Films are a collaboration of art forms. The plot of the film is easy and engaging to follow. The characters are meant to be relatable as we aspirational. Finally the art forms that are incorporated are able to tie the entire film together. This what makes a film artistic. Unfortunately Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run does not make the cut as a successful film due to the fact that it leaves the audience in confusion the characters are underdeveloped, the film is trying too hard to use different art forms
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Fitzgerald’s use of smooth, flowing sentences and continuous dialogue differs greatly compared to the terse dialogue and almost an insufficient writing style of Hemingway, which affects the portrayal of the characters in each of their novels. The differences in sentence structure and the wording the authors use in their novels conveys different imitations of the characters’ actions or appearances. For example, Hemingway’s use of the Iceberg Principle in his writing in contrast with Fitzgerald’s
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In the story “Cathedral” there are two characters that readers can compare and contrast from the beginning to the end. The first character is the narrator and also the woman’s husband. The second character is an old friend of the woman’s and is also blind. This man has just lost his wife so he came to visit. The woman had taken care of the blind man when she was younger. Throughout the story, the two characters can be compared and contrasted by the affection they give, the way people view them, and
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Amistad: Film and the book. After watching the film Amistad and read the book of this story, I feel like they are both valuable to study the history of America in 1840s. Meanwhile, from my point of view, the book is more academical than the movie while the movie can give you a quick idea about what is really going on in the story and you can feel the story more directly than the book. Now, let’s compare them in different aspects. 1.What can the student more readily learn from the film as opposed
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We read the book the Outsiders there was some different physical appearances in the movie. There was diffrent parts in the book that were different in the movie. They had changed some of the characters and the way they looked. They had more explaining in the book then in the movie. We can hear and see in the movie and in the book we can't. There will be some of the differences about the book. Ponyboy's hair in the book was light brown reddish. And in the movie it was different he had it black.
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The primary character in this story isn't, as one may speculate from the title, an insightful or an old individual; he is a kid. This kid, Seth Richmond, who is held and garbled, has earned the notoriety of being a "Thinker." Even his mom is somewhat perplexed with him. Again Anderson demonstrates the truth behind appearance: Seth was "not what the men of the town, and even his mother, thought him to be. No great underlying purpose lay back of his habitual silence and he had no definite plan for
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story It’s Kind of a Funny Story is a novel that was published in 2006 by Ned Vizzini, inspired by his own life experiences. The narrator of this novel, Craig Gilner, is 15 years old and enrolled in Executive Pre-Professional High School. He feels stressed due to the academic pressure and he turns to drugs and begins to have suicidal thoughts. He starts taking the antidepressant, Zoloft, and when he feels cured of his depression, he stops taking it. When his depression recurs
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Dennis Dorrell American Pop Culture of the 1960's Prof. Wilson 12 November 2014 Stanley Kubrick's Monolith: The Sixties Stanley Kubrick remains one of the most influential and even notorious directors of American cinematography. Beginning in the 1950's, his work spans five decades and is responsible for collecting the attention of modern audiences. However, it was in the 1960's that Kubrick substantiated his career and crafted his abilities as a director and a creative mind. During this decade
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“He--y Come on Ou--t” writing by Shinichi Hochi was story that through their problems into a hole. The book is better audience catcher. The story is about a village that realizes a hole that is very deep. The story is present time theme. They throw away things that are no longer needed, such as dead animals,files and evidence. In the end of the story they never fill the hole, but ended it with a cliffhanger. Hochi did a good job keeping the readers interested in “He--y come on Ou--t” The movie
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The Cultural Analysis of “Videotape” by Don DeLillo The short story “Videotape” was written by Don DeLillo and was published in 1994 as another part to one of his books called “Underworld”. The story behind “Videotape” is that there is an innocent 12 year old girl who meaninglessly starts videoing what is going on around her during a road trip with her family’s video camera; her parents expecting it to be nothing more than an ordinary plain home video that they will re-watch later on in life. However
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