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The 1967 film by Mike Nicoles “The Graduate” is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is caught between adolescence and adulthood searching for the meaning of his upper middle class suburban world of his parents. He then began a sexual relationship with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson. Uncomfortable with his sexuality, Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson continue an affair during which she asked him to stay away from her daughter, Elaine. Things became complicated when Benjamin was pushed to go out with Elaine and he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson sabotaged the relationship and eventually the affair between Mrs. Robinson and

What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?

This paper focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of the character Maureen Johnson from the musical Rent. The story of Rent takes place in New York City in the 1990s and focuses on a group of young adults as they struggle for success while staying true to their beliefs and their relationships with one another (Columbus, 2005). Through her interaction with the other characters and beliefs about herself, Maureen’s psychopathology becomes evident.

In his 2001 film entitled Lantana, director Ray Lawrence provides a dramatic look into the consequences of jealousy and infidelity in relationships. The film focuses primarily on two couples, Leon and Sonja, and John and Valerie, whose relationships are both seemingly in the midst of their own downward spirals. As the story unfolds and the issues affecting each of these relationships are uncovered, the film paints a vivid picture of the different ways that such themes can quickly bring ruin to relationships, and, in the case of some of the film’s characters, lives.

Though the first thing we learn about her is that she is afflicted with AIDS, she persistently lives an existence based on kindness and giving. The audience is immediately endeared to her when she saves Collins at the top of the show and patches him up. Right off the bat she is proven to be generous and tenacious, as she tells Collins, “I do not take ‘no,’” before healing him, buying food for him, Mark, and Roger, and then telling the absurd tale of how she procured the money to do so. As Angel and Collins fall in love, we see the impact she makes on the group of friends’ outlook. In the movie version of Rent, Roger is shown to have a change of heart and attend Life Support with Collins and Angel. This is a huge step for him because it’s been established that he never goes out and doesn’t want to talk about his illness. Angel’s presence is most profoundly felt when she is no longer there. At her funeral, when almost all of the characters have only known her less than a year, each of them is heartbroken. They share their most treasured memories of the outstanding character. Maureen says, “Angel always said how lucky she was that we were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones.” Angel’s death represents a turning point for the whole cast. Roger and Mimi have a split and fight at the funeral, as do Maureen and Joanne. Mark finds himself utterly alone. Roger moves to Santa Fe. Mimi starts getting sicker and returns to Benny.

A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.

The film Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross is about two modern teenagers, David and his sister Jennifer, somehow being transported into the television, ending up in Pleasantville, a 1950s black and white sitcom. The two are trapped as Bud and Mary Sue in a radically different dimension and make some huge changes to the bland lives of the citizens of Pleasantville, with the use of the director’s cinematic techniques. Ross cleverly uses cinematic techniques such as colour, mise-en-scene, camera shots, costumes, music and dialogue to effectively tell the story.

The Vocal Point concert titled From Rent to Now: The last 20 Years of Broadway: is directed by Dr. Sara Baker. This Contemporary Broadway show consists of sixteen characters. It is a spoof on musicals. The opening scene played by Trey Shonkwiler and Konnor Widmann was funny, and catchy. They sang A Musical from Something Rotten! Shonkwiler is a Tenor, while Widmann is a Baritone. Together they made beautiful harmonies, they complimented each other vocally, and as actors very well. The next song Mama Who Bore Me from Spring Awakening was sung by all the women, with a soloist. Kristen Garth has a lovely alto voice, her performance was unconfident, and a bit nervous, she had a few notes that were flat, overall it was nice. There were a few moments where the background singers were too loud, overpowering the soloist. When He Sees Me, from Waitress, sung by Kris Glorsorio was wonderful. She has a beautiful Alto/ Mezzo voice. She connected wholly with her character, I thought the balance of head

First of all, I decided to watch the movie Rent, which was based on Jonathan Larson’s Pulizer and his Tony award-winning musical, which has also appeared on Broadway many times. The film and musical are about a group of artists, eight friends, who are living in New York City during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They each are dealing with different problems in their lives, such as HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, rejection, and poverty. This movie had a very tremendous impact on me, and I was very impressed with how they tied each theme into it. I was moved in a way that it has even effected the way I look at others, and overall at life.

When I hear the word Rent, I immediately see an eclectic Broadway production, overflowing with talent, adventure, and magic. I picture scantly clad actresses, strutting across the stage. I envision stunning duets and thought-provoking lyrics. That single word transports me to a different time and place.

The plot of Rent borrows heavily from its predecessor. La Boheme was also based on young artists and free-thinkers, and these characters were afflicted with the plague of the time period, tuberculosis. Similarly, in Rent the artists are all affected in some way by the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1990s. The story highlights the two roommates Mark and Roger. A former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, and Mark tries to capture the ups and downs of his friend’s lives on tape through his attempts to make a film.

The use of music is a key to determining if a film is in the musical genre. Not only are songs used to further the story along in a musical, but they also have the ability to put the audience in the emotional state of the character singing. Song has always been used as a good conductor for emotional understanding. For example, during the song "You Were Meant for Me" in Singin’ in the Rain, Don Lockwood is able to confess his love to Kathy Selden in a way that feels magical and shows a connection between the two would be lovers. Also, the song “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” in Grease is able to betray the emotional depth of the character Rizzo’s fear, shame, and anger. At the time this film came out, topics such as teen pregnancy were not generally presented in films. By having this character sing her issue, the audiences, who may have dismissed her outright for her actions, are able to sympathize with her plight. Moreover, in Rent, the song "I'll Cover You" by Angel and Collins allow the viewer to get caught up in this young couple's relationship without having to worry or even consider that this is a gay couple.

"In order to love life you have to find your passion; you have to find what truly makes you happy and when you find what truly makes you happy you got to chase after it; you got to take those risks. "Passion is a desire to do, or accomplish, or feel love without any barriers." (Passion Project) There are so many hindrances that come our way whenever we are chasing our own passion. However those obstacles will not succeed to stop us from achieving what we are determined to follow through which give us so much happiness, contentment and success in life. Every one of us has his or her passion in life. Whatever barriers come our ways; people should ignore it in order to follow what their hearts long for. We will be able to tell others that we live our lives to the fullest by following our own passion in life. The Passion Project is a short film about an individual college student from different cultures on their relationship and responsibility to Passion. Passion can be a longing, achieving or feeling a strong affection with that should be accomplished. People tend to appreciate life when they clearly know what they are living for. Once they know what are those significant things may it be a simple thing, or a complicated one but if these give them complete happiness in life, then they will try to go for it, they will tdo everything they can to reach that goal and live a satisfied and blissful lives. Passion will aid us to adore

A number of Japanese films from the past to present have revolved around the prominent topic of family and their relationship with society. Many Japanese filmmakers have reflected the main social conflicts that have affected Japanese society in their films. One of those filmmakers is Hirokazu Kore-eda. He prefers to reflect his films on reality and bases most of his works on real events. Directed by Kore-eda, Nobody Knows, is an example of a film that foresees and explores the naturalistic lives of Japanese families and children in symbolic ways through usage of motifs. More specifically, the film allows viewers to ponder about the value of children and their resiliency and fears. Additionally, Kore-eda explores around the ongoing problems of selfish parents and people who are unaware of the family problems of their neighbors. An analysis of the film reveals problems in family and society such as the universal childhood fantasy of parental abandonment and the suspicion of isolation and indifference in cities.

A directed by Sam Mendes about a couple that faced common issues in marriage in the 1950 's. In the 1950 's many lived in suburban areas in the hopes of an simple, normal life with goal of safety and security. It was a means of surviving and having a peaceful life. However, April and Frank Wheeler wanted a different life. April Wheeler found that the idea of living a simple life was too dull and wanted more out of life and marriage. April Wheeler constantly romanticized the idea of being a famous actor and breaking typical family norms, rules of being a mother and wife. Frank Wheeler had a job that he hated and commute daily from Connecticut to New York in the means of financially supporting his wife and family. They both live in Connecticut with two children and neighbor that April finds to be too tedious simply because it isn 't anything more than normal. Desperate to get out of the typical normal life they have, April convinces Frank to move to Paris. A place that April had dreamed for so long to go to and believed that if they were in Paris all their problems would fade and bring great wealth. Unfortunately, their plan to move to Paris was crushed when April was pregnant with the third child. Marital problems arise when April decides to abort the child. As the movie plays out, the audience is able to witness a variety of issues that comes in their marriage. April and Frank have a relationship that seems to a ludic type of love that only involves fun and games without the