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    John Carpenter is one of the 21st century most original directors and cinematographers. Carpenter is known as the master of horror narrative, but he offers the viewer more than a good scare. Carpenter leaves his audience questioning their beliefs and identifying with the characters he personifies. Carpenters use of allusion in his films plants direct messages into our subconscious. Carpenter has a particular flare for slaying the innocent in his films and playing on the irony of the lease guilty

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    fairy tales. Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about direct link to morality tales and the slasher film genre. Thesis Statement: Slasher films are modern day morality tales, rooted deeply in urban legends and fairy tales, as clearly depicted in John Carpenter’s Halloween, where characters are punished with violence for their risky behavior. I. Introduction A. When asked to describe the two types of horror films, director Guillermo del Toro stated: “Much like fairy tales, there are two facets

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    gingerly worked a diamond stud, wiggling it, forcing it through an earlobe. Then the other ear lobe, a clasped secured at the back. Her face shown in the mirror, a smile flashed toward her husband, the smile a mere reflection but none-the-less inviting. John worked at his tie; truly despising black tie events. Seeing his lovely wife excited and dressed beautifully in a cocktail dress made tonight less of a burden, a pleasure even. By the expression on her face as she lifted long, curled locks of blonde

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    With the increase in reinterpretations of death and Halloween symbols, two fundamental things occurred, the mass commodification of Halloween and a decontextualization of the symbols of death. In 1978 the premiere of Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, directly placed the holiday itself in relation to horror and gruesome death, more so than the introduction of gothic horror ever did (Rogers 110; Khapaeva 58). The introduction of explicit horror, according to Rogers, created. “a coded language

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    A great way to pass the time is to watch a John Carpenter movie. It has a great story line, easy to follow, and parent’s with young children can watch this film if they can differentiate costumes. It has loads of action, weapons, magicians, sorcery, magical elements and mystical beings. There is no blood and gore, just minimal scenes of bone breaking. The movie has a bunch of love interest but no nudity or adult content; just a high point of a love tango between Kurt Russel and Kim Cattrall characters

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    His ankles were so broken that the bone was sticking out making a puddle of blood. One day on a foggy and rainy night in a ranch Tucson 2 kids decided to look on their phone while playing Call of Duty. The phone said that there was a killer on the loose that killed with a sword only. The kids didn’t think much of it because they thought it wasn’t near them, so they kept playing. “ Noooo, how did you kill me I was across the map from you.”Said James angrily. “ I’m just better than you at everything

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    Bromden's Fog Analysis

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    Whenever Chief Bromden is scared or is off his medication, he imagines fog rolling into the ward. When the fog drifts in, Bromden believes he can either “strain and look at things that appear in front of [him]...or [he] could relax and lose [himself]” (Kesey, 113). He embraces the fog as a way of escaping the stresses of reality. It allows him to hide and forget everything that is going on around him. It also makes him invisible to everyone else. Leaving the fog means being “out in the open where

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    How to: Escape a Combine Harvester One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey explores the tendency of humans to conform to ideals proposed by popular society. The participants in this society process their new members, shunning those who deviate from the norm. Ken Kesey uses the image of a combine harvester to symbolize the organized way society classifies its inhabitants. As a person excluded from society, Chief Bromden feels pressured by the representatives of society who try to ‘fix’ him

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    There are three major conflicts in the novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest, by Ken Kesey. Both internal and external in nature their causes, effects, and resolutions are explored in great detail. The cause of the conflict between Mac and Ratched begins immediately. As soon as McMurphy enters the ward he shows his individuality. He 's loud, brassy and the chief says, "He sounds big." McMurphy publicly introduces himself and stands out from the rest of the men. He shows that he wont be controlled

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    Healing Methods One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kelsey, is a novel that exposed the mental hospitals in the 1960s. The main nurse in the story is Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched believes in three forms of healing known as group therapy sessions, lobotomy, and ETC, Electroshock therapy. The novel displays the use of therapy and how sometimes physical therapy isn’t the best therapy for patients. The nurse uses the ward and her therapy methods cohesively to bring the patient 's back to “normal”

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