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    In honor of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, Baz Luhrmann and Woody Allen’s directed their own adaptation and homage of the book. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby while Woody Allen’s Homage only hinted at The Great Gatsby and other books and writers of that time. Although they both experienced great outcomes and are alike in many ways, several people believed that the music choices for each movie, Luhrmann’s adaptation in particular, did not fit for the movie

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    Jean Rhys, the author of Good Morning Midnight, wrote about women with sense and sensitivity in mostly controversial ways. Rhys was born in Dominica in eighteen ninety-four. She came to England at the age of sixteen and hovered on many jobs before she moved to Paris, where she began writing and was found by Ford Maddox Ford. About the essay question and theme, of the representation of women in the city, I believe Rhys exposes the restrictive attitudes places upon women in the town rather than perpetuating

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    Death Walks on High Heels and Death Walks at Midnight, both of the movies directed by Luciano Ercoli. The films are also written my Giallo master Ernesto Gastaldi (Your Vice is

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    a familiar environment to, what feels like, another planet can be quite overwhelming. The theme of displacement while abroad, specifically in Paris, is evident in Jean Rhys’ novel Good Morning, Midnight and Joanna Walsh’s novel Vertigo. Rhys and Walsh both illustrate novels

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    as in their expressed preferences. Society attaches great significance to land. As evident in the movie Midnight in Paris, Gil Pender an American Screenwriter falls in love with the Paris landscape while he visits his fiancée. He has possession of the idea of 1920s, Paris and all the artists that lived there at the time. Moreover, he’s magically whisked by the midnight landscape view of Paris which transports him back to the past

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    without Inez. He always slumps over when they are walking together almost as if she is sucking the creative life away from him. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby does not get the chance to realize that Daisy was nothing but false hope. Whereas in Midnight in Paris, Gil comes to the understanding, that Inez was never right for

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    The Battle of D-Day was a very hard battle to win. But despite the death toll and the dangerous maneuvers the allies took, together they won. D-Day was a very important battle to win. But to win D-Day, the allies had to do lot’s of planning before the battle. D-Day also greatly impacted the allies. But most importantly, D-Day was fought for an important cause. D-Day took a lot of planning. Just to plan D-Day the allies used over 125,000,000 maps alone just to mention one item were used to perfect

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    ending exposing the women as the true insiders. My group had a really good claim and supportive evidence to back it up throughout the PowerPoint. Our style was very creative and very humorous. Group 1 decided to do “Midnight in Paris” their claim was that, Midnight in Paris, directed by Woody Allen, effectively challenges the viewer’s notion of insiders and outsiders through the portrayal of the main character, Gil Pender, a Hollywood screenwriter and self-proclaimed “old soul” struggling with

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    Xiao-kang to Paris is similar to the distance from Xiao-kang’s mom to the “otherworld”. In this movie, there were two almost identical relationships—the relationship between Xiao-kang’s father and mother and the relationship between Xiao-kang and Xiang-qi. I think the director is trying to use people’s relationships to show that when there’s an unachievable distance, there’s no distance at all. Xiao-kang’s farther was in the “other world” while his mother tired to make connection with him. Paris was as

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    Introduction The present world of entertainment production is unlike what was conceive in the past. Giddens believed that the world we live in today is filled with intense puzzling revolution that differ vastly as compared to the numerous generations altogether. Today, entertainment is readily available at our finger tips, ranging from computers, iPads and even right down to our smartphones in our pockets. However, things are very diverse back then, before the dawn of the internet and the Information

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