To Write a King Kong Comparison

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History 221: Film and American Society. Some suggestions for writing comparison reviews. *You are asked to write a 4-5 page essay comparing two movies and their “remakes”: either King Kong (1933, 2005); or Scarface (1932, 1983). The following discussion points and questions are meant to suggest some topics or issues you may want to think about or explore further in your essay, but of course you are not required to answer *all* the questions that are posed! *A note on grading: your essay will be partly graded according to the usual basic standards of good spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, and organization. Most importantly, though, you should keep in mind that this is a critical essay. As such, you are asked to develop and explain your opinions, raising questions and making observations that you believe help the reader or viewer understand the films more completely. Keep in mind that a “critical” essay does not require you to be “negative” in all your opinions; certainly you can point out and explain what you think are the strongest and most interesting features of the films in question. In critical essays, some of the most important features for the writer to develop are: critical insight (non-obvious ideas or observations that you believe may assist the viewer or reader in “discovering” the films more completely and complexly); originality (putting your own personality and “voice” in your writing); and credibility (your ability to convince the reader that your ideas are sound and interesting). One of the most important things to keep in mind when viewing or considering these films is the question of what you think the director was trying to “say” to the audience with his movie. A movie is usually a visual representation of a narrative story, after all, and if so it should be reasonably coherent and preferably have a “point”
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