The film has since gathered a cult like following and has become an important cultural icon, particularly in the hip-hop community, inspiring posters, clothing, and many other references. The film's grainy black and white poster is a popular decoration and is still in production to this day. Why the appeal? Technically in rooting for Tony’s success in the film you are rooting for the bad guy. “Say good night to the bad guy, you’re never going to see a bad guy like this again I’m telling you”
The movies, literature, and news all have a stake in the phenomenon of serial homicide. Serial homicide gives society the perfect social problem. So there is no need to “candycoat” the issue or make it more palatable in order to sell the issue. In all of these articles, panic/anxiety, strong emotional imagery, case studies and the creation of exaggerated statistics all had a crucial role in framing the “moral panic” issue. Although, “moral panics” often take the form of persecutions of particular groups it is also sometimes can be a positive thing.
HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE THAT THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II WAS THE MAIN REASON WHY THE POSITION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IMPROVED IN THE YEARS 1945-1953? There were many factors that led to the change in position of African Americans within the years 1945-53 but the most important of these was the impact of the Second World War as it helped advance the position of Black Americans in society in a number of ways. However, other factors such as the Civil Rights activism seen through the 40’s along with the Supreme Court’s rulings and also Truman’s Presidency helped the advancement of Black Americans. The position of African Americans in 1945 was absolutely appalling. African Americans in the South suffered more because in all aspects of life, they were seen as ‘inferiority enshrined’ citizens when compared with White Americas.
Although some of the obvious characteristics of the jungle warfare were displayed accurately in relation to historical archived footage from the campaign in 1942 – 1941, other less obvious features of the campaign were displayed poorly throughout the running of the film. This film is seen to be incorrectly portrayed historically due to its lack of focus to such important but unobvious characteristics of the campaign and emphasises too much on general
Vargas does an excellent job of showing Zuckerberg’s story compared to the infamous story more publicized by the media, allowing the reader to form their own opinion of Zuckerberg and the scandals surrounding him. Vargas even goes so far as to interview the director of the movie. The interview with Sorkin, the director of “The Social Network”, gives the reader a solid identity of the public face of Mark Zuckerberg, or at least how the public has viewed Zuckerberg’s life thus far. The very next section however, the author cleverly begins another intimate and personal look into Zuckerberg’s life. This immediate contrast between the public and private life of Zuckerberg helps the reader instantly see the major distinctions between the two.
Listed in the above paragraph the first criteria (1) a genre similar to westerns, comedies or horror (2) a period tied to that era of the 40's and late 50's and (3) a cinematic style with its own unique look. It would be unfair not to mention that there are also purists out there that believe film noir cannot be in colour nor be a genre. Then, that would exclude my personal opinion, that the best film ever made other than Casablanca was Blade Runner. This brilliant film would fall short of the mark because it does not keep with the tradition of containing dark, shadowy images shot in black and white or scenes set in seedy run down city places of the 40's and 50's. Although the film does portray leading characters that are akin to Caligula or Nero with a touch of Caesar.
In the film, Stampler claims to suffer from blackouts quite often, where he says he “loses time.” However, there is no other evidence presented to suggest that Stampler has ever suffered amnesia before the events of the murder took place. It has been shown that malingerers will often not be able to produce any concrete evidence of suffering from the feigned disorder or amnesia in their past (Ramsland, 2002). This is clearly true in Stampler’s
Some of his most acclaimed work has been from movies that were based on true stories. When Washington does these real life stories he finds characters that have over come many difficulties in their lives and end up winning. So by Washington starring in roles where he always ends up a winner he is creating an image in the viewers mind that he is a winner. When the audience leaves the movie they remember what great things Washington did to turn out the way he did. Many people have a hard time separating movies from the real world and some people assume the character is that person in real life Denzel Washington is the first African American male to win an Academy Award for the Best Male Actor category.
When looking for books, online sources and movies, I never thought that the topic would be so political. Learning about the OWI for the first time really shocked me. It makes me wonder how many movies were written before the OWI could come along and change the script in order to boost morale. I attempted to look for controversial movies during this time that were "anti-war" but this task proved to be most difficult of all. Researching the information for my topic changed my outlook on early film.
Victor states that he cannot describe his emotions at this catastrophe (Shelley 43), knowing that his vision in his head came out different than he intended. The one thing that seemed to be consistent in transposing the book into a movie was the monster’s strength and