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    The movie began with the 40th ceremony, called the Sarah Siddons awards banquet. One of the main characters, and the individual (patient) who the movie was titled after, Eve Harrington, was receiving an important award for acting. The movie was a flashback from that point, to the events, which had transpired, leading up to Eve positioning herself to launch her acting career. Eve essentially stalked her idol Margo Channing, by attending all of her performances, and eventually convincing Margo 's best

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    Statement of Intention Eve Harrington is a widely acclaimed Hollywood star with considerable talent, her career has taken off. Years after 1950, Karen is reflecting about the time they had spent together. Karen has undergone a period in her life of inaction: Lloyd is still writing esteemed plays, Margo has settled down by still takes smaller roles for smaller productions. Karen is asked by the New York Times to write an opinion piece describing honestly her time together. This article would reach

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    Because Siddons’s androgynous Rosalind costume was so strongly criticized, it is somewhat surprising that the actress chose to play a role as iconic as Hamlet in an outfit that at least one spectator found to be ambiguously gendered. Nonetheless, Siddons perhaps had reason to believe that her Hamlet would be better received than her performances as Rosalind. It was clearly a role that she performed with some frequency early in her career, and she may have felt that it was better suited for her talents

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    Margo has been contributing to the theatre world from the age of four and since then Margo has received several ‘Sarah Siddons Awards’. Mankiewicz shows Margo’s long standing and longevity by deliberately constructing the title of the play “Aged in Wood” in one of his scenes symbolising that as Margo ages she gains greater experience within the theatre as well as presenting

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    In the opening scene, the viewer sees Eve being presented with the Sarah Siddons award. Theater critic Addison DeWitt begins to narrate, thereby making him the lens through which the viewer first sees what exactly is going on. Because the film begins with his first person point of view and because the reader knows nothing about

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    Miss Caswell and slyly asks Bill if he is leaving her to go see Eve. In this way Margo is her own harshest critic, and this self-damaging attitude leaves her vulnerable at times in the film. Margo’s wardrobe throughout the film (namely at the Sarah Siddons award and at Bill’s birthday party) is more risqué than Karen’s, perhaps to show her want to hold on to younger fashion trends. This destructive nature is not caused by Bill, who loves Margo unconditionally, but

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    This is clearly evident from the beginning of the film, at the Sarah Siddons award ceremony. As she was performing her speech, she wore a bright white dress. While the author may intend to use the white dress as a cover up, the reader could actually interpret this as purity but as the camera moved away from Eve, we get a mid-close-up

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    Joseph L. Mankiewicz's sardonic film from 1950, All About Eve, details the rise to fame of young stage actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), in supplanting her ageing rival, Margo Channing (Bette Davis). Mankiewicz gradually reveals and lays bare Eve's ambition, duplicity, lying, lack of scruples and her amoral nature, leaving little doubt at the conclusion as to how the wheels of time will turn full cycle. The film is said to be the only one of its kind which shows the true essence of show business

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    In Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve, mood frequently determines the setting and tone. It provides support to the content of the story which is set through tone, setting, and elocution. When Addison DeWitt speaks, for instance, he instantly establishes the mood and introduces the scene. A character’s emphasis on language or vocabulary can represent the character whereas their speech or intonation can induce emotions in the readers. Using Jakobson’s Functions of Language allows the reader to analyze

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    Dorothy Foster played Ophelia opposite Charles Raymond's Hamlet in the 1912 film Hamlet. Jean Simmons played Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier's Oscar-winning Hamlet performance in 1948; Simmons was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. More recently, Ophelia has been portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter (1990), Kate Winslet (1996), Julia Stiles (2000) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (2009). Themes associated with Ophelia have led to movies such as Ophelia Learns to

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