Casablanca Movie and WW II Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca was released in 1942 and became an immediate hit. Many people see this movie as the classic love story of all time‚ yet it is also has significant historical and political references that people could also relate to at the time the movie was released. The movie is based in the French-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca during World War II. Lead character Rick Blaine is a cynical American who now lives in Casablanca and owns “Rick’s
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The film styles of Casablanca and It Happened One Night were completely different from that of Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives. Casablanca and the earlier films were all shot with very basic techniques where the frame just focused on the action. However‚ in Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives everything was in focus in the frame‚ even the events taking place in the background. Rather than just one main conversation or action being the concentration point of the film‚ there were
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Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists
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There are many different elements in the movie Jurassic Park that make the movie interesting. This film plays with the question What if dinosaurs were alive today? The director‚ Steven Spielberg‚ uses sound‚ lighting‚ camera angles‚ comic relief‚ and even combines some of these different things to make this film a spectacular one. Not only that‚ but it is a unique kind of action/adventure movie because it is about dinosaurs‚ which makes it even more interesting. The sound in the movie was used fantastically
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Gary Lawrence 17/10/2009 Movie Analysis of Alien (1979) Cinematography Alien One was created in the late seventies by Ridley Scott and is set in deep space post 2000. The Science fiction based movie is still highly respected today as a recent time classic and holds a fierce cult following. One of the main reasons for this is that the cinematography has been extremely well thought out and planned down to fine detail. The beginning sequence hooks viewers with an array of suspense that
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The texts which I have studied in my comparative course are “The Great Gatsby” (G.G.) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Casablanca” (C.B.) directed by Micheal Curtiz and “Translations” (T.) written by Brian Friel. The cultural context of all three texts impacts on how and why the people behave the way they do. In this essay I will examine the elements which I thought had the most significant impact on the characters which contributed to their behaviour throughout the narratives. The first aspect
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of the devices and techniques that impact on the reader’s emotions and thoughts. Exploring the Literary Genre of ‘Casablanca’ by Michael Curtiz. ‘Casablanca’ is a melodrama; a war move that explores of the universal themes of love and sacrifice‚ but when the film was released in 1942‚ audiences viewed it as a political allegory about World War II. Narrator: In ‘Casablanca’‚ the story is told in the third person. What we see and hear on screen has been carefully selected and presented to
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copes with the pain‚ and how long it lasts. It is an emotion that everyone feels‚ but experiences differently. The song ‘Human Sadness’ written by Julian Casablancas and Alex Carapetis (of Julian Casablancas & the Voidz) tries to encompass these feelings‚ mainly with rhetorical strategies and expert writing. The song cryptically brings up Casablancas’ personal reasons for his sadness‚ for example his parents’ divorce and his struggles with alcoholism as well as just a general feeling of rejection.
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images that the audience will see in the finished film. . Cinematography means “writing with movement.” (Goodykoontz‚ & Jacobs 2011). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM5fqZr7jdA&list=FL3gNmTGu-TTbFPpfSs5kNkg&index=2 I chose a scene from The Godfather. In this scene‚ Alfredo is in a boat with a member of his mob family; he is about to be assassinated‚ by his brother’s order (one of many taking place simultaneously). The cinematography helped to create a somber mood. The choice of the Golden
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Joker is a character in the film that does not care about the reward or the financial gain that most criminals want after they commit a crime‚ he just wants to kill and destroy everything for no apparent reason. In The Dark Knight there are many cinematography techniques used however there are six main techniques which are used to focus on the chaos which the Joker creates; cross cutting‚ smash cut‚ extreme close up‚ zoom shot‚ tracking and fast cut. In The Dark Knight‚ smash cut is a technique in
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