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    Although the setting of Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night by Ana Lily Amirpour are different, they both use the plot structure and symbolism to present the common theme: the destiny, which can be shaped by choices and actions. The life story of the protagonist Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire is built through the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and a series of his flashbacks revealing how his life experiences gave him the right answers to every

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    The Unparalleled power of Love “I thought we would only meet indeath.” Thisquote is from the movie slumdog millionaire. The meaningbehind it is, Latika and Jamal only thought they would love eachother indeathbecause she was involved withagangster and Jamalhad to findher andgether out before they left. Jamal losther because theygot caught.So Jamal went on Who Wants to be a Millionaire becausehe knew she would be watching. Inthe end of the movie they finallygot to be together after what theyhave beenthrough

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    Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, is a movie about the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan, and his underdog performance on India’s version of the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”. Jamal goes all the way, winning 20 million rupees (the currency of India). After the end of the first night, Jamal gets arrested and accused of cheating. While in the police station, he is brutally beaten and heavily interrogated as to how he, a “slumdog” (a child who was raised in the slums),

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    old white men representing our culturally diverse entity. An example of such a philistine comes in the form of Stephen Harper. So where do we collectively turn when our politicians do not fuel us with patriotism? Capital. “So you want to be A Millionaire?” is a very obvious manifestation of how we worship capital. It is conventional for us to be limited in this worship like priests who’s knees are rubbed raw from praying due to classism. The systems of racism, classism and sexism twirl around the

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    How are the protagonists of Slumdog Millionaire and Of Mice and Men limited by their status within society? In the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ and film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ the protagonists, key figures in both texts, are limited to what they can achieve by their social status within the societies they live in. The protagonist’s status refers mainly to a class system of the rich and the poor and their society being one of economic instability, with lack of opportunities to escape their lives of the

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    specific morals. This way, they can be enjoyable, in addition to being informative with long lasting effects. Some small things tend to go unnoticed while watching, but when they are seen and analyzed, they can have the greatest impact. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is filled with major social issues, ethics and morals. It has specific goals and purposes for viewers to grasp and think about further. The film depicts a major social issue: economic inequality and power; some of the most prominent examples

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    than one perspective. In this presentation I will be discussing the perspectives of reader response and sociological criticism, in the film Slumdog Millionaire. Reader-response criticism considers the role of the reader as essential to interpret the meaning of the text. In Slumdog Millionaire, the reader’s response is based on the themes in the film. Such themes as economic injustice, corruption, romance and destiny. The experiences and expectations of the reader

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    Both “Slumdog millionaire” and Kevin mc cloud’s “Slummin’ it” are two very different views about the current situation on the slums of india. Before watching these two texts i was aware of some of the conditions of the slums of india but had no real insight to what it was truly like. These two texts have showed me that though they live in amongst the rats and garbage we as a society can learn so much from how they still are able to conduct themselves. My view on the slums were quite simple in that

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    specific morals. This way, they can be enjoyable in addition to being informative with long lasting effects. Some smaller things tend to go unnoticed while watching, but when they are seen and analyzed, they can have the greatest impact. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is filled with major social issues, ethics and morals. It has specific goals and purposes for viewers to grasp and think about further. The film depicts a major social issue - economic inequality and power; some of the most prominent examples

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    The Western part of the world is unaware of how extreme poverty is on the East. Slumdog Millionaire makes this clear in the film by showing the different parts of Mumbai and how the whole community basically works together as a whole to stay alive. It is sad to see that the people there live in aluminum shacks with cloth hovering over some of them as if it were like a door. It is also scary to see how the Hindu’s come and attack the Muslims to kill them because of the religious war. Despite these

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