Grace Massett Professor Delmira Valladares Film 101 September 16‚ 2015 Casablanca Casablanca was a romantic film produced in 1942. Internet Movie Database summarizes Casablanca as “Rick Blaine‚ who owns a night club in Casablanca‚ discovers his old flame Ilsa is in town with her husband‚ Victor Laszlo. Laszlo is a famed rebel‚ and with Germans on his tail‚ Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.” Rick Blaine is the main character and he is described as cynical and doesn’t have a care
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1. Opening Scene General Vision and Viewpoint: The serious and heavy opening music suggests that the events of the film are serious‚ that serious issues are at stake. In the opening narration freedom is seen as desirable‚ and the “Americas” seen as somewhere it can be found‚ a desirable destination for those who wish to escape. The footage of the fleeing refugees elicits our sympathy for them – the innocent victims of the war. After the French Resistance agent is shot the camera points upward
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“Why has audience positioning towards Gangster films and their main characters Changed throughout the evolution of film?” “The crime film is the most enduringly popular of all Hollywood genres‚ the only kind of film that has never once been out of fashion since the dawn of the sound era seventy years ago.”-Thomas Leitch The central theme of the gangster film has always revolved around law and order and essentially boils down to the Criminal institutions fighting one another or fighting a corrupt
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The Seven Deadly Sins Brianna Kibler Introduction To Film Studies- HUM/150 Dominic Biondi The 1944 film “Double Indemnity” is about an insurance salesman‚ Walter Neff‚ who gets entangled in a plot to kill an unhappy wife’s husband‚ Phyllis Dietrichson‚ over greed. They work together to stage a suicide that should later be determined accidental. Little does the salesman know the wife will get what she wants‚ no matter the cost. This paper will dissect the movie to help illuminate underlying
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Analysis of film trailer “Murder My Sweet” The film trailer starts with the main character‚ the hardboiled private eye‚ being interviewed by the police‚ who seem a bit corrupt and shady. They are asking him about a murder‚ and the atmosphere is menacing‚ with suspenseful music being played in the background. It then goes on to the credits‚ with bold white writing flashing up on screen‚ and more loud music‚ that identifies the film as a detective film. After that‚ there is a vocal narrative in a
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British Crime Films Of The 20th Century 1910-1920 – WW1 (1914-1918)‚ Depression‚ Unemployment‚ men out in France Fighting. 1911 – A Burglar For one Night (Bert Haldane) Silent Film Deals with unemployment (A problem at the time) A man fired from his job‚ turns to crime but is ‘rescued’ by his lover. Due to the war‚ the British crime film industry slowed down a little. People didn’t want to be reminded of the harshness of real life but wanted to be taken away from the war and real life therefore
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Genre Definition Paper The science fiction film genre is absolutely the hardest to define. It can easily be confused with or applied to Fantasy films and some horror films as well. Genres are used to identify types of films‚ and outside of science fiction this is a fairly simple process. A Western is set in the west and has cowboys and Indians. A gangster film has a plot revolving around the mafia. A horror film is centrally purposed to scare the viewer. Science fiction‚ on the other hand‚ is not
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The film Who Framed Roger Rabbit is stated by Louis Giannetti as being one of the most successful instances of combining live action with animation. While this is very true‚ there is a deeper meaning to this combination. The film portrays many examples of the racism‚ segregation‚ and prejudice demonstrated in the 1940’s. The movie symbolizes the state of unrest between white Americans and people of color. Additionally‚ characters and scenes are used to represent different social statuses and situations
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easy task‚ and they were nearly priceless to a refugee living in Casablanca at the time.. This is part of the premise of Casablanca‚ the film. With so much time on their hands working on getting these visas‚ people need someplace to go. If you were waiting to go to America‚ you’d want to hang out somewhere that was itself American. In Casablanca‚ that was Rick’s cafe. Owned and operated by American expatriate Rick Blaine. In the film‚ two German couriers are killed by a man named Ugarte. They were
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Film Noir is a reflection of‚ and reaction to‚ the world within which it was created. With the majority of the films shot from mid-40s through to late 50s‚ Film Noir is a lens into the fears and values of that time and society. With the world coming to terms with the horror of what human did to human in World War II‚ the genre also had to deal with how the world at home had changed. We can see in the basic conventions of the genre these fears and realisations. Corrupt society‚ flawed men riddled
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