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    The children’s book, Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg explains the importance of having a clean environment and what the consequences will be if you do not take care of it. The story opens with Walter eating a jelly doughnut and throwing the empty bag it came in at the fire hydrant. This displayed how Walter did not take littering seriously, but at the end realized how important it truly is to keep the environment pollution free. Allsburg takes us on a journey through Walter’s dreams explaining

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    Princess Bride Thesis

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    “The Princess Bride” was a good movie that was released in October 9, 1987. It was directed by Rob Reiner and the screenwriter was William Goldman. Some major actors in the movie include: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya), Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn (Vizzini), Andre the Giant (Fezzik), and Robin Wright. “The Princess Bride” is about a little boy who is sick and his grandfather tries to make him feel better by reading a story called The Princess Bride. The story starts with a girl named

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    Sydney Carton

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    Charles Dickens book clearly reveals the idea of resurrection through the character of Sydney Carton. Although, in the 1980 version of A Tale of Two Cities directed by Jim Goddard, the same actor, Chris Sarandon plays the role of both Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay. Through having such change being made, it severely shifts the theme of the novel. For starters, the author is trying to reveal the idea of resurrection but does so by the character of Sydney Carton and when he decides to give his own

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    The movie selected for this assignment is Sidney Lumet’s 1975 Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino, Cazale, and Durning. In Lumet’s book Making Movies, Lumet argues that casting different actors can affect a movie. There is a lot that goes into consideration when a casting director decides whether a movie should star well-known, eminent actors or those with less fame. This decision has a great impact on both the movie and its audience. Lumet states, “By their nature, stars invite your faculty of

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    has no money, but sails off to collect enough money so they can wed. Soon news reaches Buttercup that a tragedy has occurred and they can not get married. Buttercup is heartbroken and promises she will never love again. Soon Prince Humperdinck(Chris Sarandon) needs a bride. He must pick a pheasant and he chooses Buttercup. Although she does not love him they

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    all the viewers satisfied and all the separate plots resolved. This movie has earned five stars, and should be seen by everyone at some point in their life. The Princess Bride is directed by Rob Reiner and starred Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, and Chris Sarandon. The movie was released in 1987 by 20th Century Fox. On Rotten Tomatoes, The Princess Bride earned a whooping 97%. The movie takes place in a little boy’s room, where his grandfather reads him a story about a girl who falls in love.

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    Ziggy Stardust, Pong, and HBO have one thing in common – 1972. The very same year, on a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two overly ambitious twenty-something men tried to rob a bank creating national attention. In 1975, Sydney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon brought the story to the silver screen showcasing Sonny (Al Pacino) as the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) as his follower, and disaster the result of their endeavors. The basic premise of the film contains the ingredients for the classic “based on a true

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    For years The Princess Bride has been regarded as one of the finer pieces of 80s cinema and has been drawn to the eyes of the pop culturists within most. The film begins with a scene relatable even now, almost 20 years later. A young boy is at home, sick, when his grandfather (played by Peter Falk) arrives unexpectedly to read him a story and lift his spirits. The young boy (played by Fred Savage) is, at first, unimpressed by the written media, that is, until he is swallowed whole and engrossed in

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    The Princess Bride was released on October 9, 1987 by director Rob Reiner. The movie was written by William Goldman, who also wrote the original book from which this movie is based on. Some of the actors within this movie are Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon, and Robin Wright. The film starts off with a grandfather reading his grandson a book called The Princess Bride. We are taken into the fictional realm of the book, where the majority of the film takes place. The book is about a young man named Westley

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