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    Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront is a film that tries to show the reasoning for someone in a difficult situation. For example, the struggle someone goes through when trying to figure out what the right thing to do for them morally. The film follows Terry, a brutish type character yet very empathetic of a man. This type of character makes the audience feel for someone going through this kind of turmoil as they feel for him in a way as though it were themselves having this dilemma. On the Waterfront

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    The claim of this essay is about the complicated relationship between Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller If someone was asked to give information about the Red Scare they had to be truthful in the court. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, and Elia Kazan was a film director. Kazan made a film "On the Waterfront" he wanted to combine the two recent films together. It was a story about a man and his friend, Kazan wanted to take part in his own play as the leading role. It was one of the top rated film of

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    A few years before the release of On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated alleged Communists in Hollywood. Among those under investigation, Elia Kazan elected to release names of others involved in the same movement (Neve 66). This event sparked intense controversy in Hollywood, and it forced the people he uncovered to either release more names or be blacklisted from filmmaking. Through an early example of film authorship, Kazan was able to relate

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    Teen Rebellion Speeding, swearing, staying out past curfew, being disrespectful, these are all examples of Teen Rebellion. Teen rebellion is something many parents ignore thinking it'll just go away, saying it’s just a phase. Parents don’t really know what teen rebellion is therefore they can't understand what their teen is going through. Even though many parents don't know exactly why their teens are rebelling or if their pre-teen will rebel, they are still scared of it or the just expect it(White)

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    Both films in this comparison are considered historically brilliant, which can be attested to their styles, creative genius, social themes and context, all of which have held up against time. Both films are incredible in their individual rights as well, certifying themselves as films that won’t be forgotten, and even defining aspects of filmmaking for works to follow. Despite their differences in story and appearance, there is a particular likeness in their exploration of characters that makes these

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    ‘Making amends for past sins is challenging yet ultimately rewarding’ Discuss with reference to the Crucible and On the Waterfront. The two texts, On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan, and The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, both exhibit a protagonist that is plagued by their sins and desperately seeks redemption. Through Terry Malloy’s life on the Hoboken waterfront of 1950’s America, and John Proctor’s in the Puritan society of 1962 Salem, it is clear that the act of expiating our wrongs

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    varying perspectives and multiple values, one 's own certainty about the interpretation or application of a particular principle may lessen, opening up the possibility of accepting an alternative position. Robert Bolt’s play, ‘A Man For All Seasons’, and Elia Kazan’s ‘On the Waterfront’, we see that integrity is impossible without a conscience guided by long reflection upon the inner character of justice. Bolt’s ethical protagonist

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    Many individuals give into societal norms and their parent’s expectations instead of aspiring to find their ultimate purpose and objective. When an individual alters their perception of reality, they live an unhappy and unfulfilling life. Karl Harshbarger critiques Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in “‘I Know Who I Am’: The Revenge of Biff Loman” arguing that Biff is living in a distorted reality that supports the endless delusions he has created. Although many critics like Harshbarger tend to

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    Janet Ng Professor Faunce WRT 102 7 March 2012 Textual Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire Based on Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan creates an award winning movie that helps readers visualize Stanley’s primal masculinity, the inner torments of the Kowalski women and the clash of the other characters’ problems which create a chaotic mess. Using stage directions in the play, William hints that Blanche is not who she appears to be while the movie subtly sheds light on

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    staff of three to four people throughout its duration, often dismissing and rehiring printers. However, the most noteworthy of these were the people who first employed by the paper: journeyman printer John F. Wheeler, printer Isaac Harris, and editor Elias Boudinot. These men helped to further Cherokee nationalism by using a simple syllabery script,

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