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    Jason Film Techniques

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    Questions So Jason will your idea of a remake be economically appropriate for the remake of this film? Why do you believe that they need to show more themes and mateship throughout the film? Thanks Jason! In 1981, Peter weir directed a now iconic film on the mateship, tragedies and the affects that war had on people. In particular he focussed on Australians fighting at Gallipoli. Through his cinematography, characterisation and symbolism, he demonstrated Australians as a bunch of comrades going

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    American society evolved drastically during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The Civil Rights Movement picked up speed, teenage delinquents appeared, and the counter culture came into its own. The 1967 film, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Stanley Kramer, depicts Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton) and Dr. John Wade Prentice (Sidney Poitier) as a mixed race couple who leave Hawaii to go back to her family’s home to surprise her parents, Mr. Matt Drayton (Spencer

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    Pixar Research Paper

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    state-of-the-art computer technology for the film industry” , systems that would enhance live-action films, such as special effects like those seen in Terminator 2, Tron, or Lucas’ famous Star Wars films. However, Ed Catmull, hired from NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) by George Lucas to head his computer department, had different ideas. He, along with colleague Alvy Ray Smith, “hope[d] they could convince [Lucas] of the value of making CG film” and even “thought to demonstrate CG’s advantages”

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    that aired on ABC, started in 1981 through 1989. The two female leads were Alexis and Krystle played by Joan Collins and Linda Evans, their characters represented good and evil. Alexis’s trademark was her hats. Krystle wore pastels and had big hair which was another major trend of the 1980’s. Not only did artists and TV shows influenced fashion but so did certain people such as Lady Diana. Diana Spencer married Prince Charles of the United Kingdom on July 29th, 1981. Lady Diana’s wedding dress with

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    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Trailer The Harry Potter film series is one of the highest grossing movie franchises of all time. It created a rich universe that is beloved by millions, and a few years ago, the author of Harry Potter announced that there will be a new series of films set several decades prior to the events of Harry Potter. The new film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, had a lot of expectations to uphold. The purpose of this essay is to provide a rhetorical criticism

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    Comparing the Novel and Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein “Horror and science fiction tend to present radically opposite interpretations of what may look like comparable situations.” (Kawin, 1981.) Bruce Kawin helps the reader to understand how a story in the genre of science fiction could be adapted, or bastardized if you like, into a horror. This is similar to the film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both “Frankenstein” (1931) and “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935) portrayed

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    He may however regret turning down the patch of Butch Coolidge in 'Pulp Fiction' when it was offered to him first by Quentin Tarantino. His next film “The Man on Fire (2003) saw his playing a supporting role across from legend Denzel Washington. It was the first film role that established Rourke back in the acting game playing a supporting role alongside Denzel Washington. His performance established him to be a legitimate

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    to include short films and TV series. As the following, this essay wills analysis the concept of genres with Marvel superheroes movies as an example. Genre is an ambiguous term in movies, because the nature of genre has no restriction, a movie can be involved with numbers of features from multiple “genres”, however, Genre become accessible with criticism, consumption and production. As Schatz, T. (1981) notes that “the nature of film production and consumption, identifying film genres scarcely involves

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    Australian Identity in Film How a country is designed and subsequently populated will have an indelible impression on the joint psychology of that country's population. The people's understanding of themselves as a country will also affect how that nation presents itself to the rest of the world. Much of this will have to do with the country's concepts of nation, nationalism, and community. A nation is a socially-constructed concept dealing with the country itself as well as the population in the

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    My Generation Research Paper

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    time. In my generation there have been events in my life that I classify devastating and memorable. In the following paragraphs I will present the aspects of my generation of how incidences may impact our lives and the lives all across the world. In 1981

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