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    CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

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    CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Tom Hank’s new movie‚ Captain Phillips‚ can easily be summed up in one word‚ intense. Yet‚ the intensity of the film still couldn’t avoid shaky camera shots and extremely lengthy scenes. The true story of the 2009 hijacking of an American cargo ship is a story that most of us remember vividly. Tom Hanks‚ who was born to play Captain Phillips‚ brings this terrifying story to life. The movie starts out with an uptight Captain Phillips obsessing over emergency drills and making sure

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    Tom-tom Drum and Snare Drum

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    Mixing Drums The kick drum big three: boom‚ smack‚ click These are three key elements that can be used to describe the sound of a kick drum. Boom is where the low end thud of the kick drum comes from. You can find a cleaner‚ modern sound boosting around the 50-60Hz area. A more traditional‚ ringing boom will be found a bit higher‚ perhaps in the 100Hz range. I typically use a normal‚ peaking band for the boom but you can experiment with a low shelving band here if your kick drum is lacking girth

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    greatest actor of all time‚ Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump‚ Captain Phillips‚ Apollo 13). He has also won two Academy Awards for Best Actor. In the movie‚ Hanks plays Captain Miller‚ the leader of the group searching for Ryan. This performance is exactly what one would expect from Tom Hanks. It was absolutely fantastic. If I did not know that was Tom Hanks‚ I honestly would have thought I was looking at an English teacher turned Army captain. No amount of praise will ever give Tom Hanks what he deserves. Another

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    Tom Hank Research Paper

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    Thomas Jeffrey Hanks‚ better known as Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is known as the icon of movie productions and entertainment. He is most definitely one of the most notorious actors of all time. He is also known for his nature of giving towards the holidays to the needy and less fortunate. I think that Tom Hanks is a great actor and a good example of a hard worker. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord‚ California on July 9‚ 1956. He was a middle child with one older sister Sandra Hanks and brother Lawrence

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    Isolationism In Castaway

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    In the movie Castaway‚ Tom Hanks plays the role of Chuck Noland. This movie is about Chuck’s life‚ after he has been stranded on an island alone for many years. Chuck gets a large perspective on natural resources and how to survive with them. Chuck uses nature’s tree branches‚ a cave‚ and ocean waves for good in order to survive alone on the island. After Chuck’s plane has crashed he finds himself alone‚ stranded on an island. This first scene on the island is of a revolving camera moving around

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    Film Review Stephen Edwin King has written many famous novels that have been turned into great films. The Green Mile is one of the films that have been produced into an award-winning movie. The story begins with a former prison guard named Paul Edgecomb who is currently living in a retirement home. A past memory suddenly strikes Paul in which brings back many old stories from when he was a prison guard at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. He begins to tell the story of a man named John Coffey who

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    The Terminal Analyses

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    February 17‚ 2011 The Terminal Analyses The Terminal‚ directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks‚ conveys many different aspects of interpersonal communication. Throughout the film‚ there is constant conversation‚ gestures‚ and other forms of communication. As expected‚ there are also many complications that get in the way of the communication. From the beginning of the film‚ Tom Hanks’ character is displayed as a clueless foreigner who knows very little English. In basic types of

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    itself 5 academy awards‚ including the best director award in 1998. The all star cast starring Tom Hanks‚ Matt Damon‚ Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns brings to life the horror of war. Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers‚ the story begins with World War 2’s historic D-Day invasion‚ then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan‚ whose three brothers have been

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    “Mama said Life is like a box of chocolates‚ you never know what you are going to get”(tom hanks‚ actor in the movie Forrest Gump).This sort of tells us how life is unique and the quote tells us how anything can happen like the world being taken over for example. It is something we have to go through while living like how Paul has to go through

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    Saving Private Ryan

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    Saving Private Ryan. In critiquing Steven Spielberg’s movie Saving Private Ryan‚ I realized that you can not base a move only on realism. A good movie has got to have some kind of character or formalism to carry the viewer through these realistic scenes. Spielberg not only uses these tools but also showed stereotyped images in his characters. In my critique I wish to point out some uses of realism‚ formalism‚ and stereotypes in the movie Saving Private Ryan. In my eyes Saving Private

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