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    stop there—it continues, until George’s and Martha’s intertwining hands become the close-up, and then continues to zoom until the nature outside is in focus. Then, roll credits. This ending to the film is one way director Mike Nichols’ film adaptation stays mostly true to the original play, while still finding a way to be cinematic. There’s little doubt that the film version is a successful adaptation, but there were many points in the production process where everything could have fallen apart. The final product was only successful because Nichols (and screenwriter-producer Ernest Lehman) were willing to take risks. On March 5th, 1964, Warner Brothers purchased the rights to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for $500,000 at the time ($3.8 million now). This was a highly controversial move on the part of Warner Brothers executive, Jack L. Warner, as Who’s Afraid of…

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    women over these matters” (Lewis, 2002). Furthermore, the widely publicized censorship case of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf was presented as a movie that received an “exemption”, even though the screenplay was edited involving the removal of the phrase “screw you”, and the retention of phrases such as “hump the hostess”, and numerous “God damn” phrases in Elizabeth Taylors’ character dialogue for Virginia Woolf. (Nichols, 1966) As stated beforehand, the economic pressures from foreign movies…

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    weird inside almost like I was scared. A random face comes up to me and asks ‘’did you win your math thing James’’. I said ‘’yeah in unusual way. For a second I thought he joking or something. As I walked to the cafeteria I feel very weird inside almost like I have butterflies in my stomach. Out of no were I see a kid fly like super man straight across the room. I only see a blur. Then after he’s on the ground I could see him clearly. I could also hear people chanting like wild animals. Then I…

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    The park was crowed as everyone cherished his last game. It was a special moment, the kids felt like rockstars.Their laughs and smiles brightened up my day. "Darryl!" I turned around and saw Jack racing full speed towards me. He gave me a high five that stung my hand, and we talked for a little while. The game was about to start, so we headed towards the field. I could smell the popcorn in the air, and Jack said he wanted some so I bought it. "Today 's my last game" said Jack "are you coming…

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    Jack Wills Brand Analysis

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    aims to improve the performance of Jack Wills via using the 4D Branding framework to analyse and compare among the Jack Wills, Hollister Co. and Clarks shoes. Jack Wills is a preppy British brand which was launched in 1999 in Salcombe, Devon, designing British heritage-inspired goods for the university crowd. The brand and design strategy is using the finest quality materials, techniques and design to deliver distinctive connection between the old and new, epitomising what it is to be young and…

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    1. THEME: The theme in the realistic fiction story Wonder by R.J Palacio is, it doesn’t matter what’s on the outside it’s the inside that counts. I know that’s probably the most cliche saying ever but, it’s true especially in the book Wonder. I say this because the main character August isn’t very well liked at first by anyone but Summer, because of the way he looks, this is especially sad because August has an amazing personality according to Jack, Jack says “... if all the guys in the fifth…

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    their home government forcing them to comply. Jack Warner of Warner studios did go against the trend by starting to produce films having Germans as the baddies, as was in his studio’s release of “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” in 1939 . By the 1940’s, many studios were uneasy with the Nazi regime and as Urwand’s “The Collaboration” investigations showed that finally even the isolationist political party was not able to stop Anti-Nazi views entering mainstream films. By this time more and more…

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    Time Warner Case Study

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    and Warner Communications, primarily a producer of film and television pro- gramming. To reduce debt, Time Warner sold 25 percent of Time Warner Entertain- ment (which included HBO, Warner Bros., and part of Time Warner Cable) to Media One Group. In 1996, Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting Systems, expanding its cable programming networks significantly. By the end of 1999, Time Warner had revenues in excess of $27 billion and net income of almost $2 billion. In January 2000, AOL and Time…

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    Throughout the 1920’s cinema became established as the most popular and profitable mass media, and this continued until the 1960s. Historian A.J.P Taylor famously described it as “the essential social habit of the age”. People went to the movies as their main leisure activity. The social experience of cinema going was often an escape from what could be very difficult social conditions and the rise in cinema attendances during and just following World War Two were up to 31m per week in the UK…

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    Kurt Warner is an inspiring football league player with a not average path to success. Not only is Kurt a humanitarian he became an NFL player at the age of 28. Kurt Warner had what some people would call a rag to riches, not starting at the average age of start NFL players. With grit and the 10,000-hour rule helped him get to where he is now. Kurt Warner is an inspiring football league player with a not average path to success. Not only is Kurt a humanitarian he became an NFL player at the…

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