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(Quentin Tarantino Cultural Imprint)

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Quentin Tarantino is a well known film maker that is known for his films to be unpredictable and violent films. He first earned widespread fame for "Pulp Fiction" before directing "Inglorious Bastards" and "Django Unchained" Personally, his films are a cultural classic and entertaining with great memorable dialogue that sparks conversation and are always circling social norms. You're on the edge of your seat and the plot is not predictable, the way the films are made is up to the films are to be interpreted by the audience. The series of all his films are interconnected the films' story line binds together like poetry. In Pulp Fiction, the main female protagonist played by Uma Thurman is at a restaurant talking to (Vincent Vega) about a story line that overlaps into his future film "Kill Bill" a feisty four group of females that were the fox force five. A blonde woman, the Japanese kung fu master, the french fox and black fox and th...

(Why cinema fascinates me)

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Cinema is the production of movies as an art of the industry. The short history on how moving images led to the modern invention of films are the Edison Company in the USA successfully developed the prototype of the Kinetoscope, one person at a time was able to view moving pictures.(1891)  (Cinematography or if it is hand drawn it is referred to as animation) Films were only a few minutes. By 1914 the establishment of many film industries were established, they had invested more money in production, distribution and exhibition) The First World War limited the film industry in Europe. In (1909) was when the distribution of color was added to films. Color was not widely used until the three color process in 1932. Sound wasn't added in films until the film (The Jazz Singer) the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system was used for sound in the film with each reel of film. The experience that sparked my interests in how movies are made is when my parents took me on a long vacation in...

(Why I am aficionado of Superheros)

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Superheros have distilled entertainment to generations of comic book lovers and has stood the test of time by dominating the cinema industry. Marvel and DC Comics have developed characters that are relatable and diverse based on the social norms of society and influences of history throughout decades. These characters have a silhouette that are recognizable and have caught the attention and interests of their audience by resonating the "universal themes" of life to younger audiences coming into the world of age as adolescents. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko were the creative leading men of the comic book industry in the "Silver Age of Comics" They decided to go against a necessary stamp of acceptance to authorize the approval of comic books when they were working at the Marvel Timely Comics in 1939. (Comic Book Code) Stan Lee was on the bridge of quitting his job as a comic book writer from the strict conditions and the embarrassment of working in the e...

(The Mandalorian and Cinematic Process)

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The Mandalorian is a series on Disney Plus as a part of the Star Wars Lucas film franchise based on a lone gunfighter in a galaxy of the time period of the New Republic. The main protagonist the Mandalorian is a bounty hunter that is associated of a creed of soldiers that wear armor by both men and women as an identity to give protection and stands as a silhouette of character symbolism. The bounty hunters wear the armor as tradition of their cult after early crusades of Jedi after the war between Mandalorian and Jedi. They attain a specific weaponry and fighting style to combat against Jedi Knights. The main protagonists in this series was converted to the creed as a child after his village was conquered during the war, a flashback of his home getting destroyed left him with a dislike towards droids in this case is the IG-11 is a type of droid that is designed to attack humankind. The main protagonist (Mando) is set a mission to attain a 50 year old creature that is experienced, ...