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This essay examines how female action films' unique use of innate female characteristics through visual elements like Fighting Aesthetics, Point-of-View shots, mash up of emotional conflict with action sequences and narrative elements like the constant use of a male backbone, the use of children or emotional connection as a character objective.... hellip; Up until very recently, female action films have successfully featured actresses that pretty much acted like men....
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Research Paper
Body East Asian martial arts movies mostly originated from the hong kong movie genre known as Wuxia Pian (Michallet-Romero, 2003).... However, it soon became a common feature in the hong kong film industry (Michallet-Romero, 2003).... While trying to preserve the traditional stories of Chinese heroes, hong kong film directors translated martial arts techniques into film and in the process influenced the Hollywood film industry.... his paper shall discuss how East-Asian martial art films have influenced Hollywood cinema, and how these films have portrayed the Asian identity into the Hollywood scene....
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Literature review
The world renowned film directors utilize the visual possibility of other fields related to cinematography and create superhero films/ adventure thrillers and films related to martial arts.... … Film Essay The world renowned film directors utilize the visual possibility of other fields related to cinematography and create superhero films/ adventure thrillers and films related to martial arts.... Within the context of the growth and development of film making, the films like Spider- Man (released in the year 2002) by Sam Raimi, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (released in the year 2001) by Simon West and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (released in the year 2000) by Ang Lee are noteworthy....
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Essay
The paper presents the analysis of hong kong movies and may be presented in light of a contemporary movie Once Upon A Time in China (1993).... Research made suggests that in the earlier periods of hong kong film industry the Chinese form of martial art drew a fictional significance to that of the western action films.... The level of stunts used in the hong kong action films owes their contribution to the effect of Chinese Opera on the fighting stars....
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Research Paper
The writer of this paper analyzes the animated movie "Cinderella".... The paper illustrates how women who are subjected to servile positions struggle driven by their dreams and visions and will not stop at anything but to focus on their missions and visions.... nbsp;… The two heroines go through alienations from their initial social lives through a point of unknowing to incorporation to regain their societal identity....
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Research Proposal
Through creating a historic fantastical setting, Ang Lee was able to set up a dialogue about the repression of the female spirit.... This movie review "The Film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee" the film directed by Ang Lee that is a sweeping melodrama, wrapped in compelling and intricate action.... The central themes come from admission by Ang Lee that he is obsessed with female repression....
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Movie Review
This work called "Film-making of Some films" describes historical contexts, themes/ narrative aspects, and stylistic/visual characteristics to create a virtual reality world of heroism in the films like Spider-Man by Sam Raimi, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider by Simon West and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee.... hellip; After going through the different elements of the art of filmmaking, it is evident that the elements like historical contexts, themes/ narrative aspects, and stylistic/visual characteristics of the films are examinable for the comparison/ contrast section....
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Essay
It is an accepted fact that the heroes in films especially, the heroes who perform herculean tasks should have strong characteristics of masculinity.... People are using these concepts in order to segregate male characteristics from female characteristics.... In order to segregate the male characteristics from female characteristic, society has formulated concepts such as masculinity and femininity....
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Coursework