... Important parts of Gatsby's past were left out of the movie. The entire Dan Cody part of his life was never mentioned, therefore not showing you that Gatsby was once a working man. Another part of his life, James Gats, was never mentioned to Nick. The book had Gatsby actually tell Nick that his real ... from the movie because you do not see Gatsby as a hospitable man. The book stated that five years had passed since Daisy and Gatsby had last seen each other. The movie clearly stated that eight years had passed, which makes Gatsby look crazier than he is. It also added drama that was not ...

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... Similarly, you have a scene with a widow holding about four kids begging a man for six cents in which the man was just shoving her off like a dog or cat. After all, this is just the first scene in the movie. Personally I never realized this horrible display of feminism until I paid a little closer attention ... ." If this were a statement made by a stubborn political figure back in the 1800's I would understand because that was just how things tend to work back then. However, this is a movie written in the 1990's for children to watch seventy years after women got the vote and were recog...

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... escape from problems that plague us in life. This can be seen on most every television sitcom, popular music, and movies. Culture in this society has become a commodity in which we always indulge in. With culture becoming a commodity it loses its value to enrich the human intellect. In this time of mass produced, ... , and Horkhiemer, today's culture industry is a tool to subdue the masses from realizing real problems in the world around them, and that culture's main role in a society is to question the standing beliefs. In my view South Park is a critical challenge to the current societ...

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... foreboding city of night, and the film becomes dark and cold. Eventually, they end up in the room of Sid, the weird kid next door, who builds macabre mutant toys and has a mean dog named Scud. Sid has barbed wire around his bed, and his belongings are dirty and tattered ... by the animators themselves. The modelers had to create sculptures and 3-D computer models of the entire film's characters and sets. Some of these started life as computer-drawn diagrams created by artists using the language-based Menv software (which employs a technique resembling claymation to produce puppet-like 3-D...

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