Film analysis of the opening scene in the film Laura (1944). In the opening scene of the film Laura‚ there is much to analyse. Be it from unusual casting options‚ to the cinematography‚ it seems that the director Otto Preminger knew exactly how to make the audience to think when making Laura. Casting is of a big importance when analysing the film Laura. What is interesting about Premingers work is how he makes unusual casting decisions‚ that always seem to make the feature a success. It seems
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NOSFERATU Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau‚ is a feature horror film made in Germany. It was filmed according to the Nosferatu legend‚ the horrific vampire of Transylvania. The film was very archaic‚ in a sense. I noticed in the film that most of the scene changes had a certain color of light. I felt that those light changes were trying to signify the time in the day or the certain amount of light in room of the scene is to help amplify the audience vision. I like how Murnau transitioned
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Professor Laura T. di Summa PHI 3060-TTH 4:10PM November 11‚ 2012 Theatre and Film in Panofsky Film as art has vastly developed throughout the history of film. In the beginning‚ people had an aesthetic interest in formal moving pictures. As time progressed‚ technical inventions combined with folk art mentality lead to incremental artistic film techniques that aided in perfecting the new art form. Film has progressed from simple recordings of basic movements‚ to documentaries and shortly
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Actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gives a powerful performance in the action drama Snitch opening in theaters this weekend. The film‚ based on true accounts‚ takes you on a suspense filled ride under the fine direction of famous stuntman Ric Roman Waugh. Although the film does provide insight about how the justice system works‚ the hard knocks story does add a lot of ‘Hollywood’. As the movie opens‚ we find 18-year-old Jason Collins (Rafi Gavron) talking to his best buddy on Skype about
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Literature: An Inspiration for Film Masterpieces ought to have a muse. A muse doesn’t always need to be a beautiful woman femme fatale‚ either‚ as popular belief might suggest. It simply must be an inspiration; a child with a watering can for Renoir‚ a quarrel with a woman for Ray Charles. Inspiration can be everywhere‚ so why not in words? Literature can be- and often is- a grande muse for people. One of the most popular ways literature embraces it’s splendid inspirationalism is through the big
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Among local films‚ Abakada Ina starring Lorna Tolentino as an illiterate mother comes to mind. Her mother-in-law (a teacher) looks down to her because she is "useless" and "unreliable." When one of her kids gets sick and the doctor prescribes some medicines‚ the latter has to put some colored stickers on the bottles to help her distinguish which to give for what symptoms. When one sticker gets unstuck‚ Lorna in her confusion gives the wrong medicine to her kid. When the kid gets hospitalized as a
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Film and TV Essay (U31‚ U33) Unit 31 “Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it‚ but to take it to a higher level require teh dedication and persistence that any art form does.” Walter Murch[1] The History Of Editing (L.O.1.1.‚ L.O.1.2.) Editing in early cinema was very basic and linear yet despite this it must have been one of the most exciting times in the film industry. Filmmakers had all the creative freedom at their finger tips as no one had
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used in the medium of painting‚ poetry and architecture as well as by the ideas from German romanticism of the 19th century; gothic literature‚ myth and folklore; which spread to other medium such as film. German expressionist became popular in the 1920’s during the Weimar years. Expressionist films were heavily influenced by modern art (paintings)‚ Expressionist movie used exaggeration and distortion to create images that expressed a emotional and psychological despair and chaos through mise-en-scene
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Directors have the important job of communicating the ideas and themes of their films. Their power comes from the choices they make‚ aside from the script. Directors are artists‚ they make intentional choices to give the film a specific meaning and help communicate the ideas in it. The Benchwarmers is a great example of intentional choices made by the director. The Benchwarmers is about a group of three young adults‚ Gus‚ Clark and Richie. They have been treated like losers all of their lives and
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A Film Analysis of Inception If “true inspiration is impossible to fake‚” explains a character in Christopher Nolan’s existentialist heist film Inception and If that’s the case‚ then Inception is one of the realest films ever made. In July of 2012 Nolan crafted a movie that’s beyond brilliant and layered both narratively and thematically. It requires the audience to take in a collection of rules‚ exceptions‚ locations‚ jobs‚ and abilities in order to understand the text‚ let alone the fascinating
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