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A Scene From Martin Scorcese's "Mean Streets"
Words: 491 / Pages: 2 .... a film, Scorsese likes
to work with what he knows. For him, it seems, having actors with whom he
knows well, keeps his vision under more control.
In terms of style, Scorsese likes to experiment. In his mobster
movies, Scorsese likes to film and edit much of it like a documentary. This
is effective in helping the viewer to get acquainted with the criminal life.
Parts of Goodfellas and Mean Streets were in this style as was, to a more
obvious degree, the first half hour of Casino. Usually the narration plays
a large part in this style of filmmaking. The use of narration, in general,
is another one of Scorsese's styles.
In Mean Streets, ther .....
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Imagery In Macbeth
Words: 547 / Pages: 2 .... display of sickness.
"Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements"
(Act 1, Scene 2:line22, 23)
Macbeth was not a bad man at first he was a very noble ally to Duncan. When Macbeth he saw the Three Witches everything changed. They told him things he wanted to here and he believed them. He told Lady Macbeth what the witches said. She taught him and ridiculed him to be evil. He listened to her and that is when the trouble started.
The first ignoble killing by Macbeth was the killing of what was supposed to be his friend Duncan. Macbeth killed Duncan to become king.
"And only thy blade and dudgeon .....
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The Crucible: John Proctor Had Common Sense
Words: 598 / Pages: 3 .... resolve to proclaim, and to die for, the
truth." On the other hand, "Proctor will lie privately, but he refuses to
sign so that his lie can be made public." John felt if others knew of his
lies he would have a bad name. He always wanted to have a good name.
When in court John was questioned as to whether he was having or
not having an affair with Abigail. The questions were directed toward
John's wife Elizabeth. Proctor had made certain to the judge that
Elizabeth could not and certainly would not lie. Sure enough, when
Elizabeth was questioned she ended up lying to try to save her husbands
reputation from being ruined, Meanwhile she had no idea w .....
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A Street Car Named Desire
Words: 923 / Pages: 4 .... in the quote. Stella tells Blanche that she only has two rooms and Blanche is shocked. When Stanley comes back from bowling he is surprised to see Blanche there. Blanche was looking for a compliment, but Stanley is not the complimenting type. Stella has to tell Stanley secretly to once in while give Blanche a nice compliment. Blanche used to have a nice house with big white columns in Belle Reve. Stella left Belle Reve to come to New Orleans. Blanche now comes to New Orleans saying that Belle Reve is lost but doesn’t explain how. Stanley thinks that Blanche is lying and he wants to know where the papers of the house are but Blanche gets of .....
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Stanlislovski's System: Concepts On Acting
Words: 939 / Pages: 4 .... connection, or bridge, to the personal and emotional response of
their character. So Stanlislovski designed tool for the actor to use to help
him connect with the emotional and physical world of his character.
Such concepts as The Magic If is a clear example of a tool an actor
could use to connect himself the life of the character. The Magic If, simply
guides the actor to ask the simple question: "What would I do if I were in my
character position?" By asking this question of himself the actor can
personalize the given circumstances of the character. The situation of the
character becomes more personal, and the stakes much higher, because the ac .....
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The Artist Verses Society
Words: 508 / Pages: 2 .... This caused them to have to conceal their abilities. Not until after their deaths did we discover these hidden talents and see that these heretics were perhaps geniuses in disguise.
Devince arguably the most talented painter ever wrote backwards so that people wouldn't know what he was writing. He would rather have been seen as incompetent than to let people really know what he was thinking. If people had known what he was really writing he would have been branded a heretic and exiled from the painting world.
A second example and perhaps one of the best was also a painter, Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh also one of the world's best painters .....
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The National Endowment For The Arts
Words: 906 / Pages: 4 .... institutions would soon diminish in quality. Some things would possibly die out completely. Unfortunately, most of those opposed to the NEA have been supplied with misinformation that alters their perception of the issue. However, if given the facts about how the NEA can benefit not only the artisans, but also the whole nation, those opposers might change their mind in support of the arts program.
One of the biggest arguments against federal funding for the arts is that it costs too much money and that the government is already in debt too severely to provide for something as unnecessary as art. True, the government is extremely in debt, but wha .....
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Sex Sells?
Words: 1249 / Pages: 5 .... targeted at men depicting a beautiful woman. When a man is
flipping through a magazine and passes by a page that has an attractive
woman on it, of course he is going to take a second and look. When he
stops to look at the woman he will see what is advertised and when he does
this the advertisers have accomplished what they set out to do. The man
sees this woman in the advertisement and believes that by buying this
product perhaps he will attract a women like this. For example, in a
Bacardi Rum advertisement from a recent men's sports magazine, there is a
picture of a women's waistline and she is holding a glass of rum along with
a lime. T .....
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Macbeth: Macbeth's Character
Words: 1824 / Pages: 7 .... in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive expenditure of prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which should energize back of his great deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature violently .....
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Representation Of Women Through Art
Words: 2511 / Pages: 10 .... in Eighteenth Century French Art" by Carol Duncan, "Morisot's Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting" by Linda Nochlin, and "Like an Artist" by Janis Bergman-Carton.
First, the article "Judith Leyster's Proposition - Between Virtue and Vice" by Frima Fox Hofrichter talks mainly about the sexual proposition of a man towards a woman during the seventeenth century. The painting "The Proposition" represents an indecent proposal towards a woman and her reaction to this indecent proposal. During this century, there was a resurgence of prostitution throughout European countries. The women represented in many painting .....
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