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OCD: 'As Good as It Gets'
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(5pp). Today we toss psychiatric disorders at each other like we are throwing confetti on New Year's Eve. The phrase will be, I flew into 'manic,' or don't be obsessive, or how compulsive. We think we know what all the terms mean. However for some it is not so easy to be flippant. Such is the case with an 'obsessive compulsive disorder.' Examination of the 1997 Academy Award winning film, 'As Good As it Gets,' whose major character in an obsessive compulsive, allows us to see what that disorder 'looks like.' Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Oedipus and Medea: Leadership and Kingship
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This 3 page paper discusses the concepts of leadership and kingship in the plays "Oedipus the King" and "Medea." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Oedipus Rex (1957)
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A 3 page analysis of the 1967 film Oedipus Rex. No sources cited.
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Old Film vs. New / 'Angels With Dirty Faces" vs. "Clockers'
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This 5 page research paper compares and contrasts the 1938 film, Angels With Dirty Faces with the 1995 film, Clockers. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Angclock.wps

Oliver Stone's Attempt to Explain the Kennedy Assassination
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This 7 page paper points out where Stone fails in his attempt to explain the Kennedy assassination in his film JFK. The film is discussed and specific parts are noted as attempts by the director to skew the public to his point of view. Evidence in the JFK case is discussed. Both sides are looked at and the paper concludes that a lone gunman probably did kill the president after all. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Oliver Stone’s “Platoon”
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Oliver Stone’s “Platoon”: This 5-page essay examines this acclaimed writer/ director’s depiction of war in “Platoon” and why the film is so memorable. In addition, how Stone uses the medium to convey his political perspectives is also explored. War, (he seems to underscore) is a place wherein the first casualty is one’s innocence. Bibliography lists 2 sources. SNPlatoo.doc
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Oliver Stone: Historical Revisionist/Filmatic Biographer In "Platoon" And "Born On The Fourth Of July"
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6 pages in length. Meant more derogatorily than complimentary, Oliver Stone's reputation as an historical revisionist speaks to the writer/producer/director's tendency to rewrite history according to a less biased and more truthful depiction. According to the tenets of historical revisionism, the very notion of history is that which is part actual fact and part embellished fact, bringing together an incident that may have been interpreted differently than it really happened. Stone's intent is to realign those aspects that have been told and retold with glaring inaccuracies and provide an explicable – if not controversial – version. By the same token, his approach as a filmatic biographer provides him the opportunity to display his rendering of historical events such as the Vietnam War and capture its truth on film. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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ON THE ROAD WITH SMOKE SIGNALS
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This paper examines the movie "Smoke Signals," and why it is a good example of a "road movie." "Road movies" are defined as those in which a character goes on a journey and matures as a result of the journey. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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A 5 page paper which examines elements of insanity and sanity in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos)
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This 3 page paper outlines the basic premises of Open Your Eyes. Screenwriter and director Alejandro Amendabar's Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos), a 1997 film that became the impetus for Tom Cruise and Cameron Crow's production Vanilla Ice, is a psychological thriller that demonstrates how the human mind can waiver between reality and imagination. Throughout the film, the audience is brought to question what they see on the screen, always wondering whether the main character, Cesar, is in a dream state or experiencing actual events.
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