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movie. It is a movie about a Venice Beach skin head gang called the D.O.C. The gang is run by the master mind of Cameron Alexander who likes to poison children’s minds with racism and other negative things like stealing and vandalizing. The…

depicts many important socialissues. The story is set in the city of Los Angelos, California, in what could be called a high class ghetto. The main theme of the movie is about young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend…

in the film “The Fifth Element” The Fifth Element is a futuristic action move, which was produced in 1997 by the famous French moviemaker Luc Besson. Also known for films like Leon, Nikita, The Big Blue, and Atlantis. Besson was just twelve years…

rights leader. He is loved by the black community but hated and feared buy the white South African community. James Wood, the editor of a white newspaper, befriends Biko and agrees to go to a black township with him. Biko, however, is banned from…

slave ship, La Amistad, whose “cargo” broke their chains in 1839 traveling towards the northwest coast of America. Much of the story involves the courtroom drama about the slave who led the revolt, Joseph Cinque (Djimon Hounsou). On July 2, 1839,…

in film of anytime. One of the reasons why people are so fasincated in horror films is the excitement that it provides. Audiences of horror films are often expected to find killer, violence, drug, and be surprised in the movie. In order for a horror…

form of filmmaking was that of the crank camera. This is not to say that motor-driven cameras were not possible. However, the motors to advance the film were so large that they were simply too cumbersome to be effective. Thus, it was the cameraman…

of growing up in suburban America. The film’s star, Sam, played by Molly Ringwald, wakes up with big expectations on her sweet sixteenth birthday only to be completely disappointed. Not only does she find that she looks exactly the same as when…

common negative male stereotypical characters. Almost all the men who appear in the movie mistreat Thelma and Louise in some form. Thelma and Louise in return take revenge upon them in the ways most women would like too. Jimmy is a typical…

by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate…