... and Cultural Context The context surrounding 2001 A Space Odyssey contributes to the ground-breaking impact it had on cinema, and has ultimately influenced the content of the film. The central themes are strongly influenced by political and cultural developments at the time – particularly the beginnings of the space age. America in the 1960s was in a radical period of change. The civil rights movement tackling racial segregation, the assassination of Present Kennedy, and the continuation of the cold war, involving ... the 'space race' between the United States and Russia. 2001: A...

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... Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorcese,proposes a personal and critical but realistic view of the post Vietnam war United-States. It reveals the important social instabilities of the big North-American urban centers through the odyssey of a schizophrenic young war veteran taxi driver in the sleaziest areas of New-York. The Big Apple is, in the eyes of this main character, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), depicted as a gigantic human dumping ground ... to emphasize the dark atmosphere of the movies. For example, in Taxi Driver the scene of the final shootout is remarkable in the us...

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... productions, and here, this flair comes close to an almost modern day version of 2001. While I have not seen all of A Space Odyssey, I've seen clips and Soderbergh obviously was going for a similar movie going experience. In Solaris, the director goes for a very slow pace where acting and moods take the attention of the viewer. It is not a special effects feature as we might expect coming from ... reverse something that took place, or take back a decision once made, Solaris touches base with these types of themes. Soderbergh has constructed the feature in an angle where not all of it is...

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... ". Our North American film industry has evolved a lot since the fifties. Some of the old classic films that we still parish today are Dracula, A Space odyssey, Dr. Zhivago and To Kill a Mocking Bird. Most of these films had morals for the audiences. The stories were great but the special effects were not so exciting. With all the new technologies in the film industries making a movie is a completely new ball game ... by making there imaginations come true. A good example of that is Matrix. The director uses computer graphics to animate some of the scenes, No one ever thought of someone d...

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... question every time I go see a film. "Chariots of Fire," "Left Behind," and "Prince of Egypt" have strong religious themes and are great stories, well told. But what about recently? Where are God and Christ on film? Where is faith and grace? Drama has its earliest origins in dramatic reenactments of the Bible. When the common man couldn't read and did not have access to ... the Bible, the local monks and clergy would perform stories from the Bible. Their ... "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is an example that celebrates faith in troubled times. Besides being a hilarious retelling of Homer'...

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