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Love Daddy's mouth, the top of a microphone, and an alarm clock. The alarm clock, being used as a prop, is making a very loud, annoying, ringing sound. This is done in order to get the viewers attention to the problem of racism. After…

in Alaska with a shot of a trail expanding beyond a vast amount of snow. This shows the ruffness of these adventurers. Then it cuts to show the Little Fellow(Charlie Chaplin) walking casually along, and being followed by a bear. Big Jim is…

development of film theory and film culture. Is it still a relevant concept? In this essay, I shall endeavor to outline the beginnings of the auteur theory, and show the arguments that support and oppose the relevance of the auteur theory in…

to the signing of the Declaration of Independence is portrayed in 1776. It has representatives of the original thirteen colonies that gathered in the swealtering heat of a Philadelphia summer as the Continental Congress argued. Within itself, it…

the sarcasm intertwined within American values, or beauties. Every scene within American Beauty influences each character in the movie as well as other scenes. The structure of this flick is as if it were not possible to remove one scene from the…

of all time? Well, let me count the ways. American Beauty is a story about a middle-class white American family, trying to pursue the American Dream. Their different versions of the American Dream are what pull them apart from reaching it as a…

have dealt with important issues concerning society during the time in which they ran. Sometimes the efforts to convey a message is masked within a show that one may not believe to be educational. “The Simpson’s” is currently America’s longest running…

you are deeply in love with someone? It is what happens to Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), who are next-door neighbors in an apartment building in Hong Kong, 1962. Love and marriage is the most essential underl…

watching the film “Guilty by Suspicion” and reading historical information about the same era: the Red Scare in the 1950’s, I am beginning to be disgusted with our so-called “perfect” America. I know that this may be dissident, and some people may consid…

a woman, was carrying a baby boy. They didn't know they were sailing into a trap until it was too late. They looked up in fear at Judge Frollo, who was in charge of justice in Paris. His guards surrounded the gypsies and made them hand over the baby.…