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    The film ‘Juno’ directed by Jason Reitman is intriguing in terms of general vision and viewpoint. Reitman uses a variety of different aspects to convey the vision and viewpoint, such as the plot, imaginative language and imagery, and superb characterization. Through these ‘Juno’, despite having its dark moments, elicits an overall feeling of positivity and optimism. A positive feeling emanates from the opening scenes of ‘Juno’. Set in 2006 in Minnesota, the film opens in warm autumnal sunshine.

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    Cinematic language is critical to many aspects of film, especially its themes. The music, editing, camera angles, props, and lighting, enhances the theme of character development in the film Juno (2007) directed by Jason Reitman. Through the use of these cinematic elements, Reitman is able to express the development of characters throughout the duration of the film. An analysis of the final six minutes of the movie will help prove the importance of cinematography to the main theme. To begin, the

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    Juno is a 2007 film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. It stars Ellen Page as the title character who unexpectedly becomes pregnant at age 16. Juno deals primarily with the subject of teenage pregnancy and this storyline comprises the bulk of the plot. Juno reflects how society's gender norms and attitudes have changed over time. In the past, it is likely that teenage pregnancy would be portrayed negatively. However, Juno deals with her pregnancy in a cheerful and upbeat manner

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    and for sure this helps the organization to expand in the fashion world. Miranda is a leader quick witted and ruthless and she never accepted anything less than perfect from her employees (Ryan, N. 2007.pp 20) Up in the Air is a 2009 movie by Jason Reitman. It is a movie about Ryan Bingham who works for a Career Transitions Corporation. Ryan Bingham portrays a corporate downsizing where individuals are eliminated in an organization through an informant without any notice or reasons for the decision

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    In 2007, Fox searchlight released Juno in Canada and United States of America as a comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman. The film became hugely successful earning Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Oscar nominations: Best Picture and Best Actress for Ellen Page (Juno-film: www.wikipedia.org). The film written by Diablo Cody depicts a story of female character name Juno MacGuff, with an unexpected pregnancy leading her into an adoption rather than an abortion. The decision leads remarkable

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    these experiences and changes is known as a consequence. Thoroughly portraying the stages of moving into the world with the assistance of an array of techniques, the novel “The story of Tom Brennan” by J.C burke and the movie “Juno” composed by Jason Reitman, distinctly present a variety of consequences as an individual’s response to many changes and new experiences. Throughout the novel “The Story Of Tom Brennan” Burke cleverly employs an enormous amount of changes as a result of one tragic event

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    Closing Scene Juno is a 2007 movie directed by Jason Reitman about a 16 year old girl who gets pregnant. The closing scene of Juno shows us the message of how some small decisions can change your life. We see this with Juno deciding to give the baby away and with Vanessa who decided to keep the baby. In the closing scene we see Mac talking Juno after she has given birth. He uses the dialogue “Someday you'll be back here on your own terms”. He then leaves as Bleeker enters the room but before that

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    Jason Reitman’s 2007 motion picture, “Juno” follows 16-year old Juno McGruff, through the trials and tribulations of teen pregnancy and the exploration of choices and decisions she makes after a one-time encounter with her friend and admirer Paulie Bleecker. The story follows the journey Juno commences in finding what she believes to be the ideal adoptive parents for her unborn child. What Juno finds is Vanessa and Mark Loring’s advertisement in the Penny Saver newspaper and to Juno they appear

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    The film Up in the Air directed by Jason Reitman follows the life of Ryan Bingham - a man whose job is to fire strangers from theirs. He spends most of his life up in the air as he travels the country while living out of his suitcase. The film highlights his unique perspective of corporate America and offers the audience a peek into his personal life (or lack thereof). Through my analysis of the film I plan to explore how it thinks (and tells us to think) about or relation to labor, especially in

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    of woman; and the female chorus is left just as puzzled as the everyone else.   The fourth stasimon, sung after Medea has persuaded Jason to let their children bring gifts to conciliate his new bride, shows the chorus's initial sympathy for Medea changing to sympathy for her victims, the doomed children. They even have a word of sympathy for Jason, whom they here call kakonumphos, ill-wedded (990) as they did in the parode (207), but now in compassion rather than in accusation. Medea continues

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