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“A Raisin in the Sun” is about the Younger Family who live in a small apartment in Chicago. The family is torn apart as every member has different dreams and goals, yet Mama and her daughter-in-law Ruth desperately attempt to hold the family all together. In both the movie and the play, the family’s dreams remain the same. Mama wants her family to get along and she wants to purchase a house. Her son, Walter, wants the life insurance money from his father to invest in a liquor store to achieve his

gonna get.” These are some of the most well-known words from the movie Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is a man that is gone through many struggles in his life. From being physically disabled as a child, to being in war, and also having to deal with his best friend, Jenny, not love him back, you could say that he has gone through his fair share of hard times. Although struggling throughout his life he manages to stay positive and keep a smile on his face. Tom Hanks, who plays Forrest Gump, uses his body

and includes and refutes opposing views. Berardinelli has written a piece that includes only his opinion with no critical reasoning or specific evidence. Berardinelli gives background information on Hamlet itself when talking about how “legendary actors John Gielgud, Richard Burton, and Laurence Olivier have taken the lead role” (Berardinelli). He also gives background to Branagh’s connection with Hamlet and how it “has been something of a private obsession for Kenneth Branagh since the age of eleven”

The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was made in 1988. The movie is about an autistic man named Raymon, who is a idiot savant played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking self absorbed, egocentric brother Charlie Babbitt, who is played by Tom Cruise. A egocentric person is a person with the simple recognition that every living thing views the world from a unique, self-oriented perspective(LIFE: Inherently Egocentric written by James Craig Green http://pw2.netcom.com/ zeno7/ego

Savona Huff Mrs. Barnes Art-111 29th September, 2017 Art is another form of language, that artists use to explain something or express their feelings. I believe that through art, communication is more passionate and thoughtful. In paintings, artist have their own techniques in which they use to convey the messages in their work. The piece “In the Studio” c by William Merritt Chase 1889-1916, he connects with his viewers through expression of lines, space and depth, light and color, texture and

Life is Beautiful - Film Analysis A film directed by Roberto Benigni, Life is Beautiful was released on the 26th of December, 1998. The film follows the life of Guido Orefice, who must shield his son Joshua from the horrors of life in a concentration camp. Roberto Benigni uses cinematic techniques such as lighting and use of sound, as well as narrative elements such as setting and sequence of events to convey the theme of beauty being everywhere in Life is Beautiful. A technique used to convey

In “War for the Planet of the Apes”—the third and supposedly last installment in 20th Century Fox’s rebooted “Planet of the Apes” franchise—Woody Harrelson’s character, known only as ‘The Colonel,’ is trying to build a massive wall in preparation for an attack by another military faction. He has captured almost all of the apes from Caesar’s colony and uses them as a source of slave labor. When the apes aren’t toiling, they are corralled into a pen in shackles, with the adults separated from the children

Now is the winter of our discourse. Made glorious summer by Al Pacino 's documentary, Looking for Richard. The documentary presents a facet of cultural and academic critiques of performing Shakespeare while striving to turn those preconceived presumptions on their head. Pacino 's documentary shakes up the script and provides an interesting dialogue on the importance, influence, and approachability of Shakespeare on a grand scale. A particular scene that captures Pacino 's message occurs around halfway

To follow the dialogue, Luhrmann crosses the axis of action. Bordwell and Thompson define the axis of action as; “the imaginary line that passes from side to side through the main actors, defining all the spatial relations of all the elements of the scene as being to the right or left. The camera is not supposed to cross the axis at a cut and thus reverse those spatial relations.” (2008, pg 477). Luhrmann manages to cross the axis

The 1941 film Citizen Kane was written, directed, co-produced and starred by Orson Welles. The film won an Academy Award in 1942 for Best Screenplay and was also nominated for 8 other categories in the same year. The black and white movie was a hit for its time. The film challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of the classic Hollywood cinema on multiple levels, especially for this time period in history. One of the first traditional narratives that Welles challenged was the