What makes a film which is “based on a true story” authentic? Do films only use this ploy to connect with spectators that assume that these movies are situated in a farfetched reality? When audiences view these types of films they come to only expect one thing from them and it is authenticity. The issues with many of these films is that filmmakers want to add depth to characters that already historically exist. The reason for these skewed character representations is that they have to pander to main
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Film 100‚ Introduction to Film Fall 2012 Semester (Main Campus) Mondays‚ Tuesdays and Thursdays‚ 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.‚ Library 0146 3 humanities credits Instructor: Dr. Ellen Kreger Email address: kreger167@aol.com (Please include your name in the subject line if it is not part of your email address!) Phone number: (914) 376-7745 (h)—Please call between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Office hours: By appointment Monday-Friday An introduction to the language of film‚ this course familiarizes
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“The Intouchables”-a film of true humanity The movie‚ “The Intouchables”‚ is based upon a true story‚ and real characters. It’s a story about two unlikely people who end up connected in a way only reality could conjure up. I had seen this movie once in 2012. But after I attended this class‚ I decided to watch it again because there are four elements in the movie that are related to what we are learning: disability‚ ethnicity‚ class‚ and culture differences. After watching
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that reason‚ the theme of the 2009 Brisbane Film Festival will be Australian Identity in Film – A Retrospective‚ as we hope to explore the ways in which Australian feature films have helped shape the complexities and diversity of Australia’s culture and identity. In particular‚ the festival will explore the diverse representations of homosexuals in Australian film and how this has influenced society’s perception and acceptance. For many years‚ Australian film has formed a consistent stereotype for men;
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Beige Pascua THEA 32 “The Namesake” The Namesake is a film that has both visible and invisible sounds. The different sounds are used to portray different emotions in the film. In the beginning of the film we see Gogol’s father on a train when all of a sudden we hear the train screech but we do not see the actual action of the train getting into a wreck. This is what we call invisible sound‚ when you can hear a sound but not see the origin of where the sound is coming from. We also hear invisible
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intentional affairs. The film Miracle directed by Gavin O’Connor and the book The Boys of Winter by Wayne coffin recreated this “story about a coach with a vision‚ a team of patriotic kids from mostly working-class families who were prepared to make sacrifices for the unknown‚ and a nation
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Visual Techniques in Film and Television Visual Literacy in Business (ACB0918A) May 26‚ 2009 Visual Techniques in Film and Television Television and film run hand in hand in this day and time. While film or motion pictures are created for the “big screen‚” television was created to be viewed at home. As it states in World Book Advanced‚ “television is one of our most important means of communication. It brings moving pictures from around the world into millions of homes” (Curtin
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to see his students excel and be successful in their lives. The film was released January 15‚ 2005. It was directed by Thomas Carter and co-produced by MTV Films and Tollin/Robbins Production. Coach Carter although an inspiring story of a dedicated basketball coach‚ some elements of the story strayed away from the true events and were added for entertainment purposes. Although the movie Coach Carter added some things to make the film more entertaining‚ for the most part besides minor things were
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A hopeful actress gets her first break in a zombie film‚ but then real life zombies trapped the cast and crew on the set and they have to battle to survive. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CURTIS (40’s) is a desperate movie director who needs his new zombie film to succeed. When his current actress is not working out‚ he decides to find a new actress. VANESSA (20’s) is a hopeful‚ budding actress‚ working as a waitress. She’s star struck when she meets Curtis and the lead actor‚ MARK (20’s). When Vanessa realizes
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Quilty is most interesting and provides a paradox that runs through this satiric work. The relationship between these two male characters is fundamentally one of "point-counterpoint." We are introduced to these pedophiliacs in the prologue of the film‚ and apart from the foot pampering in the opening/main titles‚ this is the first relationship we are shown. I would suppose that this is more a use of device versus establishing the importance of Humbert and Quilty’s relationship. Nevertheless‚ given
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