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    Forrest Gump Film Essay

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    Forrest Gump Essay Number Two In the film Forrest Gump‚ directed by Robert Zemeckis‚ a character that I admired was Forrest Gump‚ who was a very determined‚ caring and loyal man. The camera angles and dialogue were used to make this character admirable to me. The reasons I admire Forrest are his determination‚ his generosity and care for those around him‚ and because of his loyalty. He was loyal to Jenny as well as his army squadron. He was never with another woman‚ even though he knew Jenny

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    5 More Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses Recently we had a look at 5 Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses‚ which spotlit the magical pairings of Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti‚ Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina‚ Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman‚ Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz as well as Tim Burton & Johnny Depp. Here we explore five more film-makers and their muses. Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich An Austrian-American film-maker‚ Sternberg is best remembered

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    Forrest Gump is a great movie for a family movie night . For someone who has never seen Forrest Gump ‚ I would tell them he’s a special lovable character. I would tell them someone who has never seen the film that Forrest suffers from a low I.Q but one talent he excels at is following directions. Also Forrest has great sense of humor that he doesn’t know that he has . For example in movie when people ask what his name is he responds “Hello. My name’s Forrest‚ people call me Forrest Gump ” in witty

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    Saving private Ryan How does Spielberg use the opening sequence of "Saving Private Ryan" to create an interesting cinematic experience for the audience? "Saving Private Ryan" is an entertaining and moving motion picture set in 1944 during the 2nd World War. Stephen Spielberg who is one of the world most renowned film directors having masterminded "Star Wars‚" "Jurassic Park" and "Jaws"‚ directed the film. He also has tackled controversial topics such as: the Holocaust‚ slavery‚ war‚ and terrorism

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    Bunny Boy and Harmony Korine The title of the movie gives the viewer an idea of what the film will be about: redneck inbreds. Harmony Korine wrote and directed Gummo: he made the movie to please himself and then the audience. He claims to be a realist writer/filmmaker when he states “realism‚ even if fictional‚ should be the dominant mode in filmmaking” after the screening of Gummo. The directorial style of Korine throughout the movie intended to make the film feel uncomfortable by forcing the

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    ‘Saving Private Ryan’‚ directed by Steven Spielberg is a film set during World War II. During an invasion of Normandy‚ two brothers are killed followed by a third when fighting the Japanese. US Army Chief of Staff‚ George C. Marshall sends out 8 men with a mission to find the fourth brother‚ James F. Ryan to lift some of the grief of the mother. This core of the film is about the journey of this unit travelling across dangerous Nazi territory in the impossible search of Private Ryan. During this

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    Saving Private Ryan is a movie that generates strong responses from most people that see it. While interviewing four individuals and reading three movie reviews‚ I found that each of my subjects would recommend it‚ not one of the individuals interviewed felt the violence was senseless‚ and all of them left the movie with a strong emotional response of some kind. It appears that Saving Private Ryan is the kind of movie to which many can relate. Saving Private Ryan is not a romantic‚ feel-good movie

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    Book report: ”Forrest Gump” 1) You have read about several events and situation in the book you have chosen. Do you think that any of these events or situation could happen in your country today? Explain why or why not with reference to the book itself. I think that it´s totally possible that some of the situations in the book could happen in Sweden. For example nowadays bullying is a very common problem in almost all the schools‚ not only in Sweden but the whole world. The way that Forrest

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    Soureen Chattopadhyay IB Language and Literature 1 Mrs Creamer 17th May 2012 Saving Private Ryan- Critique Valory and venturesomeness in the spirit of brotherhood The visual and the realistic arts in Spielberg’s best ever The critics all over the world with their holistic approach endeavor to find the pros and cons of a 3 hour classic masterpiece directed and created by the gods of the theatrical arts. The modern world tends to be sufficed by the major events and their results in History but

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    Personal Narrative

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    The day after Thanksgiving on November 23‚ 2012 the Davidson’s decided to have a “Thanksday Dinner” where everyone brought leftovers from the day before and we sat around the table and talked. Ashton brought his video camera to document the experience; so he set it on top of the fireplace mantle of the club house we rented. That day just happened to be my birthday so trying to avoid the subject I helped set up chairs and tables and arrange the food in a way that would save the most room. After every

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