Ving Rhames Essays

  • Surrogates

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    The year is 2017 and a new technology has changed the way humans live their lives. Most people now spend their lives at home, going about their business as usual, using remote-controlled robotic bodies called surrogates. Commonly designed to resemble idealized versions of their operators, these surrogates have superhuman strength and agility and allow their operators freedom from pain and damage while they remain safely at home in their operator's chairs. The leading manufacturer of surrogates is

  • Ving Rhames In The Film Day Of The Dead

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    After hearing about how awful this film was from friends and reading the reviews I wasn't optimistic entering this film. Sadly this film lived up to my abysmal exceptions, even though it sports a number of actors that I really do enjoy. Ving Rhames makes a return to the series, though this time he's playing Captain Rhodes. He's joined by Mena Suvari, and AnnaLynne McCord, who blew me away with her performance in Excision. Though even with all these excellent performers, Day of the Dead manages to

  • Facing Doubts: Timmy's Pre-Tournament Struggle

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    Timmy was starting to get nervous, his last race before the tournament is tomorrow and he is not sure if he is prepared. Timmy was sitting in his room trying to figure out how he was going to win, then his mom, Martha walked in. She knew that Timmy would be upset over his race, she tried to reassure him that his new ship LS7-V8 would be able to beat his opponent, Gavin, the three-time champion of the tournament. Martha said reassuringly, “Timmy I have faith in you, you have been practicing for this

  • Pulp Fiction: Black Comedy Neo-Noir Crime Film Directed By Quentin Tarantino

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    that everyone should see at least once. The story is composed of three main short stories about two hitmen, a gangster’s wife, a boxer, and a pair of diner bandits with brief linking moments in between. The main characters are Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) a crime boss who sends his hitmen Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta)

  • Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino

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    directed by Quentin Tarantino, contains violence, sex and drugs but is an underlying religious film. The five main characters either follow the lord and are rewarded or they follow the devil and are punished. John Travolta plays Vincent Vega, Ving Rhames plays Marcellus Wallace and Uma Thurman plays Mia Wallace, these three characters represent evil and sin. Samuel L. Jackson plays Jules Winnefield and Bruce Willis plays Butch Coolidge and these characters represent good and follow a righteous path

  • Quentin Tarantino's Criticism Of The Film Pulp Fiction

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    The film Pulp Fiction (1994), directed by Quentin Tarantino, is highly renown for it criticism of modern media. The film “purposefully exaggerates the ever-criticized aspects of movies, such as jumping from scene to scene with no apparent reason, and throwing together a mishmosh of genres” (The Human Fiction). Tarantino disregarded the normal chronological plot of movies and took four different plots and jumbled them into series of events. The four different plots follow; first, two diner robbers

  • Pulp Fiction

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    the men travel to work they discuss such worldly things as gourmet food, like the "Royale with cheese", and the sexual innuendoes involved when one gives a foot massage. These two intellects do the dirty work for the infamous Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Due to Wallace's lifestyle, the movie branches off into three separate stories. The first tale begins when Wallace has some overnight business he must attend to. While gone, he leaves Vincent in charge of entertaining his beautiful wife Mia

  • Spike Lee’s Views about African American Identity in Bamboozled

    2111 Words  | 5 Pages

    In Bamboozled (2000) Spike Lee examines the way that mainstream America treats black people, as well as the way it makes them treat one another. The characters in this movie stand for different perceptions of the African American identity, representing different images of blackness. Some of the characters reestablish the negative stereotypes that already exist about black people, while others are seen as straying too far from the typical black experience, because they believe that the difficult black

  • Beverly Hills Cop, The Rock, Armageddon, and Top Gun

    3486 Words  | 7 Pages

    Introduction Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer are arguably the most successful producing team in Hollywood history. Their films including “Beverly Hills Cop,” “The Rock,” “Armageddon,” and “Top Gun” have earned, according to a 1995 statistic from Entertainment Weekly, about $820 million. When one factors in the grosses for the last five or six films produced by Simpson and Bruckheimer (and Bruckheimer after Simpson’s death in 1996) the total will most likely exceed $2 billion. Despite their