Alfred Hitchcock vs. Gus Van Sant Psycho Majority of people love to sit down and watch a good old classic movie, like a horror movie. What comes to mind when we think of classic horror black & white, and poor quality film? The one movie that comes to mind is the infamous Psycho directed by the king of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho was released in the 1960and was filmed in black and white. There was no rating for the movie at time of release; In recent years Psycho hit the Big screen again, but with a new director Gus Van Sant decided to remakes, version of the infamous Bates motel.
Berry Gordy was an American record producer and songwriter. His claim to fame was the establishment of the renowned Motown record label and its affiliates. Motown became one of the most eminent music companies in the history of the U.S. Berry Gordy was born on 28th November 1929 in Detroit, Michigan and was the seventh child in a middle class family of Berry Gordy Sr. Berry’s siblings were all educated citizens however Berry wanted to become very rich very quickly so decided to drop out of school and become a professional boxer. He got interested in music by writing songs and soon opened the 3D Record Mart which was a store that featured jazz music. Unfortunately this venture was not successful.
Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and The Witch Hunt On November 14, 1908, Joseph McCarthy was born into a Roman Catholic family as the fifth of nine children in Appleton, Wisconsin. Although McCarthy dropped out of grade school at the age fourteen, he returned to diligently finish his studies in 1928, permitting him to attend Marquette University. Once accepted, he began his journey to become what many historians consider to be one of the least qualified, most corrupt politicians of his time. After receiving his law diploma at Marquette University, McCarthy dabbled in unsuccessful law practices, and indulged in gambling along the way for extra financing. Despite being a Democrat early in his political years, he quickly switched into the Republican Party after being overlooked as a candidate in the Democratic Party for district attorney.
Discuss the ways in which Citizen Kane challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema. Give specific examples using appropriate cinematic terminology. Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, co-written, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. This was Welles’s first feature film. With this film, Welles introduced many new filmmaking innovations.
These opinions are based on limited information gained through the movie and research into symbolism seen throughout the movie. There is not much known about Francis Dolarhyde during the beginning of the movie, as a matter of fact we don’t even know he is the killer until his introduction to Reba. Further on in the movie a scene begins at the front drive of the Dolarhyde Nursing Home, this is when we get our first pieces of information as to his growing up. It takes us on a tour with the haunting words of Francis’ caregiver, his grandmother; during this tour we hear how she demeans his manhood after he has a supposed nocturnal emission; Francis wakes up in his grandmother’s bed to wetness and a mess in the bed. His grandmother tells him to fetch her scissors and then tells him to hold it out; this is when she threatens to cut his penis off.
Why did the Government not provide assistance for a mandatory evacuation? Why did the Government react so slowly in getting aid to those in need? Why did the levees break? In Spike Lee's two part, four hour long, epic documentary, When The Levees Broke, Lee ventures to answer all of these questions. By using proponents of 1960s direct cinema, Lee never appears on film and captures life unaware in an attempt to reveal the truth about such a cataclysmic event.
On the surface, it is. However, a slight bit of research reveals that this amendment is simply the legislative equivalent of putting a Band-Aid on a broken bone. This amendment was proposed with the original Bill of Rights in the late 18th century, and not ratified by the requisite 75% of states at the time. Since ratification of amendments holds no time limit, states gradually revisited this forgotten law and ratified it on sporadic occurrences. Only seven states ratified the 27th Amendment in the 18th century, and after the seventh did so, it took the eighth state almost 81 years to ratify it, and another 105 years in addition for the ninth state.
The Model T became outdated in the 1920’s. Ford shut down the plant for five months and introduced only mildly successful cars known as the Model A and V-8. Ford didn’t adjust his management style during this time and the Ford Motor Company lost dominance in the automobile industry to General Motors and Chrysler. Henry Ford also refused to sign contracts with the United Automobile Workers (UAW) when this was the standard industry practice. He hired spies and company police to prevent his employees from becoming unionized.
Many Americans watched the show, but NBC halted production after a year. Nat King Cole also acted in movies. The best known one is Saint Louis Blues. He acted the part of the jazz composer W.C. Handy.
South Pacific by Hammerstein the second and Joshua Logan is generally considered to be one of the greatest musicals in history, but this musical wasn’t always a Broadway hit! It first started out as the story line of two short stories by James A. Michener from his Pulitzer prize-winning 1948 book, Tales of the South Pacific. When Director Joshua Logan, a World War two veteran, read Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific he decided what a sensation it would be to adapt it for the stage. He and producer Leland Hayward purchased the rights for the work from Michener; they also asked Richard Rodgers to do the honors of to compose the music and Hammerstein the second to write lyrics and the Libretto of the upcoming musical. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein accepted the job and they began transforming the short, but detailed stories “Fo Dolla” and