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Stroheim's Use Of Motifs In His Film
1,359 wordsThe Evolution of the Film Industry The progress of the film industry was remarkably fast in the first quarter of this century. I have chosen two films namely The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Greed (1924) for comparison and contrast to show how much the industry had evolved within the short span of nine years. These two films are chosen for the short time span between them. This short time span will enable us to evaluate the development of the film industry in terms of the psychological build-up ...
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Very Personifications Of Hipness And Tarantino
2,343 wordsPulp Fiction, a film directed by Quentin Tarantino was released in 1994. The film won the Academy award for Best Original Screenplay and the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The film is three days in the lives of two Los Angeles gangsters, Vincent Vega played by John Travolta and Jules Winfield played by Samuel L. Jackson, their stories and some of the stories of the people that they deal with during those two days. Some critics denounced Pulp Fiction for its violence, yet the film is not about the killing...
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Sound On Film And Sound On Disc
545 wordsSound-On-Disc: From Inception 'til Death From the Kinetophone to the Vita phone, the sound-on-disc format dominated the pioneering stage of sound in movies. For the first time ever, people were able to hear sound synchronized with the images on the screen, and the revolution had begun-the talkies were here to stay. It was the sound-on-disc format that helped create many of Hollywood's "talkie" classics, including The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. However, another format, sound-on-film, would...
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Audiences Of Horror Films
795 wordsHorror has always been one of the most popular genres in film of anytime. One of the reasons why people are so fasincated in horror films is the excitement that it provides. Audiences of horror films are often expected to find killer, violence, drug, and be surprised in the movie. In order for a horror movie to be successful, it must give the audiences an intense feeling. There are many elements in a movie that help create the intimidating atmosphere. In the movie Halloween, the director used di...
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Film A Very Negative Review
702 words'The Beach' 'The Beach' has turned out to be a very controversial film, imposing positive and negative views. Harry, in 'The Juice,' gave the film an A 1 rating with all optimistic remarks. Matt Wolf gave the film a very negative review, mocking every aspect of it. I am going to cover audience, tone, content, organization, and the overall effect. Audience- The audience that Harry tried to reach was a younger crowd that would appreciate the smaller keynotes of the film. With phrases like 'Yes I s...
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Most Important Scene In The Whole Film
1,160 wordsHow does the director create a sense of tension and the unexpected in the escape scene of The Shawshank Redemption? The Shawshank Redemption is an impressive, engrossing piece of film-making from director Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for his first feature film. Through out the film, tension is added in many ways. In the scenes leading up to the escape scene, and the actual escape scene of The Shawshank Redemption, Dar...
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Hitchcock's Films
752 wordsENG 229 Evan James Essay #3 Charlie-Horse In Shadow of a Doubt, Hitchcock utilizes and stretches the ambiguous line between comedy and suspense by utilizing smaller characters in the film to keep the story line moving, and to help break sequence or rhythm of what the audience had been perceiving at the time. Many of the minor characters were used as "fillers", such as the waitress in the bar when Uncle Charlie and Charlie are sitting in the bar, and makes the comment "I would die for a ring like...
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Chappelle's Show And South Park
2,081 wordsA few decades ago television consisted of a small number of channels, today however there are more different channels than one can watch in a full day. Because a media company's number one goal, like every other corporation, is to earn the largest profit possible, media companies use segmentation to target niche audiences. Moreover, fragmentation-the large increase in the number of channels-has also created niche audiences. So, what's the big deal with fragmentation and audience segmentation? By...
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Level Of Ethical Consideration To Documentary
1,558 wordsOne of the integral things that must be addressed when making a film is the ethics involved. Ethics are a constant issue that have to be carefully considered when filmmaking. This difficult decision-making is highly prevalent in that of documentaries, because of the difficulties associated in filming 'real people' or "social actors, (Nichols, 2001)". More importantly, the issues faced by a filmmaker differ between each of the documentary modes. Each particular documentary mode poses different fo...
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Actual Trial And The Film
952 wordsThe Truth about Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind History is consistently used in films as a technique to teach the values and morals of events that occurred. But what's the point in teaching history through films when they are terribly fictional? In films, the director finds the best scheme to intrigue their audience only by changing the actual event to satisfy their interest. This is true for Stanley Kramer when he made the history of John Scopes and his "monkey trial" into a film called Inher...
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Filmmakers Target Films At Particular Audiences
1,722 wordsCult. Change & Comm Tech Essay 1: Cinema / Film Many young people today are learning about their world through electronic means - radio, television, video movies, computer games, virtual reality games and the Internet. In particular the visual environment of the electronic media is greatly attracting the print media in all its forms. How many children read comic books these days? Most would rather watch cartoons, or play arcade games or hand-held video games. We will be focusing on cinema and ho...
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Very Heart Of The Film As Cole
681 wordsThe Sixth Sense Adam Fisher Professor Blackwell 11 October 2001 The problem with most horror films these days is that they seem to feel that disgust and fear are interchangeable; that waving a few severed limbs or some intestines at an audience will have the same effect as engaging that audiences imagination and playing on its deepest fears. Just how wrong this attitude is has been fully demonstrated over the past few months by the runaway success of M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense. By word...
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Painting In Mrs Mingotts Home
2,135 words(Dir: Martin Scorsese, 1993.) As a Martin Scorsese film The Age of Innocence stands in a different genre. However, it uses the conventions of a film set in this era and of a romantic drama. Scorsese also employs other interesting conventions to assist in the development of the narrative as well as of characters, themes and ideas. The use of these conventions can be found in the extract which involves some of the first scenes of this film. It takes place at the Boufords ball and then moves onto M...
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Different Film Screen And Just As Jeff
1,339 wordsSCREEN. SCREAM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: AN INTRODUCTION TO FILM THEORY ASSIGNMENT 1 In! SSLooking Awry!" , Zizek states that Rear Window is! SS ultimately the story of a subject who eludes a sexual relation by transforming his effective impotence by means of the gaze, by means of secret observation. !" These literal voyeuristic methods employed by Hitchcock prompts the audience to examine his or herself. This essay seeks to examine the parallels between Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart); a photographer f...
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Air Force One
653 wordsAt a time when presidents lie, steal, and do anything else morally wrong, Harrison Ford sets the standard for what a president should be in one of this decade's most entertaining films. Director Wolfgang Petersen has given audience members a pro-American thriller. Air Force One thrives because it has a riveting plot, tremendous acting, and superior special effects. The movie starts with a U.S. led commando raid in Kazakhstan that captures a renegade Russian leader, General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow...
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Bias View Of The Town Of Cunnamulla
862 wordsThe documentary "Cunnamulla", is an advocacy that illustrates a quintessential Australian town. Dennis O'Rourke, a famous documentalist advocates his position by using various, skilful film techniques and elements. The documentalist only presents one person's version of reality throughout a number of interviews. He is able to influence the audience so they have a bias view of the town of Cunnamulla. "Cunnamulla", a social commentary documentary explores people's lives and issues at the end of th...
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Films Genre Upon The Audience
1,765 wordsHOW DOES THE FIRST 10 MINUTES OF FINAL DESTINATION GAIN INTEREST FROM THE AUDIENCE AND CREATE EXPECTATION FOR THE REST OF THE FILM? Final Destination is a teen horror movie typical of its genre, a genre that has seen many successful movies produced over the last few years. It contains a number of conventions that apply to the hybrid genre. The first 10 minutes of the film is used as an introduction to the film and its key storyline and main protagonists. As the credits roll up the first real sho...
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Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
1,342 wordsPulp Fiction, one of the most highly acclaimed films of 1995, was without a doubt a shocking and controversial movie. Director Quentin Tarantino brought into the mainstream a genre that had never has such mass appeal, and he did it very successfully. This story is a cleverly disorienting journey through a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity, and vibrant local color. Nothing is predictable or familiar within this bizarre world. Introducing a film such as Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, takes m...
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Moral Tone And Mood Of The Film
686 wordsUsing at least two key scenes, describe the way in which mood, atmosphere and moral tone are established in "The Third Man"I really got to know Vienna in the period of the black market". Mood, atmosphere and moral tone are vital to an audience's understanding of a film as such aspects evoke emotion for the characters involved, and so appeals to our basic understandings and decencies as human beings. Indeed, "The Third Man" too evokes such emotions as through the use of setting, camera work and i...
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Film The Title Of Alternative Cinema
3,264 wordsThe term alternative cinema has certain connotations. To many, it is not alternative, instead it is the way cinema was meant to be viewed, in that the viewer should be able to define the film in their own personal terms. In the following essay, I will firstly examine what the term alternative cinema means, and secondly how Brecht's theories are evident in many elements of the films that have been pigeon-holed as alternative cinema. The word alternative is described in Collins English Dictionary ...