Our group decided to choose the 2015 version of Cinderella as our cultural artifact. It took a lot of discussion but we ended up coming to an agreement. We decided to connect it with Sonnet 55. Each of these will be discussed in more details as well as how this poem connects to today’s world. We liked this movie because the story of Cinderella is such an old story has been retold countless times. It has survived for hundreds of years and is very popular still today. We liked the new take that this
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The story Curtis creates in My Week with Marilyn is realistic narrative, focusing on in one week of Colin Clark’s life that he spent with Marilyn Monroe while shooting for the film, The Prince and the Showgirl. Curtis emplos Narratology in the starting of the film to give a little insight of the film. The genre of movie is biography and drama. This film is showing a slice of Colin Clark’s and Marilyn Monroe’s life. Curtis’s choice to keep the tale linear adds a realistic flavor to the film. The
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This passage by McBride is located near the very end of the chapter, where most ideas in memoirs tend to end on a particular note and elude to a personal lesson that the author has taken upon themselves to apply to their daily lives. Regarding the context of this passage, it is specifically located after a scene in the chapter where his son is curious about the racial difference between his Jewish grandmother and himself. McBride then imposes on his son that “God made her that way,” which is a simple
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I’m tempted to advise you not to set foot in 10 Cloverfield Lane, Louisiana. Still, I don’t feel good by telling you to stay out of it, either. Well, I’m just a bit confused and undecided, just as the brave heroine of this film was before putting herself together from the initial shock. The best way of dealing with “10 Cloverfield Lane”, an improbable cocktail made of “Room” and a tiny bit of “District 9”, is actually watching it from the comfort of a theater where you can immerse yourself in a
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The country music/gospel backdrop of this story is the make or break element for adapting this faith-based romance for the big screen. We initially meet Cooper O’Conner twenty years after the series of tragedies that have shaped his life. He’s moved home, and we’ll discover, has his own way of quietly practicing his Christian faith, as taught to him by his charismatic tent minister father. It’s thoroughly unbelievable that the love of his life, now a down and out saloon singer, shows up hitchhiking
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In addition to the recording of the narration, sound effects played a vital role in enriching the storytelling. Sounds such as military marching, baby crying, shooting, screaming, and bomb exploding, etc, contributed to the visceral atmosphere of Aya’s world. Those sound effects depict Aya’s continuously unsettling and unpredictable situation. This uncultivated characteristic of the situation correlates with the untamed nature of the forest in Little Red Riding Hood. In the fork tale, the forest
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Narrator, or the Invisible Man Superintendent Mr. Norton Dr. Bledsoe Reverend Barbee Brother Jack Brother Tod Clifton Ras the Exhorter Narrator of story, main protagonist, African-American White superintendent of the narrator’s high school, invites narrator to give a speech to white leaders (actually a battle royal). One of the original, white trustees to the narrator’s black college. President of narrator’s college. Expels narrator
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The film “Rashomon” directed by Akira Kurosawa in nineteen fifty, can give insight into the study of history and how it is written. This Japanese classic takes us through the story of a brutal rape of a woman and the murder of her husband through differing versions of the events by four different witnesses. The film begins on a rainy day in which a priest and a woodcutter sit with frightened looks on their faces without sharing a word. Suddenly, a pessimistic character appears in which he insist
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There are many differences between the movie and the book The Fault in our Stars. One of the main reasons for this is that they have to summarize or change some of the meaningless details of the book because there is not enough time in the movie for all of them. One difference from the book and the movie is the omission of two characters in the movie that appear in the book. In the book, Hazel has a really good friend from when she was still attending to the high school. Her name is Kaitlin. In the
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This documentary film is filmed about a ballerina Ella. It is directed by Douglas Watkin will docuemt a Dubbo-born ballerina’s early career and meet different people, like her mother, teachers, family and friends, who shaped her identity in dance. ‘’ – All of Your support is everything. Just say thanks mum, friends, ballet teacher are not enough’’. ‘Ella’ is a literal story regarding Ella Havelka who is a dancer came from the Wiradjuni people in New South Wales and successfully became the first
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