According to Justin Wyatt the high concept film is valued by some in the film industry and derided by others. He states‚ ‘Whereas creative executives such as Katzenberg would stress the originality of a high concept idea‚ media critics would suggest that high concept actually represents the zero point of creativity’. Discuss the validity of both points of view with reference to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron‚ 1991) and one other film. The high concept film represents the economically invested
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realism; Pure Cinema 1. Ladri de Biccilette [Bicycle Thieves] (Vittorio De Sica) Do you agree with Andre Bazin that Ladri de Biccilette is an example of ‘pure cinema’? (Bazin [1971] p.60). To what extent is such a pure cinema possible and‚ in your opinion‚ which Italian Neo-realist film screened on the unit comes closest to it? Explain your reasoning. This essay will address the characteristics of ‘pure cinema’ and the extent of its practical nature. It also seeks to analyse the film Ladri de
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How did the culturalist school understand audience‚ what was he aim of their argument and research and how convincing is their approach and its conclusion. In today’s world‚ communication is very important and necessary in how lives so as technology is to us‚ the world is becoming more civilised and man is working so hard to bring perfection in all they do. We now live a modern life where mass media and technology is what we live for‚ we build the media
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Once Upon a Time in America Journal This film was a unique experience to be sure with its flashback structure providing a thematic connection between plot points. Each of the three time periods present within Once Upon a Time in America intertwine to show the consequences the main character’s choices have made. Crime would be central to any gangster film‚ but here large grandiose operations are scaled into smaller and more intimate moments. The broad story revolves around the rise and fall of Jewish
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As movies become more technologically enhanced‚ people are forgetting about the stories and books they are based on. More people should be reading the books the movies came from instead of waiting for the movie to be released in a local theater. Not only are books more substantial‚ but they can also become more entertaining than the movies themselves. Books keep a person’s mind going. A mind is filled with questions and as the wheels in your head are turning‚ your brain is being put to more use
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prefer modern day films to silent films. I agree with you that silent films are very boring and dull compared to modern day films. Modern day films have more advanced technology making the film better in general. But it is good to understand and learn about silent films even though you don’t enjoy them‚ they are an important part of history. Modern films have a lot of characters and have a bigger better storyline to follow. There are plenty of other things that make modern day films better like music
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thousandth of a second.[5] Nine years later‚ in 1882‚ French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey invented a chronophotographic gun‚ which was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second‚ recording all the frames of the same picture. The second experimental film‚ Roundhay Garden Scene‚ filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14‚ 1888 in Roundhay‚ Leeds‚ England‚ is the earliest surviving motion picture. The first though to design a successful apparatus was W. K. L. Dickson‚ working under the direction of Thomas
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The world is diverse in several ways‚ each country possessing its’ own culture and set of values‚ which can portrayed through cinema. In America‚ freedom of speech is applied to cinema‚ therefore there are not any subjects off-limits to be filmed‚ but this could not be said for foreign countries. Jafar Panahi‚ an radical Iranian filmmaker‚ has received much criticism for his liberal portrayals of Iranian society‚ such as in the movie “Offside”‚ where a group of women disguise themselves as men‚ in
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Film in the Television Age Television first arrived in American homes just as the Hollywood studio system was collapsing. As the new medium took hold‚ so did a new era of motion picture entertainment. Top directors‚ actors‚ and film scholars trace the influence of each medium on the other‚ from the live and fresh dramas of the Golden Age of Television and the growth of Hollywood spectacles to the entertainment industry of today. In the Cold War era of communist witch hunts‚ and blacklisting‚ Hollywood
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“From Construction to Perspective: Interpreting Reality‚ Interpreting Films” Based on what I read‚ Friedrich Nietzsche has many different views about perspectivism. Perspective is determined by communication‚ the world of “phenomena”‚ the antithesis of this phenomenal world‚ and questions. The communication is necessary. The world of “phenomena” is for it to be real. The antithesis of phenomenal world is called the “true world” according to Nietzsche. Last but not least‚ questions for our understanding
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