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- 5951: Braveheart Vs. Full Metal Jacket
- ... His contrast in savagery and nobility is astounding. In battle he has no equal, yet in his willingness to die for freedom he is most impressive. Full Metal Jacket, a masterpiece directed by the late great Stanley Kubrick, tells a story of a somewhat different kind. Full Metal Jacket is first set in Parris Island Boot Camp, as a platoon of new recruits make ready for their deployment to Vietnam. The ... everything you would expect in a war movie. Yet both entail dramas not thought to exist in such films, which sets them apart from the rest. In short, both Braveheart and Full Metal Jacket are great films in themselves, but incredible when factors such as dialogue, story lines, and overall screenplay are taken into consideration. These are the reasons that both Braveheart and Full Metal Jacket are two of the greatest ...
- 5952: Blade Runner And Jurassic Park
- ... bodies undermine the biological justification for traditional heterosexual gender identities: if all reproduction is redefined as technological, then normative or “natural” gender roles must be reconsidered as well. Understandably, this denaturalization of bodies provokes a great deal of both hope and fear about the status of gender relations. Borrowing from Donna Haraway, I argue that contemporary narratives explore this ambivalence though the metaphor of the cyborg, the part-organic, part-technological creature whose hybrid body marks it as a “signifying monster.” This monster occupies a “destabilizing place in the great Western evolutionary, technological, and biological narratives” precisely because it reminds us that identity itself is a mere construct, something which is performed rather than essential. Furthermore, by its very nature the cyborg is intimately linked ...
- 5953: Ancient Japanese Art
- ... cold. Maybe this is the place that he first went fishing with his dad too. Who knows? I have always found the Chinese culture to be very diverse from our own. Look at all the great things that come from there. Beef and broccoli, Bruce Lee, and who could live without furniture rearranging. To my surprise there is much more to them and their culture. Especially the arts. Since China has ... in his life the contrast with the academic painters of the Che school such as Tai Chin and Lu Chi (Nos. 92,93) could not be greater. He studied and followed the tradition of the great Yuan dynasty Iandscapists and through the latter, of Tung Yuan and Chu-jan. Not until he was 87 did he feel satisfaction for his work. (Robinson, http://www.op.net/~uarts/lin/we_c_ming ...
- 5954: Analysis Of Casablanca
- ... and mysterious Slim. Teamed up with Harry's alcoholic side-kick Eddie, Cricket the night-club manager by night, resistance sympathizer by day, and a cast of supporters, Bogart and Bacall's adventures are as great on screen as they were off screen. The film is based off Ernest Hemmingway's novel of the same name. Interestingly enough the film was made as part of a challenge between Hemmingway and the ... comedy as the jealous yet proud Slim. Only she could say "You know how to whistle Steve, you just put your lips together and blow" and still preserve class and dignity. Walter Eddie plays a great drunk, adorably and loveably. It would be too easy to attribute this film's success to Bacall or Bogart. Sure, they are both forces to be reckoned with, but not even these two can carry ...
- 5955: A Post-Modern Age
- ... themselves as repeating a finite number of alternatives in the present; in modern cultures, the future opens up a vast field of historical and lifestyle choices. This proliferation of alternatives can be a source of great anxiety and often results in cultural attempts to restrict alternatives in the face of this anxiety (for example, China and its strict imperialistic control over its varied populations). Let's keep in mind that it ... may be seen as part of the growth of consumer capitalism into multinational and technological identities. Its all-embracing nature thus makes Post-Modernism as relevant to the common folk of society as to the great thinkers and intellectuals. Post-Modernism it would seem is the reason for the emergence of interdisciplinary and cultural studies in universities. Post-Modernism, then, is a mode of consciousness (and not, it should be emphasized ...
- 5956: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Piero da Vinci, a public notary for the city of Florence, Italy. For the first four years of his life he lived with his mother in the small village of Vinci, directly outside of the great center of the Renaissance, Florence. Catherina was a poor woman, with possible artistic talent, the genetic basis of Leonardo's talents. Upon the realization of Leonardo's potential, his father took the boy to live ... he was a member of a commission of artists to decide on the proper location for the David by Michelangelo (Encarta). Towards the end of the year Leonardo began to design a decoration for the Great Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio. Leonardo chose the Battle of Anghiari as the subject of the mural, a victory for Florence in a war against Pisa. He made many drawings and sketches of a cavalry ...
- 5957: David Sculptures
- ... s sling, and the stone is clutched in his right hand, his veins in chief anticipation of the fight. Michelangelo's David depicts the ideal youth who has just reached manhood and is capable of great physical and intellectual feats, which is part of the Classical tradition. Michelangelo's sculpture is closed in form, like Donatello's David. All the elements move firmly around a central axis (Fichner-Rathus 345). Finally ... incapable and amazed at his feat. Verrocchio's David, although an adolescent, appears somewhat older and has more self-confidence than Donatello's David. Michelangelo's David has just reached manhood and is capable of great physical feats, like defeating Goliath. Finally, Bernini's David is a full grown man. He, like Michelangelo's David, also appears to be strong, brave and gifted enough to slaughter Goliath. Works Cited
- 5958: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... than his predecessor had been, but the composer nonetheless produced some of his earliest masterpieces. The famous Sinfonia concertante for violin, violo and orchestra was written in 1780, and the following year Mozart's first great stage work, the opera Idomeneo, was produced in Munich, where Mozart also wrote his Serenade for 13 wind instruments, K361. On his return from Munich, however, the hostility brewing between him and the archbishop came ... Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral Mozart married Constanze Weber. Soon afterwards he initiated a series of subscription concerts at which he performed his piano concertos and improvised at the keyboard. Most of Mozart's great piano concertos were written for these concerts, including those in C, K467, A, K488 and C minor, K491. In these concertos Mozart brought to the genre a unity and diversity it had not had before ...
- 5959: The History Of Greek Theater
- Theater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5th century BCE, with the Sopocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his action was courageous and glorious and his life would climax in a great and noble death. Originally, the hero’s recognition was created by selfish behaviors and little thought of service to others. As the Greeks grew toward city-states and colonization, it became the destiny and ambition ...
- 5960: The Avant-Garde Architecture O
- ... antennas, have been condemned by many of the territory’s superstitious residents” (United Press International, 1990). Though the citizens of Hong Kong may inhabit one of the highest-tech corners of the planet, they “set great store by feng shui, the ancient art, part mysticism, part architecture, of arranging buildings and other objects so that they are in harmony with nature and dictate luck” (Bremner, 1990). Local residents fear that many ... willing to sacrifice his innovative vision in order to conform to society’s or a culture’s traditions. This is one of the main characteristics that make him an avant-garde artist. What is of great interest in I.M. Pei’s work is the fact that his firm “has been a temple of modernism, an architectural office in which ornament has been scarce, sleekness has remained sacrosanct, and buildings have ...
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