Two AID investigators soon arrived and DiLacqua told them the story he had prepared, with Brady and the two officers standing by. (7) DiLacqua's testimony is another false report. After trying to retrieve some items Brady had forgotten at the bar (including his service revolver), DiLacqua ordered Yatcilla to drive Brady home--something, one hopes, the Philadelphia police would do for any driver whose car was disabled in an
After each film the participants were given a questionnaire which asked them to describe the accident and then answer a series of specific questions about it. There was one critical. This question was ‘About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?’ One group of participants were given this question. The other five groups were given the verbs smashed, collided, bumped or contacted in place of the word hit. The mean speed estimate was calculated for each group.
Arthur Miller was a very successful writer and playwright, Death of a Salesman is Miller’s most significant work, a play that quickly became an American classic. The play has frequently been produced and each production interprets it differently (Kirszner 1292). This leads to the question of whether or not a play’s magnitude can be reached through film as well. Usually, when a book or film is adapted into a movie, certain elements change or are omitted all together. Director Volker Schlöndorff’s version of Death of a Salesman remains true to the play with very little deviation; the movie’s characters, tone, and setting closely correlate with the play.
Maynard was later put, at gunpoint by the officer because he got a report about a suspect involving a black man, 6 feet and slim whom he thought fits Maynard's description. Maynard responded that the only thing that fits him was that he's black. The police officer had received a report involving a black man driving a black sports car with a gun at the Malvern Town Centre and soon informed that Maynard wasn’t the suspect that he was looking for. Maynard was released and launched an action regarding about discrimination on the basis of colour, race and ethnic origin with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, In June 2012, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal made its decision regarding Maynard’s claim and awarded him $40,000 for his injury to dignity, feelings, and self-respect. This case is a best example of critical criminology in racial profiling because it implies the act of law enforcement officers to consider people suspicious especially black people to commit more crime because of the colour of their skin or what ethnicity they came
Ethnocentrism is programed into our lives as we are being raised. Some ethnocentric views are represented in the movie, especially by the white characters. For example, the gun store owner that accused the Persian man of being an Arab, and that “his people” flew a plane into the twin towers. Sandra Bullock displays ethnocentrism when she accuses the Spanish “gang member” who fixed their locks, of selling the spare keys to fellow gang members. Little does she know, the locksmith is just a hard working father.
The story begins with a car chase and a man named Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) confessing the story in a Dictaphone. Neff in a door-to-door insurance salesman who ends up in the Dietrichson house, when he finds out the head of the household, Mr.Dietrichson isn’t home, the wife, Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is introduced to the story. She and Neff have instant chemistry, soon after they have a talk; she comes over to his apartment and have an intimate talk about how she feels trapped in her marriage. Soon, they plot a murder on Mr.Dietrichson after he signs the insurance claims the following night. After the murder, Neff begins to care about what might happen to Lola, Mr.Dietrichson’s daughter, both of whose parents have been murdered.
Horrors and Heroes Entertainment, in any form, often has a deeper meaning than initially assumed. For instance, one might assume that an action movie would be a typical “guy movie.” Nobody would be surprised to see fights, cars, and explosions in an action movie, in fact, it would be expected. However, if the storyline of such a movie was about love, the viewer would be caught off guard. This twist is what makes any great movie entertaining; it keeps the viewer interested and wanting to see more. Two authors that discuss this method of giving deeper meanings to stories are Stephen King (in his essay “My Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Gloria Steinem (in her essay “Wonder Woman”).
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.
Quite a cult of hardcore fans has developed around it, and for those folks, the film is essentially immune to criticism and reinterpretation. The biggest surprise to me was that the bulk of Donnie Darko is a realist drama. I had long heard about how strange the film was, and heard it described as being partially sci-fi (which it is) and horror (which it isn't if you ask me). It was supposedly a "reality-bender". I'm much more of a "genre" fan, and I much prefer fantasy, surrealism and absurdism to realism.
FIGHT CLUB 2 Fight Club Analysis I chose to write about Fight Club for my analysis because it is one of my favorite movies of all time and I think rightfully so, as it is a deep and socially relevant film. It is based on the book of the same name by the author Chris Palahniuk and directed by David Fincher, also the director of such films as Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and more recently The Social Network. Reading Rogert Ebert's review of the film I got the impression that he thought the film was a shallow and vulgar simply to be vulgar. He thinks that the film was made for teenage boys wanting to watch people beat each other up, with no redeeming qualities besides the quality of the direction. Quoting the review, he claims, “It's macho porn -- the sex movie Hollywood has been moving toward for years, in which eroticism between the sexes is replaced by all-guy locker-room fights.” and “Certainly they'll buy tickets because they can see Pitt and Norton pounding on each other; a lot more people will leave this movie and get in fights than will leave it discussing Tyler Durden's moral philosophy.”.