The underlying purpose of entertainment varies across societies, and at times the attitude a society takes towards its entertainment reveals its values just as much as the actual forms of entertainment do. This was certainly the case with the ancient Greeks and Romans but, as we will briefly discuss, this also holds true today. As mentioned in the module, the Greeks aspired to represent their philosophical ideals in all aspects of life, including entertainment. However, when the Romans conquered
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harsh realities), we are going to include every angle possible in order to provide the audience with the most authentic point of view of what being homeless on the daily really is. The film will highlight the current system that is in place to support the disadvantaged, or lack thereof. To do so, we will form a film crew to interview and follow a resident at a homeless shelter throughout the day. Through this, we will find out how the shelter assists the homeless and help them to become self-sufficient
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and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel. Except for an occasional giggle, magical scenery and period costumes, the Disney rated PG film adaptation musical “Into the Woods” was a dark, hodge-podge of Grimm fairytales with themes of pedophilia, murder, disfigurement, child abuse and infidelity.
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director of this film is Michael Curtiz, screen writers are Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein, and Howard Koch. The main actor is played by Humphrey Bogart who in the film is called Rick Blaine owns a night club and a casino. He is a key member to the evacuee’s freedom, he assists by getting documents for them to go to America but he has to be paid. In his past he had a woman he was truly in love with named Ilsa Lund played by Ingrid Bergman. The last but very not least leading role in the film is Ilsa’s husband
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A Western film written, directed and acted by Native Americans is a hidden gem. Too often, Indians are portrayed from a white man’s point of view, which causes misinterpretations and stereotypes of Native culture. Even in movies where the white director highly respects Indians, they are bound to overlook important details or fallback on palimpsest. In Dances with Wolves (1990), a Sioux uses the butt end of a rifle to fight off the soldiers before John Dunbar tells him to shoot the gun with the other
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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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A Globalising World “ Popular Culture” ( 1950s ) Fashion In the 1950s, America exerted a huge influence on Australia through cinema. Ripple-soled shoes, leather motorbike jacket, long jackets and thick-soled shoes. Young women would wear tight-waisted skirt with the equally tight jumper influenced by Marilyn Monroe Short back and sides haircut for young men were replaced by long styled hair. Young men would have their hair slicked back with grease and this was influenced by Elvis Presley. Black
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The Humpty Dumpty Circus This is the first stop motion made by Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton in 1897. It shows the movement of a toy circus of acrobats and animals like using magic. Smith said that they used his daughter's set of small circus dolls, that had jointed limbs to keep balanced and move. Comment: The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first short that used stop motion technique by using jointed limbs dolls to make animation. It absorbs this techniques from filming then improved and
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Stellaris – It’s like Civilization, but in Space All hail Queen Tetran – Glorious leader of the Mireeshi! Feared for their warlike nature and technological prowess, the Mireeshi hope to find great success in their galactic conquest. Most of my gaming consists of Strategy and world-building style games, such as Civilization or Minecraft. After a month of binge-playing Civ IV, I was ready for a change, so I was very excited when I discovered Stellaris. According to Steam, I have played 247 hours
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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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