Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s 11 movie is produced with so much wit, brains, dazzle, and virtuosity that hit me like a bucket of ice-cold water. It made me wonder what was gonna happen next.
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is an ex-con and professional thief who is a compulsive charmer. Less than 24 hours after he struts out of prison in his penguin suit from a Jersey pen, the charismatic thief is already rolling out the most intricate casino heist in history with his eleven experts in Vegas—America’s playground.
Along with the rico suave Clooney, Ocean's 11 stars, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and an tolerable amount other non-one hit wonders. Pitt plays a hip card shark who’s scruffy but sleek under his aviator shades—it’s like he’s straight out of Saturday Night Fever. Danny Oc...
Nelson Johnson, author of “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City”, is a native of Hammonton, New Jersey. Johnson graduated Villanova Law School in 1974, after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in 1970 from St John’s University in New York, majoring in political science. Johnson began his political career in 1975: being elected to Atlantic County’s Board of Chosen Freeholders, where he served until 1985. Johnson had a successful private practice culminating in appointment to be a Superior Court Judge in 2005. It is interesting to note that Gromley, who nominated Johnson to Superior Court, is featured in his book. Of further interest is that Johnson served on Atlantic City’s Planning Board at the conception of casinos.
Once the shark is killed the film ends rather quickly. The immediate reward for Brody is that Amity will once again be safe, as well as the fact that he is no longer threatened himself. He also discovers that Hooper hasn’t been killed and that together they will be able to swim back to shore.
become a slave to it. The Village is a film based more on a pitch than
Breathless is in many ways the antithesis of the classical Hollywood cinema; the changes have a direct effect on the relationship the film has with the viewer. Classical Hollywood cinema includes standards such as continuity editing, highly motivated, character-driven stories and a coherent narrative structure. Breathless defies these elements of traditional filmmaking, instead defining what we know as French New Wave.
Roman Polanski uses the camera throughout his film Knife in the Water to represent the numerous differences between the characters and specifically how he wanted them to be portrayed. Polanski uses the camera to bring the audience directly into the tense, energetic, and insightful nature of his scenes. Through these characteristics he is able to display these characters as dysfunctional, maybe even touching on similarities to many humans in society. Because of this, Polanski found great success in his specific uses of camera techniques and depictions of his characters. The detailed scenes found throughout Knife in the Water help illustrate the prevailing obsession, intensity, and discomfort hovering over the three characters.
Bill Nighy, who is well known for his appearances with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
In “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot makes famous allusions to the works of Dante Alighieri, Joseph Conrad, William Shakespeare and to the story of Guy Fawkes’ “Gunpowder Plot.” Eliot also makes use of extended metaphors, perhaps most prominently a metaphor to Dryness and the idea of living in a desert. Eliot uses this metaphor, in conjunction with allusions and the idea that dryness represents the empty life the Hollow Men live, to explain how the Hollow Men he writes about experience the world.
Noah Calhoun starts off the story by talking about how is life isn’t easy to explain. But now, he has also had more ups and downs and that he is proud because, many people cannot say that about their life. He talks about his wife, Allie not knowing whom he is. He reads this notebook to Allie just hoping that, that day might be the day that she comes back to him.
The Quran is the religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be the word of God. And contrary to popular belief, the Quran never intended to reduce women to such a limited role with little to no rights. Biased interpretation of the verses in the Quran has contributed to the creation of a patriarchal society. It has played a major role on how Muslim women have been treated today and throughout history—si...
A human has a strong desire to survive and ready to transgress his inner borders and break his principles to save his life. There are three aspects of survival: psychological, emotional and physical survival. They are all related to each other and in order to sustain one has to go through all three stages. A person has to struggle with themselves: they have to breakdown their internal principles such as high morality and deep religious commitment in order to come through Psychological, Emotional and Physical survival.
The readings of this past week discussed women’s piety and roles as defined by Islam and the Quran. The writings of Barbara Stowasser discussed Hadith and Quranic histories which featured exemplary Muslim women. These scriptures are significant because the Quran and its histories are used to extrapolate laws and codes of conduct for men and women alike. The role of Eve in the Garden of Eden as revealed in revelation by Mohammed differs slightly from the Christian narrative of the same story. This seems to be a small change with much larger implications. The role of Mary in the Quran is interesting as her story is suggested as something for Muslim women to aspire to but at the same time Mary’s example is considered beyond human and divinely perfect. Lastly, the interactions between Mohammed and his wives, in Hadith and in scripture, play a pivotal role in judging what is acceptable and proper in the domestic sphere. These three examples influence women’s roles both positively and negatively depending on how well they mesh with modern sensibilities. One persons piety is another person...
The most believable theory presented in Room 237 suggests that Stanley Kubrick, the director of The Shining, directed the movie to reflect the genocide of the American Indians. When first hearing this theory, it seems completely absurd. How can a horror movie about a homicidal maniac trying to kill his family have any correlation with the displacement, exploitation, and murder of thousands of Native Americans?
You might have heard at some time or the other that Islam teaches that women are "inferior" and "unequal" to men. Women are described as weak, inferior, inherently evil (it is the nature of woman to promote fitnah (mischief)), we have deficient intellectual capabilities and are spiritually lacking. Furthermore, these evaluations have been used to claim that women are unsuitable for performing certain tasks, or for functioning in some ways in society.
As an Arab American, a Muslim and a woman writer, Mohja Kahf challenges the stereotypes and misrepresentation of Arab and Muslim women. Her style is always marked by humor, sarcasm, anger and confrontation. “The Marvelous Women,” “The Woman Dear to Herself,” “Hijab Scene #7” and “Hijab Scene #5” are examples of Kahf’s anger of stereotypes about Muslim women and her attempts to fight in order to eradicate them, in addition to her encouragement to women who help her and fight for their rights.
Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American epic coming-of-age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, and Christian Bale. The film tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham, a young boy who goes from living in a wealthy British family in Shanghai, to becoming a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp, during World War II.