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The best Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, ranked (-- removed HTML --) Arnold Schwarzenegger has had an interesting career. He started off as a body builder, made his way into acting, and then moved into politics. He was Governor of California from 2003 until 2011. What he’s best remembered for, however, are his movies. It was challenging ranking his movies, but we think we’ve got it. Terminator Without a doubt the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is Terminator. Schwarzenegger played the Terminator

Jaws (1975) Media Coursework Peter Benchley wrote "Jaws" the novel before it was made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg. "Jaws" is a thriller/horror with the main aim being to build up suspense and tension. When making the film Jaws Steven Spielberg had to face the challenging task of translating Benchley’s popular novel into a hit movie whilst still maintaining the suspense created through the many textual devices used by Benchley, such as language techniques and sentence structure. Spielberg

Saving Private Ryan is arguably one of the greatest war films of all time. However, did Spielberg attempt to change the narrative of World War II? The popular opinion is that the objective of World War II was to put an end to the spread of totalitarianism and protect democracy, thus it garnered the name “The Good War”. There are some historians that believe this could skew the public’s vision of the war by leaving out the negative aspects that occurred. I don’t believe this was the case regarding

The American uniforms in Saving Private Ryan are also exceedingly accurate to the World War Two time period. Scene 11 (Dog-Tags) has the best depiction of American uniforms. This scene starts with the main characters sitting at a crate, digging through dog tags to find Ryan's name. They then take notice of the Airborne Division passing by and stop digging through the tags. Because of this, they start asking the passing Division if they know Ryan. One of the passing men does know Ryan and he tells

Chapter 5 of Freakonomics starts of by telling the reader that parenting has changed over the years. There has been a lot of contradicting methods, the authors explain on how parenting should be done. These methods range from how long you should breastfeed as to why letting a baby cry is like its exercise (Levitt and Dubner, 2009). The authors then say that fear is the biggest component when it comes to parenting (Levitt and Dubner, 2009). The chapter then leads into a story about how a girl’s parents

In the movie, Back To The Future Part II, when Marty McFly Jr. sits down to watch TV, he doesn’t need to use a remote control to change channels. Instead, he barks commands directly at the big-screen TV and names six different channels that he wants to view, all of which instantly appear in a grid on the TV. In another scene, Marty approaches a “Garden Center fruit dispenser” and commands it to give him some fruit. His first command is “Hey, fruit!” He is ignored by the dispenser because it has

All For One and One For All: A Moral and Ethical Analysis of Saving Private Ryan The film Saving Private Ryan focuses on a single squad of Rangers during World War II (WWII), who are tasked with finding and retrieving a single Soldier – PFC Ryan – after the D-Day landing at Normandy. PFC Ryan’s three other brother’s died during or shortly before the invasion, making him the sole surviving member of his family. The realization of this fact convinces General NAME to send Private Ryan’s retrieval squad

Steven Spielberg is a world-renowned and one of the most successful movie directors of all time. He has won 2 best director awards. Also, he was 4 Oscars and another 14 nominations. Which if you ask me, that is a very impressive achievement. I have a question “What made Steven Spielberg into the amazing director, and storyteller he is today?” Steven Allan Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 14, 1946. To an Arnold Spielberg an electrical engineer working on computers, and Leah Adler

Directed by Steven spielberg, starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze the movie Munich released in 2005, was nominated for 5 Oscars. Based on the true and fateful events that took place at the 1972 summer olympic in Munich. The film “Munich” takes a look at the aftermath of the palestine terrorist group black september who took 11 Israel olympic team members hostage and demanded that 234 prisoners be released. Eventually all 11 team members were killed and the government hired 5 men

1. The Jaws poster is particularly effective due to its bold primary colors of blue and red. The red text jumps out through contrast, catching the viewer’s interest. In addition, isolation, convergence, and location causes the eye to move around the poster. If the viewer’s eye is moving around the image, their curiosity is gauged, rather than simply looking at a plain, boring picture. For instance, the horizontal line of the water’s surface, as well as the woman swimming horizontally, works