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Movie Review: The Color Purple

... obviously had little, if any, respect toward the original story, by Alice Walker. He slaughtered a story most people had heard of, but never read. I thought the movie itself was rather good. It had it's own good and bad points. Up until about when Sofia left Harpo, they were almost identical. After that they are almost two different stories with the same ending. The movie was written purely for entertainment. It added a small number of scenes, but cut more than it added. Also, it emphasized different parts of the story than the boo ...

Number of words: 242 | Number of pages: 1

“Love Story”

... Americanization of Emily”, (1964) and ”The Hospital”, (1971) (tvgen.com). It stared Ali Mac Graw as Jenny Cavilleri, a poor, intelligent Radcliff music major, and Ryan O’Neal as Oliver Barrett IV, a rich Harvard pre-law student. As said in a film review at filmsite.org, “’Love Story’ is a sentimental, romantic film told as a flashback”, (Tim Dirks, filmsite.org). An article in Time described the film as, “boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl”, (Stefan Kanfer, Time 1970). Oliver and Jenny met in the Radcliff l ...

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Attitude Changes In Macbeth

... first prophecy, he is very close to Duncan, but shows signs of having already thought of killing him yet Duncan is to kind and oblivious to notice which in turn becomes his down fall. When the thought of murdering Duncan is kindled by the witches he finds that he has just been named Thane of Cawdor, he is amazed because the witches had just predicted it. In scene 5 of act 1, however, his "vaulting ambition" is starting to take over, but partly because of his wife's persuasion. He agrees that they must "catch the nearest way", and kill Duncan ...

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Barbara Walters' Interview With Christopher Reeves

... this line is, can I see it? Can I touch it? The line between ethical and unethical can usually be determined by the person in question. Perhaps one way is that that has been passed along through my family. "If you can look yourself in the mirror and know without a doubt that what you did was right, then it was." Now old Irish sayings might not hold true to every person. However that could be a universal truth among those that are essentially ethical. There is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Walters is an ethical journalist, MOST of the ...

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Movie: The Last Supper

... enjoy inviting different guest over every Sunday for dinner. The students indulge their sense of superiority by inviting those that they regard as being less enlightened. They enjoy having different types of discussions dealing with all different types of topics. Their first guest that we see, ends up being a trucker who gives one of the five students a lift home because his car broke down. They invite the trucker in to eat, because they had an extra seat at the table and their originally invited guest could not make it for dinner. The ...

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The Matrix

... today, machines have become rulers over the humans who made them. In the time when the movie takes place, the humans of the world are being governed by the machines they created. At first the machines, after becoming fed up with working for the humans, attacked the humans through technological warfare. The humans countered by destroying what they thought to be the only source of energy for the machines, the sun. When the machines lost the power of the sun, they had to find a new source of energy. The machines learned that the human body itsel ...

Number of words: 1061 | Number of pages: 4

Movie: The Time Machine

... theory on the 4th dimension at the beginning of the movie is very plausible and also the theory on how the time machine works and runs through time. Also another plausible event in which how the world changes as he progressed through to the future. He would also have to deal with the effects that time and change did to others that he knew and loved. When he left the time machine to go see how his world would have changed in 40 years he learns that his friend had died in the war. When he journeyed into the far future he notices that the wo ...

Number of words: 266 | Number of pages: 1

Jacob's Ladder

... place, a place of inner tranquillity where there is no pain. The cultural attitudes of this film in respect to death and afterlife have undertones of the Christian attitudes toward death and afterlife, although large differences do exist. The central cultural attitudes toward death and afterlife in this film can be summed up by a quotation from Jake's chiropractor (who can also be seen as his guardian angel), who said, "The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life, your memories, your attachments, they ...

Number of words: 2312 | Number of pages: 9

The Taming Of The Shrew: Katherine

... that knew her hated her. She felt very jealous of her beautiful sister Bianca, because of her suitors and her beauty. Katherine tries to start fights with Bianca all of the time. She even hit Bianca. No one wanted to marry Katherine until Petruchio arrives in Padua to find a wife. “I come to wives it wealthy in Padua; If wealthy, then happily in Padua” (ShakespeareIii76-77). He and one of Bianca's suitors, Luciento had a conversation. As a joke, Luciento mentioned to Petruchio marry Katherine. Petruchio though of the profit and thought it ...

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Tlevision: Behavior, Moral Values And Social Standards

... down to their “who-ha” as they denounced their government. In today’s day and age, we find our youth killing each other and denouncing God. A prime example of television’s responsibility for this matter would be the mass coverage of the Columbine shootings. In a personal individual survey I conducted, close to 100% of the people said that they had never before seen or heard of any school shootings before the Columbine incident. Now that the constant round the clock news coverage of Columbine has concluded, there is been well over seven ...

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Hamlet: Vengeance Is . . . Everybody's

... revenge because he does not go out and immediately slay the villain Claudius, but the prince thinks and formulates in order to make sure the ghost is truthful. On the other end of the revenge spectrum is Laertes. As soon as Laertes hears of his father Polonius's murder, the rampageous son rushes back to Denmark and, with a crowd of followers, burst into the castle prepared to kill his father's murderer. Laertes, in great contrast to Hamlet, takes immediate action. Finally, Fortinbras represents the middle path of revenge. He does n ...

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Compare And Contrast: Oedipus And Othello

... and their approaches to the issue of verisimilitude. The theatrical presentation of both plays are very similar. The two plays would both be presented on a thrust stage, which is a platform surrounded on three sides by the audience. Except for the backdrop which would have some element of scenery, the stage itself would be bare apart from a few scenic elements and props. Othello, like most of Shakespeare's plays, had what is called an abstract setting. That is a setting in which the locale may change rapidly, it may not be indicated by ...

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