The two excellent works of cinematography: âThe Missionâ and âSchindlerâs Listâ differ immensely in terms of the theme, time frame, and location. At the same time, they encompass a similar take on depicting the human experience in a fight for rights and freedom. Moreover, they both encounter a religious/spiritual aspect that is engraved into the culture and people. Not to mention, both films are based on authentic historical events. In an extremely objective way, they depict events that took place...
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The film 'Good Will Hunting' describes a genius young Will, who solved the equations of the MIT mathematics professor Gerald on the blackboard and was discovered by Gerald. However, Will is a very violent and unsatisfied young man. When Gerald found this genius, he was about to send to jail because of the fight. Gerald pleaded with the judge for bail, and then let Will be free from jail. In order to let Will find his own life goals, he...
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âInceptionâ is considered the most unique motion picture of its time. Released in 2010 when executive Christopher Nolan was falling off the statures of âThe Dark Knightâ, âInceptionâ demonstrated there was as a reasonable place, unique studio tentpole. The science fiction film acquired $828.3 million at the overall film industry and was even a player on the honors circuit. Among its awards were Oscar assignments for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Movie Review The film âInceptionâ was appreciated by...
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A magnificent mansion, a remarkable 'Rosebud' and a fragmented crystal ball opened the heavy curtain of âCitizen Kaneâ. âRosebudâ, such a beautiful but plain word, is associated with the death of a famous newspaper tycoon. In the whole film, it becomes the cause of the story, but it is like a kite with a broken thread, instead of linking up any secrets that have been hidden for many years, it brings the important people who appeared in Kane 's life...
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1. Compare and contrast, evaluate and critique, the use and effect of archival footage in the nonfiction films we have studied across weeks 9-14. âI am not your Negroâ vs. âChisholm â72â Beyond the presentation of archival documentaries, it has fallen into two unfortunate groups. Thereâs the conventional variety of âarchival docâ that consists of basic talking head interviews intercut with old footage and photographs, much of it rather randomly selected and presented. Much of these films are stiff and...
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The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls that was published in 2005. The title is refferred to her father's long dreeam of building his dream house, the glass castle. The book shows how Jeannette and her siblings had to fend for themselves while their parents were there , but not there and mostly revolve around each other , poverty and tough love.The book was excellent.As a result of the book being so good, a movie of the book...
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In Steve McQueen's â12 Years a Slaveâ, the themes of racism, sexism, economic structure and neglect are shown throughout the film. Based on a true story, the film portrays the perils of slavery and its later effect. What I find incredible is even though we have had many tragedies like African American slavery, Native American genocide, and the Holocaust we don't seem to learn from our mistakes. All these themes have built up to these mass enslavements and killings of...
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The two films I chose were âThe Double Life of Veroniqueâ and âMean Girlsâ. These two movies are about identity love and human intuition. While these films have many differences, they also have many comparisons. They share a theme of identity crisis. These films both use the internal battle with oneself in order to make a plot thicken and make the audience think. The battles the characters face are societal issues and self-identity dilemma. In âThe Double Life of Veroniqueâ...
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âIdentity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.â This is a quote said by Jay-Z and it relates to what is expressed throughout the two books, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. In House on Mango Street, a girl named Esperanza deals with the...
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In this essay I want to talk about two films âThe Grand Budapest Hotelâ and âCitizen Kaneâ. I liked these two films most of all, because they have a certain charm, they are very unusual, the presentation of the film in one is very different from the other, but there is something in common, romance and a certain spirit of the old times. In this paper, I am going to show the techniques that were used in the two films,...
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While both âAli: Fear Eats the Soulâ, directed by Rainer Fassbinder, and âDo the Right Thingâ, directed by Spike Lee, criticize the divisive nature of dominant ideology within their respective stories, Fassbinder and Lee use differing cinematic techniques to address these racial hierarchies and tensions between minorities and dominant groups. The two films challenge dominant ideology through telling the story of an interracial couple in Germany in a time when this type of relation was not accepted, and the story...
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The film âCitizen Kaneâ was released in the United States in 1941, It was a famous masterpiece written, directed and performed by Orson Wells, a 25-year-old film master at the time. It is not only an important experimental film in the history of American cinema, but also an innovative and classic film in the history of world cinema. Whatâs more, the method breaking through the traditional shooting of the movie also provided a direction indicator for later American movies. Deep...
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The juxtaposition between the surface presentation of violence in âGiuseppeâ by Roderick Ford and âThe Gunâ by Vicki Feaver is immense, the writers explore the varying effects that violence brings within the individual poems. âThe Gunâ creates an excited and admiring approach towards violence whereas âGiuseppeâ shows utter loathing and regret into events that unfolded in the past regarding violence. The presentation of violence in âThe Gunâ is subtle, ominous and almost inferred whereas in âGiuseppeâ the blatant, rough description...
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The film Still Alice deals with a very serious subject matter of a person whose life is turned upside down when she gets a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimerâs disease. Throughout most of this film we can see an accurate portrayal of the symptoms associated with this crippling brain disease. During the course of the entire movie Alice Howland progressively goes through the three stages of Alzheimerâs disease. Although this movie depicts the human aspects of this degenerative condition exceptionally well,...
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In this essay, I will be discussing and researching the history of documentary and the theories that I will include the like Bruzzi, Bill Nichols, Patricia White and so forth as they referred to Gaea Girls and Grey Gardens which are the two documentaries that I will emphasize my argument which is there are relationships between the real events and itâs representation shown in documentaries. Documentaryâ is a film or television or radio programme that gives facts and information about...
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American Born Chinese is a graphic novel written by Gene Yang that focuses on the characters Jin Wang, the Monkey King, and Chin-Kee. Throughout the story, the focus switches between these characters after each chapter. Jin has low self-esteem and cares excessively about what others think of him. His insecurities later spiral out of control, causing him to idealize appearing more typically âAmericanâ in hopes he wonât seem foreign. Jinâs desire to transform becomes reality in his dreams where he...
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The word Comedy from the textbook The Theatre Experience is defined as, in general, a play that is light in tone, is concerned with the issues that pointed out the excesses and folly human behavior, has a happy ending, and is designed to amuse (Wilson, 2014. Pg.178). The elements that the film showed are that it was a comedy and a romantic film with two people falling in love with one another. Another of the elements in it was that...
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INTRODUCTION No matter what age we are, everyone relish chocolates and candies but whenever we bite a chocolate bar or sip a cup of hot cocoa did we ever consider where it comes from? Chocolates make a person smile when they are sad, it can cheer up anyone at anytime and at any given situation, it is a token of love and symbol of friendship. But who knew that this sweet confectionary can also be bitter for many, and little...
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American Born Chinese, written by Gene Luen Yang, is a fictional graphic novel. It is a mix of realistic fiction and fantasy, where some parts of the story are more realistic and others more imaginative and fictional. I first read the book for my Language and Literature class at my previous school last year, and afterward went back to the book because of its creative storytelling and interesting drawings. I chose to write a book review of American Born Chinese...
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13 Reasons Why is an American teen drama television show that is based off a novel wrote in 2007 by Jay Asher. The show was made to spread awareness about suicide, rape and bullying. To summarize the first season, it revolves around seventeen year-old high school student Clay Jenson and his deceased friend Hannah Baker, who commited suicide after being bullied and being on the off end of gossip. She was also sexually assaulted by her fellow high school student....
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What can the photograph do? It can create a freeze frame in time, but can it be more than a memory? Photography wasnât originally used to âalleviate human sufferingâ5, but that is often the intention of those who photograph in an activist nature. The photograph can speak provide more truth than words or a painting can. It is a universal language that everyone can understand, there is no barrier between worlds. So, when presented with an image of a child...
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Documentary photography is a style of photography that is about capturing the decisive moment, some people treat it as a synonym for photojournalism. It gives us a clear and precise portrayal of individuals, events, and items, and is regularly utilised in real life reportage âDocumentary relies on the construction of an image in the representation of realityâ - David Bate. There is often a story behind the documentary photography which is to affect social change. This type of photography shows...
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I am going to study âGaana Rewriteâ film as my primary source to show how the songâs lyrics affect our thoughts. âGaana Rewriteâ is a short audio-visual film, posted on YouTube and presented by Akshara Centre, Mumbai. It is a four-minutes and twelve seconds film created by Nandita Shah. It posted on YouTube on 21st March 2017 by Zico Maitra. This short film shot in local places like a park, buses, trains, subway, and an office. In this short film...
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The film industry saw dynamic changes after the Second World War, which made Hollywood change its content and style. The Hollywood film industry experienced booming years between 1939 and 1946 with the industry significantly. As a result, their attendance and box receipts declined to almost half of the 1946 levels within seven years. The changes were triggered by many factors, most of which were external to the industry. In 1950, the movies were challenged and surpassed by television as the...
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âA documentary is a large term to depict a non-fiction movie that in some way 'documents' or captures reality.â Documentary practice is the process of preparing documentary projects. It relates to what people do with media devices, content, form, and production techniques so as to deal with the efficient, ethical, and conceptual difficulties and preferences that occur as they make documentary films or other similar presentations supporting fact or reality. institutes offer classes and programs in documentary practice. Documentary and...
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Introduction to the Adaptation of 'Romeo and Juliet' âRomeo and Julietâ by William Shakespeare continues to be one of the most influential and widely spread pieces of literature in history, even over 400 years after the play was written. The 16th Century play has had countless adaptations, interpretations, and works that have been inspired by the timeless plot surround young, forbidden love. In 1996, yet another version of the play was released with Shakespeareâs Romeo and Juliet. The film was...
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Background Cooperating between speakers and hearers in communication is important. Communication can be done well if the speaker and hearer can work together. Grice (1975) describes the principle of cooperation named Griceâs Cooperative Principle and describes it into four maxims, namely maxim of quantity, maxim of quality, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. The maxim of quantity requires speakers to contribute as much or as much as needed by the hearers. The maxim of quality requires the speakers to...
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The first version of Romeo and Juliet was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and was released in 1968. The Zeffirelli version took place in the city of Verona. The second version of Romeo and Juliet was directed by Baz Luhrmann and was released in 1996. The Luhrmann version took place on Verona beach. The films told the tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers that were held apart by fate. Both versions of the film provided very different perspectives on Shakespeareâs texts...
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Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, follows the story of two young lovers that fell in love from the moment they laid eyes on each other. Romeo and Julietâs families, the Montague and Capulets, had been in a continuous feud for several generations. This resulted in the two teenagers not being able to publicly express their love for each other. Not only was this feud restraining on their love, but it was dangerous in the sense that several characters had...
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The power of cinema is incredible, but it is certainly overlooked. A key element to a successful film is its ability to raise awareness, awaken interest in social issues but more importantly change the way viewers perceive important topics. Often, we find ourselves âin the storyâ, helping characters make decisions â rooting for them when they make the right decision and cringing when they donât. We get emotionally involved, we identify, and like Taraji P. Hensonâs character in Theodore Melfiâs...
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