Film Analysis: “MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING” Introduction to Sociology “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ is a wonderful movie all about the Greek sub-culture in Chicago. This movie explores‚ and demonstrates many sociological points. This movie is exceptional because‚ this movie also shows the values of Greek immigrants living in America. Furthermore‚ the American Greeks in this movie promotes three traditional values - marry a Greek boy or girl‚ have Greek babies‚ and feed everyone. This is a value that
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Exploitation films have been produced since the beginning of film‚ but once the Production Code was no longer in effect‚ more these films could be produced and at a faster rate. One genre of exploitation cinema is the drug crime film. Starting as early as the 1930s‚ filmmakers made movies about the dangers of doing drugs. These films were often cheaply made and aimed at a small audience (Clark 4). They were theatrically simple‚ with an uncomplicated narrative: “these are films whose entire function
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and comprehend. It is especially difficult when other elements are involved. Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film A Midsummer Night’s Dream fully highlights the ups and downs of falling in love. Hoffman’s spectacular film is based off of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. The play was believed to be written in the mid-1590s and is the playwright’s most popular comedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream combines four storylines‚ and creates a confounding comedy meant to entertain all. It describes the adventures
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statement is "Mozart’s Requiem Mass reveals not only a mastery of musical imagery‚ but also the composer’s own views about life and death. Introduction Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most talented composers of all time. The Requiem he composed in 1791 was the last composition he worked on before his death. The Requiem is the most performed and studied pieces of music history and the story of the mysterious commission of Mozart’s Requiem is a well known. The Requiem Mass reveals not only
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Film Analysis: Bernie In the movie “Bernie”‚ we follow the story and between a Carthage‚ Texas funeral director Bernie Tiede‚ and his co-dependent relationship with a wealthy widow‚ Marjorie Nugent. As “Bernie” unfolds‚ we see the companionship turn for the worse as Ms. Nugent’s ill-temper causes Bernie to snap – and lands her dead in her freezer. This movie brings up some questions‚ specifically regarding image. After analysis‚ the question I keep coming back to is “Was Bernie genuine and sincere
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Code and convention of horror film: A horror film follows certain code and convection to achieve its purpose of scaring and alarming the audience. The following are some of them: Setting/location: The location used for this genre of a film is isolated and lonely area that has been abandoned or an area where the victim will feel vulnerable. For example small communities‚ dark streets‚ narrow alleyways‚ roads‚ woods‚ haunted places‚ farms‚ country sides and cities etc… sometimes places with ‘dark’
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DREAMS "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry David Thoreau What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images‚ thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can be extraordinarily vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or frightening imagery; focused and understandable or unclear and confusing. Why do we dream? What purpose do dreams serve? While many theories have been proposed‚ no single consensus has emerged. Considering the enormous amount
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Film Noir‚ meaning “black film’ in French‚ was the trending style and genre in American culture between the 1940s and the 1950s. It is a combination of European cynicism and the American landscape. Film Noir has its origins from German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism. Nino Frank‚ who was a French film critic‚ was the first to introduce this black and white genre to Hollywood in 1946. Many of the directors who introduced Film Noir where refugees from Nazi‚ Germany. From that moment in time
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What kind of films do you like? Most people don’t care about what they watch. It’s important because people can learn more from poetic films. Japanese films are more poetic and better made than other films‚ from how war affects others‚ how the characters change‚ and the tough issues that are involved. For example‚ Japan’s films involved the effects of war‚ and social acceptance (Nastasi). In the films Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind‚ and Princess Mononoke‚ the characters are dealing with the
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A Dream within a Dream By Edgar Allen Poe The poem “A Dream within A Dream” by Edgar Allen Poe is about how it feels to lose your hopes and your dreams all at once in a very sorrowful and frustrating manner. In the first stanza he is asking the reader if it matters that his purpose‚ motivation‚ and his love has been taken away by life itself and whether or not it was worth it. Although‚ with the lines “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream” has the meaning that what he thinks
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