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    more than just media interviews Description: Over the past 10 years Hollywood has been filling less and less seats in its theatres. Home-entertainment options like streamed movies/TV shows and video games have significantly eaten away at moviegoers motivation to visit the big screen. Hollywood has fought hard to maintain its profitability by providing a richer viewing experience to its patrons. Investments in technology like Real D 3D projectors and rich sound systems have made Hollywood 's

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    Movie Reflection

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    What is in your movie? ENG 225 Hannah Judson March 15, 2010 What is in your movie? How does one analysis a movie? How does one watch a movie? What are you looking for in the movie? When you watch the movie, does the movie tell you a story or do you learn any life lessons from it? Movie making is considered an industry and an art form; as an artist media, it can come in a form of expression. A movie has so many components intertwined into it to make it overall and complete. Therefore, is

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    Essay on Comparing Pygmalion and My Fair Lady

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    Comparing Pygmalion and My Fair Lady Through the years, countless film directors have adapted and recreated various novels and plays to make them ideal for the big-screen. In many cases, directors strive to keep their screenplay adaptations true to the original literature; however, viewers often find contrasts in certain areas of the film. George Bernard Shaw, author of the play Pygmalion, who had passed away prior to the production of My Fair Lady in 1964, therefore, he could not assist in

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    Whether is it Michael Bay’s signature explosion scenes or Quentin Tarantino’s way of expressing his thrilling movies, you cannot deny that everyone enjoys watching movies. Let it be Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Animated or even plain old classic films. Talking about genre, Fiction, in literature terms, refers to a class that comprises works of imaginative narration (“Fiction” n.d.,), basically things which are not real and true. Science fiction on the other hand, is the sub-genre of fiction in which the

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    Firstly, the largest and most vivid aspect is Freeman’s voice over. Secondly, the continuity cuts of Andy’s abuse scenes truly depict a high intensity story slowly being unveiled. Lastly, the music used during the intercom opera scandal almost stops moviegoers in

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    Memoir by Carolyn Linn Bares Human Struggles behind Mental Illness The author’s book about her life and marriage to a schizophrenic husband should make a good film adaptation. The book Loving a Beautiful Mind: Schizophrenia and an Amazing God (Xulon Press, 2017) by Carolyn Linn should get Christians talk about the challenges of mental health, especially when it could impact a marriage and family life. What has faith go to do with mental illness? Plenty; in the case of the author, faith is what

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    I n dark times a story of hope shines the brightest. This is most certainly the case with Brian Percival’s film adaption of Markus Zusak’s novel set in Nazi Germany: The Book Thief (2013). Brian Percival (best known for his work on the British television series Downtown Abbey) invests his own elegance and élan but it lacks the grit and grime of the truth After death strikes her family, Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) is adopted by tender-hearted working-class painter Hans Hubermann (Geoffrey Rush)

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    and it probably would not have inspired Martin Scorsese with GoodFellas, which remains one of the great classic films of all time. As an art form of expression, this film was very creative in showing something new and giving a new experience for moviegoers. This was definitely one of the great works of Edwin S. Porter and remains one of the greatest milestones in cinema

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    released and followed a certain accepted agenda. Today, films and TV shows coming out of Hollywood no longer have political agendas, strict censorship codes, or follow conservative American values that existed in the Golden Age. In addition, today moviegoers no longer yearn for deep, meaningful movies that the Golden Age provided or care to take influence from Hollywood. Hollywood today is far less controlled politically than it was in the Golden Age, but today still tries to influence viewers on what

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    cast, Marker was able to focus more on the creative factors. Each film shows how French and American cultures differ. Gilliam incorporated typical Hollywood blockbuster elements elements. He had to turn La Jetée into something that most American moviegoers would watch. Gilliam loaded the cast with high-profile names like Bruce Willis

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