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Matter Of Fact Citizen Kane
1,625 wordsThere really are two ways of looking at a movie when it is based on the true story. When I see a movie of this type, I always struggle with the two choices, and usually end up somewhere in the middle. The Untouchables is that kind of movie. To start off with, I think that its a great film, director Brian De Palmas well done work. However, as is usual when the tale of Al Capone and Eliot Ness is told, some facts are taken with the source material. Manufacturing a confrontation between Ness and Ca...
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Ready To Kill Citizen Kane
1,647 words... n change the life. The composition here is like a family one, the light is flat. In the middle of the table the candle is blazing. The camera pans from Nash showing everybody in the medium shot a couple of times and stops panning on Malone. Malone is opening the secret of his call box key, that they suit Nash. That means that he is opening Nash talent by teaching him. The key is symbolic which added by filmmakers advisedly, which appears a couple of time during the film conveys the idea of t...
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Mise En Scene Early 1900
1,886 wordsThe hit musical "Singin' in the Rain" may possibly be one of if not the greatest musicals of all time. With it's tale of the film world of the mid 1920 's and its creative underlining love story between Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), it provokes the interest of someone who would not generally be attracted to a musical. It is a classic masterpiece that set the standards that musical films of today will be judged by. It is a classic performance by the great Gene Kell...
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Mise En Scene North By Northwest
2,226 wordsAlfred Hitchcock is probably one of the most written about film directors of all times. The movies of Hitchcock have oftentimes become the classics of the thriller, the genre he invented, long before they were even shown at the movie theaters. What is so attractive of Hitchcock's movies, which draws the scholars again and again to the study of his works? In this paper I will examine the use of standard set of directors tools such as editing, performance, doubling, and camera movement, in the two...
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Mise En Scene Close Up Shot
2,049 wordsAmerican Beauty and the Beast Beneath In American Beauty, 1999, directed by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature, the nature of a prying observer to usually seek the sordid or the scandalous. In American...
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Mise En Scene North By Northwest
2,237 wordsAlfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock is probably one of the most written about film directors of all times. The movies of Hitchcock have oftentimes become the classics of the thriller, the genre he invented, long before they were even shown at the movie theaters. What is so attractive of Hitchcock's movies, which draws the scholars again and again to the study of his works? In this paper I will examine the use of standard set of directors tools such as ...
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Mise En Scene Male Gaze
2,615 wordsMarlene Dietrich, Madonna, and the Male Gaze in Blonde Venus and Desperately Seeking for Susan As audiences, we subconsciously identify the male protagonists and take female as spectacle during the film watching, due to the social function of narrative films. (Turner 72) 1 Thus feminists have been slashing the objection of female body in? ? male gaze? ? in the narrative films over the decades. Male gaze is in term of the fetishistic scopophilia and sadistic voyeurism. Fetishistic scopophilia dea...
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Point Of View Personality
1,695 wordsGone with the wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming This is a film about contrast. In the film clip, large amount of contrast can be found between characters, lighting, the way of how colour is presented, the way of how camera being placed, and the way of how shots being taken. Misc-en-Scene From the film clip (and the whole film), the colour image is strong on contrast, not only the colour of the settings, the furnitures, and the costumes, also the colour contrast of indoor and outdoor. In the film c...
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Social And Political Forrest Gump
2,139 wordsFilm 295 F Essay As the term suggests, an auteur is an author, someone whose aesthetic sensibilities and impact are most important in the creation of a text. With literary texts, discerning authorship is usually no problem. But with collaborative art forms, such as film, deciding on authorship is much more complicated. Generally speaking, film theorists have concluded that it is the director of a film who is the auteur, the most important creative figure. But auteur theory is concerned with more...
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Mise En Scene Didn T
519 wordsAtalante &# 038; Breathless Response Paper Essay, ResearchLatalante &# 038; Breathless Response Paper L? Atalante &# 038; Breathless Response Paper Unfortunately, I was not all that thrilled with L? Atalante. I would have liked to have been able to get a more in depth look into the characters lives before the start of the film. The first mate was very well developed, but the other characters seemed a bit ambiguous because of the deficiency of background information on them. Although it was an ex...
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Mise En Scene Stanley Kubrick
1,417 wordsStanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a satirical black comedy about Americas paranoia over the threat of nuclear warfare from the Soviet Union. General Jack D. Ripper is convinced he has discovered a secret communist conspiracy to rob Americans of their precious bodily fluids and is determined to stop the Soviets at all costs. Activating nuclear safety provisions in the form of the ominous Plan R without the consent of President Muf...
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Mise En Scene Blade Runner
1,152 wordsBlade Essay On Bladerunner Soroush Blade Runner, I Think, Therefore I Am In Ridley Scott s film, Blade Runner, the distinction between humans and machines, or replicant's, is blurred. Throughout the film, those that appear human regard replicant's as objects of possession. However, these replicant's continue to question this image for the audience through their intellectual, emotional and almost spiritual sense of being. This is supported not only by the dialogue that they have with humans, but ...
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Mise En Scene Alfred Doolittle
1,531 wordsSegmentation Chart The following is a segmentation chart of the movie My Fair Lady. This movie was filmed in 1964 and directed by George Color. Sequences: 1. Music Hall/ Marketplace a. Eliza sells flowers to Pickering. b. Eliza meets Here Higgins. c. Eliza sings of the future. 2. Morning in front of the Music Hall/ Marketplace a. Alfred Doolittle waits for Eliza. 3. Mr. Higgins House a. Eliza offers Higgins and Pickering money for phonics lessons. b. Higgins and Pickering make a wager and then p...
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Mise En Scene Point Of View
1,290 wordsIdeology The themes in the movie Forrest Gump are believed by some to be the search for destiny while understanding that simple is good. The movie features many ideas for someone s destiny. For example, are we all just floating around on a breeze or we all have a destiny in life that we need to figure out. The style of the movie is told by a man telling his life story from his point of view. The culture in this movie is based on life in the United States, a southern boy who was put into school b...
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Mise En Scene Present Day
660 wordsAlthough the average viewer is rarely conscious of it, mise-en-scene is both a powerful and important cinematic technique in film. Mise-en-scene allows the director to guide the viewer s attention to what they should be looking at so that important details are not missed and trivial details are not focused on. Many effective elements of mise-en-scene are illustrated in the white room scene in The Matrix, in which directors Andy and Larry Wachowski use only minimal setting, costume, and staging i...
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Crop Duster Scene Scene Creates Suspense Thornhill
655 wordsThe mise en scene plays and important role in the setup of the mood the director wants to create. Alfred Hitchcock obviously knew this idea and implemented it into the making of his films. In the first few moments of the crop-duster scene in North by Northwest the position in which the characters and set are portrayed on the screen creates suspense. The very first view shown of the set of the crop-duster scene creates suspense simply by having contrast to all of the previous settings. The set in...
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