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    Telling a story centered around characters isn’t the main purpose of Cabaret, instead the message is built around the concept of the Cabaret. Located in Berlin, the Cabaret is a place where people can go to be entertained and escape the outside world and “leave your troubles outside” (Emcee, Cabaret). The Cabaret is a welcoming place to everyone no matter race or sexual orientation. It’s a place where people can be themselves and feel comfortable and safe. Taking place during a time when there

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    The song “Puttin’ on the Ritz” was originally written by Irving Berlin in 1929. This particular cover of the song was first performed by the singer Taco Ockerse in 1983. The music video gained popularity on the Television network, MTV, and has since remained famous for its lavish scenes and dark undertones. Such tones make up the rhetorical appeal within the video. The video begins with an look at rugged people huddled around a fire. These people represent the homeless and unemployed that were common

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    elements create successful entertainment within films and how theatre-like adaptations have a crippling effect to a film’s success rate. Finally I will have an in-depth discussion on these elements within the films: Waiting for Godot, Hamlet, and Moulin Rouge!, and the success rate of each. The invention of the cinema began in the 1890’s in America through the exploration of “persistence of vision.” This is the technique in which the human eye can begins to see the illusion of movement when twenty-four

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    Within the films The Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge the theme of dreams is consistently present. Baz Lurhmann who directed both films used numerous filmic techniques to convey the influence of dreams. A dream is an aspiration and fantasy that one deeply desires to attain. Dreams go hand in hand with ambition and thus drive the characters’ actions. However, in my opinion, dreams may take on an idealistic and delusional nature and thus act as unattainable and unrealistic entities. Thus this essay will

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    Analysis A Moulin Rouge vs. The Great Gatsby Apart from having the same director, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby have an astounding amount of similarities. They are both passionate love stories with similar characters in coinciding roles. Although the two movies are set in the early 1900s and 1920s, they use modern music to captivate the audience’s interest. Baz Luhrmann has a knack for making colorful romantic thrillers, and it certainly shows in Moulin Rouge and The Great

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    Be prepared to enter the doors of 2001, with the wise words of Moulin Rouge and the latest popularity at the time. Also ’01 was the year I was born; to be exact on January 10th; the same week that a gunman opened fire on a family. The shooter was identified as Ki Yung Park; he owned a convenience store and was mentally disturbed. The reason he started firing at this family was due to him, accusing that Chung Chang (another business owner) that he was wrecking his business, meddling with his marriage

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    to victims. The novel Raisin in the Sun and the circumstances of the Moulin Rouge Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, tell how racism destroyed dreams and crushed the soul through discrimination and lost opportunity. But there’s another side to the racism story. For some of the oppressed, discrimination and hardship will be fought with perseverance and achievement. In both the fictional Raisin in the Sun and the historical Moulin-Rouge Casino, a black woman, against great odds, will achieve personal

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    Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette) was created in 1876 by the artist known as Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The medium is oil paint on canvas and the style of it is best known as French Impressionism. The painting is located in Musee d’Orsay (Paris, France). What is happening in this painting? In Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, there is a large crowd gathering and socializing in this garden. Renoir depicts an energetic crowd for of lively faces with simple strokes of his

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    Furthermore this essay requires an expose on the film The Moulin Rouge, also directed by Baz Lurhmann in which he explores the theme of dreams. The theme of dreams comes through most prominently, in my opinion, through the obstacles that stand in the way of the characters dreams of love. The characters dreams came in many forms throughout the film and interacted with each other to form a tensile web of contrary desires. The idea of obstacles alludes to the idea that their ambition was unrealistic

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    Revolutions are a part of the advancement of human thought and technologies. The Industrial Revolution, Frankenstein, and Dance at the Moulin de la galette all had an impact on the world today and they had an impact in the 1700’s and the 1800’s. In this paper I will explain how the Industrial Revolution, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Auguste Renoir’s Dance at the Moulin de la Galette was important in their time period and how they are significant to us today. Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution

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