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    genre. It was made in 1964 by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, and with a musical score composed by Ennio Morricone. This film set the pace and tone of the genre, so despite personal taste, this movie can be called revolutionary and influential. Key factors for such achievement are detailed next: the direction of photography, the editing, the neorealist influence, the film score, and advantage of the international financed production. Leone the cinematographer of A Fistful of Dollars is one of the

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    When he returned home, I asked him about the culture of a place I saw on television, a place I could only imagine. He said “It was Fun”. Depend on who you are, you may enjoy Jamaica or hate Jamaica. Languages Jamaicans speak English. Their ancestor has been speaking English for 300 years. The language is of an Irish accent and is a combination

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    remodeling of its plot was formed in the movie The Makeover. Pygmalion was surrounded with social class, proper English and of course, an experiment to design a lady. No less was expected when the classic movie came out in 2013. However, some modifications had taken place and it was soon discovered that the two like stories proved to carry differences, as noticed within the beginning moments of the film. To begin, the character's last names are mirrored from the book to the movie. This would be Higgins

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    basic synopsis of the film begins from the point of view of a renowned linguistics professor, Dr. Louise Banks. It shows her going through her normal routine until a student tells her to turn on the news at the beginning of one of her lectures. What is shown is twelve giant alien spaceships landed on earth at seemingly random locations throughout the world. Confused as everyone else, Dr. Banks decides that the only thing she can do is go to work as usual. While in her office she is visited by a military

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    daughter who was kidnapped. These two characters with two mismatched personalities, are forced to work together to solve the case that will ultimately lead to the rescue of the Chinese Ambassador’s daughter. Stereotypes are introduced throughout films to create a character and give the character a personality. The characters are also shown to break their stereotypes throughout the movie by the various events that take place. In “Rush Hour”, James Carter and Inspector Lee are given specific stereotypes

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    Rabbit-Proof Fence, a great film educating people about the horrible event that was the Stolen Generation. They took many things from the indigenous Australians like freedom, culture and innocence. Here are some examples of this during the film. Freedom was stolen from the Indigenous Australians during the Stolen Generation. In the movie ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ Molly, Gracie and daisy were stripped from their families and taken to a camp with other half cast children (like themselves). They are forced

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    Lieutenant John Dunbar and The Sioux D ances with Wolves is a film adapted from a book of same name written by Michael Blake in 1988 and produced by Kevin Costner in 1990. The film dictates the story of a Union Army lieutenant, who journeyed to the American frontier in search of a military post, and his relationships with a group of Lakota Indians. The movie has adequately addresses some theoretical perspectives, cultural tensions and reconciliations based on some historical facts. Some theoretical

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    Genie Case

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    In this film, we view the case of a child named “Genie” who was isolated as a child. Genie was discovered on November 4th, 1970 at 13 years of age where she was discovered to have been strapped to a potty chair and isolated from the world for most of her life. Throughout the film we see the many researchers found an interest in Genie and began to investigate if she would be able to acquire language although she had passed the critical period of language development. Although, these researchers believed

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    Before her untimely death at the age of 31, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was a promising innovator of experimental film, slide projections, sculpture, audio recordings, performance art, and poetry. Her work challenges assumptions about history, narrative, language, and in particular conceptions of immigrants; through powerful and often dislocating ideological and grammatical in-derogations of cultural, geographic, and social positions, she recuperates an alternative sense of self and identity in a postcolonial

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