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The film is not your regular police story but about how the police is going against the same strategy they are using. The Departed tells the tale of how a police officer was placed undercover in the Irish Mob and the Irish mob vice versa placed a mole in the police force. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and released in 2006. Scorsese directed other well-known crime films like Goodfellas, Casino, and Gangs of New York but surprisingly only The Departed won him the Academy Award for Best

that the purpose is not to entertain or persuade. The purpose, instead, is to inform and give a new perspective on zombie movies in a simple way that an audience of all ages can understand. In Andrew Cooper and Brandy Blake’s, “George Romero Zombie Films: A Plague of Meaning,” the authors walk the reader through how as time changed zombie movies changed with it. The authors further explain how zombies in many movies represent the time and culture. The writers inform the reader through their use of

of films over time. Either through story concepts, production, or even character developments, the time period in which movies are made have a long lasting effect on the tone and direction of the film. The films Body and Soul by Oscar Micheaux, Modern times by Charlie Chaplin and Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein are films that have great influence from the time period that they were made which is roughly in the early 1910’s to mid 1920’s. Time period has a great influence on the film that

13 Hours is a movie based on the book, 13 Hours, written by Mitchell Zuckoff. The film is a nonfictional war movie that was directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by ChuckHogan. Dion Beebe is the director of photography. The film follows and gives the accounts of six members of a security team who fight to protect and guard the American compound in Benghazi after a series of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2012. 13 Hours shows the point of view from three of the men on the ground

The 1980 biographical film Raging Bull captures the tumultuous life of boxing legend Jake LaMotta. The film illustrates the struggles and hamartia of LaMotta (Robert De Niro) and how his flaws ended up costing him everything. Generally, people usually depict their celebrity icon or sports figure for living the ‘perfect’ life and also not having any flaws as person, but this film reminds us that this is not the case, and demonstrates the hardship that they might endure. We should start realizing

Quentin Tarantino’s love of 1970s and 1980s Asian cinema is well known and easy to see in Kill Bill. His love of intertextuality is on display as he references many films from that era. However, characteristics and aesthetics in those films are carried over from more classic films such as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, who also used intertextuality. A story with a lone wolf archetype, violence, and swordplay we can recognize in Tarantino’s work as well as that 70s and 80s Asian cinema he loves. This paper

I am Fiona Collins with Infilm here today to convince you that the classic 1981 Australian film The Man From Snowy River deserves to be included in your Hall of Fame. I shall educate you all in this film’s cultural and cinematic value with regards to its portrayal of Australian values. We will delve into the cultural context, plot, characters and settings, and how they were able to be directed into the film by George Miller, making the Australian values paramount. This 100 minute adventure produced

subgenre of pre-existing crime films, gangster movies played with the element of organised crime, particularly those involving the mafia, the criminal underworld or illegal activities. Now a celebrated success with many big names such as Goodfellas, The Godfather trilogy and Scarface, the genre wasn’t always a straight recipe for success. Although still recognisable, the themes and conventions of the gangster genre have developed so much over time that what actually defines a film as being part of the “gangster”

Not all films which adhere to the classical Hollywood paradigm eschew issues. The film Singin’ in the Rain follows Don Lockwood, a popular silent film actor, as he attempts to maintain his star status during the advent of “talkies”. Lockwood’s journey manifests fame’s capricious temperament, the studio’s commercial interest, and the influence of outside variables on a film. Singin’ in the Rain uses Lockwood’s struggle with celebrity to expose the importance of public image and self esteem. A

submit to any white men in the film. He is even smarter than many of the white men who try to get in his way or think they are superior to him. Bill Gillespie is also shown as heroic towards the end of the film when he begins to stand up for Tibbs and protect him from certain aspects of Sparta. Those characters portrayed as villainous icons are Endicott, and the groups of white men who plan to end Tibbs’ life. However, Gillespie is seen as “evil” in the beginning of the film, but through the duration