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… the meeting of the group of adults who have not seen each other in years. It alludes to the circumstances which brought them together as well as their reaction to the meeting. The movie The Big Chill is about a group of adults who were…

… Personal identity is much like the blueprint for mankind, like a house, it is built and shaped after its design. If not built properly the house will eventually fall apart from how it was built or by the causes of nature. In the case of someone's…

… the unwillingly, for the ungrateful, led by the unqualified. Apocalypse Now is Coppola?s film based on Heart of Darkness, but set in the Vietnam jungle. The major theme in the novel is the examination of America?s involvement, militarily, in Vietnam.…

… me a lot. It was about racism in the USA today. Danny is the younger brother of a racist, Derek. He has this rage in him that comes from his childhood. Someone killed his father and he blamed the coloured people right away. He hates coloured people,…

… VERTIGO is a film which functions on multiple levels simultaneously. On one level it is a mystery about a man duped into being an accomplice to murder. On another level it is about a psyche burdened down with guilt. Finally, it is a story of a man…

… by: John Sexual In life, everyone must make choices. Choices give an individual the freedom to decide upon the path to which they will follow. Since it’s beginnings, the film making industry has focused on showing the direct relationship between…

… controversial filmmaker of our era was born in mid September 1946. His timing was impeccable as his father was at the height of his career as a stockbroker and had set his family in an apartment overlooking the East River in New York City. In 1964…

… are two families that are very diverse and are text book examples of complete opposites on the moral ladder of success. The Cunninghams and the Ewells have two very distinct and opposite reputations. The Cunninghams which are very respected while…

… can come along and touch our lives in unexpected ways. When a movie is produced in such a way as to depict events like this it is classified as a drama. The dictionary definition of a drama is a situation of events involving interesting or intense confli…

… do well to complement each other. Music, dialogue, and sound effects add to the mood, and set the tone of any given scene. The often indistinct main character, Benjamin Braddock, is handled many different ways by sound throughout the picture. The…