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    when Pi mentions the blind Frenchman, it could be that Pi has imagined the cook, since “He was such an evil man. Worse still, he met evil in me…” (Life of Pi & Martel 309). The Frenchman had tried to kill Pi, could also be portrayed as evil like the cook; which could have been one of the reasons Pi had killed this man. Now, Pi is living the memory of the guilt that he has for killing and possibly eating a human being, even if he had killed to revenge his mother. The blind Frenchman admits to Pi

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    “The Blind Side” is a movie about a young black boy named Michael who grew up in a rough area with not much to look forward to. He always had to worry about being in danger, his family doing drugs, and even being homeless, until one day he was at a high school volleyball game picking up left over snacks from the bleachers when an upper class white family noticed him. After the game, they saw him walking on the sidewalk along the road outside the school and asked him where he was staying. He was planning

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    The famous movie, “It Happened One Night” was filmed in an interesting period in American movie making movie due to the implementation of the Production Code. This code sought to censor movies of explicit material and possibly immoral themes. This severely restricted the content of movies and forced directors and writers to creatively imply certain sex, crime and other nefarious acts while still providing a level of innocence. One of the most obvious points of this censorship in “It Happened Last

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    Mononoke, Miyazaki conveys several themes and main ideas. The themes and main ideas he conveys in the movie are that hatred corrupts and causes people to make bad decisions, shown through the boars, that greed corrupts and ruins,shown through Lady Eboshi, and that nature can only exist with help from humans, shown through Ashitaka. The main idea of hatred and the theme that hatred corrupts and causes people to make bad decisions is conveyed throughout the movie by Miyazaki. Miyazaki conveys this

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    I was first shown the movie The Blind Side probably sometime around middle school and I didn’t think too much about it. I used to be able to watch the movie The Blind Side and think that it was a well-directed movie with a good overall message. However, now that I have expanded my education and gained new knowledge to process my surroundings, I now see this movie with a new set of eyes. Eyes that are no longer foggy from the opinions that society has imbedded in us, but instead clear from all those

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    book or watching a movie, it is very easy to pick up things that might make a viewer’s relate to the themes. Most of these are made not just to entertain the audience, but also to interact with their emotions and help them to relate to the work. There are tons of different examples of books or movies that people can relate to, but there will never be just one that everyone agrees on. Three books or movies that affected me greatly are Brave New World, Harry Potter, and The Blind Side. The book Brave

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    holding the hand of an oversized football player leading him onto the field, the movie “The Blind Side” made skeptics of moviegoers. Challenged by most energy-packed movies that hit the screens in 2009, the movie at hind sight did not do much visual stimulation. However, being a movie that faithfully represents the real life experience of famed football star Michael Oher, it did not fail to raise a lot of eyebrows from both movie fans and critics. The fact that it is a success story of an African American

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    The film, The Green Mile, portrays several deep religious themes through symbolism to portray the main character John Coffey. The ideas of Christianity are shown through several of these underlying themes. The cross and God are the key religious symbols portrayed throughout this movie. Some of the main themes I will talk about are capital punishment, racism and Christianity symbols. Also, I will describe ways cinematography is used in the film; some examples are cross cutting, flashback, three shot

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    In the film remember the titans directed by Boaz Yakin is a film set in Alexandria Virginia in 1971. There are many themes portrayed. An example of one of the themes is a change in the character towards overcoming racism and uses effects such as camera angles and symbolism. These changes will be shown by Gerry’s character in the movie. At the beginning of the movie the first school was being merged and none of the races was happy about it. Gerry is strongly racist this is shown by when the riot happens

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    The Blind Side is based on a true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The movie was shot in 2009 and is rated pg-13 for brief violence, drug and sexual references. The movie faithfully represents the real life experience of the famed football star; it did not fail to raise eyebrows from both movie fans and critics. John Lee Hancock wrote and directed a box office hit that will have you crying with laughter and reacting with sorrow to every twist and turn along the way. Bring

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