This film that I attended for this assignment was the 1984 rock mockumentary "This is Spinal Tap". The film portrays a fictional British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The movie satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands. The film was directed by Rob Reiner. This is Spinal Tap parodies the rock documentary in part through an imitation of its methods. The film employs familiar cinematic techniques like handheld cameras, zooms and reverse zooms, rack and follow focusing, and swish pans. The film also depends heavily on the filmed intervie...

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The film, Dead Poets Society, stars Robin Williams as Mr Keating and Robert Sean Leonard as Neil. It is set in the 1950s. The movie talks about Romanticism. Romanticism is an emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, the departure from the forms of classicism, and rebellion against conventional social rules and principles. Mr Keating is a teacher in a boarding school, in which the rich boys of society attend. There are very strict rules and the boys are believed to be at school to become men and then, and only then will they have the proper mindset to think for themse...

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