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In cinema, there are many memorable scenes, but few are as iconic as a Rocky training montage. The horns from the montage’s music blast a feeling of triumph as you watch the fictional character, Rocky Balboa, train. The emotions from this scene can make the laziest person feel like they can run ten miles without the feeling of fatigue. Rocky is a series of six movies about a fictional boxer named Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone, and the triumphs of his boxing career. Rocky has an exhilarating

What and who is a Hero? Is a hero a fireman, who saved your cat from a burning fire? Or is it a group of people with supernatural abilities that saved the world from crumbling to the hands of Thanos, like the Avengers. Or maybe a hero is a person who changes the lives of many people, like Malcom X. All those examples are heroes in their own way, all might have a different way of conveying a hero but they do have one thing in common. They all show their ability to perform courageous acts and are noticed

As time has progressed in the same regard so has film, the cinema styles we see today contain modern film techniques and state of the art cinema equipment, however elementally they all draw influences from film eras of their past. Many established current day film directors have done an in-depth analysis of past film movements and often incorporate those elements in their films. Tim Burton, one of the most esteemed directors of our time has done extensive studies particularly on films from the German

Biocultural anthropology looks at the relationships between human biology and culture. In the movie Avatar, the Na’vi are humanoids species native to Pandora, standing 6 feet tall with blue skin and a long tail; But one of the characters, Parker Selfridge from the human world, a selfish and greedy man, refers the Na’vi as “blue monkeys” and “savages”. The Na’vi natives are very spiritual believers and they believe all living beings in Pandora lives in unity. Every living creature that is born on

Avatar Avatar is a movie directed by James Cameron, released in December 18th 2009. The movie begins with the introduction of ex-marine officer Jake Sully who is confined to a wheel chair and is recruited to join an expedition to Pandora where there is a large deposit of unobtanium, a mineral that is sold at $20 billion a kilogram. The natives of Pandora are called the Na’vi, who resides in the Hometree on Pandora. The Hometree is the Na’vi’s spiritual and physical resting ground. It is also the

James Cameron’s 2009 film, Avatar is a must-watch. The film taps into many aspects of human life, especially spirituality. Cameron has produced the film with many allusions to biblical times. The planet of Pandora was portrayed as a very spiritual ground. It is that the ‘monsters’ of the earth are far more connected to a supreme being than humans, who are the actual “monsters”, ought to be to our Savior. In Avatar, the militarists, led by Quaritch, are determined to retrieve a very useful mineral

Metropolis: “Breaking down the utopia” In January of1927 Metropolis was released to the German public. The film, which was directed by Fritz Lang, was one of the first science fiction movies in the history of film. The film focuses on the differences between the working class who power the city and the wealthy whom indulge in it. The film was host to many German stars at the time such as Alfred Abel and Brigette Helm. As this conflict is going there is a separate

Effective Use of Sound Techniques in Fritz Lang’s Film, M M was directed by Fritz Lang and was released in Germany in 1931. M follows the story of a strand of child murders in a German city. In a hunt for the murderer the police as well as the organized criminal underground of this German city search rapidly for the killer of these innocent children. The specific elements that Fritz Lang uses to express his view of what the sound should be are, how particular sound techniques shape the film, and

In the 2009 James Cameron film Avatar, an ex-paraplegic Marine, Jake Sully became indirectly involved with an expedition to natural resource rich Pandora, an extraterrestrial planet needed by Earthens to continue existing thanks to inevitable raw material exhaustion. For Jake, his call to adventure began when his life course was altered due to the “random” death of his scientist brother. Little did Jake know, with his cynical attitude, that his life was about to change for eternity. Initially

Intro The movie Avatar is a box office hit that was released in 2009, directed by James Cameron. The film is based around an ex-marine who became after a paraplegic after an unexplained wound. He takes up his brother role in a Avatar program on the distant pnet pandora after her brother's death. He is expects to take on the role of becoming a Na'vi and becoming involved with the people learning their culture, becoming close and apart of their tight clan. Specifically the Omaticaya tribe (Blue Flute