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Run Lola run-Social Conditioining
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Based on your reading of the film, The Sixth Sense, explore the techniques used by the director to manipulate the audience's response.
Based on your reading of the film, The Sixth Sense, explore the techniques used by the director to manipulate the audience's response. M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense (1999) explores the supernatural from a humanized perspective. The success of the film derives, in part, from the complex narrative structure that confounds the audience's understanding of the narrative until its revelatory end. The ability of extra sensory perception, to detect that which lies beyond the normal laws of physics is the basis for the films title. The film deals with much more, part thriller, part love story, and part horror, the sixth sense is a voyage to self-discovery, and of learning to communicate, and understanding one's own perception, as experienced by the two main characters, Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) and Cole (Haley Joel Osment). M.Night Shyamalan's script examines the effects of alienation, the bonds of relationships, and the inability to communicate in modern society. In the sixth Sense, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe is one night visited by an ex-patient named Vincent, angry, enraged he shoots Crowe, then himself. Crowe lives. A few months later Crowe is visited by a nine year old boy named Cole. He sees dead people, who do not know they are dead; because of this he is called a freak at school. Crowe, at first thinks he is seeing things, but after spending a lot of time
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Jimmy Stewart
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Med denne synopsis nsker vi at beskrive satiren i den danske tv-verden og samtidig ogs skitsere satiren i tegneserier og avisstriber.
synopsis Indledning: Med denne synopsis ønsker vi at beskrive satiren i den danske tv-verden og samtidig også skitsere satiren i tegneserier og avisstriber. Til begge vil der blive henvist til værker og udsendelser fra udlandet. Vi vil primært beskæftige os med den mere grove del af satiren i mediebilledet. Vi vil først indkredse, hvad satire er - eller måske rettere kan være. Derefter vil vi prøve at afklare, hvilke virkemidler satiren benytter sig af, samt hvordan satiren er bygget op. Dette skulle gerne munde ud i en diskussion af satiren i mediebilledet både generelt og med eksempler. Definition af satire Ved opslag i ordbøger fremstår satiren som: "En udtryksform hvormed man kritiserer personer el. sociale el. politiske forhold ved at latterliggøre dem."1 "Kunstnerisk genre, der forhåner, spotter og latterliggør mennesker og tilstande, oftest med det formål at forbedre dem."2 Udover disse to definitioner er det også vigtigt at pointere, at dette også som oftest er: "...in an amusing way" 3 Satiren skabes altså som rektion på samfundet eller af omverdenen opståede fænomener. Den forholder sig til verden på en sådan måde, at denne kommer til at fremstå som latterlig. Dette kan både forståes som en karrikatur og som egentlig kritik, med henblik på en erkendelse eller ændring i verden. Satiren udvikles, hvis disse definitioner
Media perceptions of the Third World - Image or Reality?
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Discuss how Peter Weir accentuates the gulf between the two cultures, through the use of cinematic technique. (Witness)
In film, the camera angle, use of lighting, music, and costume all contribute to create meaning - they influence or manipulate our understanding and viewpoint: Discuss how Peter Weir accentuates the gulf between the two cultures, through the use of cinematic technique. Witness, was produced in 1985 at Paramount studios. The film was shot in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The main character is John Book, who is played by Harrison Ford. The main actress is Kelly McGillis who plays the mother of a young Amish boy, Samuel Lapp. Lancaster is home to one of the biggest Amish communities in the World, so it was an ideal setting for Witness to be filmed. Some scenes in the film give the viewers a clear idea of what the Amish lifestyle is like. There are scenes of windmills, barns, and the traditional water pump, which is used to power the farm. Harrison Ford is an excellent choice for the Police officer, because he is a well-known actor who usually stars in action films. Because the Amish people are incredibly different from everyday people, the actors and actresses chosen for them have to be less popular, to help emphasise the gulf between the Amish and the outside World. Australian Peter Weir's first Hollywood film tells the story of John Book (Harrison Ford), a Philadelphia cop whose life is altered while trying to help Rachel (Kelly McGillis), an Amish woman, and her son
