Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 10

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“Circus” and “Bright Way” Soviet Movies

At the same time, in the film, the Soviet Union is a country where culturally diverse people of different nationalities live all together peacefully, and Marion's "racial crime" does not bother anyone.
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“The Never-Ending Story”: Film Study

The priests, anxious to prepare for the Great Transition the resettlement of their civilization to another planet, which will take place after the explosion of the Star, teach me the skill of managing energy at [...]
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Review of “History of the Emirate: Unity” Film

Swaying the feelings of the audience increases the persuasiveness of the content. For instance, the narrator in the film uses rhetoric and moving pictures to capture the viewers' minds and incline them to his line [...]
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Nurse Ratched and the Politics of Care

The essay will analyze the main antagonist of the selected movie in terms of her emotional intelligence and discuss her suitability for the nursing role.
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Dependency Theory and “The End of Poverty?”

It is also reflected in the film "The End of Poverty?" narrating the circumstances of poor countries and their precondition. It started at the end of the fifteenth century and marked the beginning of the [...]
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“Gangs of New York”: Crowd Analysis

Resembling the controversy and multifaceted problematics of the historical time, the director brings the crowds of the gangs to the screen, which presents a fruitful background for the analysis.
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“The Social Network” by David Fincher

The aesthetic elements used in the movie, namely, the interior of the room in which the conversation takes place, emphasize the old-fashioned approach that Summers supports regarding the understanding of communication and the role that [...]
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“Awaara” (1951): A Response to the Film

For example, some of the more obvious denotative elements of the movie, such as the choice of the soundtrack that matches the characters' emotions, do not interfere with the ones that are concealed, such as [...]
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“Negotiator” by F. Gray: The Film Study

Unfortunately, the gun used in the killing was one of the guns Roman had used in the past, also, a search in his house led to the collection of enough documents against him. As a [...]
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Mass Production: “Food Inc” by Robert Kenner

The message is that the food people eat is contaminated with chemicals, the process of food production is harmful to the environment and the whole society's cultural values and views are damaging to their health.
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“The Stepfather” by McCormick

In many societies, children are taught to trust their parents and to also respect all the decisions that the latter make in their lives.
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Never Give Up, Hooper’s Film “The King’s Speech”

In addition, the film encourages people who have faced serious difficulty to fight for their well-being just as the King did because this is the way to success in overcoming any possible problem."The King's Speech" [...]
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“Orlando” by Potter, the Remarkable Film

She captured the language, the tone, the mood, the humor, the sentiments, and even the narrator's subconscious flow of thought that the writer incorporated into the book.
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Comparison of Origami and 3D Movies

Creators of 3D movies should be acquainted with the art of origami in order to create 3D pictures. The main aim of origami as well as 3D movies is to present the surrounding world as [...]
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The Transformers Franchise by Michael Bay

The tense battle between humans and the Decepticons to take over the city of Chicago highlights the emotion of the film better even though a lot of humans died in the process.
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A Dog’s Life by Charles Chaplin

The theme of friendship and love that is clear in the relationship between Tramp and Scraps. The main being that Chaplin makes it very comical thus; it is appealing to the audience, and captures the [...]
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Tupac: Resurrection by Lauren Lazin

Next to this I have found a one from two constructive features: "God gave humans the ability to reason", that is consonant to the religious beliefs of Tupac, the main character of Tupac: Resurrection documentary.
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“Saving Private Ryan” by Steven Spielberg

This is the short description of one of the greatest movies about the World War II. Against the background of the war we can watch the efforts of the Capitan's Miller group to find Private [...]
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“Hocus Pocus” by Kenny Ortega

The people from the village come to save the girl and her brother but it is too late. The cinematography of the film is quite good for 1993 and even now it is presentable enough [...]
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“Two Towns of Jasper” by Dow and Williams

Evidently, the film gained huge success talking on the same exact topic from the perspectives of two directors that eventually flowed together for the sake of conveying the message to the viewer.
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Twilight Saga: Summit Entertainment

Taking the movies of the Twilight Saga as the main product of focus, it can be stated that the product cycle of the saga is in its saturation and decline stage.
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Sicko by Michael Moore

It therefore remains a fact that it is easy to abide by the message of Moore that there are deficiencies in the American health system that need to be fixed.
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Critical Aspects of Film Pulp Fiction

The film begins with two small-time thieves in a diner taking breakfast and then they decide to rob the place, the writer then moves to another story where there are two characters involved, Vincent and [...]
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“Avatar” Movie by James Cameron

The issue of war and violence, clearly stated in the movie, gave the audience not only the idea of what is going on in the world now, but also a possible solution for this problem.
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“The Fall of the Roman Empire” by Anthony Mann

The plot of the film depicts the historical personalities, events and trends during the period 180 to 192 AD which is taken as the period during which the Roman Empire stopped growing and witnessed a [...]
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“Touch of Evil” by Orson Welles

He tried to reveal the ideas of racism, stereotypes, and corruption predominating in Mexican and American societies of the late '50s; the basic theme of the movie is shown through the elements of stereotypes and [...]
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“Bamboozled” by Spike Lee Reivew

The events of "Bamboozled" take place in America in 2000, the junction of two centuries when the racial zeitgeist is left in the twentieth century, though it is not completely obliterated from the minds of [...]
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Parks’ “Shaft”: A Tragedy or a Comedy

But before the movie is taken into consideration for analysis it would be most relevant to look into the aspect of racism and stereotypes within the perspective of the American society as a conflict between [...]
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The Difference Between Actors and Liars

So, the main issue, a characteristic feature of a lie is that people are not told that they are defrauded, and percept the information as the true one.
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Intercultural Barriers in Film: Cultural Diversity

As the cultural policy is responsible for providing various choices for the organization of leisure by involvement in different activities that are aimed to increase the identity of all subcultures and their prolific interactions, it [...]
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A Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard

The image of John Forbes Nash can be considered as the image of the protagonist in the film, as he is the main character and the whole film is devoted to the life events from [...]
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The Chicago International Film Festival

As a matter of fact, the festival's website points out that it has had a consistent objective that still remains to this moment, "...to discover and present new filmmakers to Chicago, and to acknowledge and [...]
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Film and Television’s History and Magic

Both mediums require the use of technical hardware such as cameras for capturing the images, projectors for film presentation, lenses that allow the director to present various aspects of story sequences and scenes, and a [...]
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“Breaker Morant” Analysis and Overview

Here appeared the contradiction of his ways of a court-martial; his death sentence was under the supervision of Lord Kitchener who commanded at that time in South Africa and then reported to the higher authority [...]
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“Boys Don’t Cry” by Kimberly Peirce

While most of the movie is about the homophobia of the heterosexual people around Brandon, the blossoming of the love between Lana and Brandon suggests that heterosexuals can get past their homophobia and appreciate people [...]
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“Untraceable” by Gregory Hobbs

Our main task is to analyze this movie in terms of typical genre conventions, namely, we need to focus on such aspects as the development of the plot, the main characters, special effects, and most [...]
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“A Face in the Crowd” by Elia Kazan

The movie provided a sharp critique on the media represented by television in redirecting public focus and opinion as well as on the control and influence of advertisers on political matters.
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Bridget Jones’s Diary: Human Relationships

Our main task is to show how this aspect of human psychology and communication, is reflected in the film. Thus, we can conclude that the presence of mass media is very noticeable in this film.
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“X-Files” and Post Modernism

Dana Scully, also a special FBI agent and a partner of Mulder, is working together to solve the cases in the movie and the series.
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“After This Our Exile” by Patrick Tam

The plot of the film concentrates on the attempts of the person to hold his family together. The father is gradually sinking in the eyes of the public; his wife Ling intends to leave him [...]
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“The Longest Nite” by Tat-Chi Yau

It involves the knowledge of numerous techniques and methods of filming used together with the background of the film and the two contexts the one in which the film was created and another one in [...]
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“The Breakfast Club“ by John Hughes Review

The point is that at the very beginning of the movie, it seems to them that they will hardly talk to each other when their detention is, however, it happens to be just the opposite [...]
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“Ma Vie En Rose” by Alain Berliner

In the movie, director Alien Berliner plots the Ludovic character of a small boy who crosses dresses himself and generally behaves like a girl, and he wanted to marry his neighbor's son.
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“Unforgiven” the Movie by Clint Eastwood

His sense of pride is pricked as he struggles not to tell a lie but when he is confronted by the armed men who were informed that he had entered the place with his guns, [...]
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“The Crying Game” the Movie by Neil Jordan

In traditional societies, the family system tended to take the form of the extended family. Thus, the gender aspect is reversed and the male is found to be dominated by women in the movie making [...]
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The Influence of Movie Genre on Audience

Derne' S writes that, a research done by Tiffany A Boveland of Loyolla University on the effects of a movie clip on change in love concept showed that, romantic movies did affect people's perceptions and [...]
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“The Terminator”: Aspects of the Movie

In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twirl: Schwarzenegger is the hero but not the criminal, playing a dissimilar but visually [...]
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American Film Genres: Rambo and Male Body

It is so far out of the circle that when Ted Koppel held a "Nightline" town gathering in the armed force stranglehold of Decter, Mich, after the violence, the language blockade was so said he [...]
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Steven Spielberg’s Contribution in Movie Industry

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.'Jaws,' a movie based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, featured a killer shark viciously attacking people, with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in [...]
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Women’s Roles in Early Musicals

At the same time, his ability to be a successful gambler is threatened because of the spotlight on his wife's personal and public life.
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Communicating Mood in Film Production

In The Prestige, the effects of film noir are employed to create a mood of mystery, suspicion and the darkness that is at the heart of passion.
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“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Drama Film

Its symbolic theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital, a place of insurgence exhibited by a vigorous, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes.[Forman himself noted that [...]
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“Tokyo Story” Movie by Ozu Yasujiro

Yasujiro is also remembered for the unlikely revelations that may well leave the viewer a little derailed, eventually paints a nuance that deepens the emotional impact of the material.
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“Batman Begins” Film by Christopher Nolen

In 2005, director Christopher Nolen was successful in reintroducing the apotheosis of Batman to the modern world with his film "Batman Begins" This film depicts the birth of the god-like figure known as Batman.
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A Matter of Life and Death Compositional Elements

Through the usage of color scheme, props, and the setting of the last mise en scene, A Matter of Life and Death facilitated the propagandist message of Anglo-American understanding within the pursuit of individual happiness.
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“Cleopatra” Movie by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The movie spans the last years of Egypt before it became a Roman province, with the political intrigue around it and the emotional intrigue that Cleopatra stirred with her wit, beauty, and ambition.
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