High Fidelity is a more modern rendition of Annie Hall, but it centers around a record store owner and movie geek. The main character classifies everything in terms of top fives, and throughout the film, he recounts his top five most dramatic breakups. It is made that much more complex by the fact that the entire movie takes place during his most recent top five. It features the breakout performance of Tenacious D lead, Jack Black, and it is still his best performance. We witness some of the best directing of all time as we are put into the mindset of John Cusack's character, Rob. As much as we like the guy and sympathize with him, we also experience his self-loathing.
There are some really funny moments in the movie. The main character Cusack himself is a witty and yet comically pitiful figure. Even better are the two sidekicks he works with. They are musical snobs and the scenes in the record store are often hilarious as they deal with the less "musically-educated" customers who come to the store. One middle-aged customer who comes in to buy Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say." is dealt with in the funniest put-down manner imaginable. The contrast between his two assistants is also a source of amusement. The cameos by Tim Robbins and Bruce Springsteen are also hilarious-especially Robbins who is a high-flying, world music loving, martial arts expert who also looks like some sort of new age hippy and worst of all he's living with Laura, Cusack's ex-girlfriend. The scene where he confronts Cusack in the record store is total original and is also hilarious.
High Fidelity On the surface, High Fidelity is a story about breaking up and getting back together again. Only, thanks to director Stephen Frears" narrative technique, we don't realize this until the credits start to roll. He plunges into the life of Rob Gordon, played by John Cusack, on the night h...
Cohabitation The article that I used for this abstract was titled "Let's Stop Harassing Couples Who Finally Commit."" This article talks about the movie "High Fidelity- and how every Catholic Priest should see it. The author of this article talks about how priests and parents are against cohab...
Nick Hornby, a music and pop-culture critic, has been at the forefront of this genre with works like High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and How to be Good. High Fidelity, his most celebrated work, is about a record shop owner from London in his thirties who is trying to cope with a recent break-up with his girlfriend. ... This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and contrasts females in literature with common female stereotypes. ...
God's fidelity to mankind was expressed in historical implications, apocalyptic possibilities, and divine creativity. ... The high priests, who were the figureheads of the social hierarchy, had much to protect in their way of life. ...
Wi-Fi is "short for wireless fidelity and is meant to be used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, whether 802.11b, 802.11a, dual-band, etc. ... "Wi-Fi refers to the current industry standard for wireless LANs (Local Area Networks), which provide users high-speed mobile Internet access without plugging in with cords or cables. ... In a home or home office, using Wi-Fi equipment, your wireless network gives you the ability to share a single high-speed broadband cable or DSL connection. ... Even though wireless fidelity provides great flexibility for data communication use...
B : The IT Background of the Issue MP3s were derived from MPEGs, which are audio compression algorithms developed as a standard for the high fidelity compression of audio. ... The high performance of this algorithm is due to the exploitation of auditory masking. ... By the same token, the speed of downloads has been increased with the introduction of "high speed internet". ...
Oedipus the King possesses all the characteristics of a Greek hero, but by his own pride and fidelity to the truth he meets a tragic end of his own making. ... I knock him out his high seat, roll him out of the wagon, sprawling headlong" (lines 323-325). ... To no avail, he does inquire and does finally learn the truth and this fidelity ruins him. ...
However portions of the act have been criticized as merely an obligatory Congressional knee-jerk reaction to such a high profile situation in order to appease the voting public. ... Next is the protection of society form extreme risks; the theory being that the public will eventually pay for large failures of high risk ventures. ...
Kennedy High School was taken only as a day job to allow him to stop touring with his supper club band and provide time for him to compose his symphony. ... During a particularly trying period, an active student's crush forces Holland to reevaluate his feelings and commitments, offering a valuable lesson about temptation and marital fidelity. ...