"Raising Arizona "

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The paper relates that the film, "Raising Arizona" (1987) continues to be successful today in rental and DVD sales because it parodies family and social issues that are consistent in American society. The paper explores the filmmaking techniques, social issues and the directorial choices in the making of this great film and comedy.

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"The opening scene is one that serves not just to draw the viewer into the film in an entertaining way, but helps introduce the relationship and moods of the main characters' personalities. H.I. McDonnough, a small-town career criminal, played by actor Nicolas Cage, is arrested - again. Edwina, played by actress Holly Hunter, is taking H.I.'s mug shots. The scene in the police station shows H.I. stands against the line tape and we know that he is six feet tall, disheveled in his unbuttoned and colorful Hawaiian shirt, his thick mass of dark and uncontrollable manly chest hair showing above his Italian t-shirt line and he stares with a love-struck look at Edwina."

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