... mode of documentary filmmaking, exemplary ethics, and exploration of the key elements of voice. "Girl Rising" is the collection of nine different stories about nine incredible girls from all around the world. Each girl was paired with a writer from their home country to help them better ... tell their story. Nine different notable celebrities narrate each of the stories. The stories are split into nine different sections and are sewn together by intervals of facts and statistics presented in incredibly unique ways. From ... the footage used is all reenactments, it could not be conside...

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... the Munich Academy present a rather oppositional relation to American cinema. His early short features have little in common with the Hollywood cinema of the 1940s and the 1950s (fast paced stories, suspense, excitement, narrative closure, witty dialogue). In his avant-garde beginnings he adopts modernist techniques, downplaying action and narrative direction in order to make room for the images. Same ... , and the biggest lie is that they show coherence where there is none. Then again our need for these lies is so consuming that it's completely pointless to fight them...Stories are imp...

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... we desire. Once photography became true to colour and motion, re-creation was no longer enough. Cinematographers desire to create new and different worlds or stories and people's willingness to be drawn into them demonstrates how man finds it no longer enough to match God, but feels a desperate need to ... Hollywood means that the same faces show up in films all the time and this draws away from the reality created therein. The fictional worlds and stories created by film makers could be said to represent realism. In The Matrix (Wachowski's 1999), a fictional world is created where reali...

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... many aspects that distinguish a Modern Western from a Classic Western film. This paper will focus on the three most defining aspects of the Modern Western: the violence, the characters, and the stories themselves. The first aspect we will examine are the characters that populate this Modern Western. Characters Prior to the introduction of the Modern Western, Classic Westerns consisted of two types ... individuals who just want to live their lives, not as bloodthirsty maniacs who want to kill whitey. Storyline The second aspect which differentiates the modern and classic Western is the s...

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... a taste for raciness and decadence' (Cook, 1999, p 20). While these studios were producing fantastical, escapist, romances and big budget musicals, Warner Bros. decided to focus some of their efforts on stories of a real-life nature. They concentrated on bleak narratives that tackled issues that were affecting the 'every-man' during this period of depression. In 1930 Warner Bros. released Little Caesar ... of financially successful formulae.' (Cook, 1999, p 20). There are many theories as to why the gangster cycle proved so popular with the working class masses. Films were being produce...

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... .....that was pretty cool. Acting 3/10: This is definately the weakest spot of the movie. IT COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN FIXED TOO! The script had WAY too much chatty life stories and not enough slashers! Four out of the five contestants were just plain bad and belong in no budget film for the rest of their careers(which is not necissarily ... playing his slow daughter. She had a tough role to play, and pretty much did it flawlessly. The only reason the score isn't higher is the fact that some of his stories DARAGGED for what seemed like an eternity. It was a good thing though because some of...

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... invites the audience to think from different characters' angles. Lastly and the most importantly, many of these monologues, with numbers and objects, take the characters out of the time when stories happened. They directly show the human psychology under postmodernistic circumstances, which is the actual subject of Wong's work. Music and Repetition of Music Since the birth of phonofilm, music has ... their life situations in a both international and traditional city. Just like Zhang Yimou's interest in northwest China and Hou Xiaoxian's in Taiwan, Wong Kar-wai's films always tell Hong K...

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... , the billboard represents a more perfect and easily fetishized version of herself, and as she puts almost all her value in her beauty it represents her voyeuristic identity. As the two stories collide, however, Valerie is stripped of her beauty when she is in a tragic accident, injuring her leg and putting her in a wheelchair. Immediately we see a woman's status and capabalities diminish ... ...

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... respect. (pg. 485) " Similar to Italian neorealism, they contrived a manifesto focusing on the importance of the individual, and the significance of every day. One of the most prominent anti-establishment stories is John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. This original play shook the world traditional culture by questioning the British class structure and assaulting the moral depletion of a welfare state. Tony ... ...

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... has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex stories. In concert with societal attitudes and proximity, this evolution has driven the development of distinct styles, movements, and methods that would have been impossible without increasingly advanced apparatus. However, while ... ...

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... that we now recognize as the essence of his directorial style. I truly believe in friendship. When I was young, I got a lot of help from a friend. I guess I'm pretty traditional. In old Chinese stories, people sacrifice themselves for friends. They have so much honor and sense of morality. These are qualities I've always admired. When I was kid, our family was living in the slums ... ...

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... setting women were seen as vunerable to intrusion, and that men had to protect their homes. Religion also plays a large role through the film, the children read and are told stories from the bible. The family of the film are of strict Catholic faith, and this faith is questioned by Ann in the film but if her mother heard any signs ... ...

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... ", as the marketing of the film puts it. What might be meant by this term? The word romance has a long and complex etymology, originally meaning something written in French. Mediaeval stories, written before the advent of the novel, could be either epics - usually based in some kind of historical fact - or romances, tales of chivalry based on legend and adventure, or ... ...

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... the straightforward heroic tales that would dominate the classic stage of the genre until the 1950's. In the 1950's, a number of westerns pushed the genre beyond the realm of simple stories, but by the 1960's, the genre shifted into the refinement stage, opening itself up to more complex characters who tended to be extraordinarily violent and even antiheroic compared to the ... ...

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