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    The "Beats" of "Howl" The "Beat" generation emerged just as the harshness of the creatively rudimentary attitudes common in the 1950s began to solidify in the American culture. They began as a small but precise group of basic literary geniuses, who at that time sought at the very least to change the world entire. Unapologetically, they sought primarily to break apathetic attitudes to shreds, to fill all emotional voids with emotional, worldly, and literary wonder. They, as a group have yet to be appropriately and entirely defined. Perhaps the only common theme surrounding that "generation" was the want (or the need, rather) to be absolu

4) How does the Normandy Beach scene capture the experience of combat in the film "Saving Private Ryan"? The film was shot rapidly, without the aide of a steadier for the already hand-held cameras. It was shot in such a way so as to capture the absolute rapidness of war, the spontaneity of it all. Traditional panoramic views would have extracted the general relatability of it. With such shots and such methods, you can place yourself in those scenes. The movie becomes as real as film will allow it to be, and thus becomes more emotionally affective and capturing. Also the blue desaturizing filters used for the cameras ads an emotionally dese