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“The Day After Tomorrow”, a feature US movie of 2004 directed by Roland Emmerich, was undoubtedly a commercial success. There have been many disaster movies before, but quite a few of its predecessors might have been compared to it in terms of computer effects and quasi realism. The general public liked the effect of the new Judgement Day, and the box office of ‘The Day After Tomorrow” has exceeded 550 million dollars worldwide, while the original budget was around 125 million. The filming took place in the total of 17 locations, including New York City (with a hefty amount of special effects), Los ...

Every person has his own way, his own lucky star, and his destination in this life. But nevertheless, a human stays a human no matter what he or she faces and what problems copes. All outstanding persons stayed just simple men no matter how greatly they influenced the people’s lives and the whole world. I think Socrates, Buddha, and Muhammad were just simple people with their own problems and happiness; all of them were just normal people with arms and legs. But from the other point of view each of them was unique and wonderful person. Gandhi was one of ...

The film Slumdog Millionaire was directed by Danny Boyle in 2008. This feature movie is 120-minutes length. Though Slumdog Millionaire is a British film it is based on the novel titled Q and A by Indian writer and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The film is aimed to depict a story of a young 18 year-old Indian guy ad what role does destiny and luck play in his life. The movie created a sensation in the year of its screening. Slumdog Millionaire won eight Academy Awards in 2009, including the awards for the Best Picture and Best Director, let alone other prestigious cinematographic contests, where ...

“The Linguists” is a movie about the travails of two linguists, David Harrison and Gregory Anderson. Their objective is to document some of the world’s languages that are already near extinction. They visit Siberia, Arizona, Bolivia and India to research the disappearing languages in these areas. As they try to discover these dying languages, the two linguists also expose themselves to the distinct culture and traditions of the speakers of these languages. In Siberia, they were able to learn about the Chulym which is a tribal language. In Arizona, the linguists were able to come across the Chemehuevi language from a ...

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Hollywood Indians- A Man Called Horse
‘A Man Called Horse’, is a movie directed by Elliot Silverstein, made in the year 1970. It is based on the novel of the same title published in the year 1968, by Dorothy Marie Johnson. The story of the film is about an English man named John Morgan, portrayed by Richard Harris, who goes on a hunting trip in the interior West of the USA. He is captured by a Native American tribe headed by Yellow Hand and he is made a slave/horse to a woman named Buffalo Cow Head. Morgan’s various attempts to escape foils ...

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The AIM leaders and dissidents of the Oglala took on the US government because the community was being marginalized in their own country. The Oglala people had been tortured and killed by security officials in the US government. They had also been displaced from their own native land that they had connected with for a long period before the arrival of the Europeans in North America. The Aim leaders felt that there culture and spiritual life was being taken away from them by the US government. These leaders were of the view that the Oglala people were being stripped off ...

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The film slum dog millionaire by Danny Boyle clearly brings out numerous aspects of the Indian culture. He creatively uses a wide range of techniques to capture the most significant societal aspects of the geographical region which forms the setting of his film.
The diligent and highly reputable film director Danny Boyle starts his piece of work, the slum dog millionaire with captivating stand still captions that depicts the true nature and situation of the Indian society. The Indian religion popularly recognized as Hinduism is clearly brought out in the film to depict the Indian traditional religion. This reveals ...

Movie Review: Examine the videos of Huang and Pattanaik through the eyes of globalization. Each of the presenters is making the argument that Western industrial development does not overwhelm culture, and that their 'lesser developed' countries have much to teach the West. Do you agree, disagree and why?
- Medical Doctor Devdutt Pattanaik, in his presentation entitled: “East vs. West -- the myths that mystify,” shared his views about the difference between “the world” (logos) and “my world” (mythos). He gave mythological and real-world examples about objective and subjective truths. My personal stance is that I do not ...

The post-modernists give the film the aspects of the metanarratives precisely because it contains feminism, representing the values of the women in the society. Mississippi masala is well representing feminism through the past story of Asian Indian who settled in the American South and in Uganda as well. The ideology of social, political and economic representation of women is well interpreted in the movie.
Ray narrates the history of the last days of young woman before moving to American south to pursue her studies. Despite the fact that there was a curfew after the Babri, which was expected to ...

“Incident at Oglala” provides for a deep documentation of the “murder” of two FBI special agents execution style on June 26, 1975 namely Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams. Aside from the two agents killed during the gun battle, was Joe Stuntz, a Native American and a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in Jumping Bull Compound, Oglala, South Dakota. The death of the Stuntz prompted no legal action while the death of the two FBI agents made the government looked for four Native Indians to be held responsible for the case namely James Eagle, Darrelle Butler, Bob Robideau and ...

Movie Review of Incident at Oglala

Interesting drum beat, like the beating of a heart. Multiple people telling the story

leading up to the shootings. “The agents committed suicide when they went in there after

Jimmy Eagle.” Indians are saying they do not understand why the Fed agents would

surround a place where there were families, children, homes, and start firing. Some say

they were fired upon first by the agents, some say the agents came into the Jumping Bull

compound and were immediately fired upon. FBI spokes person said that Agent

Williams put up his hand in front of his face and was shot through his ...

Retaining moral values and ethics that one learns from family at home is what Indian Film Industry showcases through most of its movies. The values may be directly or indirectly forecasted imbibed in the story. Based on the same concept, on October 20th 1995, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the English version of which is “The Big Hearted will take away the Bride” was released.
Directed by Aditya Chopra and Produced by Yash chopra, the movie highlights the true love story of an Indian Young couple. The couple meets on a vacation in Europe and fall in love with each ...

The Name of the Class

Cross-Cultural Experiences in the movie “Outsourced”
The customs and cultures of India were developed by the country’s traditions that date back almost a few thousands of years. The significance most of these cultural behavior and traditions have in the people of India can be elusive to the average American. For instance, the picture of Kaali (the goddess of destruction), carrying the severed head of a man, hung on the wall of Todd’s (the protagonist) bedroom, is quite a disconcerting picture for the average American. But in India, it is a picture of relief. Similarly, the intermittent animal ( ...

One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India.
The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

Throughout history, Bollywood films have illustrated a representation of women in India in various forms. Arguably, it is certain that Bollywood films comprise of gender-based stereotypes. The female characters, situations, and plots concerning women in Indian films have been steered by stereotypical ideologies. Across the globe, extensive research had indicated that Indian films top the list of undermining women. Moreover, a sample survey established that Indian females, for an extended period of time, have portrayed females in sexualized roles. It is well-known that the notion of objectifying women on the screen has been a conspicuous issue that the films ...

Movie Review: Bhopal Express

The film Bhopal Express is an account of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984. The tragedy which led to the death of more than 8,000 people and systemic injuries to more than 500,000 others was caused by leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal, India (Hazarika, 1987). The film Bhopal Express tells of that sad event through the story of a newlywed couple that is threatened with the genetic aftermaths of the gas tragedy (Nayar, 2004). Against this background, corporations have a duty to protect the communities in which they operate and at all times ...

Germany’s Holocaust Monument in Berlin occupies 4.7 acres near the Brandenburg Gate. The information center, or Ort was added late in the project’s development is beneath the monument. When the monument first opened to the public in 2005, it was criticized as too abstract and that it took Berlin too long to erect a memorial to the victims of the Third Reich, which used Berlin as its capital. Some feel that the monument should include more symbolism that is religious and was not “Jewish” enough; others felt it was not sufficiently inclusive of the other victims of the ...

The video “Slum Cities: A Shifting World” is among the most viewed films on YouTube, given its ability to provide real information regarding some of the world’s largest slums. Fundamentally, the film looks at the move of masses from the rural settings to urban centres and the manner in which such cities deal with the transitions. Directed by CBC News Canada, the film “Slum Cities: A Shifting World” provides a report of two mega slums; the Dharavi in India, and another one in Rio de Janeiro. As noted in the film, millions of people across the world often ...

1. The 2004 documentary Born Into Brothels follows documentarian Zana Briski's time spent among the prostitutes of Calcutta. She interviews these prostitutes, as well as their children, whom she teaches photography (and gives disposable cameras with which to take pictures). In this time, not only does she follow the trials and tribulations of prostitutes and women in Indian culture, but she also reveals new insights about the children of these prostitutes and how small their prospects for betterment are.2. I chose this documentary because I knew little about Indian culture, or how systemic the problem of prostitution was. I ...

What is Bollywood and Hollywood?

Bollywood and Hollywood both have many similarities and differences in regards to their portrayal of romance in film. The term “Bollywood” is defined as, “films produced by the Mumbai film industry, primarily in the Hindi language, distributed across the normal commercial film circuits of northern India, and containing song and dance item numbers as an integral part of the plot.” (Brief History). Hollywood film is defined as, “the cinema of the United States since the early 20th century.” (Brief History).

Nationalism

Bollywood differs from Hollywood because it incorporates three different characteristics: nationality, censorship, and music(Brief History). These three concepts ...

Jagte Raho is a black and white film which describes the lifestyle of a villager who had travelled in an urban city full of evil acts. The film takes place over one long, bizarre night in a block apartment in the midst of the city. Raj Kapoor, a thirty villager, was seeking for water to quench his thirst. When heading to the direction with piped water in an apartment, he is hastily spotted and suspected of being a burglar. The accusations makes the villager run dearly for his life and hide in the safest apartments. In the process, Kapoor ...

Many critics called the film Sholay (1975) directed by Ramesh Sippy the best film in the history of Bollywood, or the "Film of the Millennium". The critics praise it so much so that several critics insist that "innovation in Hindi films ends with Sholay and that everything after that is repetitious trash" (Banker 55). This picture is a mix of crime thriller with the elements of "Japanese samurai epics and American and Italian Westerns, most obviously The Magnificent Seven (which was based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai)" (Banker 55). The director involved a number of best Indian actors ...

Under the Bombs a movie filmed in 2007 right at the end of the Lebanon War in 2006. It was directed by Philippe Aractingi - a Franco-Lebanese filmmaker.
In the midsummer 2006, the war broke out between Lebanon and Israel. The director of the film, Philippe Aractingi was not able to shoot everything adequately and decided to grab his camera and to shoot everything off the cuff, with no script whatsoever, creating the story in his head. After 10 days, he finished his creation – a 97 minutes movie called “Under The Bombs”, a story where only 2 actors were used – the rest ...

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In “The New Rules of the Game” episode of the “Commanding Heights,” it asserts that trade in the context of globalization is uncontrollable. It said that the governments in the third world countries should adapt to the fast developments or else their economies will collapse. The documentary made it appear that after the fall of communism, capitalism flourished through free trade that caused governments’ economies to thrive. Although it presented that the system has further widen the gap between the rich and the poor, it did not suggest solutions that will control the unpredictable ...

The movie “Slumdog Millionaire” tells the story of a poor boy from the slums 18-year old Jamal Malik. The movie shows Jamal about to win 20 million Rupees in an Indian show called “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” (Boyle, 2008). The police suspect Jamal of cheating and arrest him during a break. They doubt that a poor, uneducated boy from the slums could know a lot. Jamal tells the police about his tough life in the slums, with his older brother Salim and a girl he loved called Latika (Boyle, 2008). The police learn that Jamal had a hard life that taught him the answers ...

The movie “Thunder heart” touches upon the social aspects of poverty, exploitation, cultural taboos, deviances and other anomaly that may exist in a certain society. This is a directional presentation by Michael Apted who is famous for his movies which touch upon the social issues and events of past incidents that have prevailed and in a less milder way haunted the free existence of different communities within a society. In this project he undertakes the same challenge of representing the social differences yet he has presented them in form of the political spectrum and scope.

It also sheds light on the elementary part ...

Movie Review

The movie industry is very rich and has virtually been taken up the world over. Different countries, continents and cultures have a stake in what can be called their contribution to this entertainment arena and one of them is the Indian movie industry. There are several interesting movies from this part of the world and one most outstanding movie from the Indian Peninsula is “Sangam.” In it, culture is portrayed as a determinant of a person’s destiny if one does not rise up to the occasion to fight the said suppressing culture.
The movie is a clear indication of how people ...

Pocahontas is a Disney animated feature that follows the story of a Native American Motoaka. She is the daughter of the Powhatan Confederacy chief in the early 17th century. It is the 33rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series following known hits like Beauty and the Beast, Alladin and The Lion King. It was released in theaters in 1995 and is the first film based on a known historical character. However, it did not follow the actual historical account of the Native American’s encounter with the British settler John Smith who had sailed in search of gold in the “ ...

The movie tells the story of the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Oglala in 1975. It focuses on the trial of the three main suspects. Two of them were acquitted on trial while one was convicted of murder. The main focus of the movie is the trial of Leonard Peltier extradited from Canada to face the murder trial and subsequently convicted of the charge. The movie highlights several controversial issues. The primary issue is the race question and the secondary issue is the trial of what the producers believe is an innocent man. These two ...

The memorial was built in memory of the Jews who were murdered in Europe. The memorial was designed by Peter Eisenman. The location of the memorial is Berlin. The size of the memorial is that it covers an area of 19000 square meters which is equivalent to an area of 4.7 acres. It has 2711 concrete slabs which are arranged in a grid pattern. The memorial was built for the Jews only and therefore exclusive. The memorial holds the names of all the Jews Holocaust victims which are known. It was meant for the Jews alone and no other people ...