Dr Tim Barnard

A/P  Ian Gordon

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GEM 2005 / HY2243

FILM AND HISTORY

 Project 4 can be downloaded from the workbin for GEM2005

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Your Name: _________________________________Your Group: ______

GEM2005/HY2243 Film & History

Project 4

The Godfather II (1974)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Writing credits: Mario Puzo (novel), Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. (screenplay).

To Live and Die in LA (1985)
Director: William Friedkin. Writing credits: Gerald Petievich and William Friedkin

Taxi Driver (1976)
Director: Martin Scorsese. Writing credits: Paul Schrader

Project Instructions

Discuss the topic below with your project group using the IVLE. Then submit your own individual answer to the History Department Office (AS1/05-27) by noon Friday November 3. No late papers will be graded. Maximum word limit: 500. Please type and print a copy of your project. No email attachments.

History is about understanding and evaluating the choices made by people and placing them in their historical and cultural context. Who did the wrong thing: Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), Richard Chance (William Petersen), or Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)?