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    hunted down by her fellow assassins. In Death Proof, eight women fight against a psychotic killer who targets them. Watching Tarantino films and his women characters is satisfying in various ways. Often female characters are the strongest and the smartest outwitting males, men who underestimate them most meet their violent end. At the same time the director is not unproblematic. Viewers can find thesmelf wincing at ultraviolenece or Tarantino's fetishistic portrayal of women sexuality. It is

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    Comparison of Set Designs of Hamlet Film Adaptations During the many years since the production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there has been a considerable amount of film adaptations that recreate the well-known tragedy. They vary in terms of the way it is portrayed by the director, how successful the actors are able to recreate the emotions, staging, music, design, and all factors of movie production. The play was well interpreted in both the film adaptations of 1996, directed by Kenneth Branagh

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    Branagh’s (1996) and Franco Zeffirelli’s (1990) film of Hamlet both directors interpret William Shakespeare’s work quite differently. Both films excel in different aspects demonstrating strengths and weaknesses on either side. Branagh explores Hamlet as a vengeful character somewhat more as Shakespeare had intended. Zeffirelli emphasizes the dialogue in the film using the tone rather than developing the character based on hatred. However despite the films differences they both effectively capture the

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    “Schooling the world” was a film based on schools around the world. The Director Carol Black focuses on India schooling and American schooling. The purpose of this film is to show that Americans think education should be one way and not different ways. The schooling in India has changed over time and locals are struggling with the changes. In the older schooling in India is was based on crops and the community. Very few people went to school, but many worked in the fields and in homes. Children are

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    the directors and their movies during that time. Spike Lee attended NYU where he had enrolled in the graduate film program. Lee would go on to produce a film that would win him a Motion Picture Arts and Science Student Academy Award. Spike Lee has directed 48 films, produced 47 and have written 14 films. Spike Lee has been an influence on the film industry as he has often had movies about controversial topics that start conversations, has been known for using double dolly shots in his films and changing

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    Anderson is a world-renowned filmmaker known for creating vividly colorful films that are consistent with his auteur signature. Though he has only directed 7 films (not including his upcoming film and two short films), he is a perfect example of how even a small body of work can demonstrate auteur theory. Anderson’s films have frequent themes, visual and methodological style and he even uses a lot of the same actors in most of his films. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) is a great example to demonstrate

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    In Kenneth Branaghs film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the director, Kenneth Branagh sticks to the major themes of the original book with minute changes. There are many similarities and differences between the book and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the book. I believe Mary Shelley wanted readers to catch the themes of child abandonment, presented in Victor abandoning his creature. She also wanted readers to have compassion and sympathy for the abandoned creature that Victor created

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    Human made structures in this film are curved and spherical. However, before our main characters are presented with the monolith for the first time the rooms and spaces they inhabit are square and sharp in nature. The meeting room on the Clavius, HAL’s core on the Discovery. This impending doom is a subtly hint by Kubrick, an indication that the monolith is about to appear, the sharp lines and dark interiors replace smooth curves and white walls. All this gives a sense of dread and powerlessness

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    detailed reference to one film director: Alfred Hitchcock Studies of the Auteur Theory in film have often looked toward Alfred Hitchcock as an ideal auteur: an artist with a signature style who leaves his own mark on every work he creates. According to the theory, it does not matter whether or not the director writes his own films, because the film will reflect the vision and the mind of the director through the choices he makes in his film. In the case of Hitchcock’s earliest films when he was still under

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    from a film and a classic. There are concrete elements that can be found in all classics that make it such a powerful and remarkable work. One of these elements is undoubtedly the concept of the auteur theory. The Auteur theory is described as a filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style. Next to this definition should be the line “-for more help see Stanley Kubrick.” He exemplifies all the characteristics of not just a film director

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