The musical Rent has music‚ lyrics‚ and book by Jonathan Larson. The story follows a man named Mark‚ a documentary film maker‚ and his roommate Roger‚ a musician‚ as they face the hardships of living with a low income. The musical is set in the rural district in Manhattan‚ New York‚ where HIV spreads through the streets of the East Village and effects the roommates and their friends. As Roger copes with his new life being HIV positive‚ Mark decides to create a documentary to follow the challenges
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“What the hell?” The rapid transitions and the music disorients and positions me into Bourdin’s panicked state‚ suggesting that he perceives his own impersonation as not being sufficient to fool a person who should be able to identify their own brother from an imposter. However‚ he is shocked to believe that Gibson is fooled. This influences my response of sympathy towards Gibson as her desperation to reconnect with her lost brother has clouded her memory of Barclay and is content with the idea that he
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by Tim Burton‚ a dark and mysterious director. Burton has an odd sense of style‚ which is used to captivate characters emotions and sense suspicions. Burton is a talented director and takes many things into consideration before directing a film. In many films directed by Burton‚ he uses shots and framing‚ non-diegetic sound‚ and camera angles to create mood. To begin‚ Burton chooses shots and framing to help create the sense of bright but unusual feeling. Burton does this by using a close-up of the
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LITERATURE Film Analysis of HELEN OF TROY SUBMITTED BY: Galagar‚ Mikko MC21 In the film‚ Helen of Troy one of the main character is Achilles‚ the demigod warrior‚ a highly skilled and the strongest champion of Greece which also showed his soft side – his kindness‚ care‚ love for a woman and brotherly love for his cousin‚ Petraclus. The film really captured my idea of Achilles based on the book of Greek mythology. I think anyone who will watch attentively in the film will
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http://ezinearticles.com/?Local-Color-in-Literature&id=3074106 The setting plays major role in prose fiction. The dialect spoken‚ the customs observed‚ the dress code prevalent‚ and the way of living all can be peculiar to a particular region. This sort of setting is called a local color of the area or region. You must have come across such peculiarity of an area while reading a prose or a novel. Such beautiful local color called "Wessex" (present-day Dorset) is painted by Thomas Hardy in his
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Culture In Movies Basquiat A movie taking place in New York and starting in the year of 1979‚ that is following a young Haitian artist. We first see him in a dream or vision from his mother. She is crying‚ with what seems to be happy tears‚ and looking proudly at her son. He is a young child and he has a golden crown that glows until the vision ends. Then we jump and see where he is in the present day of 1981. He is homeless and sleeping in a cardboard box in the middle of some bushes behind a park
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American History X "American History X" is divided into two color schemes‚ black and white‚ and color‚ these schemes symbolize the before and after of Derek Vinyard’s life. The film is about the life of an "idol" skinhead and D.O.C. member Derek Vinyard‚ and how his life of hate and racism has affected his family and himself. Throughout the movie the importance of color and lighting is obvious‚ because it divides the movie into two fused worlds of Derek. Some of the movie is shot in black and white
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) embodies the true magic of film‚ as it has the ability to sweep its audiences out of their seats and straight into the land of Oz with a young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland). Director Victor Fleming successfully carries out this transformation by use of vibrant color schemes‚ ornate set and scenery design‚ impeccable costuming‚ and captivatingly catchy soundtrack. Not to mention the brilliant acting of each and every cast member that makes suspension of disbelief an absolute
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The color line‚ W.E.B. Dubois viewed it‚ is a line drawn between two groups of individuals (not necessarily of different races) that accentuates the contemptuous discrimination of Western literature‚ philosophy‚ and various other meanings. Du Bois said on the start of his groundbreaking book entitled “The Souls of Black Folk” for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line a statement setting out to show people the strange meanings of being black here in the dawning of the
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developed several different devices that could throw stones and javelins long distances; the most important of these were the catapulta‚ ballista‚ ad onager. In the movie Spartacus the deployment of the Roman army is very interesting. In the battle scene you see a deployment of a legion in a quincunx formation (checker board pattern) this shows the discipline and organization of the Roman army. As the Roman army comes closer to Spartacus’ slave army the front legion starts to form a solid front line
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