One of the most inspiring movies of all time in terms of cinema, The Godfather directed by Francis Ford Coppola, uses a style of cinema that was unheard of until the creation of this movie. Coppola, a master of tone, uses many different forms of cinematography in order to make the audience feel the emotions in which he wants them to feel. Through different forms of cinematography, along with different styles of rhetorical elements in dialogue, Coppola was able to effectively portray the post-colonialism oppression against immigrants while explaining the necessary respect when dealing with the Italian mafia in order to achieve an effective argument in this situation.…
Ethan Coen, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu are the definitions of great filmmakers. First of all a great film maker needs to have a great story. Ethan Coen has his own genre when he makes movies. He tends to make movies that have a very intelligent lead actor, and they usually follow a man who is going through a hard time in their life. His movies are very intelligent but at the same time are humorous. His movies give one moments where they laugh, cry, and he also inspires you to do what you enjoy. Quentin Tarantino is the complete opposite of Ethan Coen. Quentin Tarantino’s films are filled with action from the beginning to end. He provides with very entertaining movies. While being entertaining his movies are also…
Martin Scorsese is known to be a famous filmmaker and almost as famous for being a New Yorker. Many of his films are based in New York which are most of the time films that are gritty and about the darker side of urban life where he focuses his vision to the city’s neighborhoods, especially Lower Manhattan and Little Italy. Scorsese has a talent of showing precise and sometimes personal representation of the people and the streets of these neighborhoods. Most of his films have this bond to the city presenting accurate maps of specific parts of the city.…
The movies are a great way to pass some time and escape reality for a couple of hours. People like movies for all sorts of different reasons. Movies usually come out each week on Friday night and on average three to four movies come out a week. That comes out to over two hundred movies a year and that is just mainstream film. One of the decisions people have to make is what movies to watch. The paper will discuss what the writer likes to watch, what he finds enjoyable, and what he does not. There is also the choice to watch in the theater or rent and watch at home. The first choice is more immersive and on a bigger screen while the second choice is less expensive and more intimate.…
How do film makers explore their ideas and keep the audience interested? In your answer refer to the two films studied in class.…
I am interested in studying film because of the impact it has had on my life personally. When I was twelve years old, I watched Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Waiting for Superman (2010). This film explored the gaps that are within the American public school system and how many people are “left behind”. At the end of the film I was in tears. I felt that it was unfair that many children were not receiving a quality education. This film not only inspired me to become a documentary filmmaker, but it made me passionate about social issues such as education inequality, whether within America or abroad. I was always interested in the production aspect of film, but it was not until my junior year of high school in my IB Film class that I became interested…
In small groups share your analysis of your chosen films and then discuss the following points:…
Steven Spielberg has directed a large majority of the most successful movies, including six that are ranked in the top 25 highest grossing films to date. When many think of Spielberg’s success that first thing of Jaws, most of the time. Jaws was his first real hit and not only made him famous but was the sole spark that ignited his career. Others see that E.T gave him his first insight to fame, but you can name many of his movies and make a case for all of them. The purpose of this paper is to research and uncover what made Spielberg’s films successful and what led to him being one of the highest paid directors.…
Sarris, Andrew. "Actors vs. Directors: The Actor as Auteur" The Movie Star. Ed. Elizabeth Weis. New York: Viking Press, 1981. 69-76…
` Introduction: The genre that I will be talking about today is Dystopian. I will be doing three films and one TV Show. These will be Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol, The Man in the High Castle directed by David Semel, Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross and Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuaron. All of these films have dystopian worlds they are all different in the way they present themselves. But all these movies have connections on the way the dystopian is ran and the people in these worlds.…
This paper is 2-3 pages long. Use double space and font 12". Select a movie available to you and reflect on it with an emphasis on one particular issue that interests you more than others.…
For someone who completed just three big feature films in his brief career, the effect of James Dean on popular culture is truly remarkable. It is not just the films themselves, but the persona and the magnetism that James Dean exhibited that attracts such fascination and admiration. James Dean's performances hint at so much more. His reaction to the world around him seems to sum up how so many young people around the world relate to their lives.…
Discuss what the movie tells us about the society we live in. You may address whether you think it is good or bad, but you must address the big-picture issues, not just the quality of the work.…
Describe an important idea in the text. Explain how the director showed you this idea through film techniques.…
When watching Moonrise Kingdom or Rushmore the touch of Wes Anderson is not hard to find. His comical movies having taken on a nature of their own and the audience has come to expect excellence from the director; not only for the enjoyment of the movie but for the quality that the movie is made in. Over the years he has begun to develop a style all to his own. In Moonrise Kingdom the movie was shot with the yellow being the prominent color being seen. Anderson’s scenes have a lot of motion to them, whether the camera is creating motion, the characters are moving, or there is movement in the back ground there always seems to be something going on the scene creating motion. With sound Anderson likes to let the audience know what is going on there is more diegetic sound then there is non-diegetic sound. If there is a phone conversation then more likely than not the audience will not only hear the whole conversation but will also see both characters in separate locations on the phone. There is also the appeal of symmetry in his movies a house is split perfectly by the front door actors are place in a way that creates symmetry objects are laid out this way as well, this is part of Anderson’s mis-en-scene. One of the common themes in Anderson’s movies is his storylines particularly in Rushmore and Moonrise Kingdom, following two boys who act way older than their age and get into outrageous situations that the rest of the world seems to put up with, Anderson crosses the line from reality to fiction in a very believable way.…