Your answers should be based on your reading from the textbook and comparing and contrasting movies from the options below, with their representative prompts. Remember to address all four questions...

Your answers should be based on your reading from the textbook and comparing and contrasting movies from the options below, with their representative prompts. Remember to address all four questions below. For each question, write 2-3 detailed paragraphs:

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   AMERICAN HEROES:Discuss at least two of the films listed below in terms of their depictions as a type of American cinematic hero or antihero, and also how the film(s) express what it means to be human. In addition, discuss the gangster as a popular creation of myth and storytelling in American culture. What does the repeated use of this type of character in movies say about us as a culture? What does this type of character help us express? Is there a code of ethics expressed in these films? If so, what does it consist of?(Be sure to take notice of the use of the letter and symbol “X” in bothScarfaceandThe Departed.)
   
   - Scarfaceis a 1932 American gangster film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Edwin Maxwell, and Boris Karloff. Howard Hughes produced the film in the Pre-Code era.
   -The Godfatheris a 1972 crime drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert DuVall.
   -Bonnie and Clydeis a 1967 American crime film directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
   -The Departedis a 2006 crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Sheen, and Jack Nicholson.
   
   
   
   


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   AUTEURS:Compare and contrastTaxi DriverandHugoin terms of Martin Scorsese movies. What do these two films have in common as Scorsese movies, and how does his imprint show in these films? (You can also discussThe Departedas well if you want to.)
   
   


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   SETTING:Compare and contrastDo The Right ThingandFargoin terms of how the films put you in a particular setting and how the specific locations shown are important to the film’s story. Could these films be set anywhere else? How do the directors reinforce their neighborhood settings throughout their films?
   
   


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   CHARACTERIZATION:Compare and contrastThe Iron GiantandKing Kongas metaphors that let cinema help audiences explore political, environmental, and cultural assumptions. Why is it important for the title characters to be larger than life in these movies, and how does their size play into the story and why is it used that way? Also, how important are the graphics and CGI to the movie’s success?