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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Amy

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“AMY” Rhetorical Analysis
The “AMY” documentary recently announced as an Academy Award winning for Best Documentary Film; it’s a film that captures the true life of the legendary singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse whom she is recognized for her expressive unique voice, dramatic hair style, and over-exaggerated eye makeup that made herself stand out in the crowd. “AMY” was directed by Asif Kapadia by his side producer James Gay-Rees. Kapadia and Rees try to tell the story of
Winehouse in a way no one has ever done so before.
The documentary starts in a unique pleasant way showing us a side of Amy that other documentaries have never shown before. The way that this film shows us a more intimate part of Amy is they start it with a home film. The home film that started the mood of the film was when she was in Southgate, North London in the year 1998. She was the age 14 exactly in that film singing happy birthday. One’s instant thought to the film is that it’s going to be happy, even though everyone knows that Winehouse died of alcoholism at the age of 27 in the year 2011.
After the first scene known as the intro Kapadia goes into with “Moon River” then a dialogue said by the one and only Amy Winehouse mentioning her inspirations that inspired her to sing, mostly all jazz …show more content…

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