United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Web. 29 Oct. 2015. . In this article published by the UNHCR, it describes Angelina Jolie as an incredible humanitarian. Jolie has been the recipient of many awards including the Citizen of the World Award, the Global Humanitarian Award and the Freedom Award. Her humanitarian efforts sparked while she in Cambodia filming an action movie in 2000. By 2001 Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill ambassador and since then she has gone through more than 40 missions to
from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life. This woman’s name is Scarlet O'Hara, during this compassion I will be focusing on her Mammy, played by actress Hattie McDaniel. The film received eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (for Hattie McDaniel - the first time a black had been nominated and honoured) Ghost was directed by Directed by Jerry Zucker and released in 1990. The film is about
crowd and too black for the white crowd. I have people constantly telling me I am an Oreo because I speak properly and don’t like rap music and I am not the stereotype people want me to be. Obviously, Hattie faced it on a bigger scale, being an actress and facing racism and criticism from all sides. I think it’s truly admirable that even in that she stuck to what she was happy doing. At the end of the day, it isn’t about if you made other people happy, it’s about if you are happy. That is one thing
Black actors, since the beginning of cinema have struggled to get the attention and credit from the Academy. Several times, my personal heroes where forced to compromise their grandiose acting ability for small “mammy” and “sambo” characters. We were forced to the back and never really given a chance to shine in the spotlight. Discrimination against African Americans even plagued children’s cartoons. In my paper I would like to cover how, black actors, especially women, are being discriminated
steve carell is a theater comedy actor.He has worked in many movies that many people minion, little miss sunlight, date night, over the hedge the office and more….“Actor Steve Carell has earned acclaim for his comedic work on TV series such as ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ and ‘The Office’’Steve carell is an actor that played many roles. He graduated from denison as then being a comedy theater actor. All in steve carell is an amazing and talented actor that has play many roles as a theatre
It seems like an awfully difficult task to calculate lost profits to Main Line Pictures in this case. Kim Basinger, a well-known and very reputable actress, walked away from a movie deal causing Main Line Pictures to lose money. The amount of Main Line’s loss can never be determined with pinpoint accuracy, and Main Line would not have made the profit that they indicate they would have. However, is the plaintiff correct and are the claims the plaintiff is bringing forward reasonable? First, Main
In an interview in with Judy Stone in 1989, Claire Denis, the director of Chocolat (1988), explained that she titled the film “Chocolat” because in the 1950s the term had a slang meaning. At the time, it was used to express being “had or cheated”. This, when paired using word association, created the expression of “To be black is to be cheated.” In Fritz Fanon’s celebrated 1952 essay piece, “The Fact of Blackness”, he expresses, “As long as the black man is among his own, he will have no occasion
Fear and Confusion in films Psycho and Carrie In horror films, there is always one scene that opens up the perceived realm of normality to that of fear and confusion. Directors and authors alike use these scenes to show the change in the pace of the film. In both the movie Psycho (1960) and Carrie (1976), shower scenes are used to mark this epic turning point with sexuality, blood and voyeurism; the most important ingredients to horror. The idea of sneaking around and peering into forbidden
A Killers Cousin In the book a killers cousin there is much misunderstanding and quite of bit of suspense. The main character, David Bernard Yaffe, a boy struggling in his last year of high school. David was sent to live with his uncle and aunt and their young daughter, after being on trial for the death of his girlfriend. David's aunt and uncle do not communicate to each other. Lilly has her mind set on making David's life a struggle. In this essay readers will learn about David, and they will
their possessions and being responsible for their property, Angelina Jolie and Justin Bieber. According to Wikipedia, Angelina Jolie is an “active American actress, film director, screenwriter, and author. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress.” Also, according to Look to the stars, a website dealing with celebrities’ charities, due to her pecuniary wealth and ample compassion, “Jolie has been
In the movie My Cousin Vinny, Vinny Gambini is set on a journey to prove his cousin and his friend innocent of a murder case. Bill and Stan are on a road trip to California to the University of California, Los Angeles, where they receive a scholarship to attend the university. On the way there they stop at a convenient store to buy some necessities for the trip. Their hands were full of food and drinks, when Bill put the can of tuna in his jacket because there was no way he couldn’t carry any more
KILLBUCK — A year ago it premiered on UPtv. And, this Valentine's Day, it will make an encore appearance on the big screen at the Duncan Theater. “Love Finds You in Valentine” was filmed in Holmes County — at a private horse farm, Millersburg's First Presbyterian Church, the Hotel Millersburg, the Victorian House, Walnut Creek Cheese and Breitenbach Winery— in May 2015. After the made-for-television movie appeared on the small screen, the Duncan Theater, in cooperation with the Holmes County Historical
Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller in the television biker drama, ‘Sons of Anarchy’. The role which had him play as the Vice President of a biker gang got him his real breakthrough and proved to be a role of a lifetime. It also earned him a couple of nominations in awards categories. The series is on-going as of
2 days before Angelina made her speech in 2009 the UNHCR (United nations high commissioner for refugees) reported 42 million refugees worldwide, now they report there being 65 million. At World Refugee day, Angelina Jolie makes a compelling speech about the severity of the situation for refugees around the globe. She uses moving anecdotes, vivid imagery and uses all three of the argumentative appeals to stir emotion in the audience that something must be done about refugees in need. Jolie makes
When accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Angelina Jolie says “...across the world, there is a woman, with the same abilities and the same desires, same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and better speeches. Only she sits in a refugee camp and she has no voice. She worries about what her children will eat, how to keep them safe, and if they’ll ever be allowed to return home. I don’t know why this is my life and that’s hers.” Life for a refugee
libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=STOM&sw=w&u=mlin_m_ashlms&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA451567184&it=r&asid=d7a8b04f2654d26a94c49fb3be223195. Accessed 2 Mar. 2017. "Patricia Arquette took the opportunity of being named Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars to declare that American women had 'fought for everybody else's equal rights,' and that now 'it's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America.'." National Review
to ponder this question while in the midst of viewing the film. There's simply too much else going on, too many characters and plotlines to allow you the time to reflect on the underlying questions the film raises about art. And this is for the best; after all, the film is a comedy. Allen stayed behind the camera for this film, marking the first time he decided not to act in one of his own comedies. Though he'd not appeared in any of his three dramatic films (Interiors, September, Another Woman)
Intercultural and Race Relations (Harvard Foundation 1).“I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model” (Harvard Foundation 1). She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for her outstanding performance in the blockbuster film Chicago (Harvard Foundation
be blood related or by marriage. “Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?” Many sisters do feel this way about each other. However, Chaya and Janet in "nothing must spoil this visit, who are sister in laws, but are not the best of friends. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker; Dee and Maggie are blood related sisters, but don’t really have a loving relationship that sisters would have. Chaya and Janet seem to have a hostile relationship towards the end of “Nothing Must Spoil
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published in 1947. When the book was published a lot of people were impacted. It started getting more and more famous all around the world. In no time 30 million copies of the book was sold. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett decided to make a play based on Anne Franks book. The play was a huge success and it was nominated for 8 Oscars and won 3. After George Stevens decided to make a movie about Anne Frank. There were some famous actors in the movie like