Paul Haggis, 2005. Write a one page “review” of the movie using some of the concepts we have learned in this class. One page review for each movie…so you are handing in 2 sheets each of which will be graded out of 5%. Grading Rubric: Use of Class concepts 2 Creative reflection 2 Grammer/writing 1 Due: Week of December 3rd . Movie Review Social Diversity Banu Bayram November 28th 2012 Movie: Once Were Warriors The movie ‘Once Were Warriors’ is based on a family
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Movie Review: The movie I went to watch was 300: Rise of an Empire directed by Noam Murro. The movie is about a general Themistocles that leads the Greeks against the Persians who are Xerxes and Artemisia. First, I was super excited to go watch this movie since I was a really big fan of the first 300 movie. What intrigued me the most was how the Greeks were going to match up against the huge Persian army led by two malicious leaders. That caught my eye since the movie started and kept me on
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Alisha Hefner Movie Review 10/31/12 Prof. Jackson Twilight In 2005, author Stephanie Meyer created a fascinating story with a simple, even generic plot. Comparable to Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Meyer's 'Twilight' revolves around a young girl who falls for the high school outcast. But instead of the families, it is the species that alienates one from the other. “Twilight”– based on the first book in the best-selling series by Stephenie Meyer – is a faithful adaptation that will satiate
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Captain Phillips Review Captain Phillips is a high seas drama - based on the memoirs of Captain Richard Phillips,“A Captains Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous days at sea,” Philips was in command of a cargo ship named Maersk Alabama which was hijacked by Somali pirates in April 2009. Directed by Paul Greengrass, this movie, like his previous works in the Bourne series, is a great blend of contemporary action and raw emotion. Tom Hanks’ extraordinary performance as an ordinary
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Movie review for Dances with Wolves The movie Dances with Wolves is about the struggles between the Indians who lived on the land and the white man who is set on taking over the West. Kevin Costner plays a Union Army lieutenant, John Dunbar, who after attempting to kill himself was made a hero. He then chooses to go west and be stationed at the abandoned Fort Sedgwick. He eventually has a run in with a holy man of a native Sioux Indian tribe. After a few brief, not so positive, encounters he
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A Review of《The Pursuit of Happiness》 I have seen《The Pursuit of Happiness》 several days ago , but I can’t forget Chris and his spirits until now . To be honest , this move is really a big shock to me , and the strong power in Chris has been influencing me all the time . Characters and the climate There are mainly three characters : Chris Gardner 、Christopher、 Linda ,and the leading character is Chris Gardner ,the
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New York Times Sunday Review Romance at Arm’s Length by DANIEL JONES FEB. 6, 2014 IN Spike Jonze’s mesmerizing new movie “Her,” a man falls in love with a sultry-voiced computer operating system whose presence in the film is so lifelike you have to keep reminding yourself she doesn’t actually exist. To make it easier for the audience to believe that a computer might be able to mimic human thought, emotion and speech so convincingly, Mr. Jonze sets his story in the not-so-distant future. I don’t
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black and white silent film. The few times that the characters would talk to each, a scene would come up with a text box. The music was also composed by Charlie Chaplin, and he was also the lead role in the film. The story line of the movie revolves around a poorer gentlemen going through some comical antics, he falls in love with a blind girl, is befriended by a millionaire, and eventually wins the heart of the fair maiden. I thought that the film was pretty good. For an old
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meets a lot of people and almost all are kind to him. His interactions with people are intense, the kind you have when you are planning to run off and disappear while you are still a mysterious entity. He avoids getting too close to anyone. The movie is gorgeous, mountains, plains, sky, rivers, animals. The acting is fantastic, totally believable. The actors are incredible and perfectly cast – Catherine Keener as an aging hippie vagabond, Vince Vaughn as a wacky farmer growing who knows what, William
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Inglorious Bastards Movie Review For starters, don’t go into this movie expecting to see a serious WWII movie, and you’ll more then likely end up having some fun. Quentin Tarantino fans will undoubtedly like this film. It’s jam-packed with his signature from the horror comedy, strange characters and gore. The finale is more vengeful fiction than history, as the film’s protagonist create tedious chaos on their persecutors, and do so with delight. Inglorious Bastards is the tale of a squad
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is at the difficult time in his life battling drug and alcohol addiction as a flight captain. He becomes a hero and has to make a decision that can change his life. After reviewing the movie we can determine the reason for him becoming a hero, the "real" Whip, and my final review of the film. In the movie “Flight”, the major character Denzel
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1. Introduction In recent years, movie class plays a more and more important role in English teaching in China. Most teachers require students to write movie reviews after watching the movie. However, how to write movie review is still remain unclear to students. Some student download a review from the internet, and some write a summary of the movie instead. Genre analysis is a system of analysis by which observations are made on the repeated communicative functions found in genres and on the
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Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy: Writing About Film This handout discusses ways to approach film as a visual medium. It offers suggestions for focus, prewriting tips, and guidance on how to think critically about a medium many of us think of as popular entertainment. It does not include a comprehensive list of technical film terminology, although it does provide links to several sources that do. This handout deals with decoding film as a viewer, considering how the film appears rather than how
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little boy to the mix, it made the movie that much more relatable if you were watching as a young kid. This movie was very entertaining to watch and I thought it was one of Chaplin’s best silent films. Even though it was silent, it kept me entertained for 50 minutes. A Dog's Life- This movie actually accompanies the kid and continues the life of a street tramp played by Chaplin. In this one however the little tramp takes care of a dog, a nice touch in this movie. There are also familiar elements
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ever. It is torturous. From the moment the first scene unfolds, with the exciting footage of an old globe turning, any hope of watching a good movie starts to fade. An elementary setting, bland characters, and the pursuit of acquiring transit letters during World War II are the perfect mix of ingredients for a bad film. The only exciting part of the movie was the end. The setting of the film takes place in a Moroccan city filled with people vying for a ticket to freedom. Refuges, the captain of police
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I just recently watched the Maltese Falcon movie and let me tell you, it was the most boring movie I've seen. I would have rather watched paint dry than watch this movie. Nothing grabbed my attention that made me want to watch it. This movie is about a detective that is trying to solve the murder of his partner and trying to keep a woman safe from her getting killed. In San Francisco in 1920, Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) was approached by Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor)
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Mateship in Australia A few scenes about local mixed children touched me. The first one is Nullah standing on the edge of the cliff, he is not worried when he saw the head of the cow. But when he used his grandfather to teach his song and let the cow away, he had his teers in his eyes. The second is that Nullah was taken away by force. He said to Sarah, "I will guide you with my song, you will find me, I believe you!" Finally, Nullah took off his coat, and his grandfather left with joy and firmness
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about how the movie “Jaws” is seen today. The author of the article, Sragow, is a film critic and columnist who worked and written film reviews for The Orange County Register, The Baltimore Sun, The San Francisco Examiner, The New Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic and Salon. Sragow, in the article, talks about the cast of the movie and the roles that the actors and actresses played, and how they worked all together to create such a successful movie. He praises the director of the movie, Steven,
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Apocalypto: Film Review I have to say that this is one of the greatest movies I’ve seen in recent ten years. The film started with a hunting and show us a great picture of mayan people lifestyle. It is telling that how they hunt food as a group, how they share the food and how they live to together as a small tribe. At the beginning the father said to his son jaguar paw “ fear is sickness, it will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it”. from here I can see that mayans are brave and strong
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Black Robe' Movie Critique Black Robe' is the story of a young Jesuit Priest from France who embarks on a religious journey to convert, to Christianity, the Aboriginal tribes of New France. Set primarily in Ontario during the mid 1630's, Father Lafargue travels from Quebec via the Ottawa River to the home of the Huron people in what is now referred to as the Simcoe Region of South Central Ontario. He is aided by a band of Algonquin-speaking people, numbering roughly 20 and a young Frenchman
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a professionally trained archer (like Robin) or defend from the ground using sticks, farm tools or, whatever you could find. If it was so easy to escape the government and build these structures, why didn’t everyone live in one? One scene in the movie that most people wouldn’t stop to think about is when the Sherriff states that Robin has stolen over £4Million worth of plunder. A land survey levied in 1086 England was written down in what is called the “doomsday book”. As stated on the webpage
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Big Fish Movie Review Brielle Campbell English 10 What would you say if you spent your whole life trying not to believe in something that was always true in the first place? In this film we meet a family united through tall tales and big dreams. Where a father and his son have ceased communicating because the son’s tired of being surrounded by his father’s fictional stories. Throughout the film the son searches for answers and understanding and is surprised when he finds truth in his father’s
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English II – 3 26 February 2012 Extra – Movie review Greatest movie of 2008? “DreamWorks Animations has truly hit a home run,” says online Author Abecipriano after the release Kung Fu Panda. Directed by the Mark Osborne and John Stevenson, you really couldn’t expect anything less. It had all of the factors of a great movie; the perfect plot, comedy, heart, and all of the other necessary components in a great and successful animation. It is a hilarious movie, but also one that many of us can all
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The last of the Mohicans review The last of the Mohicans was a movie that really appealed to me from the beginning because of the heroism and the action into it. The main characters in this movie were Daniel day- Lewis as Nathanial Poe (Hawkeye) and Madeline Stowe as Cora Munro. The movie could be described as a romantic action like a Spiderman or a superman movie always needs the girl to give motivation to the main character but it is a historical drama. The movie was 112 minutes long, it contains
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Andrew Carrigan Movie Review Professor Leone 7 February 2013 The Dark Knight Rises Christopher Nolan does it again, his new, thrilling, epic masterpiece, “The Dark Knight Rises,” blows viewers out of their seats. Every scene is compelling and filled with and insurmountable amount of mind blowing events. With the help of lead actor, Christian Bale, Batman rises from a crippled sole into the strong and brave protector, saving his city from its biggest test yet. Unfortunately, Gotham
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Brady Hochschwender Dr. Deluca AP Lit & Comp January 5, 2015 Apocalypse Now Movie Review In dozens of such scenes Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now lives up to its grand title, disclosing not only the various faces of war but also the contradictions between excitement and boredom, terror and pity, brutality and beauty. Apocalypse Now is not about any war but about the disastrous United States involvement in Vietnam, which, probably because it was disastrous, seems now to have been different, but
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A Simple Plan Movie Review: Envisage this: You and 2 friends are out walking in the forest. You find a recently crashed helicopter well-hidden in the shrubbery, containing a bag with 4 million dollars in it. A timeless moral dilemma… would YOU take the money? Sam Raimi’s spine-chilling new thriller “ A Simple Plan” is a brilliantly revamped and reworked version of a very old tale, the 14th Century story “ The Pardoner‘s Tale” by renowned author Geoffrey Chaucer and is a strong indicator of
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Movie Analysis The Blind Side John Lee Hancock Submitted by: Redeem B. Tamayor BABA-1 A Summary The Blind Side was a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. It featured Michael Oher, an offensive linesman who played for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. Homeless and traumatized, Michael “Big Mike” Oher was absorbed in Wingate Christian School through the
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Ethical movie review Title: Blood Diamond Year: 2006 Studio: Virtual Studios Producer: Warner Bros. Director: Edward Zwick Country: United States of America 0.1 Introduction The following essay will examine ethical issues addressed through the movie “Blood Diamond”. The two main issues identified and discussed are; child soldiers and conflict diamonds. My main lens of ethical theories will consist of the four western theories, this includes, egoism, utilitarianism, ethics of duties and
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The Grapes of Wrath Movie Review The movie The Grapes of Wrath (produced in 1940), directed by John Ford and based on the book by John Steinbeck, was set in the year 1936. This was during the Great Depression, an economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash of October, 1929. In 1936, the Joad family lived in Oklahoma and had worked as sharecroppers for a very long time. Once they were kicked off the the farm they were at, they began to travel west in search of work picking fruit in California
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