Performing Arts homework: ‘Write about Bugsy Malone‚ High School Musical and Grease. Bugsy Malone: It’s a 1976 British American musical gangster film‚ very loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920’s to 1931 in the prohibition era‚ specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran‚ as dramatized in cinema. Featuring only child actors (with singing voices provided by adults). A gangster movie where all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they
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“Grease” v. “The Breakfast Club”: Finding Yourself The films “Grease” and “The Breakfast Club” feature the same strong theme: finding your identity. This theme is universal through many books‚ movies and even real life. The fact that these two films were filmed so far apart‚ “Grease” being filmed in 1959 and directed by Randal Kleiser and “The Breakfast Club” in 1985 directed by John Hughes‚ shows that this is a strong theme that sticks throughout the industry. These films have many characters
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Death by Grease: America’s Obsession with Fast Food Introduction Have you ever seen a movie named Fast Food Nation? It is a movie that shows us how fast food affect people’s lives and heath through three stories‚ and how much Americans like fast food. Americans’ reactions about the effects of food safety is obvious. Before I came to the United States‚ I had heard that American people eat fast food very often‚ then I did my research‚ which indicated that currently‚ fast food has been a key role
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Textual Analysis of the Movie Grease Using Narrative Paradigm THE THEORY Walter Fisher was the founder of the narrative paradigm. (1984) He stated that through the narrative paradigm‚ men would have an alternative approach to understand how human beings acted. In the narrative worldview‚ humans were considered as “storytellers” and human communications were regarded as “stories”. According to Fisher‚ stories that were made of good reasons were the “communication expression of social reality”
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but has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name. John Waters first went mainstream with the 1988 classic Hairspray and then defied fans’ opinion. They complained he had gone all lame and mainstream by daring to follow it up with a full-on musical comedy. The film is a parody of teen musicals (particularly Grease) and centers on a group of delinquents that refer to themselves as "drapes" and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture
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with other people and soon we all became really close like one huge family. Even the relationships between the students and the teachers were close. One teacher that really helped a lot of people find their talents was Mr. Tracey. When he did Hairspray and Grease I bet there was a lot of people who participated‚ and they never would have been comfortable getting on that stage in front of all those people and showing off their talents without him. Then 8th grade comes along‚ our last year at Sedgwick
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Greasers Subculture Values and Beliefs: History- Greasers originated in the early 1950’s increasingly popular toward the 1960’s. They originated in the young northeaster and southern united states street gangs and changed rapidly unto other type of individuals. Initially it arose from working class families that didn’t have access to the greatest educational resources. They existed before gangs were dependent on violence and drugs. The greasers of the 1950s took their name from the “Greaser Act”
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participating in these pageants seem to be interested into it. Majority of them say that they love pageants and that pageants make them feel special until they get spray tans (which are super cold)‚ Hair Extentions (pull onto your hair)‚ lots of hairspray‚ tons of make-up to the point where they look 20‚ fake acrylic nails‚ fake eyelashes extentions and a super expensive outfit for their pageant they they must win and they kids start crying because they’re tired. What happened to natural beauty
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QUEEN LATIFAH QUEEN LATIFAH REAL NAME IS DANA ELAINA OWENS. QUEEN LATIFAH IS HER STAGE NAME. Dana is a singer-songwriter‚ rapper‚ model‚ comedienne‚ and actress. She was born March 18‚ 1970 she (43). Latifah was born in Newark‚ New Jersey‚ and lived primarily in East Orange‚ New Jersey. She is the daughter of Rita‚ a teacher at Irvington High School Latifah’s and Lancelot Owens‚ Sr.‚ a police officer her parents divorced when Latifah was ten. Latifah was raised in the Baptist church and attended
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Aracely Arzola Contaminations We were only gifted with one Earth so it’s up to us to take care of it and make sure environment remains beautiful and full of life. Contamination is a big threat that Earth faces today because it pollutes our environment and destroys it little by little. All the waste‚ smoke and trash have to come to an end because they pose a menace to the purity of our ecosystem. We find all that we need for life from water to plants and air in our environment. Nowadays‚ our
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