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    Club Movie Introduction The movie “Fight Club” is an American based film that was produced in 1999. The production was done after the release of a novel in 1996 by Chuck Palahniuk. The movie involved stars such as Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter and David Fincher is the director. An overall analysis of the video shows that it is a very disturbing film in that it questions our conscience, our phobias, obsessions, reality as well as habits. Many individuals up to date presume that it

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    The role of a king is to be Kingly. In doing such he must be influential and have personal integrity, be calm and balanced, be able to protect and maintain order, be hard working and energetic, bless and acknowledging the efforts of other people, to teach and deliver his wisdom, to show no fear in the face of adversity, and to be well spoken and deliver speeches. Being “well spoken” has many different meanings to different cultures around the world, but as a king… one must be able to articulate words

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    Corpse Bride Analysis

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    Corpse Bride is a beautiful movie about love, death, and sacrifices, in a classic Tim Burton style the movie is dark but with a gradual light. The living world is portrayed as dull and nearly colorless but the land of the dead is a completely different situation because it is full of color and excitement. Although this movie sounds like a horror film just by the title and the appearance of the cover art but it is the exact opposite. This movie is very well written and played out, it may one of the

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    The role of a king, apart from his other responsibilities include – being calm and centered, being decisive and having personal integrity, being hard working and energetic, able to protect and maintain order, blessing others and acknowledging the efforts of other people, to search out and to reveal things, to teach those things and deliver his wisdom to his people, and to be well spoken and deliver speeches. Being “well spoken” has many different meanings to different cultures around the world, but

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    Fight Club Analysis

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    cancer and tuberculous to just name the few. Although the narrator doesn’t have any of these conditions, he sees the support groups as a way to expose his cancer; of feelings. This however is ruined when he meets a women called Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) who also starts attending these groups, who neither is a victim of any of these conditions. His life changes when he meet soap seller, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on a plane coming back from a business trip. Tyler Durden seems to have it all:

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    On the surface, a good number of films produced by Tim Burton prompt similar themes of dark satire and grisly outcomes. However, throughout the progress of the film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, I found my initial impressions of the typically grim director to be baseless and skewed. From being introduced to songs like No Place Like London and my personal favorite, A Little Priest, to the surreal interpretation of lust, loss, and revenge; Burton’s establishes his take on mischief

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    Kenneth Branagh's Adaptation of Frankenstein for the Cinema The story of 'Frankenstein' has been set in the Georgian period. The story line can be cut briefly to a crazed scientist (Victor Frankenstein) thinking he can 'play God'. He tries to bring a creation to life and once succeeding he realises the terrible mistake he has made and sets about trying to correct it - by murdering it. The Monster sets out for revenge killing family members one by one, ending with them

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    4.1 Tim Burton’s Gothic Fantasy: Representing the Victorian Culture through Animation and Parody Film adaptations based on particular works such as Dickens’s Great Expectations are not the only means through which we get a glimpse of Victorian culture and society. Animated films such as Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) represent the Victorian era through humor and exaggeration and reveal Burton’s awareness of 19th century English society. In his study Gothic Fantasy: The Films of Tim Burton, Edwin

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    Big Fish “So this is a tall tale?” “Well, it’s not a short one…” Stories are our essence of life. They grow and change with us. They allow us to reconstruct the past, and put our slant on things. They don’t’ have make sense, and they don’t all have to be fact. That’s what kind of story this is. Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton, is a heartwarming, comedic film, with many twists and turns. It explores the world of an eccentric father, while telling his life story. And so, our story begins.

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    The Conscience of the Queen William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is perhaps one of his most intriguing and scandalous pieces of work. One character who is liable for much of this excitement and outrage is Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude. To some readers and critics, Gertrude is conceived as an erratic, superficial and sensual woman. Others discern the Queen as an earnest, intellectual and sagacious woman whose tragic fault is her yearning for sexual satisfaction. Throughout the text, there are

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