Jamie Lee Curtis Essays

  • Virgo: The Virgin and Perfectionistic

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    all here for just a few laps around the track, a finite number of trips to the buffet table. Al Unser, Jr. was sporting Jamie Lee Curtis on his right arm as they were leaving the buffet. Jamie was nursing a toothpick chipped from the finest Southern Pine, leveraging some roughage out of her Hollywood bridge work. Regis Philbin approached to ask her something. But Jamie Lee Curtis could not or would not reply to Regis Philbin's question, which was, “Is that your final Unser?” Remember. You are a Star

  • Freaky Friday

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    “Freaky Friday” The movie that I chose to review was titled “Freaky Friday.” It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who switch bodies for a day. In this film, Tess Coleman (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) is a widowed psychiatrist juggling her job and family while planning her second marriage. Anna Coleman (played by Lindsay Lohan), who disapproves of her mother’s second marriage plans, is of no help to her mother at all during her stressful situations. Anna is a rebellious

  • The Adverse Effects of Advertising on Women

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    The Adverse Effects of Advertising on Women Stacey was tall, blonde, tan, and slender. However beauty was not her only attribute. In addition to being voted Homecoming queen our senior year of high school, she was both a straight-A student and the President of our class. She was a strong leader who enjoyed having fun like any other girl her age. Yet in between the jokes and fun that most friends have, she was always talking about going to the gym or counting calories. Despite my constant

  • Millenium Force

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    Millennium Force The ear piercing noises that I heard reminded me of hearing Jamie Lee Curtis shriek at the sign of Michael Myers in Halloween. I quickly realized that I was not in the theatre, but rather in the midst of the world’s largest theme park, standing next to the tallest rollercoaster ever constructed. As I made sure that my jaw was still attached and not scraping the ground, I stared with awe at this massive tangled array of steel which brought together the Millennium Force. Heard about

  • Story OF A Lion

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    Night of the Lion One dark night Jim, Jake, and their little brother Adam decided to stay home to watch the Haley’s Comet fly over. The news stations had been airing story, after story about the rarity of the comet’s pass over the sky’s and it seemed to them that to not watch it would be completely stupid. Little did they know that this night was not going to be a fun filled night instead the worst night of their lives. Jim and Jake are 18 year-old fraternal twins that were inseparable and loved

  • Jamie Informative Speech

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    describes Jamie in multiple ways. For example, she has had 2 heart surgeries, has broken all of her fingers, her big toe and sprained her ankle, knee, wrist and sprained her neck twice. The second time she curved her spine. She is a tough person, and you haven’t even met her yet! So let me introduce you to a prodigious, surprising, stupendous, swell person named Jamie Javorkuti. But before we can get to know who Jamie is, let me tell you some things about her past. Her parents named her Jamie because

  • Kathryn Bigelow Research Papers

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    Point break, Blue Steel, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty are a few of the films that filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has directed. In 2009, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for The Hurt Locker in 2008. Known for her incredible visuals and heart-pounding action sequences, Kathryn Bigelow is one of today's most fascinating directors. Director, writer and producer Kathryn Bigelow was born on November 27, 1951, in San Carlos, California. Bigelow studied art at the

  • George Lopez Research Paper

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    Talent is something that may be hidden in the most unexpected places. This talent sometimes could not be appreciated if it does not come from expected places. When determination places along this the result can be great. Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club under the leadership of their school's newest teacher, Fredi. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this ragtag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they

  • Coverage Of Horror Cliches

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    horror cliches of the acts they should do and shouldn’t do. Additionally, Scream encroaches one of the oldest cinema history rules. It is about the characters who reference or attends to see movies. The characters even know the actor's names like Jamie Lee Curtis as they watch the classic ‘Halloween’. They comment on how

  • Scream Queens Analysis

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    homicidal maniac along with a series of murders, what's not to like? Featuring an impressive cast – Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Lea Michele (Glee), Keke Palmer, Nick Jonas, Abigail Breslin, Ariana Grande, and the scream queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. Scream Queens airs Tuesday nights on FOX. Ash Vs. Evil Dead (STARZ) – The horror antics of the Evil Dead franchise are back for a 10-episode series from director Sam Raimi, producer Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams

  • Point Break: Johnny Hi, The Bodhi Tree

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    plane without a parachute, free-falls until he can tackle a guy who has one, and then holds a gun to his head. The movie was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, a stylist who specializes in professionals who do violence. She made "Blue Steel," with Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie cop, and now here is Keanu Reeves in essentially the same role - a kid determined to prove himself, up against the twisted intelligence of a

  • Aesthetic Distance In American Horror Movies

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    Obviously casting Jamie Lee Curtis, a scream queen whose mother (Janet Leigh from Psycho) is the original scream queen, is a nod toward the audience. Additionally with a character named Loomis, after a character in the classic Psycho(1960) and showing clips of horror movies like

  • Media Portrayal of Women and Its Effects

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    Magazines also share this negative influence in a more subtle way. Women tend to place the models within on a pedestal, viewing them as the definition of female beauty; however, these women also tend to lack insider knowledge, which actress Jamie Lee Curtis had publicly touched on. Works Cited Derenne, Jennifer L., and Eugene V. Beresin. "Body Image, Media, and Eating Disorders." Academic Psychiatry 30.3 (2006): 257-61. ProQuest. Web. 18 Mar. 2014. Durham, Meenakshi Gigi. The Lolita Effect: The

  • Halloween Movie Research Paper

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    My goal for this month, is to get through all the Halloween movies and review each and every one. So far, I'm failing miserably, as I'm only now getting around to reviewing the first and one of the best in the series, Halloween. Released in 1978 and still scaring audiences to this day, Halloween rates as one of my favorite horror films and features a killer who is pure evil. Read on for the review... Short nitty-gritty plot description from IMDb is as follows: A psychotic murderer institutionalized

  • Halloween Film Analysis

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    Halloween ★★★★★ Joseph Swift September 15th, 2017 Halloween, originally made in 1978 and directed and Screenplay by John Carpenter is an American slasher film (a film where victims are slashed with knives or blades) set in a quiet, suburban midwestern town in the state of Illinois. John Carpenter’s Halloween, having been inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s slasher film, Psycho (1960), it is stated to be one of the most influential films of this era and regarded as a classic amongst other horror films

  • Slasher Movies: Female Victims or Survivors?

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    in Happy Birthday to Me all but one of the killer’s victims are male. (90) In movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Nightmare on Elm Stre... ... middle of paper ... ...a Hill. Dir. John Carpenter. Prod. Debra Hill. With Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. Compass, 1978. Nightmare on Elm Street. Written and Dir. Wes Craven. Prod. Robert Shaye. With Robert Englund. New Line Cinema, 1984. Pinedo, Isabel Cristina. Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror

  • Analysis of Halloween by John Carpenter and Evil Dead by Sam Raimi

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    by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear and terror. Some of the most common elements include vampires, zombies and werewolves. One of the films which I am going to analyze is “Halloween” by John Carpenter which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. This film was made in 1978; this was considered the film which started the “slasher film” genre. This genre was continued in dozens of violent movies throughout the 1980s. Halloween grossed over $60 million, and was

  • Archetypal Characters Within the Slasher Film Sub-Genre

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    matter how much American society alters. As long as a teenager yearns for the adrenaline rush from a masked murderer, slasher films and their archetypes will endure. Works Cited Halloween. Dir. John Carpenter, with Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis. Falcon Productions, 1978. Friday the 13th. Dir. Sean Cunningham. Paramount, 1980. The Funhouse. Dir Tobe Hooper. Universal, 1981. McCarthy, Ken. The Splatter Film Guide. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

  • James Cameron

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    the male hero (if there is one) through the movie. In Cameron's movies the women are essential, and they always steal part of the picture, if not all of it. Examples are, Linda Hamiton in Terminator 2 - Judgment Day, Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies and of course Kate Winslet in Titanic.

  • SHIRLEY TEMPLE: Greatest Star of the 1930's

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    During the 1930’s, the Great Depression was in full swing. The Depression was a period in American History when the economy was horrible. Most people did not have jobs, and if they did their paycheck was barely enough to put food on the table. At that time, many people did not experience happiness very often because of their money situations. However, there was one person who could turn any frown upside down, Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple, the best known child star of her time, ascended to unparalled