...“Movie Review – 21” Ben Campbell is a Havard Medical School’s mathematical genius student who desperate to find 150,000 dollars of money to pay for his college fees. He works a part-time job as an Assistant Manager in a clothes shop which enables him to earn only 8 dollars per hour. As the income is insufficient, he intends to apply for Robinson Scholarship which only extra dazzle person is about to get the scholarship. But before that, Ben had been through a great experience in the most popular Black Jack games with his team; Jill, Choi, Kianna, Fisher and Professor Micky Rosa which is his lecturer; in Vegas during weekends in order to earn more money in a short way. Since the team is excellent in the Black Jack game’s counting cars system, they always win the game and gain a lot of money. A big conflict between Ben and Professor Micky Rosa happens when Ben discovers Professor Micky Rosa only use him as a partner in the team for his own interest. The stakeholders are the team; Jill, Choi, Kianna, Fisher, who shall enjoy their weekends in Vegas by playing Black Jack games while earning money to be getting rich; and Ben’s best friends, Cam and Miles, which are also Ben’s robotic team in their collage, who shall win the robotic competition. The main villain in this movie is Professor Micky Rosa, who is responsible for using his brilliant collage’s students to be getting rich by ordering them to play Black Jack games and take 25% of the money they have win, without him playing the...
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...private TV, this is due to lack of supply of available movies in cinemas Indonesia, almost all movies in Indonesia struggled themes for adults, while the community at that time requires choices more hardcore variety. At that time, Indonesia has no films to host again in their own country. 1.2. Business/ Industry Situation The development of film in the country is still far from expectations, appears an investor named Sudwikatmono, a businessman who is also the national younger cousin of former president Suharto. But lately Sudwikatmono withdrew from the group. Group 21 is now dominated by Benny Suherman and Harris Lesmana. In order to drive its business, the Group 21 established PT Nusantara Prosperous Kingdom which now dominates the national cinema chains. PT Nusantara Prosperous Kingdom is a master theater titled Cinema 21, Cinema XXI, and The Premiere. In addition, to control the film distribution chain, 21 groups builds three companies that led by Harris Lesmana which is Camila Internusa, PT Satrya Perkasa Esthetika Film, and PT Amero Mitra Film. The first two name that dominate the distribution channels films Motion Picture Association of America/ MPAA whereas special Amero importing non MPAA...
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...food at meal hall, and most importantly if the work will be too much to handle. You think of all the movie you have watched throughout your teen years about people having the time of their lives at university. The characters in the movies end up being best friends with their roommates, and a lot of the characters seem like they are not stressed out about anything at all. However, these movies leave people with a false sense of what university is really like. Popular movies like 21 and Over, 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, and Neighbours, portray the “perfect” university life. The impression that these movies make are far from reality. 21 Jump Street, and its sequel, 22 Jump Street, are popular movies that gives university the wrong impression. 22 Jump Street is based on two middle age cops who go undercover as first year university students. Their main goal in the movie is to find the fabricated drug “WIFI” that is going around the university campus. The whole movies is focused on drugs as if they are the only thing that matters. Throughout the movie you see multiple people who have tried...
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...Alyssa M. Gonzalez “13, 1977, 21” In Jonathan Lethem’s personal narrative essay, “13, 1977, 21”, Lethem reflects on when he was 13 years old, in the year 1977, where he watched the film Star Wars 21 times. But the essay is not actually about the Star Wars film. It is about the way Lethem used going to the movies to remove himself, or “hide” from the realities of his life, such as his mother’s illness and awkward pre-teenage years. The first few sentences of Lethem’s essay is where he blatantly tells the readers that he’s watched Star Wars twenty-one times in four months. He then uses the next three paragraphs to reflect on the circumstances surrounding his trips to the movie theater in the summer of 1977 and trying to understand what triggered him to go all twenty-one times. He describes the theater he watched the film in, down to the street in Manhattan it was on, and the interior of the theatre, that he explains was “a superior place to watch anything”. He also mentions that getting into the theater itself was “an accomplishment, both elevating and slightly dangerous”. He describes the popularity of the film at the time, where he says “any kid with a television had brought a single ticket for the same film in a single summer”, but emphasizes that he was a part of the small percent that turned watching the film into a full blown obsession. In the second paragraph, Lethem questions why he even went all twenty-one times. He writes: “But what actually occurred...
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...commands necessary to place the following data in the tables that were created in problem 1. 3. Write the SQL command to save the rows inserted in the previous Problem. 4. Write the SQL command to change the movie year for movie number 1245 to 2010. 5. Write the SQL command to change the price code for all Action movies to price code 3. 6. Write a single SQL command to increase all price rental fee values by $0.50. 7. Write the SQL command to save the changes made to the PRICE and MOVIE tables in the previous Problems. 8. Write a query to display the movie title, movie year, and movie genre for all movies (result shown in Figure 2). 9. Write a query to display the movie year, movie title, and movie cost sorted by movie year in descending order (result shown in Figure 3). 10. Write a query to display the movie title, movie year, and movie genre for all movies sorted by movie genre in ascending order, then sorted by movie year in descending order within genre (result shown in Figure 4). 11. Write a query to display the movie number, movie title, and price code for all movies with a title that starts with the letter “R” (result shown in Figure 5). 12. Write a query to display the movie title, movie year, and movie cost for all movies that contain the word “hope” anywhere in the title. Sort...
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...So I picked the movie 21 which is inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell finds himself quietly recruited by MIT’s most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor and armed with fake ID’s, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control. Throughout the film two key communication elements, non-verbal and Interpersonal communication played a major role in 21. Let me define them so we all get a better understanding of these two types of communication. Non-Verbal is the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless cues between people. Now Interpersonal Communication is direct, face to face communication that occurs between two persons. It is essentially a dialogue or a conversation between two or more people. In the movie 21 a lot of interpersonal communication was a major factor, The first scene where Mickey (played by Kevin Spacey) was talking to Ben (played by Jim Slurgess) in a abandon class room were the rest of the team was sitting talking about their next big move on Vegas. In this part of the movie Mickey was trying to talk Ben in to joining there little...
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...Rank 1 2 3 Movie Title 91 Quarantine Transporter 90 3 Seven 46 Pounds Tyler Perry's 78 The Family That Preys 76 First Sunday 99 Untraceable Nick and Norah's 92 Infinite Playlist Lakeview 73 Terrace Tyler Perry's 68 Meet the Browns 59 65 36 54 87 The House Bunny Prom Night (2008) 21 Saw V Definitely, Maybe Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins The Strangers Death Race Made of Honor Pineapple Express Opening Gross Total Gross Theaters 14,211,321 31,691,811 12,063,452 14,851,136 31,715,062 69,951,824 Weeks 2,463 2,626 2,758 5 5 5 17,381,218 37,105,289 2,070 6 4 5 6 17,714,821 11,354,069 37,931,869 28,687,835 2,213 2,368 6 6 11,311,751 31,487,293 2,421 6 7 8 15,004,672 39,263,506 2,574 6 20,082,809 41,975,388 2,016 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 14,533,702 20,804,941 24,105,943 30,053,954 9,764,270 48,237,389 43,869,350 81,159,365 56,746,769 32,241,649 2,763 2,821 2,952 3,084 2,220 7 7 7 7 8 67 15 16 17 18 19 55 79 61 34 16,207,730 42,436,517 2,387 8 20,997,985 12,621,090 14,756,850 23,245,025 52,597,610 36,316,032 46,012,734 87,341,380 2,477 2,586 2,816 3,072 8 8 8 8 20 28 Step Brothers 30,940,732 100,468,793 3,182 8 21 22 23 24 The Mummy: Tomb of the 25 Dragon Emperor 66 Rambo 95 83 56 Leatherhead s Semi-Pro The Forbidden Kingdom Vantage Point The Eye The Love Guru Hellboy II: The Golden Army 40,457,770 102,491,776 3,778 8 18,203,876 12,682,595...
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...recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. This extra capacity combined with the use of advanced video and audio codecs will offer consumers an unprecedented HD experience. The specifications of Blu – Ray vs. DVD Blu-Ray uses a blue-violet laser as opposed to the red laser used on DVDs. This allows Blu-Ray discs to hold a lot more information on them than DVDs. This increase in the amount of information that can be stored on a disc allows you to put High-Definition movies on a disc and not run out of space, since the average HD movie will take up about 15-20 gigabyte (GB) of space. If you have not seen an HD movie yet I would suggest stopping by your local Best Buy or Circuit City and looking at a Blu-Ray display. The images are sharper, brighter, and more detailed than any DVD movie. What manufacturers are trying to do is make the movie look as close to what you see in a real theater as possible, except for it is a tenth the size and in your home. Blu-Rays cannot be played in an additional DVD player, which means that you will eventually have to buy a Blu-ray player. However, all Blu-ray players can play DVDs, and they upscale the images to look better on an HD screen, up to 1080p so, while you will have to get a new Blu-Ray player to play HD movies, you can still see all of your current DVDs on the same player, and they'll be enhanced as well....
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...Blackboard. EliteVideo is a startup company providing concierge DVD kiosk service in upscale neighborhoods. EliteVideo can own several copies (VIDEO) of each movie (MOVIE). For example, the store may have 10 copies of the movie “Twist in the Wind”. “Twist in the Wind” would be one MOVIE and each copy would be a VIDEO. A rental transaction (RENTAL) involves one or more videos being rented to a member (MEMBERSHIP). A video can be rented many times over its lifetime, therefore, there is a M:N relationship between RENTAL and VIDEO. DETAILRENTAL is the bridge table to resolve this relationship. The complete ERD is provided in Figure P7.65. Figure P7.65 EliteVideo ERD [pic] 65. Write the SQL code to create the table structures for the entities shown in Figure P7.65. The structures should contain the attributes specified in the ERD. Use data types that would be appropriate for the data that will need to be stored in each attribute. Enforce primary key and foreign key constraints as indicated by the ERD. CREATE TABLE PRICE ( PRICE_CODE INTEGER NOT NULL UNIQUE, PRICE_DESCRIPTION CHAR(15) NOT NULL, PRICE_RENTFEE VARCHAR(3) NOT NULL, PRICE_DAILYLATEFEE VARCHAR(3) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (PRICE_CODE)); CREATE TABLE MOVIE ( MOVIE_NUM INTEGER NOT NULL UNIQUE, MOVIE_TITLE VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, MOVIE_YEAR INTEGER NOT NULL, MOVIE_COST NUMBER NOT...
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...In Jonathan Lethem's personal narrative essay "13,1977,21, " Lethem reflects on when he was 13 years old, in the year 1977 where he watched the film Star Wars 21 times. However, the essay is not actually talking about the Star Wars film. It is about how Lethem used going to the movies to remove himself or hide from the real life such as his mother's illness and the recent divorce of his parents. The essay is very informal. Lethem uses sarcasm, curses, witty comments and references to pop culture in his text. The witty tone and cleverness are good, but it probably wouldn't appeal to a more formal and professional reader. The tone could be described as witty but also nostalgic. With reflecting on his trips to the movie theater along, Lethem reflects on his awkward preteen years, which it was speculated by his parents whom he was a boy. As I think, Lethem numbered each paragraph to go alone with the significant of numbers in his essay. For example, the title of essay "13,1977,21" begins to make sense once he introduces the events of 1977, where he watched a film 21 times at the age of 13. These numbers are very meaningful. Lethem's 21 trips to the movie theater to see Star Wars was not entirely his fascination with or like the movie. He used plaza as a hiding place from the gradual loss of his mother to the brain tumor and already absent father. Watching the film many times in the summer of 1977 can help him to copy with his teenage struggles....
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...paper Introduction Captain Phillips movie, examines the 2009 hijacking of a U.S container ship, by the name Maerks Alabama. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Richard Phillip (IMDb). It is a hard pounding thriller that exhibits the creativity of its director Paul Green Grass. According to Ryan McNeil (2013) the movie reflects on the primary effects of globalization, by showing the relationship between the ship's commanding officer and the Somali captain who forcefully held him (McNeil). Richard Phillips meets with Muse; the Somali captain, when Phillips ship goes on a wrong course (IMDb). Both captains find themselves at the mercy of forces, which are beyond their control. The movie is recommended for audience above the age of thirteen years. It contains an intense sequence of menace, and violence associated with bloody images (IMDb). The script The script of the movie was primarily based on a book called A Captains Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals and Dangerous Days at Sea, which was written by Richard Phillips (IMDb). The script narrates a very compelling story, which keeps the audience on the seat's edge. It moves the audience in the world of the ship’s crew, leaving the audience with a close experience of the dangers associated with cargo ships (McNeil). Acting Tom Hanks is considered as the highest box office star currently (Whitfield). According to IMDb, he was “outstanding as always” in this movie. However critics have argued that in this movie Barkhad Abdi steals the show (Torres)...
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...TinyVideo is a small movie rental company with a single store. TinyVideo needs a database system to track the rental of movies to its members. TinyVideo can own several copies (VIDEO) of each movie (MOVIE). For example, the store may have 10 copies of the movie “Twist in the Wind”. “Twist in the Wind” would be one MOVIE and each copy would be a VIDEO. A rental transaction (RENTAL) involves one or more videos being rented to a member (MEMBERSHIP). A video can be rented many times over its lifetime, therefore, there is a M:N relationship between RENTAL and VIDEO. DETAILRENTAL is the bridge table to resolve this relationship. The complete ERD is provided in Figure P7.65. Figure P7.65 TinyVideo ERD Write the SQL code to create the table structures for the entities shown in Figure P7.65. The structures should contain the attributes specified in the ERD. Use data types that would be appropriate for the data that will need to be stored in each attribute. Enforce primary key and foreign key constraints as indicated by the ERD. When your tables are created, accomplish the following: The following tables provide a very small portion of the data that will be kept in the database. This data needs to be inserted into the database for testing purposes. Write the INSERT commands necessary to place the following data in the PRICE table. The rest of the insert statements are provided to copy and paste into a script. MEMBERSHIP Mem_ Num Mem_ Fname Mem_ Lname...
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...ESE 99 07/21/15 The Wolf on Wall Street The movie, The Wolf on Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese is a great movie for many reasons. The Wolf on Wall Street gives a deep message to viewers that reflect on the American Dream although in the movie it tells a story of a corrupted American dream. I definitely recommend The Wolf on Wall Street for its talented actors, the plot, and its unique message it gives to viewers. Having talented actors is the key to a good movie because they contribute to its audience emotions. Many viewers can relate to this movie especially to those who love money. The Wolf on Wall Street takes place in New York in the late 80’s. It reflects to the American dream to corporate greed, Leonardo DiCaprio plays the role of Jordan Belfort. Belfort is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny stock scam. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. In the movie The Wolf of Wall Street Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption. Excess success and wealth in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title "The Wolf of Wall Street." Belfort came from mostly humble beginnings, and after getting married...
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...Motion Picture Industry November 24, 2013 Traci Wells MTH 410 Marilyn Simon Motion Picture Industry Creating a major motion picture to release to the masses can be a difficult task for any movie maker. Certain methods can be used to support and reassure the movie makers will have a return on their investments. The most effective method is the use of descriptive statistics, including the average, median, mode, range, and deviation of Opening Weekend Gross Sales (OWGS), Total Gross Sales (TGS), Number of Theatres (NOT), and Weeks in Top 60 (WIT60). Using a sample of 100 movies from 2005 it was found that all four variables were closely tied to determining a movies success. Using the date, the OWGS can help movie makes anticipate how much money a movie will make over its entire time in theatres. While this method isn’t always accurate, using the data from the 100 movies we see that the movie that had the best OWGS (Star Wars: Episode III) also had the most TGS, even though it wasn’t in the most NOT’s nor did it have the most WIT60. However, the NOT’s and WIT60 are also a factor. In the table below we can see the correlation between these factors. Star Wars: Episode III should be considered a high performance outlier due to its substantial TGS over all other movies regardless of the NOT and WIT60. Motion Picture | Opening Gross Sales | Total Gross Sales | Number of Theaters | Weeks in Top 60 | Star Wars: Episode III | 108.44 | 380.18 | 3,663 | 19 | Harry Potter...
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...Assignment 1 Week 2 Danny Castillo English 225 Instructor David Preizler April 21, 2014 For my clip from http://movieclips.com/sKPe5-real-steel-movie-twin-cities-vs-atom/ is from the movie “Reel Steel”. It stars Hugh Jackman in a story where he is a former boxer that fights robots in a sort of Robot MMA in the future with his son. He plays the character of Charlie, and his son Max played by Dakota Goyo. The scene that we will be analyzing will be the one in where their robot Atom fights another robot named “Twin Cities”. The director for this movie is Shawn Levy (movieclips.com). In making a movie, that person is usually the director. “His or her role is often similar to that of the foreman, translating the screenwriter’s story so that the actors and crew can carry it out. And like the foreman, it’s up to the director to turn the elements he or she builds with—words, images, and sound—into something not just coherent but entertaining, even moving. It’s no accident that when films are described, they’re often talked about as the possession of the director—Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and the like”.(Goodykoontz/Jacobs). It’s the director’s job to make sure that everything in the movie goes exactly the way it should. He controls the way actors do things, whether they can improvise or not, down to overseeing the editing. He or she is the overall boss on the set. They interpret or take the screenwriters story and make it into a running film...
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