Rod Serling Mini-Course Paper 10/10/09 Influence Still Present The complete impact of Rod Serling’s work and how influential his legacy has been on the industry and the world will never be fully understood. His collection of scripts took on issues of the day while entertaining the masses. During the transformation of live broadcasting to the “Golden Age of Television” his presence resulted in solid framework for modern television to build from (Webb). His ability to take the audience from a specific issue in a typical situation and pull them away to the realization of a bigger and more complex picture was impeccable and the underlying philosophies of his work showed of a man who was not afraid to attempt to break stigmas present in Hollywood. Two images, the refrigerator and the television would probably dominate a glance at modern civilization.
A white man in the middle of Brooklyn made it bad, but the fact that he stepped on his shoes with everyone watching, and they were Jordan mad it worst. You could not see how he cleaned his shoes almost every time he could if not for a movie format. This movie had deeper messages in it that had to be seen, heard and felt. A movie is the only toll that can bring you that feeling. Spike Lee is one of those directors that uses the same actors in most of his movies, so this one was no different.
Clark, a.k.a Superman, adheres to a strict moral code, often attributed to the values with which he was raised. His commitment to operating within the law has been an example to many other heroes but has stirred bitterness among others. Some heroes refer to him as the "big blue boy scout." Superman can be rather unyielding in this trait, causing tensions in the superhero community, most notably with Wonder Woman , who is one of his closest friends, after she killed Maxwell Lord, because he was controlling
Braddock put on a good fight, although his manager let him in the ring with a broken wrist. Jimmy’s wrist was shown hurt in the movie when his manager was going to tape his hand for the match. Jimmy insisted on going in the ring anyways. While in the ring Lasky was getting most of the punches, there also wasn't very many people cheering. Jim threw a hard right handed punch a broke his wrist completely.
A well-trained soldier and an audacious hit man would fully understand the main characters of the book “The Wars” by Timothy Findley and the movie Bourne Identity. They would see beyond the defiant attitudes and changes that both the characters had undergone. Robert Ross and Jason Bourne both went to a stage in their life wherein they acted beyond what they used to. Ross, a caring and loving person, turned into a killing machine. Bourne, on the other hand, used to be an emotionless and fearless killer but in the end he turned out to be good man.
Everyone assumes that directors and writers decide what happens in a movie, but many times the movie star is the most powerful person involved with the project. For instance, when Jim Carrey wanted to make a movie about his favorite number, The Number 23 hit theaters across the country. A much more entertaining abuse of this star power occurs when huge movie stars decide they look awesome doing something, and proceed to force that something into every movie they make. For instance ... #5. Tom Hanks' Career is a Urinary Morality Play Most movie stars use their careers to build up enough credibility to avoid urinating onscreen.
Liebling Award, the highest honor a boxing writer can attain, could have told me all about Braddock, but I am just as happy to have gone in cold, so that I could be astonished by Crowe's performance. I think of Crowe as a tough customer, known to get in the occasional brawl. Yes, he plays men who are inward and complex, as in "The Insider" and "A Beautiful Mind," or men who are tempered and wise, as in "Master and Commander." But neither he nor anyone else in a long time has played such a nice man as the boxer Jim Braddock. You'd have to go back to actors like James Stewart andSpencer Tracy to find such goodness and gentleness.
In a crowd of 70,000 people cheering for Brock Lesnar, he is the favored fighter. Here comes the music you can feel while sitting in your chair. They announce his name, “Brock Lesnar!” The 1st round bell rings and people are shouting, right away the referee stopped the fight while Brock Lesnar is pounding his fists into his opponent’s face. Brock Lesnar has changed the Ultimate Fighting Championship by showing a new breed of fighter between a mix of speed and large size. Brock Edward Lesnar was born July 12, 1977, in Webster, South Dakota.
You are seeing him on talk and TV shows. He did a sold out concert at The Madison Square Garden, which is unheard of especially for a comedian. His name stays in everyone’s mouth in the entertainment world because of his great success. Katt Williams just needs to stay out of trouble! He also needs to have that same focus that he once had that made him want to become a comedian.
He has a closes circle of friends that are like a second family to him. The movie primarily revolves around Henry and two of his “wise guy friends”, Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito, played by Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci respectively. Tommy is a straight psychopath compared to Jimmy who is just doing his job. Tommy kills a “made” man for making fun of his shoe shining job in his younger days, and kills a bar boy for saying “F—k you” to him after Tommy was harassing him. Jimmy is veteran criminal who can’t become a “made” man due to his Irish heritage, something with whom he shares with Henry.