...1 On the Waterfront The Recipient of eight Oscars (including four other nominations), On the Waterfront represented a shining light in the filmmaking industry and process. Among these Oscar were: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. With that many awards in such key areas, one can’t help but assume that they were each benefiting from each other. Each one adding to the others, making them even greater than they would be otherwise. There are a few scenes in the film that have become known as “classic” scenes in film history. These scenes effectively portray very real situations and character relationships that we as the audience can care about, and ultimately learn from. Over the years, many critics have praised On the Waterfront for having what has been called “a nearly perfect screenplay.” Written by Budd Schulberg, and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by Malcolm Johnson, the script brought the story to life. As a note of background, the film represented an opportunity for both Schulberg and Elia Kazan to escape, at least by proxy, some personal guilt they may have been harboring. By naming the names of colleagues associated with the Communist Party, they gave themselves a free pass, and were able to proceed undeterred with his own 2 career. Kazan also became one of the most high-profile witnesses to speak out and avoid blacklisting. On the Waterfront explains how it is fundamentally right to speak out in a situation...
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...Edie Doyle is by far the most powerful agent of change in ‘On the Waterfront’. Do you agree? ‘On the Waterfront’, directed by Elia Kazan, explores the issues of corruption, love, truth and justice. Edie Doyle, the protagonist, Terry Malloy’s love interest and the major female role in the film, proves to be the most powerful agent of change. Her determination, feminist action and influence on key characters reflects her power in producing change on the corrupt waterfront, ruled by Johnny Friendly, the money-loving antagonist, and his Mob. It can be seen that every one of Edie’s actions and words have an impact on the changes and development of events and characters throughout the film. Edie’s determination and feminist outlook may be the key factor to the changes that occurred on the waterfront. At her brother Joey’s death she is the only person willing to speak, while the others, all namely men, act “D and D” (deaf and dumb). The body language of these men who stood around shamefully with their head hanging portray the power and domination of Johnny Friendly. It was their fear and loss of life that encouraged this silence. “You don’t ask no questions, you don’t answer no questions.” – Dugan. Edie, on the other hand, was the brave person in this event, not falling under the wing of Johnny’s corruption. “I wanna know who killed my brother!” her determination even drove her to give up her nunnery and dreams of becoming a teacher. Her father, Pop Doyle, reflects the duties and...
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...Text Response Practice –On the water front ‘Terry Malloy’s redemption lies in his willingness to sacrifice personal security to facilitate the long term security of a community.’ Discuss this statement On the Waterfront demonstrates that it is possible for a man to redeem himself through personal sacrifice to atone for his sins. In his 1954 film Elia Kazan creates a character in Terry whose initial motivation is personal and family based, and it is only near the end of the film that Terry becomes aware that he can be a hero for the longshoremen and the entire community. He must grow and develop as a hero of almost mythic stature before the audience, so that they are attracted in the outcome of his struggles. Terry Malloy is guilty of treachery as he lured the unsuspecting Joey Doyle on to the rooftop where he was murdered by Johnny Friendly’s thugs. Terry was an unwitting accomplice, believing naively that the men were just going to ‘rough him up’. It is evident from early in the film that Terry feels guilt for his involvement and is becoming increasingly uncomfortable with his relationship with Friendly. It is Edie Doyle who seems to best illustrate the concept of placing the wellbeing of others before her own personal security. She ventures into the harsh male domain of the docks, inspires Father Barry to organize a clandestine meeting in the church and makes herself vulnerable as the only woman who attends that meeting. She is ferocious in her pursuit...
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...waterfront. After Edie witnessed the men fighting for tabs on the waterfront, her father chastised Father Barry for not preventing her from being on the docks, stating “I'm surprised with you, Father, if you don't mind my sayin' so. Lettin' her see things ain't fit for the eyes of a decent girl.” The waterfront is viewed as unfit for women, and women are portrayed as needing the help and protection of a man to avoid the dangers of the waterfront. Kazan gives such a detailed account of the waterfront to use its corrupt and unique atmosphere as the backdrop to develop the theme of morality. The waterfront represents everything immoral in the world; it is the place which breeds the corruption of capitalism and the mob, the place where competition and the hunger for power run rampant. Kazan uses the space of the waterfront to develop the film’s narrative while simultaneously discussing these issues happening in real life. The film brings people’s attention to the corruption that exists in the unions and the capitalist business practices in the 1950s. Scenes reveal the hierarchy that exists within union...
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...On the Waterfront is a 1954 American movie about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen. The movie was directed by Elia Kazan and it stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, and Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle. Terry Malloy was a washed-up fighter working on the docks for the local gang boss, Johnny Friendly. The death of Joey Doyle (dockworker), ordered by Johnny Friendly, filled him with guilt because he was involved in the murder. Later in the film, Terry met the murdered man’s church-girl sister, Edie Doyle, and they began a relationship. She tried to convince him to work against his mob. However, Terry only turned against the mob after Johnny Friendly ordered the gang to kill his brother, Charley. Soon Terry testified publicly and became an outsider on the docks, but in the end, he achieved victory over Johnny Friendly after beating him in a dramatic fight on the docks. Before Terry made a name for himself, his egocentrism held him back. Because of his egocentrism, his arguments were unsound and it got him nowhere. His arguments flawed compared to the other characters in the film such as Edie Doyle. Edie’s arguments were sound. Her arguments were effective because during the film she found a way to persuade her father to let her stay in New York. So as a result, in On the Waterfront, Edie Doyle’s arguments regarding the murder case are sound, but Terry’s are flawed. One of Edie’s sound arguments was presented in the scene where she was with her father in their apartment...
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...while benefiting from the dockworkers. Furthermore, proving there are no true friends in the game of power, just the acquiring of power, money and the defense against their enemies. The dockworkers were specially choosing each day to work in harsh conditions and payed one coin to work portraying the continue misuse of power. On the Waterfront portrays symbolizes the pigeons vs. hawks, fear, and the church about the riveting fear of a society being controlled by a corrupt organization. The pigeons sybolizies the everyday innocent people trying to escape the hordes of the harsh lifestyle and kept from testifying by the mob. “They got it made. Eat all they want— fly around like crazy—sleep side by side— and raise gobs of squabs” (On the Waterfront). Terry Malloy is a pure symbolism of the...
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...Introduction On the Waterfront is a 1954 film starring Marlon Brando as longshoreman Terry Malloy. The film focuses on union violence and mob involvement among dockworkers in New York. It is based on "Crime on the Waterfront", a series of articles in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson. The series won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. The stories detailed widespread corruption, extortion and racketeering on the waterfronts of Manhattan and Brooklyn (Mills). The film was a huge critical and commercial success and received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning eight awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando, Best Supporting Actress for the debut of Eva Marie Saint, and Best Director for Elia Kazan (Oscar history). Director’s Purpose Director Elia Kazan’s main purpose in making this film was to portray the faces behind the corruption and violence facing those in some waterfront unions. His intent was not to create a documentary but instead show the emotions of the people involved. The first page of the Waterfront shooting script contained the director’s note “[d]on’t be objective! This is not a Documentary” (Almereyda). By placing the focus on a few main characters rather than the larger union group, the director was better able to play out Terry’s inner conflict with himself as well as his personal relationship with Edie Doyle and his professional relationship with Johnny Friendly. In a sentiment echoed by the numerous awards this film...
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...the enormous facelift that has been given to the area has done wonders for the city’s revenue and tourist appeal as well as provided a much needed aesthetic boost to the waterfront area. Newburgh’s waterfront area has a rare appeal for this particular case study because it has aspects of providing a sense of community in the sense that it is often a focal point for local social gatherings, but it is also a place whose very existence is predicated upon the fact that it generates revenue for the city. As a young kid I can remember days where my father and I would drop my mother off at work and spend the rest of the morning running errands while stopping at the Newburgh Waterfront for lunch. By and large the place was decidedly unimpressive. In fact, there wasn’t much to be seen other than the old rickety piers and the folks ignorant enough of their state to trust their sturdiness (my father and I were quite often included in this class). There were sidewalks to nowhere, not much parking, very little landscaping was done, no shops, just a pier and the few people on it. It seemed, when looked at as a whole, very much like an area that had been almost forgotten by the city. It was in fact a perfect example of the move to suburbia and the concurrent abandonment of certain places in cities, especially waterfront property. Newburgh used to be a town of factories, railroads and shipping; some remnants can still be seen standing right near the area where Newburgh stops and the Hudson...
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...there will be two equations, one with different types of waterfront properties will be examined. The other there will just have a dummy for waterfront or no waterfront. Every independent variable will not be explained, as some choices are obvious. However interesting variables, changes, and drops will be mentioned. The process for creating this model will be explained in the following few pages, in roughly the order everything happened to show the thought process. Instead of using months, seasons are used. The market is often active in the summer as parents prefer to move while their kids are out of school. There is a dummy variable created for spring, summer, and fall. Year sold is an important variable to allow for general fluctuations in the housing market and the economy as a whole. Years was decided against at first because it looked like a sin function, however dummies for each year was added later on. Created waterfront dummy variable first. One interesting thing that was found out, while creating this dummy variable that there are exactly 50 houses on each of the four waterfront types for river, canal, bay, and lake. This is either a coincidence or it is possible whoever created this data set cherry picked it so there was an equal number of each water type. The only one that was different was ponds that has 397 houses on ponds. For the regression that looks at a more detailed version of waterfronts. For River Create riverdum, for being on a river, but...
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...12 Angry Men (1957) Favourite Role: My favourite casts in 12 Angry Men was Juror 8, who was played by Henry Fonda. He is one brave juror who voted 'not guilty' at the start of the deliberations because of his reasonable doubt. His role was firm and persuasive, he forces the other men to slowly reconsider and review the shaky murder case and eyewitness testimony against the endangered defendant. Favourite Scene: My favourite scene was when Juror 4 do not believe the boy’s alibi that he was at the movies while the murder was taking place as the boy could not remember the title of the movie and the actors in it. Then, Juror 8 stated that it was due to the boy being devastated that the father was murdered that caused him to forget. Next, Juror 8 did a test on Juror 4 on the events that happened on previous days and he had difficulty doing so. Juror 8 then said that Juror 4 had no reason to face difficulty as he had not been under stress unlike the boy. Typical scene: The typical scene that got me engaged was the debate and the sharing of thoughts and opinion of the information. The Juror made the audience felt intense when they were arguing over the evidence and them displaying their thoughts is what makes it interesting. Typical character: I felt that the casts were able to portray their own personalities which allowed the audience to have their own judgment based on their characters. In the film, we can see that; Juror 4 who is disrespectful, stubborn and...
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...nationally because of it site potential. The municipality of Gonzaga is a 1st class income municipality with a population of 36, 303 and have a total land area of 56, 743 has. and has IRA (Internal Revenue Allotment) of 89, 654, 247 pesos. In accordance with the MPDC (Municipal Planning Department Council) of Gonzaga, designate the area as “General Urban Area” and “Leisure Area” with a “Major Open Space” designation applying to the Wangag River and a “Natural Features” applying to two large woodlots, in short a riverfront/waterfront community development. Water is one of the most important of all the natural resources necessary to ensure human health and civilization. In general, a waterfront is the zone of interaction between urban developments and the water and a waterfront area is considered as a unique and irreplaceable resource where it is the interface between land, water, air, sun and productive plants (Wrenn, 1983). Moreover, Zhang (2002) characterized the waterfront as a place integrating land with water and having a natural attraction to people. In fact, the seashore...
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... The Film Industry and the Homefront In the center of American isolationism and the era of cultural growth within the early 1900’s, the establishment of film revolutionized popular opinion in encouragement of the war effort. To a certain extent, the film industry during WWI aided in increasing productivity, rationalizing supplies, and building a strong war morale in the homefront; necessary for a victory. Under Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, isolation was more or less implemented along with a few other imperialistic endeavours; focusing mainly on the Spanish American War. As for the rising conflict in Europe, Wilson initially proposed to be the “counselor of peace” in his speech to Congress. Venturing off upon the Monroe Doctrine, American involvement upon the behalf of Europe was limited to trade and/or agreements. However, once Germany violated their regulation of U-boats and using fairly new technology to gain the upper hand in Europe by the sinking of Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram. With Germany, decimating American trade ships, the rate and will of productivity greatly affected the efficiency and enterprise entering the Great War. As a result of the needed morale upon public opinion, Wilson established the Committee on Public Information (CPI), led by George Creel, which embarked upon of forms of media to gather a common ideology based upon patriotism. Theaters and nickelodeons were fairly new Cordova 2 and had potential to thwarted America’s home front from various...
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...The Darwin Reptile Down by the Darwin Waterfront, not a square meter of land or water wasn’t in use. It seemed like the whole city needed to cool off from the scorching Northern Territory sun. Elliott and his family stood in queue for thirty minutes to get their wristbands, but now they were eager to get involved in the action. The smell of urine assaulted their noses as they got closer to the Darwin Waterfront, taking them back to a public swimming pool in Melbourne. They were so keen to jump into the water to cool off. Elliott had already removed his shirt and begun putting on sunscreen before he got to the location where they would store their belongings. Elliott ignored his parents' requests to calm down, scurrying off to throw his belongings on a chair...
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...The St.George waterfront will be going under construction in the upcoming months. Staten Island Waterfront will be transformed into a retail complex and hotel. "This project will cost around 500 million dollars to complete, but is said to create over 1,100 construction jobs and 1,300 permanent jobs, also attach more than 2 million people a year." This will create a major revenue income to the city with the amount of tourists that visit. The Staten Island’s waterfront will also be constructing one of the largest Ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere. “This Ferris wheel will be 630 feet tall, which is 89 feet higher than the Singapore Flyer, currently the tallest observation wheel in the world, having thirty six capsules that will be able to...
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...perspective, and then make an analysis of the Australian Waterfront Dispute 1997-1998 from these two perspectives. In order to make clear the changes of the stevedoring industry in Australia, one has to understand the disputes occurred between 1997 and 1998. These disputes were not simple because they demonstrated the employment relations in the industry or even the whole economy (Trinca and Davies, 2000). Thus, what is the Australian Waterfront Dispute 1997-1998? And how it happens and changes? About these two questions, the paper will give a clear outline on the changes and related issues of the Dispute in its third part. And to be in accordance with the question requirements, the paper will also tackle what are unitarist and pluralist perspectives in the second part. The detailed information about these two perspectives are based on the PPTs in class and related theories, as well as some philosophical ideas. After clarifying the two perspectives, making an analysis of the Australian Waterfront Dispute 1997-1998 is essential to answer the question. As mentioned, this section will be included in the third part. Now it comes to the last part, the conclusion part. In this part, the paper will give an overall evaluation on the two perspectives in the process of dispute changes, and show the author’s standpoint on this issue. Analysis of Australian Waterfront Dispute 1997-1998 The case study gives the example of the Australian Waterfront Dispute 1997-1998. And this paper will make analysis...
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