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Cool Hand Luke directed by the reputable Stuart Rosenberg and nominated for four Oscars is a tragic tale of an ordinary individual rising up the courage to oppose the establishment, thus becoming a hero. Cool Hand Luke weaves a rich tapestry of the prison life on both sides of the establishment and the injustices of the system. In short Cool Hand Luke is a movie that focuses on the struggles of a single courageous man and his quest for freedom.

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

As I have stated before, the main subject of this movie is the Cold War. I did have previous knowledge of this subject such as it

The movie itself covers so many pivotal and defining moments in history and provides an intimate observation with a twist of humor and charm that is not often depicted in movies such as these. The movie itself gives an honest insight into situations of the time that are not often addressed. One moment early on in the movie depicts the strong relationship between a single mother and her child in the 1950s, as a rule of thumb television

The idea behind was” it was devoid of any reference to Middle Eastern peoples.” While it didn’t make any solid connections to the story, there is one thing that did makes sense and that was college students were too quick to jump to conclusions and immediately called for a boycott when they were ignorant of the information and purpose behind it.

The films The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964) and Fail Safe (1964) were the emergence of a new political film genre recognized as political thrillers. The films individually focused on specific political issues that were going on in real American society like The Manchurian Candidate focused on McCarthyism and communism, Seven Days in May focused on inside betrayal in the White House, and Fail Safe focused on issues with Russia. What made these films create a new genre was that collectively they had a twist that the audience wouldn’t expect to see. For example the Manchurian Candidate add a complexity to each and every character that for the length of the film they’re deemed to be troubled like the brainwashed veteran from the Korean War Major Bennett Marco portrayed by Frank Sinatra to assassinate when commanded to do so. The shocking conclusion of the film is that in the end it was his mother (portrayed by Angela Lansbury) who was commanding him to do so since she herself was a communist and did a very well job at manipulating not only her son but blaming other people for being communists in order to keep her own cover something that wasn’t incorporated into films quite yet until this film. The twists, complexity, and manipulation by the characters are what made this a political thriller and the first and foremost established as one in 1962. The thrill continues in Seven Days in May, but the story line shifts completely, it’s something fictional but

A"After the end of World War II, the world was split into two -- East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War" The Cold War was a war based on ideologies. The United States of America representing freedom and democracy and Russia representing order and socialism. These separated ideals is what started the deadliest competition in history, where both sides gathered intelligence on how other side was progressing and used that information as leverage against the other, this is known as Espionage. Espionage by definition is “The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information”. This documentary will uncover the phenomenon of the cold war that is more

The film began by showing a lot of immigrants from Europe in the early 20th century. In America, 58 percent of the factory workers were immigrants. The immigrants were working hard for less money. All the people of different religion and ethnicities, and they were all considered separate races. Their whiteness had to be proved and won at from the court. Only white people could become citizens of the United States. After the civil war African American also became citizens, but it was the whites who had the power to rule the courts, vote and better jobs. Armenians were considered “Asian Turks” but

An extremely popular film, titled American Sniper, was released just last year. Chris Kyle is the main character in this incredible true story. In a flashback, his father said, “There are three types of people in the world: the sheep, the wolf, and the sheepdog. The sheep are the people that depend on everyone to protect and look after them. The wolf is the man who attempts to bring down society and make life unbearable for the sheep. The sheepdog is a rare breed, they stand up to the wolf, and stand up for the sheep” (Eastwood). In other words, sheep depend on the protection of others to stay alive. The wolves are the criminals who try to harm the dependent people. And the sheepdog is simply… the heroes. Of all the incredible

Steven Speilberg's Saving Private Ryan The opening 30 minutes of “Saving Private Ryan” is significantly effective as an example to the war film genre. It begins brilliantly with battle between the American and German forces. As the American troops were approaching enemy lines, the representation of the soldiers is that they are just ordinary human beings, not gung-ho. The conscripts were full of anxiety and fear.

I watched American Sniper which won an Academy award for best sound editing. American Sniper is a realistic film because it is about true events and a real U.S. navy Seal sniper, Chris Kyle who went to war in Iraq. Also, it is realistic because it takes place in real settings like his house, training camp, and in the war zone in Iraq. Moreover, it is realistic because it has no distortions of reality, focuses on the subject matter and story instead of the form, and it shows real issues in life like issues with post traumatic stress disorder with returning soldiers from war. American Sniper is also a classic film because it focuses on the stars in action like Bradley Cooper, the storyline, and has a clear conflict of Chris (Bradley) struggling

So if you compared the film to a documentary or primary source you would notice that this movie is unintentionally biased over the other sources because it visually shows the events with strong emotional connections while a documentary only states facts and opinion’s without much emotion involved because emotion drives subjectivity it causes the viewer to favor one side over the other since allow you to empathize where the emotion is strongest. This movie also gives information but it does not tell where it got the information while a documentary does because it usually has experts of the discussing it and is shows the primary sources used in the documentary so you cannot take the movies information as fact even if it is

The film is also considered by writers including Bell Hooks a “new political film of intervention”. But to critics of Hollywood it’s considered a “soft” “character drama” film. How can a

This movie depicts what happens during the Cuban Missile crises. It focuses on the role of the President of the United States, who at the time was John F. Kennedy. After coming to the conclusion that the Soviet Union, who decided to ally with Cuba during the Cold War, was in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba, it was up to Kennedy and his advisors to come up with a plan. These nuclear weapons had the ability to wipe out a massive number of people and the United States had to be prepared to prevent this and fight back if they needed to. In addition to the millions of American lives that would be lost to the nuclear attack from Cuba, there would be a tremendous amount of Damage done to the United Stated military bases. What many of the advisors wanted to do was go forth and invade Cuba to begin to attack. Kennedy, rightfully, was worried about the outcome of that decision. If the United States went into Cuba to attack, the Soviet Union could not only attack us, but take out some of their frustrations of countries allied to the United States in Europe as well. The United States needed to find a solution. Kennedy knew he had to find a way to remove the missiles. He did not know if he should advance and take care of this using coercion or to try to do it peacefully. They try to advance diplomatically. They decide to try their best to keep the peace so this war that was at a cold

To begin to understand the movie, one must look at the question of how the movie reflects its social context and how it goes about showing it to the audience. The movie was released in the year 2012, so using that information it is safe to say it was being planned in 2010 or 2011 around the time of