Category: Research
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Poetic tears
Monologues and voiceover narration series – article III: In 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) which is loosely based on William Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew, the central character Katarina Stratford (played by Julia Styles) expresses her feeling for her love with this poem. ⚫THE POEM I hate the way you talk…
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Hugh Grant’s opening monologue in Notting Hill
This is William Thacker’s (played by Hugh Grant) introductory voiceover narrative in Notting Hill (1999). In this monologue, he introduces himself and Notting Hill, as well as covers some things that can be supportive to build an upcoming narrative and an aura of the whole film. Let’s see the monologue of William Thacker with the…
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Johnny Depp’s opening monologue in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Starting this ‘Monologues” series with the monologue of Gilbert Grape in the opening of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). My brother Arnie’s about to turn 18.My family’s planning a big party for him.Watching a campers is our yearly ritual.you’re doing the right thing just passing through. Endora.Endora’s where we are.Describing Endora is like dancing to…
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Four films by Spielberg with the theme of broken nations and broken families
Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022). A common thread in these four films is that the house, the street, and the country are broken due to internal differences or external issues and the protagonist tries to reconcile it. MUNICH (2005): 11 Israeli athletes were killed in a terrorist attack…
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Significance of movies in the movie The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans, a film is about young aspirent filmmaker Sammy Fabelman, who throughout the film made many movies with his beloved camera. The movies made by him make thematic impacts in film and used as metaphors that represent many things. The Fabelmans is a project by director, Steven Spielberg, has chased all his life. The…
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Impact of John Ford on major contemporary and past directors
John Ford, a veteran American filmmaker known for his work from the early age of cinema, has hugely impacted his contemporary directors and later generations. Known as one of the early masters and “the director’s director”. In the annals of American film, no name shines more brightly than that of John Ford. Director and filmmaker…
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Kurosawa’s uses of colors in Ran
Ran (1985) directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was one of the finest Shakesperian adaptations. Most of the Kurosawa films are in black & white. He used color like no other filmmaker used before him. We can easily make two parts of Kurosawa’s whole cinematic career by dividing it into pre and post-1970. Dodes’ka-den was…