... my church". Therefore in The Matrix, Neo is likened to Peter since the fairy tale references are only placed in the movie in order to downplay the theme to a level expectable to a much larger audience. Towards the beginning of the movie Neo is at work and this scene parallels part of Peter's life closely. Neo receives a package containing a cellular phone that immediately rings. Neo answers the phone. Neo: Hello. Morpheus ... said: "Take courage! It is I, Jesus. Don't be afraid." "Lord if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water." "Come," he said. The Peter got dow...

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... -to-Text Connection The black cloud of darkness is symbolic for despair. This cloud of misery comes and passes. I believe that this is foreshadowing events that will take place in the novel. As the passage explains, they cloud will pass, things will get better, and like clouds, bad times will come and go sporadically, but they will always pass. This reminds me of The Lord of the Rings. Frodo and Sam ... , the two main characters, are in a bad way. They have seen bad times, many ... of them. Sam gives a speech. He reminds Frodo that gloom comes and goes, but it is the good times that coun...

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... . I don't know if you noticed but all the news channels had the same footage. That must mean that none of them had been there to actually witnessed it themselves, and the person that taped the events happening must have sold it to them independently. Which means we cant even know if that really happened. I mean after seeing Lord of the Rings and thinking "wow how did they get all ... of those people to do that" and then figuring out that armies were created on computers and they all ... looked real, I could be convinced anything was real. The story of in Wag the Dog should convince any ...

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... . I picked out the games "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "Enter the Matrix". These movies were huge moneymakers at the box office, received numerous awards, and acquired acclaim from critics from all around. However, the games were put to the test to see if they met my standards and in the end, they both failed miserably to reach even a average rating. The first game I started with was "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". Right ... many chinks in the armor it would make the heroes in the Lord of the Rings lose an easy battle. While I was playing the game I...

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... 's "Town and Country", Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in "Rush Hour 2", and Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings". "Town and Country" was another bomb. It cost 90 million dollars and only took in six million. Time Warner, which is in control of New Line, also produced "The Adventures of Pluto Nash". This was the all time box office loser, taking in only 2.5 million with a budget that exceeded 100 ... $60 million domestically but cost $45 million to produce, helped even the bar but not by much. In December 2001 New Line was at it's weakest point. If Lord of the Rings didn't prove to be a ...

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The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein is a three-book novel that has been hitherto created into two separate movies. The director Peter Jackson simplifies the long, delineating story by cutting out unnecessary parts and adjoining the significant ones together. Jackson does a supreme job in making the movie flow, but the placid, primitive atmosphere that can be felt in the novel is inexistent in the movie. Like the Lord of the Rings, it is difficult to portray the exact ... story in a novel onto film, for there is time limit and a different audience to consider. Also, the director tends t...

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... reaping the benefits of C.G.I some titles including the original mini-series "Walking with dinosaurs", "Shrek", "Ice Age" and "Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones". Which was the first full-length movie to be shot on digital film and also used extensive CGI work to create the background. December 2002 saw the first movie to have a fully realistic-acting CGI character for the entire length of the movie "Gollum" in "The Lord of The Rings - The ... Two Towers". The most recent and the highest-grossing animated movie of all time "Finding Nemo" which was released in June 2003. What is ...

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... with their pinky finger pointed out. Aside from those two problems, this is one of my favorite movies, well along with Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings. I want to look at a lot of things with movie, like the how they portray the muggle world verses the Magical world, how they use lots of camera angles, lighting, and music to help show us what we should be thinking at certain ... times in the movie, how they help us like and dislike certain characters, and how hard ... light, and since this movie is made for children also, it may help keep the scary scenes not as scary for the littl...

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... adventure begun is a potential legend founded. Though the commoners of Corona might have something different to say, there is never a dull moment in the lands around the Belt-And-Buckle mountains. The plot, while deep and extensive, could potentially be fit into a two-hour movie, though it would be better and more accurately depicted in an epic film a la The Lord of The Rings. I envision this movie being an epic ... , remembered for lifetimes for the true piece of art that it is. It will put the plots of even the greatest movies to shame, with its numerous plot twists and political intri...

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... with their pinky finger pointed out. Aside from those two problems, this is one of my favorite movies, well along with Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings. I want to look at a lot of things with movie, like the how they portray the muggle world verses the Magical world, how they use lots of camera angles, lighting, and music to help show us what we should be thinking at certain ... times in the movie, how they help us like and dislike certain characters, and how hard ... light, and since this movie is made for children also, it may help keep the scary scenes not as scary for the littl...

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