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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the film D.O.A. from 1950 and 1988. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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sense of desperation in the society and the characters within the society. This particular film was remade again in 1988 without quite the same results, although it was aimed at
the audience of its time, just as the 1950 film. The following paper examines various elements of the films, comparing and contrasting the two. D.O.A.: 1950 and 1988
Myths: In the 1950 film part of the myth was a sense of justice as it involved society, as well as a sense
of a hero finding himself and his place in the world. In this film the main character, Frank, is a relatively normal man, a CPA, who is clearly unhappy with
his life for reasons he cannot perhaps understand. This puts him in a position of being a normal man that the audience can relate to and then he becomes a
hero because he struggles to discover the truth about his own murder. He seeks justice and finds it. In the remake the main character is perhaps less common as
he is a college professor. He is also a man who is confused about his life, however, a man who ultimately undergoes the same changes as he seeks his murderer.
But, in this film remake the character seems less likeable, a character that perhaps the audience could not relate to as well for he feels far more selfish than the
same character in the 1950 film, creating a man who is not as heroic but seemingly just more angry and arrogant about the damage done to him. He does, however,
reflect the notion of myth in society concerning a man who is eager to possess a woman, being loose and attracted to one of his students, creating a character that
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