In 1999, Tom Hanks was arguably as big as any movie star had ever been. He was coming off of Oscar-wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, plus Apollo 13 (nominated for nine Oscars) and Saving Private Ryan (nominated again for Best Actor). Following in the footsteps of great actors like Daniel Day Lewis, Hanks chose a character with a crippling physical affliction for his next role in an Oscar contender. Unlike any character other than Beavis and Butthead in that episode where they forgot how to pee, that physical affliction was painful urination. Well there's your problem right
The movie’s Lois Lane is Roxanne Ritchi, a beautiful and fearless television news reporter. “I make evil look good” When at a certain point, Metro Man is accidentally beaten by Megamind and is assumed dead, Megamind faces an enormous crisis. Without an opponent he has no purpose in life. Miserable and bored, Megamind came to a position were he had to create a Metro Man replacement. Using his great but imperfect magic, he transforms Hal, the nerdy redheaded cameraman for the local television station.
Many critics say that Norton has not, and will not be any more successful than he is. Norton’s material is so raw he only has a small captive audience that is not appropriate for all ages. Although this may be true, he is quite successful in the Serious/XM uncensored platform where he acts as third microphone on the Opie and Anthony Show. Cook’s performances appear to be bullet proof from most critics. Cook is currently filming a movie that should be released in the fall, and is only known as “the untitled Dane Cook project “(2010).
Ray’s love for science fiction is undeniable. One of his books that really show his love for science fiction is, Fahrenheit 451. In the book Fahrenheit 451, a powerful quote that really stuck out to me was, “And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again, he would never carve another piece of wood or help us raise doves and pigeons in the backyard or play the violin the way he did, or tell us jokes the way he did. He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them the way he did.
As we have watched the movie about the Holocaust in class all the images that I witnessed came back, I saw the gates with the in craving of "Work will set you free", the gas showers, and the gethos. What influences me the most is to see piles of reading glasses, pilles of shoes, pilles of hair. Each item used to belong to someone that got murdered brutally. The Nazis were very organized and calculated, they did not wanted to waist anything. Weapons and bullets were too expensive and took too much time, so they arranged even larger massacred at the gas showers, and later the ovens that did the job even easier.
The expedition was no place for quitters, which is why the captains both picked specific people to perform this insane task. Ambrose’s work definitely opened my eyes to see what an undertaking it was for that time period, Lewis spent months just planning out the whole thing, and as the expedition began there were many problems encountered, but he was stubborn enough to push through them and carry out one of the greatest expeditions in U.S. history. I think its amazing what this group of mostly strangers was able to pull off, considering the times and the limited technology, this feat thought to be impossible by nearly everyone. After not hearing from the expedition for almost 2 years it was thought they were all dead, or lost in the wilderness, but on their return in September 1806, everyone on the expedition is considered a
In ,The Lost Battalion, the (battalion themselves) weren't really lost, but a series of command failures and tactical errors kept them trapped for days while the whole world wondered what would happen to them. The movie does a great job in developing the character and making them more relatable to the audience, while being historically accurate for the most part. The, Lost Battalion,by Thomas Johnson & Fletcher Pratt, talks about the historical day to day accounts of the events that took place from October 2 to October 7. The film for the most part follows the basic facts of when and where all the events in the movie were happening, as with the Lost Battalion by Johnson and Pratt. The protagonist in the film, Major Charles Whittlesey, who was declared as one of the, “three most important members of the American Expeditionary Force”, (Johnson, Pratt), and a Medal of Honor recipient, was a school teacher before he was drafted to lead men into battle.
Compare and Contrast Essay Ridley Scott, despite waiting until he was almost forty years old to make his first film, quickly became one of the most respected directors working in Hollywood. Scott was regarded as one of the best to his peers, thanks to classics like Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982). However, he did suffer harsh criticism, particularly with Thelma and Louise (1991), 1492: The Conquest of Paradise (1992), and White Squall (1996). Most directors would have wilted under the crushing failure, but Scott’s imperviousness to failure and drive to soldier on led him to achieve enormous success, starting with his Oscar-winning historical epic, Gladiator (2006), and American Gangster (2007), which earned the director his third Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Ridley Scott has always
We see soldiers of many ages; almost all have faces filled with fear and anxiety while some are vomiting or praying. And almost suddenly action erupts, starting at a very high level and growing. It was great knowing that the director didn’t leave out any detail of the grim reality of the entire D-Day scene. It was made out to what it actually was, packed with emotion and perspective of not only us, but the antagonists (the German army). Then our focus starts to adjust to a limited number of the soldiers who are continuing to show up on the camera.
This gives the reader the sense that he really knows what he is talking about and has experienced these gruesome sights. Visual and auditory imagery are also used throughout this poem. Owen saw a man “flound’ring like a man in fire or lime” (12) suffering from the gas and dying a very slow and painful death. In this alone he shows how awful the war was through the man choking and having his skin eaten away from the “lime” (12). He saw things “obscene as cancer” (23) which is a bold image when death for a country is supposed to be sweet and proper.