THEATER 120A – Acting and Performance in Film‚ Part I (5 units) Professor Joe Olivieri UCLA Department of Theater Vice Chair‚ UCLA Undergraduate Acting Program THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED FILMS ARE REPRESENTATIVE SUGGESTIONS. Class Website: http://online.tft.ucla.edu Objectives The purpose of this class is to specifically define the terms “acting” and “performance.” Students explore the works of a wide range
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The main actor in the movie is arguably the greatest actor of all time‚ Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump‚ Captain Phillips‚ Apollo 13). He has also won two Academy Awards for Best Actor. In the movie‚ Hanks plays Captain Miller‚ the leader of the group searching for Ryan. This performance is exactly what one would expect from Tom Hanks. It was absolutely fantastic. If I did not know that was Tom Hanks‚ I honestly would
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Spielberg’s hard work and dedication to his films he has won multiple awards and has been nominated multiple times for awards he has so many nominations and awards that naming them will be too much here are some of his accomplishments. Steven Spielberg is a three time Academy Award winning director. He won seven BAFTA Awards‚ three Golden Globe Awards‚ and two Director Guild of America Awards‚ and also received the PCA prestigious Milestone award for his contribution to the motion picture industry. Spielberg
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trapped the kingdom in eternal winter. The film underwent several story treatments for several years‚ before being commissioned in 2011‚ with a screenplay written by Jennifer Lee‚ and both Chris Buck and Lee serving as directors. Christophe Beck‚ who had worked on Disney’s award-winning short Paperman‚ was hired to compose the film’s orchestral score‚ while husband-and-wife songwriting team Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez penned the songs. Frozen premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on November
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Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman‚ Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz as well as Tim Burton & Johnny Depp. Here we explore five more film-makers and their muses. Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich An Austrian-American film-maker‚ Sternberg is best remembered for his play of light and shadows. His films including “Morocco” (1930)‚ “Dishonored” (1931) and “Shanghai Express” (1932) are studied even today for the magic he could create with just a combination of lenses and lights and close-ups. He
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles‚ its producer‚ co-author‚ director and star. The picture was Welles’s first feature film. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories‚ it won an Academy Award for Best Writing by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics‚ filmmakers‚ and fans to be the greatest film ever made‚ Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound polls of critics‚ until it was displaced by Vertigo in
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One paragon of ignoring the authority is Ang Lee‚ the prestigious Chinese-born American director. In 2009‚ Ang Lee planned to direct the movie‚ Life of Pi‚ which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel. The novel narrated a fantastic story of Pi‚ the protagonist‚ who survived on a sinking freighter on the way from India to Canada and who spent 227 days on the boundless ocean with Hungry‚ a Bengal Tiger. Because of its bizarre plot‚ the novel was considered impossible to be made into a film
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Kathryn Bigelow‚ director of The Hurt Locker could have never imagined her movie winning six academy awards. While the opinion from the audience played a role in these winnings‚ the technical aspect of the movie all the way down to the first shot of the movie‚ played the biggest role in this achievement. Bigelow used things such as moving camera shots‚ camera angles‚ lighting‚ and the use of long shots to create a realistic feel throughout the movie. Throughout the movie it appears that most of
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In order to belong understanding is needed‚ if there is a lack of understanding then belonging within ceases to exist. Peter Skrzynecki‚ the poet of the anthology Immigrant Chronicle and Robert Zemeckis‚ director of academy award winning film Forrest Gump both look at addressing the importance of belonging and the need for understanding in order to belong. The poem 10 Mary Street by Peter Skrzynecki exemplifies the lack of understanding the persona conveys and the lack of belonging in which is
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