... of the filmmakers associated with the movement felt, after Das Boot, that it was finally all right to make it in Hollywood--a sentiment that was to be the death knell of a wholly independent German cinema tradition." (Rentschler "How American Is It?" 279-80) Das Boot begins with a message that resonates and evokes feelings of ... 's captain is the support for that of his crew. He is the father figure on who the survival of the crew depends and the man whose death stands in for the fate of the fighting." (Prager 237) The easiest character for the audience to identify is the Captain. From w...

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... end. A hall full of some kind of un-dead creatures tearing through the barricaded door, yet I'm as calm as I will ever be. Never have I thought, that in a situation where my death is sure to within moments, that I could be so calm. I might as well just write it down here, while simply waiting for my demise. It all started a few days ago ... end. A hall full of some kind of un-dead creatures tearing through the barricaded door, yet I'm as calm as I will ever be. Never have I thought, that in a situation where my death is sure to within moments, that I could be so calm. I might as well ju...

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... still charming. Her father had a better job in those days but after the accident he was fired and decided to drink their savings away and drown himself in liquor to death. Her mother that was once so beautiful and warm poring out sweet honey and love with every word, look, or touch. After the accident she turned cold and filled with ... the door knocking him down giving her enough time to escape. She knew that even without his knife a couple of menacing fists would be enough to bring her to her death. At the other end was her father. He started to make an opening on the door with his bu...

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... poured from it, trickling down over Amy's grey swea! tshirt. The figure climbed on top of her, she was powerless to stop it. She was surrounded by the smell of death, the hungry maggots, and the putrescent black that dripped its cold wetness onto her face. Amy awoke screaming. Her body trembled with complete and utter terror; her clothes and sheets ... . Watson smiled as they approached the top of the stairs. Amy's gaze focused on her Toby. He looked normal, she thought, there was no resemblance to the distant face of death that she had left behind upstairs, but still she did not relax. ...

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... poured from it, trickling down over Vivian's gray sweat shirt. The figure climbed on top of her, she was powerless to stop it. She was surrounded by the smell of death, the hungry maggots, and the putrescent black that dripped its cold wetness onto her face. Vivian woke up screaming. Her body trembled with complete and utter terror; her clothes and ... . Jeffery smiled as they approached the top of the stairs, Vivian's gaze focused on her Jake, he looked normal, she thought, there was no resemblance to the distant face of death that she had left behind upstairs, but still she did not rel...

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... roses all over at her burial I couldn"t bare to look when they lowered the girl of my dreams six feet underground . It was a few decades that had past since Jennifer's death I attended University Of Carolina and majored in Nursing , I"m now 52 years old and a nurse at St. Franks hospital for kids with the only memory of Jennifer is in room 201 ... ...

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