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Toted as the seminal World War I movie, Grand Illusion often garnishes critical accolades for its anti-war message as well as Renoir's masterful use of landscape shots. In 1938, a year after its release, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, the first foreign film ever to receive this honor. Joseph Goebbles, the Nazi propaganda chief, called the film "Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1." Sadly enough, after another world war, the Vietnam War and the melange of violence at home, Grand Illusion no longer has the sense of anti-war urgency that it possessed...
...Anime originates from a type of Japanese comic called manga, which features crisp, motion-oriented illustrations, as well as storylines that are often quite violent. Anime takes that unique illustrative style and translates it into the animated medium. Result? A quality of animation unmatched by anything we have to offer here in the states...
...society that continues to dismantle basic guarantees of justice and decency even as the rich and the poor grow increasingly unrecognizable to each other. At Harvard, where words like "diversity," "equality" and "civility" are tossed around as effortlessly as major gift contributions, why do class distinctions so often harden along lines of color and language...
...film truly do justice to a literary work? It's a question almost as old as film itself, since the cinema started borrowing from literature nearly right from its onset. The modern debate often dwindles to a simple "The book was better!" or "I hated the book but I loved the movie!" Films based on novels are so entrenched in popular culture that the original literature is often left behind when the film is discussed, with perhaps a passing reference to the director or an actor that captures a certain feel or mood of the work...
However, there do seem to be some consistent problems in making novel-based films. Often when adapting a novel to film, sacrifices must be made in plot, character and, to some degree, style. Most novels are simply too long or too complex to be satisfactorily encompassed by a two, or perhaps three-hour film (even a single Shakespearean play, such as Hamlet, can last up to four hours in its entirety...