Your task in this assignment is to analyze -- from a social-psychological perspective -- the behaviors and events depicted in one of the films listed below. You are not being asked to critique the film in terms of its value as a work of art or as entertainment. Rather, you are to identify a scene that shows any of the social-psychology themes we discussed in chapter 4 the one are behaviors and attitudes and do the following...
1. describe the scene and the principle players
2. describe the principle you are identifying
3. describe how the scene meets the principle
Your response should be no more than 1-2 paragraphs (no less 300 words).
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Beauty and the Beast
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The Shawshank Redemption
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Silence of the Lambs
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Single White Female
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Pulp Fiction
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Lord of the Rings
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What about Bob
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The Cell
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Titanic
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Cast Away
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Footloose
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Chocolat
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Monsters Inc.
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Schindler's List
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Fight Club
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The Joy Luck Club
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Shrek
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The Fugitive
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Saving Private Ryan
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The Abyss
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Twelve Angry Men
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Chicken Run
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Dumb and Dumber
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Goodfellas
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Philadelphia
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Pretty Woman
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The Unforgiven
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Clueless
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Forrest Gump
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American Beauty
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Matrix
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The Temp
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Fear
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Braveheart
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• principles
• Self presentation
• cognitive dissonance
• self fulfilling prophecy
• belief perseverance
• moral hypocrisy
• self perception