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    film and media are becoming more present in our day to day lives; film does not only entertain but offer new concepts and ideas. I do not only want to study film due to it being my passion but because it opens up new questions and areas to explore. Stanley Kubrick for example is able to present moral conflict and ideas which challenge on an intellectual level. “A clockwork Orange” which I have performed in as a play

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    A Clockwork Orange Moral

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    In Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, Alex the narrator grows up in a near future English city that develops his inner moral disconnect and sociopathic tendencies. These characteristics mirror and grow from the corruption of his city, originating with its lack of resources and culminating in the great cultural divide between teenagers and adults, emphasizing the importance of perspective in decision making and acting. In Alex’s city, adequate education is near nonexistent and crime

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    The Shinning directed by Stanley Kubrick is considered by many to be a classic dramatic thriller. The movie released on May 23, 1980 and is based on the book by “the king of horror” himself Stephen King. The movie follows Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and his family as Jack becomes the winter care taker at an isolated resort. As time passes Jack begins to learn the dark past of the hotel and becomes deranged, as he tries to kill his family. Kubrick employs many fictional and dramatic elements

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    seemingly non-violent person do something that acts against their morality unless urged to by an authoritative figure? As the average non-violent person does not often commit immoral acts without retaliating, the situation needs further inspection. In Stanley Milgram’s “Behavioral Study of Obedience” experiment, that is what Milgram sets to find out. The results indicate that authority figures can cause the average person to commit immoral acts such as torturing, due to the simple fact that they are an

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    pleasant. In A Streetcar Named Desire Stanley embodies all the worst qualities of this reality by going out of his way to push everyone into the “light,” literally and figuratively. Poor old Mitch is wounded deeply by his discoveries and the frankness by which they are told, but he also realises that Stanley’s “deliberate cruelty” towards Blanche isn’t the most moral or reasonable approach, either. The fact is, everyone has to face the music at some point, Stanley just facilitates it by throwing the

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    Milgram's Experiment

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    In the movie The Experimenter, we saw Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment. The objective of his experiment was to see if authority affects people, if they will so something they are not willing to do just because of the authority. The hypothesis was that authority definitely has an influence on people doings. In the experiment, the people did not want to continue “shocking” the person in the other room but, because they apparent doctor would say to continue on they would do so. Milgram is Jewish

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    During this month of April one of the founding pioneers of modern Hollywood, Steven Spielberg will be coming to Roswell High School to film a documentary about this school. "I could not be more excited for Roswell to be on the silver screen, this is really going to make Roswell a household name that is not about Aliens," said Sophomore Mac Brazle Spielberg chose Roswell because it is "the best school in the United States, I wish I had gone here as a boy." A few of the many

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    In “A Streetcar Named Desire” Tennessee Williams reflects upon the conflict of reality versus illusion through the characterization of Blanche, Stella, and Stanley. In the play, Illusion is defined by a character’s hope or wish of how reality could be, or in some cases they ignore reality. Blanche, Stella, and Stanley choose to live a desired life of illusion and ignore reality. Blanche goes through a traumatic experience in her early life due to the loss of her husband. The death of her husband

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    In the story a Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; the authors point of view is focused to the devotion of free will. A Clockwork Orange means what happens when someone has had their free will taken away from them. In this case, Alex the protagonist can be described as a violent, psychotic criminal, and the idea of treating him so that he may no longer be able to commit crimes that may seem to be justified. “ What is happening to you now is what should happen to any normal healthy human organism

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    Michel Ciment, Stanley talked about some of the decisions he made concerning the adaptation. Within the interview Stanley mentions that when creating the screenwriting, the characters were altered a bit because they needed to be polar counterparts of themselves in the novel. He as well talks about how the problem when doing a rendition of a novel into film is that not all plot points are essential and those that are weak needed to be reinvented and altered in the story. Now why Stanley ultimately decided

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