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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
Movie Villains
Number of words: 953 | Number of pages: 4.... put in jail. There are a few movies in which the villains actually comes
out victorious, as in the movie Chinatown. Villains or antagonist are the
spotlights of most movies.
What is the origin of villains?
Villains have been around since evil has walked the earth. Movies have
made evil from all the different ages to come out, for instance Messala in Ben
Hur is from the early AD years and Toecutter from the movie Mad Max lives in the
late 1990's. Probably the earliest known villains would be the serpent in the
garden of eve. It was the first villains by coaxing Adam and Eve into eating
the apple. From there more villain .....
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The Tempest: Calibans Instincts
Number of words: 753 | Number of pages: 3.... From the beginning of the play Caliban is molded as a monster. The son of the evil witch Sycorax, Caliban is Prosporos¹ servant. It is not that Caliban is a monster as much as Caliban is simply animalistic. Once Caliban tried to rape Miranda, Prosporos¹ daughter, Prosporo lost hope of taming Caliban and started treating him more like the animal he truly was. It seems that in this one act of Calibans he revealed to Prosporo the animal instincts still imprinted in Caliban. This is Shakespeares overall theme for Caliban in The Tempest.
Caliban acts in the same manner as a Indian or ³savage² in many circumstances. At fir .....
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Talk Shows And Their Effects On The Audience
Number of words: 1484 | Number of pages: 6.... his admirer to be a woman, not his gay neighbor. When Schmitz found Scott Amedure, a 32-year-old unemployed gay man, telling a television audience about a fantasy that involved Schmitz, some whipped cream, strawberries and champagne, he became embarrassed and, his lawyers said, enraged. Three days after the taping Schmitz received an anonymous, sexually suggestive note on his doorstep and assumed it came from Amedure. Schmitz purchased a 12-gauge shotgun, went to Amedure’s mobile home, and fired two shots at close range into Amedure’s chest. A few minutes later, Schmitz dialed 911 from a pay phone at a gas station near .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Love And Their Ends
Number of words: 880 | Number of pages: 4.... feels that he will die but he goes to the party anyway, saying,
“I fear, too early. For my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels, and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death
But He that hat the steerage of my course
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.” (I, v, Lines 82-89)
However, when he reaches the party, his love for Rosaline vanishes and Romeo falls passionately in love with Juliet Capulet.
Once Romeo sees Juliet, it is love at first sight. Both are unknown to the other, but t .....
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Much Ado About Nothing
Number of words: 617 | Number of pages: 3.... that marriage could be a good thing in a person's life.
Beatrice was a character very similar to Benedick. She was a very independent person, and didn't want to rely on anyone for support. She also was very smart. She enjoyed reading poetry, and thought about things a lot. She also was against marriage. During one conversation, she even said that she would rather die than get married. Another characteristic of Beatrice was that she was very emotional. She often changed her mood all of a sudden for no apparent reason. Also, Beatrice kept many of her feelings inside her. Sometimes she would be angry but wouldn't show it,because sh .....
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Macbeth Analysis Paper
Number of words: 897 | Number of pages: 4.... he would do anything he had to do to become it, even it it meant to kill the king. If the witches had not told him about becoming king, he probably would not have been so cruel killing so many people. Lady Macbeth had a rather little part in Macbeth’s killing of Duncan. She was the one there to tease Macbeth for being worried about the consequences and for being a little worried. There was a point where Macbeth was especially worried about condemnation of society. It is weird to think that someone who commits as many murders as Macbeth had to be worried about anything.
“If it were done when ‘tis done, ‘twere well/ It were .....
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Amadeus: Movie Review
Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3.... Because Mozart had died like a pauper, his grave had been left unmarked, his body unidentified. In the end of the movie, Salieri realize he was not defeated God, for Mozart's music endures while Salieri's fades into obscurity.
The behavior of Mozart is often portrayed as a childish and unworthy person to be bestowed with such overwhelming genius. Mozart was unfaithful to his wife, Constanza. He became an alcoholic as he became destitute in the movie. But, Mozart know how to behave himself in public as he was learn to be polite courteous, and gentle when he was young.
"Amadeus" is a beautiful movie about Mozart. He was th .....
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“The Need For Entertainment At The Woman’s Expense”
Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3.... frequent sleepwalker who at night is needed to be
watched by her friend and Jonathan’s wife to be, Mina. The novel
describes this particular scene through Mina’s journal. It begins with
Lucy sleepwalking and Mina eventually tracking her down only to see a tall
slender being hovering over Lucy as if almost kissing her. However, in the
movie Lucy is portrayed as a very flirtatious women who is very vulnerable
to men. There is also no record of Lucy ever sleepwalking. Instead, she
is lured out of her bed at night through Dracula’s voice. This particular
means of persuasion that Dracula uses, tells the viewer that he has .....
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Shawshank Redemption
Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2.... The is set in a place of perpetual dreariness. What little color there is, is drab and lifeless (lots of grays and muted greens and blues), and there are times when the film is a shade away from black-and-white (give credit to cinematographer Roger Deakins, a longtime Cohen brothers collaborator). It's ironic, therefore, that the central messages are of hope, redemption, and salvation.
Tim Robbins, as Andrew Dufresne, plays the wrongly convicted man with quiet dignity. Andy's ire is internal; he doesn't rant about his situation or the corruptness of the system that has imprisoned him. His unwillingness to surrender hope wins him .....
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Moore's "Roger And Me"
Number of words: 663 | Number of pages: 3.... the editor of the Flint Voice, one of the nation's most respectable
alternative newsletters.
In 1989, Moore produced and directed a documentary entitled 'Roger
and Me', a political satire about his quest to convince General Motors'
Chairman Roger Smith to visit Flint, Michigan, and witness the devastation
brought by GM shutdowns. His movie quickly became the highest grossing
documentary of all time, appearing on more than 100 of the critics '10 best
films of the year' lists. The film was also given many awards and even led
to the founding of the Center for Alternative Media.
In 'Roger and Me', Moore w .....
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