People go to the movies instead of moving! ... I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move! ... What Tom truly desires is adventure and he believes that war is the ultimate opportunity for such adventure. ... Because of this, Tom resorts to his old means of temporary escape; alcohol and cigarettes. ... Tom's love for the movies expresses his underlying desire not only to leave, but to seek out adventure for himself. ...

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Tom's father, a telephone man, left the family when Tom was eight years old. ... Amanda had confronted Tom and asked him where he goes at nights, and he replied, "I go to the movies because - I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies". ... This was Tom's way of escaping reality and he lost himself in the adventures portrayed on screen. ... Tom would go to the movies or go out onto the fire escape. ...

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Here Natty is viewed as a decrepit, old man. ... Throughout the many adventures of Natty Bumppo, he always had many of the same characteristics. ... Natty always had companions in his adventures as well. ... Though Lucas was known around the world for his writing of adventures through space, he once again electrified the movies screens and book stands with his Indiana Jones Trilogy." ... His companions this time include a easily frightened, night club entertainer, Willie Scott, and a feisty 12-year old kid named Short Round. ...

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Only one person who supported family was older sister Mattie. ... Moreover his work was inspirational and other directors adopt his ideas of making movies. ... Griffith's directorial debut was a short unpretentious story called "The Adventures of Dollie", filmed in 1908. ... At that time, "The Adventures of Dollie" had already been used in the other movies. ... Someone repute the five year old girl from the family. ...

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I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger - anything that can blow your candles out!" Instead of actually leaving his family, Tom uses the movies, his poetry and alcohol as another form of escape from the suffocating feeling he gets from Amanda. Throughout the play we see that every time Tom and Amanda argue, he flees to the movies for a period of time and at times returns drunk. ... At anytime Tom can just get up and abandon his family like his father and can finally have the adventure he's always desi...

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Living in a small town on the Mississippi River can be kind of boring for Huckleberry Finn and his best friend Tom Sawyer, until one day in an adventure the boys find a hidden treasure in a cave, that make them rich. ... This started their friendship and adventure together down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim are enjoying living in the outdoors and doing their own thing, traveling and adventuring down the river together. ... Tom, who was saying he was Sid, kept coming up with silly notions on how to rescue Jim like the way they do ...

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I can, however, think of a couple movies that were pretty good, making women look better, sort of. ... On the other side of the table, movies for men are all about the same types. ... Nothing in their computerized existence feeds a hunger for adventure, for aggression, for the infliction or suffering of pain Blood is their warrant of triumph, not over one another, but over torpor." (506) These men were board! ... For instance, the movie 10, an older film debuted in 1979, but all about the perfect woman in a middle-aged man's quest for sexual justification. ... So basically, in my opin...

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The presence of certain traditional literature elements in modern films is clearly evident as more and more movies rely on the narrative to drive their story. ... The message is specifically for Obi-Wan but is played in front of Luke, this calls our hero to adventure. Luke wants adventure; he doesn't want to stay on his home planet Tattooine forever, so this proposal seems the most natural thing to do. ... The characters are parallel, in the case of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars substitute the hero characters, Frodo for Luke, the older side-kick characters, Aragorn for Han-Solo, the wis...

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The place is littered with magic and battle and every child born is a hero in the making, every adventure begun is a potential legend founded. ... It will put the plots of even the greatest movies to shame, with its numerous plot twists and political intrigue that will satisfy those plot mongers in everyone. ... Secondly, Jilseponie would appeal to any of the older audiences for her determination and strength despite the odds piling against her, most people are drawn to the "underdog" and Jilseponie is the epitome of that title. ... Alas, the cost of the movie would be great indeed, just to co...

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The three can't agree on whatever they"re talking about and the scene end's with Amanda feeling as though she is going to be an old maid. ... Amanda chooses to ask Tom to be the one to find a caller for his sister after he and his mother have another frank discussion and he storms off once again to the "movies". He does so in a rage and on his way out to the movies ends up breaking one of Laura's animals. ... Tom wants to see everyone having a adventures and good times. ... Eventually Tom gets so fet up with his situation he says he's going to the movies, and rages out ...

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Movies are an American pastime and watching a video, DVD, or visiting the local theatre is common. ... Movies also encourage sexual promiscuity. ... It is thought to be more damaging because the music is more interactive with the listener and unlike the passive interaction resulting from the virtual modes of television or movies. ... The comic books that children read and TV shows that were derived from those comics, such as The Adventures of Spiderman, reflected that belief in heroes. ... Programs reflected this new sad reality as a new generation of action-packed adventure shows either from...

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Paul Miller creates a very heady experiment in film noir, playfully toying with stereotypes and old detective film standards. The black and white canvas alone forces the viewer back to the days of movies like the Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, and the simple good guy/bad guy relationship that movies from the golden age of Hollywood held nearest and dearest. ... His relationship with Inspector Treviranus is that of the old cliché; the dumb, flat-foot cop and the brilliant detective. ... The murders are committed behind the curtain, as it were, depicted to the viewer only in shadows on th...

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Luke is a young kid who wants an adventure, he is gifted with a strong love of "The Force". ... Old Ben Kenobi, or "Obi-Wan" Kenobi represents a priest/teacher figure who is well known in the force. ... This adds a whole new side to the movie that many other movies can't compete with. ... Star Wars is a classic romantic action adventure movie that will stay a favorite for a long time....

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Their adventures throughout the movie can be compared to heroic adventures of classical mythological beings. In mythology, a hero's journey begins with a call to adventure. ... Wrinkler also explains how, "the journey frequently represents a young hero's initiation into manhood and maturity or an older hero's pursuit of perfection. ... Just like in many other movies, so, too, does Luke have to lose Ben in order for him to continue growing. ... Throughout the movies, this is his protection and he learns how to use it very strategically. ...

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The rate is 32:1 in R-rated movies [ ]. In action-adventure series, premarital sex and prostitution are the most frequent encounters [ ]." ... Movies specifically aimed at the teenage audience, specifically known as "teen movies", base most of their story lines on relationships and sex between teenagers. For example movies, such as "Cruel Intentions", portray sex as a game. ... Chlamydia is more common among teens than among older men and women. ...

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Immediately after handing the broken unicorn over to Jim, Laura resumes with her old routine; she goes to the old victrola and plays the old records left by her father. ... He retreats from his mother and his responsibilities through the illusionary world of movies and alcohol. ... Tom feels that his job is a waste of his life, and states that he is "tired of the movies and [is] about to move!... Even when he finally fulfilled his dream of escaping into an adventure and leaving the strains of responsibilities, the memories of his family haunt him. ...

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Stephen's father left the family when he was only three years old, so him and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. ... Ruth King's parents had succumbed to old age and were needed taken care of. ... Publishing 50 novels, he also has an astonishing number of King's works have been made into movies, many of which were box-office hits. Some of those movies are The Shining (1980), Christine (1983), Stand By Me (1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), Knightriders (1981), Creepshow (1982), Pet Sematary (...

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The author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old, in the 1950s. ... Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. ... To conclude I can say that the movies style is easy to view and not complicated. ... I think people who enjoy action and some adventure, should view the movie, because the action, the setting, and the adventure are powerful. ...

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Son Of A Wanted Man Author: Louis L"Amour The foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L"Amour tells of the adventures of the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. ... His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies. ... Yet Kerb Perrin and his followers underestimated the skills of Mike Bastian, and also the toughness and thoughtfulness of old Ben Curry. ... Often times in movies that I have seen that depict cowboys, the "good guys" are good because they ...

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Beethoven died in 1827 when he was 57 years old. ... She was only 18 months old was she became deaf and blind at the same time. March of 1887, her parents hired Anne Sullivan a 20 year old graduate from the Perkins School for the blind to come and work with Helen. ... They produce their own movies and hold their own film festivals, to accommodate the interests of deaf people. ... In the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" they talk differently then in the book "Moby Dick". ...

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The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. ... Although the German film industry was booming, filmmakers found it difficult to create movies because of the hard economic times and because of the big competition with Hollywood. ... The plots and stories of the Expressionist films often dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal, and other "intellectual" topics (as opposed to standard action-adventure and romantic films); the German name for this type of storytelling was called Kammerspielfilm. ... German emigrees such as Karl Freund (the cinematographer for D...

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This tendency is probably as old as human nature and can be explained in many ways, but i doubt that we can get to the heart of the matter. ... Dramatic scenes of sin an disaster give audiences the opportunity to forget their monotonous lives and to participate vicariously in exciting adventures. ... Lord of the Rings" and Harry Potter" movies also offer villains who have magical powers and try to overpower innocent children. ... Robinson symbolizes the hypocritical, materialistic side of the older generation. ...

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His novel, Gargantua and Pantagruel, is considered as his premier work, and it is about the adventure of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel. ... For instance, "Cheech and Chong" was considered one of the most popular comedy movies in the United States in the seventy's. ... Well then, you understand why a monks are invariably given wide room by old and young What, pray, does he do? ...

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This legend has often been depicted in movies and in many different stories. It involves many adventures of danger and excitement. ... Later on while the knight's were seated at the round table, Merlin came into the hall disguised as an old man, accompanied by a young knight dressed in red armor. ...

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By hitchhiking and riding the rails, he arrived in Oklahoma City to visit an older brother, who was the governor's secretary, but he soon moved on (Hall). ... The young man's boss was a seventy-nine-year-old wrangler raised by Apaches, who had ridden on war parties with Nana and Geronimo. ... L"Amour's family history is rich in frontier adventure. ... In all, forty-five L"Amour novels or short stories have been made into feature films or television movies (New York Times). ... They applauded his ability to write quick paced action novels filled with accurate description...

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