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    The movie “The Great Dictator” is based on World War I, where the protagonist Hannah (Chaplin) was fighting in the army of the Tomania, who also resembled Hynkel (Chaplin), who eventually became the Dictator of Tomania. After a series of events, Hannah the soldier was mistaken for the Dictator and Hynkel was arrested by his own soldiers. In this speech, before the assembled crowd of Tomania, Hannah denounces everything that Hynkel stands for and made a rousing plea for democracy. Chaplin started

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    Chaplin And Hitler

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    In the second decade of the twentieth century, a man named Charlie Chaplin achieved world fame through cinema. He did so even before the cinema had come of age. Chaplin’s contribution to the development of cinema was nothing short of enormous. The time in which Chaplin’s career was flourishing, was also a time when the world was experiencing many problems. Chaplin’s personal beliefs, in combination with the events happening in the world at the time, were a driving force in what message one of his

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    Charlie Chaplin has directed over thirty films. He is known for humanizing characters, making them more realistic. In the year of 1925, he directed and starred in arguably his most famous film, The Gold Rush. Humanization plays a huge roll in this movie. Most movies all seem to have characters that we like to call stereotypes. Characters that are known in movies, but not really known in real society. This even started in 1920’s as we date back to characters like “Americas sweetheart” and “vamps”

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    Bebop Research Papaer Essay

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    Bebop music was the next evolutionary change of Jazz music that succeeded swing music. This paper’s aim is look at musicians who impacted this era, exploring more in depth Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the early 1940’s, the swing bands began to all sound the same as well as work along predictable chord changes.1 The music was now not used for dancing. Some people believed that this would let the music go away from the elite social groups, and now be for everybody. Also just because

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    CHAPTER III ANALYSIS An example of postmodernism application in film is WALL-E. It is an animation movie released in 2008 by Pixar Animation Studios. The film is about a robot named WALL-E. Throughout the story, there are references or similar encounters with the previous or past works in films. These elements are the pastiche of WALL-E. 3.1 Post-Apocalyptic Earth First of all, the setting of earth in WALL-E is clearly a resemblance of other post-apocalypse films. 28 Days Later (2002) is one

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    Cinematography and Lighting • The smoky greys shown in the street as the Tramp is taken away in the paddy wagon reflects the people’s uncertain futures due to the economic struggle of the Great Depression. • The depth of field indicates what is significant in the street shot outside the cigar stand, having the Tramp, policeman and stand owner in focus. As the Tramp is escorted to the paddy wagon several observers walk into the frame and into focus, enhancing the narrative. • The composition of

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    Jr. was born on August 29, 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas to Charles and Addie Parker. Charlie led a lonely childhood which resulted from his parents separation in 1927 when Charlie was just 7 years old. His father was never around much following the separation. Their house however was just a short walk from Kansas City's entertainment district which attracted Charlie while growing up. This was to be where Charlie would find his place in the world. While Charlie's mother was working, he would

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    Theatre is a collaborative form of crafting, that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or dreamed affair, before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may well talk this specific knowledge to the audience through combinations of gesture, dialog, song, music, and dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are widely used to enhance the physicality, profile and immediacy of the experience. When you hear people saying, Great Britain is the home of theatre of dreams

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    Imagine yourself outside with thousands of people in midsummer, on the beach with your friends, dancing around, hitting beach balls in the air, and drinking your favorite drink. Then suddenly the concert starts, you hear the song Storm Warning start to play, and see the fog rise above the stage, and then Hunter Hayes starts rising from underneath the stage into the fog, and he starts to sing. Due to Hunter Hayes’s awards/nominations, charitable contributions, and impact/inspiration on his life proves

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    J.J. Johnson transformed the way his instrument, the trombone, was played. He was born on January 22, 1924, in Indianapolis, IN and died in February 4, 2001, Indianapolis, IN. J.J. Johnson, with his new execution and imagination, was the musician who brought bebop into the trombone. However, after battling cancer and a muscular-skeletal disorder, J.J. Johnson passed away, leaving behind a legacy of groundbreaking work that he had done accomplished with the trombone. When J.J. Johnson was 11 years

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