... The fact that it is a musical allows it to use scenes with interesting dance numbers to divert the audience from the real issues involved. The dress codes and the strong body movements allow the film to achieve an impressive "show-. Such as in the court scene where Billy Flynn (the notorious criminal defence ... they are represented as unremorseful. This is shown by the camera angles looking up on them, suggesting they are more powerful and also by the dress codes, which are sexy, but do not objectify them because of the narrative of the scene. The scene shocks the audience by the way t...

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... The kills get better every time....my point being that the next kill is the most gory of the movie when someone's face is torn off(lots of blood there.) Finally you get to see the masks at work as bugs crawl out of a childs head. To me, 3-4 cool death scene merits a decent score ... a prime example of a movie being extremely effective without too much gore or violence. We get a hanging, a violent strangling, a quick beheading, and a quite bloody gunshot. The blood is light here, but the kills are all very entertaining and the movie has a creepy feel throughout that actually SUCCEEDS in m...

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... crime a day or two later where they attempt to have intercourse with the dead- decaying body. Jeffrey Dahmer, liked to consume his victims flesh and blood. He would also dismember his victims. He also liked to engage in sexual acts with the dismembered body parts. He also kept the body parts. ... would lick the chests of other patients. Before he was 18, he told a therapist that he was going to be a vampire and suck out the blood of the people around him. One of the worst cases of vampirism is that of Fritz Haarmann, also known as Germany's "Hanover Vampire."(Katherine Ramsland 6) Haarm...

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... to accompany him home and explain to Cabading what had happened. The two rode to Zapote and found the house dark and locked up. Says Gene: "That memory makes my blood boil -- my eldest brother fearfully clanging and clanging the gate, and nobody to let him in. Most wouldn't have waited a second, but he waited five, ten, fifteen minutes, knocking at ... what was blocking it gave. He groped for the switch and turned light. As they entered, he and Gene shuddered at what they saw. The entire room was spattered with blood. On the floor, blocking the door, lay Mrs. Cabading. She had been shot...

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... witchcraft so that the Maule land would fall into the Pyncheon family's hands. Upon his death, Maule "addressed [Colonel Pyncheon] from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy...God will give him blood to drink". The physical wrongdoing of Colonel Pyncheon against Matthew Maule was avenged at the former's death, with the curse being fulfilled. However, the essence of the crime lived on ... each successive generation. Very few of the descendants have the Colonel's wit or instinct. Also, the remaining members of the family, again save for Jeffrey Pyncheon, are of either diluted blood, such i...

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... to kill the old man but he has to as he hates the eye. "I loved the old man. He had never wronged me" and "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold". Both of these quotes show that the mad man didn't want to kill the old man but he was compelled to in order for him to feel better ... , 3rd person narrative form is effective as it has bigger and better description of place, person, death and scenery. I liked the "Vendetta" story best as there was more violence and blood, more description and detail. Description in this story helps to make it tenser at times and builds up suspense towar...

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... , just go to go New Orleans and put your body to rest? What makes you think that I'm going to do anything for you? " George laughed a terrible laugh that made invisible blood fall from his gutted stomach and disappear before it landed on the floor. "I thought that you might ask that. I guess I'm going to have to give you a reason to help me ... ...

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... for them. Ralph is furious with Jack, because it was the hunters' responsibility to see that the fire was maintained. Jack and the hunters return from the jungle, covered with blood and chanting a bizarre song. They carry a dead pig on a stake between them. Furious at the hunters' irresponsibility, Ralph accosts Jack about the signal fire. The hunters, having actually managed to ... ...

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... she spent pressed up against dawn-colored stone studded with star chips, her knees wide open as the grave, were longer than life, more alive, more pulsating than the baby blood that soaked her fingers like oil. (5) With Sethe, determined to never run away again as she did from Home Sweet Home, she is left to deal with the past while ... ...

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... , the cleaner, the obedient servant to men, and of this quality Ruth seems to have a great abundance. (Of course there was her clumsiness, but strangely enough, with the new cold blood' flowing through her, her clumsiness seemed to disappear.) One of the men she worked a while for, Father Ferguson, came to think that she was precious: a pearl amongst women'. So instead ... ...

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