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- 681: Dead Man Walking
- Dead Man Walking The motion picture Dead Man Walking provided a non-fiction insight into the world of crime, justice, and capital punishment. The film cast several characters from different backgrounds and opinion sets in direct conflict with one another. Several small topics and one major topic, capital ...
- 682: Blood, Violence and Gore As Entertainment
- ... time, no one seems to care. Even though there aren't many people who are harmed from these films, there are a lot of children who do. It is a question of separating reality and fiction, and that is a problem for many children. After the Superman films in the 1980's, there were a series of children jumping off tall buildings, because they though they were Superman. As you grow ...
- 683: A Zipper for Pee-Wee Herman
- ... and always have been concerned about what programs actually make it on the air. Most early programming for children of school age in the 1950's was the western program. Another type was the science-fiction thriller which tended to be based on hero's from the radio, comics, and films. However, a favorite of the youngest audience was the children's equivalent of the variety show. This usually contained circus ...
- 684: Jurassic Park: Comparision Between Book and Movie
- ... a novel for your imagination. This book involves prehistoric animals and plants from the Jurassic era. Steven Spielberg took on this book, as a movie project to add to his collection of visually mastered Science-Fiction motion pictures. Both the movie and the book have captured the imagination of people around the world. In this paper, it will show the similarities and differences for the first third of these two superb ...
- 685: The Missing Dialogue in Antigone
- ... Sophocles; however, it is my belief that if a conversation occurred between Antigone and Haimon prior to their deaths, Sophocles would have made it a part of his drama. Since Antigone is a work of fiction, we cannot assume anything which we are not told. We must take the situation to be exactly as Sophocles portrays it to us. This leaves the reader to determine the importance of Antigone and Haimon ...
- 686: Oedipus the King: A Tragic Hero
- Oedipus the King: A Tragic Hero The downfall of a hero follows from his very nature. In Sophocles play, Oedipus the King, (reprinted in X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th ed. New York, NY 1995), the playwright focuses on a man named Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who is trying to discover the truth about his past. When he was born ...
- 687: Movie Analysis: Species and Species II
- Movie Analysis: Species and Species II When you think of aliens and science fiction, you think of movies like The Predator and the Alien trilogy. But, if you throw in a former model instead of Sigourney Weaver, you will come up with Natasha Henstridge's 1995 movie, SPECIES. Since ...
- 688: Dramatic Irony and Characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- ... without because of their humor. Mercutio is a dynamic character. You see his sudden change before he dies, from a happy playful guy to a serious guy cursing everybody. Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony occurs in fiction or drama where the reader knows more about the true state of affairs than the characters do. Romeo and Juliet has lots of examples of dramatic irony. The biggest example is in the chorus. The ...
- 689: Hamlet: Many Interpretations
- ... poetical puzzle. no artist can control the use to which his insights are put by posterity, and this dictum is especially true of Shakespeare, whose Hamlet has caused more discussion than any other character in fiction, dramatic or non-dramatic. Many readers have been disturbed by the two Hamlet's in the play: one, the sensitive young intellectual and idealist, the sweet prince who expresses himself in unforgettable poetry; the other ...
- 690: The Caretaker by Pinter: A Play Can Be Confrontational, Challenging and Disturbing to the Values and Assumptions of An Audience. Discuss With close Reference
- ... is therefore concerned with what exists as unknown and intangible to humanity. His theatre interrogates the truth of nature and realities of language and demonstrates that much of what the audience regards as fact is fiction as he explores the uncertainty of human existence. When an audience of the 1960's went to the theatre, it can generally be assumed that they had preconceived ideas about what they expected and what ...
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