryan Steele was not very good actor he seemed confused because he was sweeting a lot and barely concentrating. Sigmund Freued tried to convince hem about the existing of god and what Hitler is doing to the world. In my own opinion, i did not like the way they speak about religion...
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...movements and dialogue were slow at times. My guess is that the director intended to create a feeling of confusion or build a sense of feeling of that of someone with vertigo. The script was good, and it really follows the story it intends to tell, in its dark dramatic ways. It was a drastic way of telling a romantic story, but very much inline with Hitchcock’s The scenes transitions were very fluid, motion, the landscape was complementing to the plot. This film was very diverse in the use of colors, sounds, and especial effects; from the introduction to some of the screenplay action, all of this effect added to the emotion it intended to produce. The locations were suiting to the setting in which the story could be more effective. The actors seemed to be very original or involved into their characters. The editing of this film must have been very complex, especially when the soundtrack had to be match to the scenes. The scenes in which the director wanted to have a special reaction; such as the dreams and the vertigo effect, seemed simple but for the time it must have been thought as a great creation. The editing of the film showed a lot of improvements from those before it, and it has influenced possibly, many productions since then. Compared to other films of this type I wonder, what did people thought of this kind of dark type of film?...
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...Omar Niazi English 121 3/13/14 Movie Review Final Draft Argo "Okay, you got 6 people hiding out in a town of what, 4 million people, all of whom chant "death to America" all the livelong day. You want to set up a movie in a week. You want to lie to Hollywood, a town where everybody lies for a living. Then you're gonna sneak 007 over here into a country that wants CIA blood on their breakfast cereal, and you're gonna walk the Brady Bunch out of the most watched city in the world." This quote very accurately describes the whole plot behind the movie Argo. The movie, Argo takes place during the 1979, Iranian hostage crisis. America had put in place a new shah in the late 1950's, who many Iranian had claimed was the cause of much economical turmoil in their country over the past thirty years. They claimed he only cared about himself and his family well-being, and no one else. The Iranian public had little patience left for the "American" placed shah, and was planning out a way to take him out of power, dead or alive. With this being known, the U.S had the shah flown out of his country. This then caused even more anger and hatred towards America and Americans. Escalating quickly, the hostile Iranian's began to protest and riot outside the American embassy. Shortly after the large group had gathered, the American embassy was over run, and taken control of by the Iranian rioters and protestors. Though they managed to capture fifty Americans in the embassy; six managed...
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...Parent trap is actually one of the first Disney films I ever saw that was not an animation. It came out in 1998 as a remake of the 1961 Disney classic. I was 12 years old when I saw it so I was probably the target audience of this rather typical Disney film. However, it is a more family-oriented film than other Disney creations that are usually more children-focused. It is a decent movie for a family to lightly watch although the plot is rather unrealistic, to say the least, and childish at times. It is considered as Lindsay Lohan’s debut movie, managing to pull off dual roles as both of the identical twins. They could have gotten real twins for the roles of the girls, since Lindsay Lohan wasn't a box office attraction (at this point in her career), but the movie would not necessarily been better in my opinion. The viewer could honestly not tell there really were two Lohans whenever “they” appeared on screen together, thumbs up to the visual effects department. Combined with appearances of body doubles at times and timed reaction shots, it can be confusing for younger audiences to believe that it was only one actress. We also cannot overlook how Lindsay Lohan did an excellent job of portraying these seemingly identical yet very different girls. The characteristics of the girls and the situation going on in the film (girls pretending to be each other and going back as the other to their parents) gave the young actress a challenge as to whether she could adapt to such an in-depth...
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