A film director‚ fundamentally‚ is the one with the most control over the creative aspects of a film’s production‚ but they are also much more than that - they are most often the driving force behind a film‚ with command over the cast members and production design‚ and are tasked with the most difficult endeavor of making their stories come to life. They take little pieces of their heart‚ soul and mind and put them in their films‚ and because of this‚ diminutive pieces of the director are permanently
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Saul Bass Saul Bass was a graphic designer and filmmaker‚ perhaps best known for his design of film posters and title sequences. In 1936 Saul Bass Wins a scholarship to study at the Art Students’ League in Manhattan and in 1938 Employed as an assistant in the art department of the New York office of Warner Bros. Saul Bass opens his own studio‚ named Saul Bass & Associates in 1955. During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers‚ including Alfred Hitchcock‚ Stanley
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together and are talking about how Lester’s last few days have been. Ricky then quits his job because Lester is looking as in idol to him. Also‚ the roses in the few patterns scenes with Angela are telling us that Lester is very attracted to her. The director enforces the “weirdness” of Ricky and Jane with a very dark cloud hanging over their heads‚ which anyone can see they have a romantic type of connection lingering between them. Parallel editing is commonly used throughout any drama film. In “American
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The film American Beauty‚ directed by Sam Mendes is a film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment (Mendes‚ 1999). American Beauty explores the breakdown of a suburban family man whose life journeys from self loathing and emptiness to freedom and liberation but at the ultimate cost of his life. Mendes effectively employs a range of techniques to help convey the meaning of this film such as set design‚ camera angles‚ colour and soundtrack. Cinema often uses structured set design and camera
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Hunting‚ as he has to go through therapy instead of ending up in jail. Robin Williams. Who plays Will Hunting’s psychologist‚ helps Will discover himself and realize his place and value to the world by understanding what matters most to him. The director‚ Gus Van Sant uses many different features to induce emotion and empathy. These features include using different colors‚ angles/shots‚ and camera movement. Color is the most obvious element used throughout Good Will Hunting. Throughout most of
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English Communications Comparative Assignment Million Dollar baby and Cinderella Man Cinderella Man directed by Ron Howard and Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood are two films about two individuals viewed as underdogs by society and the world of boxing who overcome the odds and achieve personal goals. In these two heroic tales we follow the lives of two passionate and determined fighters. Like all heroic tales we encounter a hero‚ a villain and a final showdown portrayed as a
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the main character Paul only cares for his family even when as he watches his neighbor being beaten and taken away‚ saying “He is not family. Family is all that matters…” In this scene we see how the family man Paul is just an ordinary man doing his best to keep his family safe during the Rwandan civil war. Though later in the film we see the change in Paul’s character from a family man to a hero when he decides to stay behind at the hotel which he manages‚ along with the other refugees left behind
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deeply linked to its acknowledged status of nonconformity and defiance towards the formal rules that made up the classical Hollywood cinema film style between 1917 and 1960 (David Bordwell‚ Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson 1985). Effectively‚ its director and his associates‚ notably cinematographer Gregg Toland and screenwriter Herman J. Mankievicz‚ dared to challenge and to some extent revolutionise Hollywood’s strict cinematic codes‚ pioneering a wide range of technical innovations‚
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Film Report: Casablanca (1942) Ques.1- Rick and Lazlo can be said to represent two different types of heroism. How would you categorize each one as a hero? What qualities‚ of any‚ do they share? How do they most differ from each other? Ans: Rick was a hero of friendship. He had been in a long mourn situation because of Ilsa. He loved Ilsa a lot but she did not accompany her from Paris to Casablanca‚ which became the reason of mourn for Rick. After some time in the movie‚ Rick came to know the
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establishing dialogue seems light and loose with an almost improvisational atmosphere. In particular the quirky‚ bantering relationship between Tony and his sassy secretary Pepper Potts (Gweneth Paltrow) shine as improve comedy highlights in the film. Director Jon Favreau granted Downey Jr much creative freedom in his role‚ exploiting his sharpness and clean comedic genius. Much of what saves Iron Man from
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