The first time I saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie was my freshman year of high school. Ever since then, I had wanted to see a live performance of the show or to go to a screening of the movie. When I heard it was coming to The Warehouse, I was really excited to see it. Most of my friends went to the student preview show before the show premiered, but I decided to wait. I finally saw the show in its closing weekend, and overall I enjoyed it. It was fast paced and the audience was exuberant
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Australian film started off with a bang in 1906 with its first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang written and direction by the notorious Tait Brothers. Since the Australia film industry’s beginnings in 1906*there are been a number of prominent genres that have emerged in correlation with eras, events and people that show how Australia . The first prominent genre that emerged was the Aboriginal narrative during the 1950’s where the Australian public began to question the division between the
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Movie Attendance Declining The situation is familiar. It is a Saturday evening and a typical American citizen is thinking of how he or she will spend his or her night. Going to the movies has continued to be a popular weekend activity throughout history. The theater has allowed people to escape from their busy lives and enjoy the entertainment brought through the movies. In articles “Study Finds Movie Attendance Declining as More Americans Act out Films At Home” from The Onion and “Fewer Americans
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the rape is taking place contrasting with the darkness of the forest; this contrast introduces the turning point of the story that lead to the death of the samurai. The same contrast is used in different scenes to emphasize important aspects of the movie
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At the snap of a finger, the film industry would forever change. The introduction of sync sound technology changed the film industry in a way that nothing had ever affected it before. From the first few movies after the explosion of sound including Blood of a Poet (1930) and Horse Feathers (1932), to the classic thriller Psycho (1960), the way people made films was constantly changing and evolving to not only meet audience demand, but creative demand as well. Directors were now able to use sound
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Much of this need to sell these movies so desperately to audiences has also caused a major influx of movie oversaturation throughout each year. Though studios have been releasing less movies per year as opposed to decades past, more and more studios are collectively releasing fleets of high budgeted blockbusters, all crowdly trying to win audience attention. Sadly, this cry for attention is becoming far more difficult for studios as we enter a new age of technology. Video streaming services, video
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Outline Thesis: The MPAA is no longer an effective source to categorize the ratings of modern movies and the lack of censorship is harming children and teens. I: The NC-17 rating has become irrelevant. A. The producers edit and re-submit their films for a lower rating. B. Theaters do not want to air them. II: The MPAA does not treat content consistently. A. Violence is not treated as harshly as sexual content. 1. Small moments of sexual content will warrant a higher rating. 2. It takes extreme
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Crisp, C. (1993). The classic French cinema: 1930-1960. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. Purchase and consumption of many products such as furniture all go up by large percentages but one thing that the consumer society negatively affected was consumption and use of cinema. “Of all categories of consumer expenditure, cinema and other spectacles is the only category to decrease in volume” (Crisp, 1993). Cinema was used as a means of escape from reality but when consumer society began and took off
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place to talk movies with cinephiles and catch up on some of your favorite classics from Italy, France and Japan, or watch more contemporary American films set in exotic foreign locales. Foreign Cinema is a place to connect with the passion of movie-going and movie-watching in a way that's both old-school as well as
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his world. Nothing could go wrong now. The ritual had been perfect, all he had to do now was sit tight and wait for the curtains to draw and the movie to begin. Harry usually preferred no one sitting beside him in the theatres; that was why he had chosen the back seat. However, this time everything went the other way around. Not long after the movie started, the door of the theatre opened and came in a young lady around the same age as him. She carried a large soda and two medium-sized bags of
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