I Watched a Film

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• Films Essay

  ...Technicolor of a musical such as Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, 1952) suggests an out-ofthis-world glamor and excitement. COLOR Early films were shot in black and white but the cinema soon included color images. These images were initially painted or stencilled onto the film but by the 1930s filmmakers were able to include color sequences in their films. Apart from the added realism or glamor that a color image could provide, color is also used to create aesthetic patterns and to establish character or emotion in narrative cinema. In Federico Fellini's extravagant Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli Spiriti, 1965) colors separate the bourgeois reality and the fantasy daydreamings of the title character, who partyhops between black and white and reds and purples. Juliet of the Spirits was the first Fellini film in color, and he intended to make full use of it. In order to further enhance the contrast with his previous work, he cast his favorite actress and wife Giulietta Massina, the protagonist of Fellini's earlier successes such as Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria, 1957) in which she plays a destitute hooker in a grim suburban environment. Now Fellini has the same actress play a rich housewife in luscious technicolor, obviously signaling a clear turning point from his early Neorealism-inspired films. Contrary to popular belief (and Goethe), colors do not...

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• When I Watched The Movie Essay

  ...1. When I watched the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley,” I was reminded of the theory of survival of the fittest from my Anthropology class. Although Anthropology is a drastically different course than Entrepreneurial Foundations, this concept certainly applies to this movie. Survival of the fittest can be related to business competition as well in the sense that when two or more businesses compete for business, the better equipped business will outlast the other. This drives prices down and improves quality of many products or services in hopes of gaining more business than the next guy. The theory of survival of the fittest was demonstrated throughout the entire movie as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs struggle to make the personal computer practical to the general public. They are similar in that they both left a promising career path or future in order to reach their own goals. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both worked for HP and left the company while Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. Of course there are some ethical issues in the movie with the Steves taking ideas from Xerox and applying them and then again with Bill Gates taking ideas form Apple. This is all relevant to survival of the fittest since surviving does not always mean ethical. Sometimes in order to survive, whether an animal or an entrepreneur, you have to use any means necessary. Obviously this isn’t the right way to do things but it was clearly displayed in the...

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• I Watched The Movie Million Dollar Arm Essay

  ... I watched the movie Million Dollar Arm and I choose the character JB to do morphological analysis of some of his dialogues from the movie. At first, to do morphological analysis we need to know what is morpheme? A morpheme is the smallest unit of or the smallest piece of a word that contributes meaning to a word. Example: The word ‘management’ has 2 morphemes in it manage-ment. Some words have just one morpheme like ‘destined’. All morphemes are either free or bound. Free: A free morpheme is one that can stand on its own that is it is an entire word. Free morphemes may appear with other bound morphemes attached to them crucially, though; they don’t need to have other morphemes on them. Bound: A bound morpheme cannot stand on its own, but rather must be attached to a free morpheme whenever we say it. Some morphemes are roots; others are affixes. Root: The primary piece of meaning in a word, to which affixes can be added. In English, a root is often a word itself. Affix: A morpheme which attaches to roots (or stems), changing their meaning in regular ways. Affixes are generally either prefixes or suffixes. Prefix: An affix that goes before a root. Suffix: An affix that goes after a root. Null morpheme: A null morpheme is a morpheme that is realized by a phonologically null affix (an empty string of phonological segments). In simpler terms, a null morpheme is an "invisible" affix. It's also called zero morphemes. The null...

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• "I Am Sam" Film Response Essay

  ...I Am Sam is a movie of many themes and ideas. To express these themes and ideas many film techniques are used to help the viewer interpret different scenes in a manner that the director wants. Some techniques include camera angles, music, colour, lighting and characterisation. Characterisation uses a variety of other film techniques, such as camera angles, music and lighting, to help the viewer empathise, sympathise and understand different characters. It is used widely throughout I Am Sam, mainly to characterise the main character of the film, Sam. Everyone has faced problems that seem overwhelming at some point in their life. Sam was no different. Life was already hard for him because of his autism, but when a chain of events left him holding Lucy and watching Rebecca as she disappeared into the crowd, Sam was left alone and confused. To help the viewers sympathise or empathise with Sam, the camera was set level with Sam’s face as he looked around, lost. The camera then switches to a position above Sam focussing on the signs ‘One Way’ and ‘No turning back’. These signs symbolise the path that Sam is now forced to take: raising Lucy on his own. Another scene in which Sam is seemingly overwhelmed with the task of raising Lucy alone is in the shopping centre. He was holding a crying Lucy and looking for nappies and talcum powder, but there were so many choices. The camera swept from one end of the...

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• I Am Sam Film Review Essay

  ...Jessie Nelson’s heart-warming drama – I Am Sam – is Nelson’s second work he has both directed and written. A gentle, yet impactful film, the story revolves around several dysfunctional, yet essentially loving relationships, the most important being that between the characters portrayed by Sean Penn, and Dakota Fanning. It is a family-friendly film with strong messages about love, friendship and the argument of whether what is true is always what is best. At just over two hours long, the film is linked together with various covers of Beatle’s songs, entwined between poignant scenes, all captured through a blissfully innocent child-like lens. The story is one that is universal, and can be related to on any level, shallow or deep. Set in a suburban town in the mid-west of the U.S.A the scenery, storyline, and themes of the film at first sight, seem achingly ordinary. But it is this that makes the film so touching, the outstanding performances given by both Penn and Fanning, shine light on the extraordinary characters and interweaving storylines that can be pulled out of the seemingly dull and ordinary landscape we are so often surrounded with. The film begins with Sam Dawson (Penn) sorting sugar packets with obsessive-compulsive precision at the Starbucks he has worked at for almost half a decade. As he rushes to the hospital to witness the birth of his child, lights begin...

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• I Am Legend Film Critique Essay

  ...ENG 4U May 2, 2013 I am Legend Critical Review “All right, let me tell you about your “Gods plan”. Six billion people were on Earth when the infection hit. KV had a ninety-percent kill rate, that's five point four billion people dead. Less than one-percent immunity. That left twelve million healthy people, like you and me. The other five hundred and eighty eight million turned into dark seekers, and then they got hungry and killed and fed on everybody! Every single person that you or I has ever known is dead! There is no God!” This memorable line from the main character Robert Neville, close to the end of the story gives a dark realization that there is no hope for any survivor and that they will be stuck in this distopian society for the rest of their lives. The year is 2012, Robert Neville is a military scientist that has been living for the past three years in the broken- down ruins of a Dystopian New York City after creating a bio-chemical disease, originally created for curing cancer, that eliminated ninety-percent of the worlds population and sent the world into a distopian chaos. Twelve million of the remaining six-hundred million survivors were completely immune to the disease, but were soon after killed by the other five-hundred and eighty-eight million survivors that turned into “dark seekers”, savage, cannibalistic zombies with super-human abilities thathunt at night....

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• Film adaptation Research Paper

  ...many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts, as “minor”, “subsidiary”, “derivative” or “secondary” products, lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive what was seen as the major fault of adaptations: the impoverishment of the book’s content due to necessary omissions in the plot and the inability of the filmmakers to read out and represent the deeper meanings of the text. Every time a film gets visualised it changes the open-endedness of the characters, landscape or objects in the readers mind. Your own imagination fills in the blanks and imagines what you would perceive as concrete and defined ideas or images. The verbally transmitted characteristics of the heroes, places and the spatial relations between them, open to various decoding possibilities in the process of imagining, were in the grip of flattening pictures. Visualization was therefore regarded as destroying many of the subtleties with which the printed word could shape the internal world of a literary work only in the interaction with the reader’s response. (Marciniak:2007) In order to be seen as a good adaptation, a film had to come to terms with what was considered as the “spirit” of the book and to take...

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• I Am Legend Film Analysis Essay

  ...106 10 April 2008 Robert Neville is the last normal living man in the world. The all of New York City is in ruins. How long can Robert Neville survive alone with his dog in a world of vampires and how long do you think you can live in this case? The film, I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It was released on December 14th, 2007. This film is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name from 1954. Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who lives in New York City in 2012, which is inhabited by animalistic victims of the virus. He is immune to a vicious man-made virus originally created to cure cancer and works to create a cure in Manhattan. As we can see, throughout the whole movie, Dr. Neville is trying to figure out the cure for the virus and fighting against those animalistic victims himself, but what makes all this happen? It is human beings ourselves. Human beings are too careless and have not realized the danger of the new advanced technologies. In this movie, instead of controlling the technologies, the whole world is destroyed by the virus called KV which is created to cure cancer. At the beginning of the film, Dr. Krippin is interviewed on the TV news about their achievements on discovering the cure for cancers. “Yes, we have.” at the end of the interview, Dr. Krippin confirmed that they...

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