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 Table of Contents

Foreword............................................................................................................ 1
History................................................................................................................ 1
Studios ............................................................................................................... 5
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation .................................. 6
Titanic.......................................................................................................... 6
The Revenant ............................................................................................ 7
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. ............................................... 8
Midnight Cowboy ..................................................................................... 9
The Wizard of Oz ................................................................................... 10
Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 12
Bibliography
 Foreword

Hollywood. Amazingly out of this world.

Home to the rich and famous. Home to the movies.
The good old motion picture. You hate it or you
love it. Magical and where people make your
dreams and break them. Also Home to rejection
and Great acceptance.
The reason why I chose this theme for my
project is that I sometimes like to dream, I like to disconnect myself from the
real world and to step into this magical world of movies, actors, producers
which I find fascinating.
I have always been fascinated by the Hollywoods world, a world of
mixture between reality and glittering fantasy, of beauty, glamour, art, a world
in which any dream can come to reality.
Today Hollywood is the symbol of the Dream Factory and the worlds first
movie industry, the center of all kinds of media production, from film, to the
internet and television.

History

Hollywood: Perhaps no other place on earth evokes the same air of show-
business magic and glamour. The legend of Hollywood began in the early 20th
century and is an earmark of modern American society rich in history and
innovation.
The origin of movies and motion pictures began in the
late 1800s, with the invention of motion toys
designed to trick the eye into seeing an illusion of
motion from a display of still frames in quick
succession, such as the thaumatrope
and the zoetrope. In 1872, Edward
Muybridge created the first true
motion picture by placing twelve cameras on a racetrack
and rigging the cameras to capture shots in quick sequence
as a horse crossed in front of their lenses.

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The first film for motion photography was invented in 1885 by George Eastman
and William H. Walker, which contributed to the advance of motion
photography. Shortly thereafter, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere
created a hand-cranked machine called the cinematographe, which could both
capture pictures and project still frames in quick succession.
The 1900s were a time of great advancement for film and
motion picture technology. Exploration into editing,
backdrops, and visual flow motivated aspiring filmmakers
to push into new creative territory. One of the earliest and
most famous movies created during this time was The
Great Train Robbery, created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter.
Around 1905, Nickelodeons, or 5-cent movie theaters,
began to offer an easy and inexpensive way for the public to
watch movies. Nickelodeons helped the movie industry move
into the 1920s by increasing the public appeal of film and
generate more money for filmmakers, alongside the
widespread use of theaters to screen World War I
propaganda. After World War I ended and ushered the United
States into a cultural boom, a new industry center was on
the rise: Hollywood, the home of motion pictures in America.
According to industry myth, the first movie made in Hollywood was Cecil B.
DeMilles The Squaw Man in 1914 when its director decided last-minute to
shoot in Los Angeles, but In Old California, an earlier film by DW Griffith, had
been filmed entirely in the village of Hollywood in 1910. By 1919, Hollywood
had transformed into the face of American cinema and all the glamour it would
come to embody.
The 1920s were when the movie industry began to truly flourish, along with
the birth of the movie star. With hundreds of movies being made each year,
Hollywood was the rise of an American force. Hollywood alone was considered a
cultural icon set apart from the rest of Los Angeles, emphasizing leisure,
luxury, and a growing party scene.
Hollywood was the birthplace
of movie studios, which were
of great importance to
Americas public image in
the movie industry. The
earliest and most affluent
film companies were Warner Brothers Pictures,
Paramount, RKO, Metro Goldwin Meyer, and 20th
Century Fox, each of whom owned their own film

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production sets and studios. Universal, United, and Columbia Pictures were also
considered noteworthy, despite not owning their own theaters, while Disney,
Monogram, and Republic were considered third-tier.
The 1930s was considered the Golden Age of Hollywood. A new era in film
history began in this decade with the introduction of sound into film, creating
new genres such as action, musicals, documentaries, social statement films,
comedies, westerns, and horror movies. The use of audio tracks in motion
pictures created a new viewer dynamic and also initiated Hollywoods leverage
in the upcoming World War II.
In 1940, production saw a rebound due to advances in technology such as
special effects, better sound recording quality, and the beginning of color film
use, all of which made movies more modern and appealing.
During the war, Hollywood was a major source of American patriotism by
generating propaganda, documentaries, educational pictures, and general
awareness of wartime need. The year 1946 saw an all-time high in theater
attendance and total profits.
The 1950s were a time of immense change in American culture and around the
world. In the post-war United States, the average family grew in affluence,
which created new societal trends, advances in music, and the rise of pop
culture particularly the introduction of television sets.
A shift in demographics created a change in the film industrys target market,
which began creating material aimed at American youth. Instead of traditional,
idealized portrayals of characters, filmmakers started creating tales of rebellion
and rock n roll. This era saw the rise of films featuring darker plot lines and
characters played by edgier stars like James Dean, Ava Gardner, and Marilyn
Monroe.
The appeal and convenience of television caused a major decline in movie
theater attendance, which resulted in many Hollywood studios losing money.
To adapt to the times, Hollywood began producing film for TV in order to make
the money it was losing in movie theaters. This marked the entrance of
Hollywood into the television industry.
The 1960s saw a great push for social change. Movies during this time focused
on fun, fashion, rock n roll, societal shifts like the civil rights movements, and
transitions in cultural values. It was also a time of change in the worlds
perception of America and its culture, largely influenced by the Vietnam War
and continuous shifts in governmental power.
1963 was the slowest year in film production; approximately 120 movies were
released, which was fewer than any year to date since the 1920s. This decline
in production was caused by lower profits due to the pull of television. Film

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companies instead began to make money in other areas: music records, movies
made for TV, and the invention of the TV series.
By 1970, this caused a depression in the film industry that had been
developing over the past 25 years. A few studios still struggled to survive and
made money in new ways, such as theme parks like Floridas Disney World.
Because of financial struggles, national companies bought out many studios.
The Golden Age of Hollywood was over.
The 1970s began with an essence of disenchantment and frustration within
American culture. Although Hollywood had seen its lowest times, during the
late 1960s, the 1970s saw a rush of creativity due to changes in restrictions
on language, sex, violence, and other strong thematic content. American
counterculture inspired Hollywood to take greater risks with new alternative
filmmakers.
The rebirth of Hollywood during the
1970s was based on making high-
action and youth-oriented pictures,
usually featuring new and dazzling
special effects technology. Hollywoods
financial trouble was somewhat
alleviated with the then-shocking
success of movies like Jaws and Star Wars, which became
the highest-grossing movies in film history (at that time).
This era also saw the advent of VHS video players, laser disc players, and films
on videocassette tapes and discs, which greatly increased profits and revenue
for studios. However, this new option to view movies at home once again
caused a decrease in theater attendance.
By the end of the 1980s, it was
generally recognized that films of that
time were intended for audiences who
sought simple entertainment, as most
pictures were unoriginal and
formulaic. Many studios sought to
capitalize on advancements in
special effects technology, instead of
taking risks on experimental or thought-provoking
concepts. The future of film looked precarious as
production costs increased and ticket prices continued
to drop. But although the outlook was bleak, films such
as Return of the Jedi, Terminator, and Batman were met
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Due to the use of special effects, the budget of film production increased and
consequently launched the names of many actors into overblown stardom. To
save money, more and more films started to launch production in overseas
locations. Multi-national industry conglomerates bought out many studios,
including Columbia and 20th Century Fox.
The economic decline of the early 1990s caused a major decrease in box office
revenue. Overall theater attendance was up due to new multiscreen Cineplex
complexes throughout the United States. Use of special effects for violent
scenes such as car chases and gunfights in high-budget films was a primary
appeal for many moviegoers.
Meanwhile, in Hollywood, movies were becoming exorbitantly expensive to
make due to higher costs for movie stars, agency fees, rising production costs,
advertising campaigns, and crew threats to strike.
VCRs were still popular at this time, and profits from video rentals were higher
than the sales of movie tickets. In 1992, CD-ROMs were created. These paved
the way for movies on DVD, which hit stores by 1997. DVDs featured a much
better image quality as well as the capacity for interactive content, and
videotapes became obsolete a few years later.
The turn of the millennium brought a new age in
film history with rapid and remarkable advances in
technology. The movie industry has already seen
achievements and inventions in the 2000s, such
as the Blu-ray disc and IMAX theaters.
Additionally, movies and TV shows can now be
watched on smartphones, tablets, computers, and other personal devices with
the advent of streaming services such as Netflix.
The 2000s have been an era of immense change in the movie.

Studios

The "Big Six" majors, whose operations are based in or around the Los Angeles
neighborhood of Hollywood, are all centered in film studios active during
Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. In three cases20th Century
Fox, Warner Bros., and Paramountthe studios were one of the "Big Five"
majors during that era as well. In two casesColumbia and Universalthe
studios were also considered majors, but in the next tier down, part of the
"Little Three". In the sixth case, Walt Disney Studios was an independent
production company during the Golden Age; it was an important Hollywood

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entity, but not a major. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, and RKO were
majors.
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
20th Century Foxs story begins in a tiny theater on New Yorks Lower East
Side. In 1904, fresh from Hungary, 25-year-old William Fox amazed audiences
with his magical hand-cranked films. The beginnings were humble folding
chairs, a painted wall for a screen -- but the desire to entertain and move
people has been at the core of what 20th Century Fox has been doing ever
since. By 1915 Foxs five-cent movie shows were wildly popular and his single
screen grew first into a chain of 25 theaters around New York City and then
into a movie making business.
Creating moments that enter the collective imagination is built on crafting
great stories, creating indelible characters, and continuing to push the
boundaries of film making with technological advances. From our first
Cinemascope production The Robe in 1953, which electrified audiences and
changed the way movies were shot and shown, to Avatar, the highest-grossing
picture of all time, whose use of motion capture and reimagined 3-D are
regarded as modern breakthroughs in cinematic technology, Fox has never
stopped exploring what movies could be.
When the world wanted to bury the movie musical, Fox gave them the Academy
Award winning Sound of Music, considered by many to be the best musical of
all time. Fox showed the world a new vision of Science Fiction with Star
Wars and ushered in the modern action hero with the Die Hard series.
Comedies like Home Alone and Ms. Doubtfire became instant classics and
brought whole families back to the theater to enjoy watching movies together.
20th Century Fox reimagined the bio-pic with films
like Patton and Braveheart and captured the epic romance and tragedy
of Titanic. From the gritty streets of 1970s New York in The French
Connection to the candy-colored streets of Mumbai in Slumdog Millionaire, 20th
Century Fox never shied away from exploring the human condition -- or the
mutant condition, as the X-Men series continues to show. When were not
drawing inspiration from real life, we are artfully bringing beloved works of
literature like: The Life Of Pi and The Fault In Our Stars faithfully to life.
Oscar: Titanic, The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road
Titanic
A love story doomed by the depths of the Atlantic
Ocean. Rose Calvert, now 101 reminiscences her
experience of the Titanic, to American oceanic
explorers, and her emotional connection with another

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passenger, Jack. Jack was an American starving artist who won a trip home on
the Ship of Dreams to a lucky hand in poker. His luck unfortunately ran out on
April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the northern Mid-Atlantic. Four
days before the unsinkable ship began to fill with ice cold sea water, Rose and
Jack's love story began. Rose was suppose to marry her mother's pick of a fine
gentlemen Cal Hockley, who was only attracted to Rose by her beauty and
family fortune. Rose however felt she was in a crowded room screaming for help
with no one to hear. Jack did hear her, with someone to finally listen, Rose
couldn't deny her feelings for Jack anymore. Their love came to a new level,
when Rose asked Jack to draw her like one of his "french girls" wearing only
the rarest diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. A fun filled, romantic love affair
between Jack and Rose couldn't be denied and Cal's pockets began to feel
empty and he became jealous of Jack searching for a way to compromise
Rose's love for Jack. The Titanic then collides with a large iceberg and begins to
sink. As the ship lowers itself into the depths of the ocean, Jack and Rose must
fight death of the freezing water and await a rescue ship. 84 years later Rose
hears of the Titanic and the discovery of her drawing and meets with the
explorers, her memories are where our story begins. The Titanic is a powerful
story of survival, love and heroism. A love story that will never let go of the
hearts of the people around the world.
The Revenant
In 1823, Hugh Glass guides Andrew Henrys trappers through
unorganized territory. While he and his half-Pawnee son,
Hawk, are hunting, the company's camp is attacked by an
Arikara war party. Glass recommends that the survivors
travel on foot to Fort Kiowa, as traveling downriver will make
them vulnerable. After docking, the crew stashes the pelts
near the shore.
Glass is badly mauled by a grizzly bear and left close to death. Trapper John
Fitzgerald, fearful of another Arikara attack, argues that the group must
mercy-kill Glass and keep moving. Henry agrees, but is unable to pull the
trigger; instead, he offers money for someone to stay with Glass. When the only
volunteers are Hawk and the young Jim Bridger, Fitzgerald agrees to stay to
recoup his losses from the abandoned pelts.
After the others leave, Fitzgerald attempts to smother Glass but is discovered
by Hawk. Fitzgerald stabs him to death as Glass watches helplessly. The next
morning, Fitzgerald convinces Bridger that the Arikara are approaching and
they must abandon Glass. After they depart, Fitzgerald admits he lied. When
Fitzgerald and Bridger meet Henry at the fort, Fitzgerald tells him that Glass
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Glass begins an arduous journey through the wilderness. He performs crude
self-surgery and eludes the pursuing Arikara who are looking for the Chief's
kidnapped daughter, Powaqa. Glass encounters Pawnee refugee Hikuc who
says that "revenge is in the Creator's hands." The men share bison meat and
travel together. After an hallucinogenic experience, Glass discovers Hikuc
hanged by French hunters. He infiltrates their camp and sees the leader raping
Powaqa. He frees her, kills two hunters, and steals Hikuc's horse, leaving his
canteen behind. The next morning, Glass is ambushed by the Arikara and
driven over a cliff on his horse. He survives the night by eviscerating the horse
and sheltering inside its carcass.
A French survivor staggers into Fort Kiowa and Bridger recognizes his canteen
as Glass's. Believing it stolen, Henry organizes a search party. Fitzgerald,
realizing Glass is alive, empties the outposts safe and flees. The search party
finds the exhausted Glass. Enraged, Henry orders Bridger arrested, but Glass
vouches that he was deceived and reveals Fitzgerald murdered his son. Glass
and Henry set out in pursuit of Fitzgerald.
After the two split up, Fitzgerald ambushes and kills Henry. Glass props
Henry's corpse on his horse as a decoy. Fitzgerald shoots the decoy, and Glass
shoots Fitzgerald in the arm. He pursues Fitzgerald to a river bank where they
engage in a brutal fight. Glass is about to kill Fitzgerald, but spots a band of
Arikara downstream. He remembers Hikuc's words: "Revenge is in the Creator's
hands" and pushes Fitzgerald downstream into the hands of the Arikara. The
chief scalps and kills Fitzgerald. The Arikara, accompanied by Powaqa, then
silently pass by Glass, sparing him. Heavily wounded, Glass retreats into the
mountains where he is visited by the spirit of his wife.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is a leading entertainment company focused on the
production and global distribution of film and television content across all
platforms. The company owns one of the worlds deepest libraries of premium
film and television content. In addition, MGM has investments in numerous
television channels.
MGM and its legendary roaring lion logo was formed in April 1924, by theater
magnate Marcus Loew, who orchestrated the merger of Metro Pictures Corp.,
Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions. With visionary Louis B.
Mayer and production genius Irving Thalberg at the helm, Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer was a powerhouse of prolific artistry and filmmaking expertise that the
studio famously said attracted "more stars than are in the heavens." During a
golden three decades from 1924 to 1954, the Culver City-based studio
dominated the movie business, creating a Best Picture nominee every year for
two straight decades. One of the more memorable years at the Academy

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Awards was in 1939 when MGM's Gone With the Wind and MGM's The Wizard
of Oz were both nominated for Best Picture. Gone With the Wind took home
Best Picture that year, along with 8 other Oscars. The Wizard of Oz secured two
Oscars. Hattie McDaniel Won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and
became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Oscar.
United Artists was established on July 15, 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary
Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith and was best known as "the
company built by the stars." The budding company quickly left an indelible
mark on Hollywood, revolutionizing the motion-picture business by promising
creative freedom to actors and filmmakers, while offering the filmmakers a
share of the film's profits. UA's Midnight Cowboy, released in 1969 starring
Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, was the first X-Rated film to be nominated
and win an Academy Award. It won 3 Oscars, including Best Picture. It was
changed to an R-rating in 1971. United Artists later joined the MGM family in
1981, and thrived as member of the "lion's pride."
MGM boasts more than 175 Academy Awards in its vast library. Among those
are 14 Best Pictures. These films
include; Rebecca (1940), Hamlet (1948), Marty (1955), The
Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), Tom Jones (1963), In the Heat of the
Night (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Rocky (1976), Annie
Hall (1977), Platoon (1986), Rain Man (1988), Dances With Wolves (1990), The
Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Oscar: Midnight Cowboy, The Wizard of Oz, With the Wind, Hamlet
Midnight Cowboy
As the film opens, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a young Texan
working as a dishwasher, dresses in new cowboy clothing, packs
a suitcase, and quits his job. He heads to New York City hoping
to succeed as a prostitute. Initially unsuccessful, he succeeds in
bedding a well-to-do middle-aged New Yorker (Sylvia Miles), but
Joe ends up giving her money when he discovers that she is
actually a high end call girl herself.
Joe then meets Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a street con
man with a limp who takes $20 from Joe by offering to introduce him to a
known pimp (John McGiver). Joe flees the encounter in pursuit of Ratso. Joe
spends his days wandering the city and sitting in his hotel room. Soon broke,
he is locked out of his hotel room and most of his belongings are impounded.
He tries to make money by agreeing to receive oral sex from a young man (Bob
Balaban) in a movie theater. When Joe learns that the young man has no
money, Joe threatens him and asks for his watch, but eventually lets him go.

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The following day, Joe spots Ratso and angrily shakes him down. Ratso offers
to share the apartment in which he is squatting in a condemned building. Joe
accepts reluctantly, and they begin a "business relationship" as hustlers. As
they develop a bond, Ratso's health, which has never been good, grows steadily
worse.
Joe's story is told through flashbacks. His grandmother raises him after his
mother abandons him, and his grandmother shows him affection but spends
time with men much the way Joe's mother did. He also has a tragic
relationship with Annie, a local mentally unstable girl. Ratso's backstory comes
through stories he tells Joe. His father was an illiterate Italian immigrant shoe-
shiner, who worked in a subway station. He developed a bad back, and
"coughed his lungs out from breathin' in that wax all day". Ratso learned
shining from his father but won't stoop so low as to do so. He dreams of moving
one day to Miami.
An unusual couple approach Joe and Ratso in a diner and hand Joe a flyer,
inviting him to a party. They enter a Warhol-esque party scene (with Warhol
superstars in cameos). Joe smokes a joint, thinking it's a normal cigarette and,
after taking a pill someone offered, begins to hallucinate. He leaves the party
with a socialite (Brenda Vaccaro), who agrees to pay $20 for spending the night
with him, but Joe cannot perform. They play scribbage together and Joe shows
his limited academic prowess. She teasingly suggests that Joe may be gay and
he is suddenly able to perform.
In the morning, the socialite sets up her friend as Joe's next customer and it
appears that his career is on its way. When Joe returns home, Ratso is
bedridden and feverish. Ratso refuses medical help and begs Joe to put him on
a bus to Florida. Desperate, Joe picks up a man in an amusement arcade
(Barnard Hughes), and when things go wrong, robs the man when he tries to
pay with a religious medallion instead of cash. With the stolen money, Joe buys
bus tickets. On the journey, Ratso's frail physical condition further
deteriorates. At a rest stop, Joe buys new clothing for Ratso and himself,
discarding his cowboy outfit. As they near Miami, Joe talks of getting a regular
job, only to realize Ratso has died. The driver tells Joe there is nothing else to
do but continue on to Miami. The film closes with Joe, tears
welling in his eyes as he sits with his arm around his dead
friend.
The Wizard of Oz
The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone.
Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt
Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothy's dog gets in trouble with a
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However, Dorothy's family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention
to her. Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto
euthanized. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy, who
then decides to run away from home, fearing that Gulch will return.
They meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who realizes
Dorothy has run away and tricks her via his crystal ball into believing that
Aunt Em is ill so that she must return home. She races home just as a
powerful tornado strikes. Unable to get into her family's storm cellar, she seeks
safety in her bedroom. A wind-blown window sash hits her in the head,
knocking her out. The house is picked up and sent spinning in the air by the
twister. Inside the storm outside the window, she awakens and sees an elderly
lady in a chair, several farm animals, two men rowing a boat, and Miss Gulch
(still pedaling her bicycle), who transforms into a cackling witch flying on a
broomstick.
The farmhouse crashes in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, where the film
changes to Technicolor. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the
Munchkins welcome her as their heroine, as the house has landed on and
killed the Wicked Witch of the East, leaving only her stocking feet exposed. The
Wicked Witch of the West, arrives to claim her sister's ruby slippers, but Glinda
transports them onto Dorothy's feet first. The Wicked Witch of the West swears
revenge on Dorothy for her sister's death. Glinda tells Dorothy to follow the
yellow brick road to the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz might be able to
help her get back home.
On her way, Dorothy meets and befriends the Scarecrow, who wants a brain,
the Tin Woodman, who desires a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who is in need
of courage. Dorothy invites each of them to accompany her. After the Witch
attempts to stop them several times, they finally reach the Emerald City.
Inside, after being initially rejected, they are permitted to see the Wizard (who
appears as a large head surrounded by fire). He agrees to grant their wishes
when they bring him the Witch of the West's broomstick.
On their journey to the Witch's castle, the group passes through the Haunted
Forest, while the Witch views their progress through a crystal ball. She sends
her winged monkeys to harass Dorothy; they capture Dorothy and Toto. At the
castle, the Witch receives a magical shock when she tries to get the slippers off
Dorothy, then remembers that Dorothy must be dead first. Toto escapes and
leads her friends to the castle. After ambushing three Winkie guards, they
march inside wearing the stolen uniforms and free her, but the Witch discovers
them and traps them. However, the Scarecrow uses the Tin Man's axe to cut a
rope nearby and send gigantic chandelier, swinging overhead, down onto The
Witch's soldiers, knocking them to the floor and the quartet attempt to escape.
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and finally surround them. When the Witch sets fire to the Scarecrow, Dorothy
puts out the flames with a bucket of water; the Witch is splashed and melts
away. The guards rejoice that she is dead and give Dorothy the charred
broomstick in gratitude.
Back at the Emerald City, the Wizard delays granting their requests. Then Toto
pulls back a curtain and exposes the "Wizard" as a normal middle-aged man
who has been projecting the fearsome image; he denies Dorothy's accusation
that he is a bad man, but admits to being a humbug. He then gives the
Scarecrow a diploma, the Lion a medal, and the Tin Man a ticking heart-
shaped watch, granting their wishes and convincing them that they have
received what they sought. He then prepares to launch his hot air balloon to
take Dorothy home, but Toto chases a cat, Dorothy follows, and the balloon
leaves without them. Suddenly, Glinda returns and tells her that she can still
return home by using the Ruby Slippers. Following Glinda's instructions,
Dorothy taps her heels together three times and repeats, "There's no place like
home". Dorothy wakes up in her home in Kansas, surrounded by her family,
the farmhands, Professor Marvel and Toto. Though her family and friends
dismiss her adventure as a dream, Dorothy insists that it was all real, and that
there is no place like home.

Conclusion

Hollywood is a word synonym with the Motion picture industry and also with
great names of showbiz. For ages Hollywood has been the home of many actors
and actresses and the location were many movies were filmed. But Hollywood
is more than this; it is the chance to accomplish a dream, the possibility to
become famous, the ticket for a challenging life. Each year the Academy of Film
awards those motion pictures which impressed the public with their special
features.
Movies are much more than a group of actors and actresses playing a role and
winning money for this. Movies are a bridge between fantasy and reality, a
connection between this world we live in and the world we would like to live in.
Movies are special because they have no limits, because the subjects touched
are numerous and really special, because the characters are sometimes people
from the real world or warriors belonging to a different specie than the human
being. It does not matter the genre they can be either comedies, dramas or
science fiction films what it is important is the message they send to the
audience. I have always thought that you really watch a movie with your mind
and soul wide open. It is important to be receptive to any kind of messages and
to take them as an example for life.

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