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	bonza rmit film research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Panelists participating in the Office of Film and Literature Classification's Community Assessment Panels were united in their assumption of the direct connection between the amount of violence on our screens and in our communities.
		The reverse argument blames society for film content claiming film is merely a regurgitation of society and a reflection of violence as part of the human condition.
		Film is an easy and acceptable answer as proven by the unquestioned believability in the connection between on screen violence and societal violence by the collective Australian public as demonstrated by the Office of Film and Literature Classification Panelists.
	bonza.rmit.edu.au /~floyd/essays/2000/Jaclyn_Zurcas/SCREEN_VIOLENCE_836.php (796 words)

	Mediascope Issue Briefs - 'Copycat Crimes' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This film is about a group of teenage guerrillas who retaliate when Russians and Cubans lead an invasion of the U.S. from Mexico, an invasion made possible only by the inherent moral bankruptcy of the Federal Government and the pervasiveness of America's enemies within it.
		A Beverly Hills, California, detective told Menendez case jurors that, less than a month before the slayings of their parents, one of the brothers told his psychologist that the TV movie, which is about a group of privileged young men who kill one of their fathers, reminded him of his relationship with his parents.
		Copycat violence is unusual and uncommon, and is the least-occurring effect of media violence.
	www.mediascope.org /pubs/ibriefs/cc.htm (2756 words)

	The Rhetorical Problem of Natural Born Killers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The film, claimed by Stone to be a satire on how the media glorifies violence, has been named as an influential factor in at least five separate murder cases.
		Patsy Beyers, a victim of one of the copycat crimes who was paralyzed by a bullet, took up Grisham on this suggestion and added Stone and Warner Brothers to her suit against her attacker Sarah Edmondson.
		However, what seems to be the case with this film is that, if the viewer is watching the film attentively and analytically, Stone's summary of his argument is somewhat accurate, but the average viewer, watching neither attentively nor analytically, takes from the film a different message than Stone intended.
	www.auburn.edu /~millekb/nbk/main.html (310 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Copycat" review
		Sigourney Weaver plays up the vulnerable underbelly of her trademark stoic character in "Copycat." As a forensic psychologist specializing in serial killers, she becomes agoraphobic after one of her subjects tries to kill her and she spends most of the film in the private prison of her apartment.
		The heroine in "Copycat" is Holly Hunter as a homicide detective who has seen enough murder to make her shut her emotions off like a faucet.
		Nobody will be checking the back seat of their car before they drive home from seeing "Copycat," but for a decent adrenaline rush without the churning stomach, this is the right kind of murder movie.
	www.splicedonline.com /95andbefore/copycat.html (433 words)

	FoolishPeople: Film
		The visually outstanding film that drops jaws, the witty, lightning speed and sharp as a razor’s edge dialogue melded by soundtracks so iconic they set the pace for the film within the first bar of the opening credits and continued to add shameless degrees of irony throughout the film.
		Film work began to dry up in the late 1970s and 80s, but in early 1990s she was offered the role of the grandmother in Neil Simon's play Lost in Yonkers, which she performed 560 times.
		The film was a weird hybrid of the Preacher comic written by Garth Ennis and an Anne Rice novel.
	www.foolishpeople.com /foolishpeople/film/index.html (8840 words)

	Copycat (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Contrary to what several users have written, "Copycat" is _not_ "Silence of the Lambs 2".
		Sigourney Weaver hits the right notes as the agoraphobic psychiatrist, especially early on, as we see the depths to which she has shut herself off from the outside world, creating her own safe little corner.
		Film finale - which killer was it based on?
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0112722 (589 words)

	Copycat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The film begins in a flashback, as Hudson delivers a lecture on the psychology of mass murderers to a packed university auditorium.
		Copycat 's story is familiar- the screenplay by Ann Biderman and David Madsen breaks little new ground.
		In a genre full of misogynistic violence (Copycat is no exception), it is both heartening and refreshing to see two such powerful female protagonists, played by two such terrific actors.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/phoenix/1995/1995-11-10/features/copytool.html (473 words)

	Copycat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The surprise of the film was Harry Connick, JR.
		You see this was the second film of the evening and as you know DM consumes a fair amount of alcohol during the viewing of films.
		Overall I gave Copycat a 7 but with the added Drunken Master element, the film actually reaches a level of comedy that was never really intended.
	critics.emphasys.net /Reviews/copycat.htm (612 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Copycat
		Hot on the heels of Seven, another very unconventional thriller has arrived in theaters: Copycat, an equally creepy film with the thematic premise that there really are an awful lot of sick people out there.
		Unfortunately, much like Seven, Copycat has a number of long periods of expository drama at its beginning, plainly attempting to replicate the cool interaction among the characters in The Silence of the Lambs.
		Copycat is well-paced and inevitably reaches a nail-biting conclusion that I wouldn't dare reveal.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/251230 (431 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - Copycat(1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The scene where Holly's partner is killed(pretty much a replay of the death scene in a different variation from In the Line of Fire with the same actor) is one of the film's few memorable moments.
		I thought that the film, the plot, and the rest of the acting was sub-par.
		The attempts to be 'gritty' in Copycat are hilarious.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=12925 (272 words)

	Review: Copycat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Her first contribution is to identify the killer as a copycat.
		From the opening scene in Copycat, Weaver has a good sense of Dr. Hudson, and she holds onto the character through all the emotional ups and downs.
		Parts of this film are frightening, and will have many viewers either on the edge of their seat or hiding their eyes.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/copycat.html (769 words)

	Hong Kong Film Archive
		The first collaboration between Hong Kong Film Archive and the Commercial Press, the seminar was chaired by Law Kar, Programmer of Hong Kong Film Archive, with Lai Shek, the sixth child of Lai, as guest speaker, who was generous with anecdotes of his late father, the father of Chinese cinema.
		The first Chinese anti-imperialist film Tears of the Motherland (1928) and the docudrama Cai Gongshi (1928), because of their sensitive subjects, were banned from overseas distribution and release in the Concession Area.
		In a time when film was scarce, he would ingeniously use up the film he could get hold of by shooting with a half-frame camera borrowed from a friend.
	www.lcsd.gov.hk /CE/CulturalService/HKFA/english/newsletter02/nl26_11.html (1757 words)

	Michigan Daily Online
		Given the trippiness of this slasher film, you might not be thinking back to your date at all.
		Although it cheats, the film still has some butt-kicking, scary scenes; most of them, however, occur early on in the film, when Connick's character is on a rampage and attacks Ripley -- uhh, Weaver.
		Some of the other good moments in the film, which make it worth renting, come when Ripley -- dammit, Weaver -- is a prisoner in her apartment.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1996/feb/02-22-96/arts/vid.clmn.copycat.html (736 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Dogged Weaver, Smart 'Copycat' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Restriction seems pointless in this instance because it's not that kind of film, as the criminal mastermind, played by Harry Connick Jr., is introduced in the opening scene, while his protege turns up less than half-way through.
		Film's promise of being intelligent and agonizing is established at the outset.
		Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson (Weaver), such an expert on serial killers that she ironically refers to herself as "their damn pinup girl," delivers a tart lecture in which she points out that 90% of all serial killers are white males between 20 and 35 years old.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117910249?categoryid=31&cs=1 (925 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mail brings the art-house home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For $200 a year, Film Movement sends its subscribers one feature — January's movie is Alexandra's Proj-ect — and one short a month, drawn from a pool of award-winning U.S. and foreign films that have played the major film festivals.
		His favorites of the Film Movement fare include El Bola, a Spanish film about a boy raised in a violent environment who befriends a boy from a good home, and Marion Bridge, a Canadian drama about three estranged sisters who reunite to care for their dying mother.
		To be considered for release by Film Movement, films must have received at least one award at such major film festivals as Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and Berlin.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2005-01-10-dvd-clubs_x.htm (744 words)

	Copycat Movie Review
		COPYCAT is a suspense/thriller, where Sigourney Weaver plays a criminal psychologist, that is attacked by a serial killer.
		A good deal of the male roles in the film seemed to get killed off, but their roles were well played.
		COPYCAT is tamer than some suspense films I have seen, but it is a great extra-dramatic experience.
	www.killermovies.com /c/copycat/reviews/2h1.html (339 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Down to You"
		You might also want to bring a date to this film, seeing as it has a lot to do with people meeting and getting to know each other better, and be prepared to jostle over the film's depth for a maximum of five minutes afterwards.
		You'll also be happy to know that there are no fart, poop or vomit jokes in the entire film (Although those types of jokes do have a place in some movies), and that the two sing-a-long sequences from the respective stars, despite lacking originality, were quite lovey-dovey and adorable in their own sugar-coated, manufactured way.
		I think that this movie is one of the best films that I've seen in a long time, and I do agree with Heidi about what she had to say to all those people out there.
	www.joblo.com /downtoyou.htm (2193 words)

	Copycat Movie Review
		COPYCAT "borrows" a lot from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and in most cases, it did work.
		But COPYCAT tries to be a little bit more by immersing the audience into the lives of its main characters to give them more believability, this was rather unnecessary as the scenes seem to disrupt the mood of the entire film and also...
		Although the plot is highly predictable and one can actually predict the rest of the movie after about 45 minutes into the show, COPYCAT survives from the moments of anticipation where the audience are held on to their seats, in anticipation of the killers next immediate move.
	www.killermovies.com /c/copycat/reviews/2mp.html (420 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Copycat at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This 1995 film surpasses the much lauded Clint Eastwood “Dirty Harry” series in intelligence and all out thrills and chills.
		Rather than using your typical square-jawed cop for a protagonist, Copycat uses a pair of women as the main characters.
		Copycat is a film that shows how much can be done with the genre but is so often sadly lacking in detective thrillers.
	www.epinions.com /content_91639942788 (695 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Copycat Candidates. by Aaron Schatz. January 28, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1987 comedian Robert Townsend wrote, directed and starred in a film called Hollywood Shuffle, portraying a struggling fl actor trying to make his way in Hollywood.
		In one of the film's best scenes, Townsend goes to audition for a stereotypical gangster role, where the casting directors tell the aspiring actors, "What we're looking for is an Eddie Murphy-type."
		This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/01/schatz-a-01-28.html (647 words)

	Copycat (1995)
		She realizes that this killer is a copycat who is modeling all his killings after famous killers of the past, including The Boston Strangler, Son of Sam and the Hillside Stranglers.
		Particularly impressive is the characterization - the film takes its time with characters, even lesser characters such as J.E. Freeman’s captain are given time and some, such as Will Patton’s colleague, who is initially painted as a jerk, are shown with surprising sympathy.
		It is obvious where the film is heading - that the culminating killing will be a reenactment of the Daryll Lee Cullum attack on Weaver and that she will have to fight for her life by finding the reserves within herself to overcome her agoraphobia - but it works extremely well nevertheless.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/copycat.htm (731 words)

	Variety.com - Kicking the copycat conundrum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But the 2004-05 television season might have shown the copycat a sneak preview of its mortality.
		"The copycats never seem to be able to replace the original in a lot of genres," says Brad Adgate, senior VP and director of research for Horizon Media.
		ABC rookie dramedydramedy "Desperate Housewives," a primetime soap with five troubled women as the lead characters, became the season's top-rated scripted show among the Nielsen 18-49 demo, in the process creating a timeslot platform for "Grey's Anatomy" to showcase its office-romance approach to the medical drama.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117924494?categoryid=1945&cs=1 (798 words)

	Movie Review - Dragonfly - eFilmCritic
		Dragonfly is not a great film, but it’s not a bad film either.
		Unfortunately, Dragonfly is one of those recent spate of films that suffer from The Sixth Sense Syndrome.
		Dragonfly is the film it was meant to be in its second half, when it has some genuinely frightening moments as an unabashed ghost story.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/85318 (513 words)

	BBC News \| WALES \| Film copycat rapist is jailed
		A rapist who took a female estate agent prisoner at knifepoint after he watched the Hollywood slasher movie Scream has been jailed for six years.
		The attack happened after the pair - who knew each other - had just watched the horror film starring Courteney Cox in which a crazed killer in a grotesque mask slits the throats of his victims after contacting them by telephone.
		In court, Jones showed no emotion as the jury took three hours to unanimously convict him of two charges of rape, false imprisonment, making threats to kill and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/low/wales/548302.stm (458 words)

	Copycat mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: When Hudsen is talking to Kate as "She Doc" in the chat room when she has her first panic attack, she is typing away but if you watch closely you can see that the keys she is hitting do not correspond to the words that are on the screen.
		Continuity: At the start of the film when Sigourney tells all the white males in the audience to stand up, there is a fairly confused looking oriental guy in the middle of the frame standing up.
		But later when Rueben and MJ are at Helen's apartment, Helen asks about a note, and if she was right about its location, as if she hadn't been told already.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film303?changes=yes (536 words)

	»»Business Movie Reviews««
		The film is full of what would soon be recognized as Verhoeven trademarks: a little blasphemy, a lot of nudity, dispassionate characters, and hidden agendas.
		Robert Morse is hilarious in the film, as are Rudy Vallee, Maureen Arthur and Michelle Lee.
		The film is very stylized, making no pretense at naturalism per se, and the cast follows suit, playing in a way that blends beautifully with the self-boosting and jingoistic tone that pervades the piece.
	www.family-movie-review.com /Business (4966 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An involving story of an apparent series of copycat murders, this film focuses on the detective hero and his mentally wife.
		Discarding the supposition that the similar murders by different killers are inspired by movies or television, the detective doggedly pursues his outlandish hunch and discovers the truth behind the killings that is pausible and shocking.
		Recently featured on the Sundance Channel, this film resurfaces there occasionally and is worth scanning the schedules for.
	www.jhorror.com /film/cure.html (74 words)

	Scream' Movie Inspires Teenage Girl's Copycat Killer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the movie the sleepy American town of Woodsboro is terrorised by a 'slasher' who wears a fl tunic from head to toe and a ghoulish mask inspired by Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.
		Unfortunately, the films have also inspired a spate of copycat killings and attacks, usually by impressionable American teenagers.
		The film obviously struck a chord also with lonely Belgian lorry driver Thierry Jaradin, 24, who chose 15-year-old schoolgirl Alisson Cambier as his victim.
	www.rense.com /general17/scream.htm (389 words)

	ireland.com // T H E T I C K E T // COPYCAT KILLERS
		So unsettling are the nods to Coppola's films that Infernal Affairs begins to take on the quality of some weird post-modern experiment.
		The picture is actually a prequel to the first film and, against the backdrop of the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, tells the story of the relationship between a senior officer and a contact in the mob.
		And, anyway, these films are really just about style, style, style.
	www.ireland.com /theticket/articles/2004/0903/2919083416TK0309INFERNAL.html (275 words)

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