It all begins appealingly enough with a brave and contemplative performance from Guy Witcher as the main character in the film, a fair-haired boy nicknamed PK who is sent to an Afrikaner boarding school where he's tortured as the only English boy amongst the hate-mongering, Afrikaner schoolboys, whose idol, in the years before World War Two, is Hitler. ... At this point he is a year prior to heading to university, and Stephen Dorff plays out the character as though it were he himself who was teaching the native Africans to read and write English, and beating the living daylights out of h...

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It follows a love story, complicated by the differences in the lifestyles of the two main characters. ... Though Jasmine plays a major character role, she and the other women appear to play a minor role in Islamic culture, according to their actions in the film. ...

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Another of the film's great attributes is its character setup. Most of the characters are meant to represent something. The Pregnant character Rose of Sharon is supposed to Represent hope and new beginning, seeing that she has a baby on the way. ... But as the movie picks back up you quickly forget the minor annoyance and become involved in the film again. ...

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I am a guy that can handle some minor mistakes in the game's programming, but the game had so many chinks in the armor it would make the heroes in the Lord of the Rings lose an easy battle. ... When I pressed a button on the controller, the character I was controlling was sluggish and unresponsive to my control. ... Even if all buttons were pressed, the character just stood on screen motionless, so the answer to that would be no as well. ...

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These two characters were also pictured as being stocky and muscular. ... The camera man for the film does various things to intensify scenes and the emotions of the characters. The close-ups of characters while they"re giving speeches are effective. It is more effective because it shows the emotions of the character better. ... In the movie, he only suffered a minor wound. ...

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If you take people from the 1920s and place them in this century they would probably have a minor cardiac arrest just by watching "Transformers" in 3D. ... We solely rely on the music to feel what the main character is feeling which shows us the importance of sound effects and music in movies, especially in silent ones. ...

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Because the concept of stardom is synonymous with film, it is convenient to believe that the American film industry has been creating stars for as long as that industry has been in existence. This is not the case. For many years, pre 1910, actors were not even given a name. Producers feared right...

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Another example from the 50s is on the situation comedy I Love Lucy, in which the show's married main characters had to sleep in twin beds, so as to not make any suggestions that they had a physical relationship. ... By the 1960s, television shows and movies were getting more suggestive, and minor profanities, mild violence, and mild sexual themes were being allowed in television and, more prominently, movies. ...

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Fincher again uses rain to emphasize drama in Fight Club, where Pitt's character drives into oncoming traffic creating a terrible accident in the midst of an argument. ... In the Social Network his colors stay dark, setting the mood and enhancing the personality of the main character. ... An example of this is Kevin Spacey in Se7en and Brad Pitt in Fight Club, these characters are often in the shadows where their faces cannot be clearly made out. ...

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