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Film Plots And Character In Mise En Scene Reflection
...Movie Film Still Analysis
1 The 400 Blows
The mise en scene of Figure 1 from The 400 Blows shows two youths scattering a flock of pigeons in the streets of Paris. The centermost youth is the main character Antoine Doinel. He and the boy beside him and tramping through a city that is full of adults—but the adults are all in the backdrop, away from the action of the still but not unaware of it. A few of them look over to the boys who are causing the birds to suddenly take flight. Their looks of disapproval seem to suggest that they are out of sympathy with the rambunctious nature of boys with their desire to interact and engage with the natural world. The adults seem to suggest that their world does not condone such behavior as that of disturbing the peace and calm, the status quo, of traipsing through……
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My Criteria For Quality Film Part 2
… Hollywood. During this period, filmmaking experienced significant growth due to experimentation with new ideas. The experimentation not only facilitated the production of new movies, but also resulted in changes that included the incorporation of global prestige. This period is regarded as the second Golden Age of Hollywood … violence (A&E Television Networks, 2018). As a result, film directors started making groundbreaking controversial content while others retained a romantic theme in their movies.
One of the directors who played a critical role in ushering the second Golden Age of Hollywood is George Stevens. Stevens shot never-ending … Age of Hollywood is George Stevens. Stevens shot never-ending number of set-ups in his films. While he didn’t shoot multiple takes of his movie scenes, Stevens made his actors and actresses do scenes from several angles (Eyman, 2004). This would in turn provide him different angles and … of gambling. The film is……
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A&E Television Networks. (2018, August 21). Hollywood. Retrieved November 6, 2019, from https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/hollywood
Eyman, S. (2004, November 29). First Biography of Stevens, His Reputation on the Ropes. Retrieved November 6, 2019, from https://observer.com/2004/11/first-biography-of-stevens-his-reputation-on-the-ropes/
Journeys in Classic Film. (2013, June 28). The Only Game in Town (1970). Retrieved November 6, 2019, from https://journeysinclassicfilm.com/2013/06/28/the-only-game-in-town-1970/
Pfeiffer, L. (2015, November 15). Review: “The Only Game in Town” (1970) Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Warren Beatty on Blu-Ray from Twilight Time. Retrieved November 6, 2019, from https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/7649-REVIEW-THE-ONLY-GAME-IN-TOWN-1970-STARRING-ELIZABETH-TAYLOR-AND-WARREN-BEATTY-ON-BLU-RAY-FROM-TWILIGHT-TIME.html
Stevens, G. (Director). (1970). The Only Game in Town [Motion Picture]. United States: 20th Century Fox Film Corp.
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A Beautiful Mind 2001 Mental Illness On Film
Movie About Mental Illness: A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Q1. Who is the character you are focused on? Briefly summarize the plot.
The film A … to receive the Nobel Prize he was rewarded for his contribution to economics.
Q2. What specific symptoms did the character experience in the movie? What diagnosis would you give them?
Nash, even before he became symptomatic, was eccentric and withdrawn. He began to hallucinate and experience paranoid … when her husband was suffering the most extreme aspects of his illness.
Q5. Was it a realistic portrayal of mental illness? Did the movie teach you anything you didn't know already about mental illness?
The film’s choice to first portray Nash’s illness as real, as how he ……
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Schizophrenia A Beautiful Mind Movie
...Movie Schizophrenia: A Beautiful Mind
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by both positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms may include hallucinations, delusions, and irrational beliefs. Negative symptoms may include a lack of affect, social withdrawal, and depression (“Schizophrenia,” 2016). Dissociative identity disorder is a highly controversial diagnosis which involves individuals dissociating or separating aspects of themselves into different personalities (Gillig, 2009). Unlike schizophrenia, however, the individual is not delusional, and is apparently responding to some form of concrete trauma in his or her life. As seen in the film A Beautiful Mind, schizophrenia is not necessarily triggered by a specific, traumatic incident in the individual’s life, although it does often arise during times of trauma and transition during an adolescent’s life, such as when Nash was going to graduate school at Princeton.
Although Nash had a brilliant early career as a mathematician, eventually cumulating in the development of game theory……
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Gillig P. M. (2009). Dissociative identity disorder: A controversial diagnosis. Psychiatry, 6(3), 24–29. Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719457/
Schizophrenia. (2016). National Institute of Mental Health. Retrieved from: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml
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Sleepy Hollow Film Vs Sleepy Hollow Book
...Movie “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” versus Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” tells the story of the self-important, intellectual schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who wants to marry Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy farmer. Crane is nervous and superstitious and during a party he is regaled of stories of the mysterious headless horsemen who haunts the roads at night. His rival is Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, who is known for playing pranks. Crane meets with a rider who apparently has no head, and who then throws his pumpkin head at Crane. Crane is never seen from again, and is not missed very much, since he was always an outsider and not liked by the insular town of Sleepy Hollow. The story is humorous rather than spooky in nature and implies that Brom Bones was the one who dressed as the horseman to……
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Works Cited
Irving, Washington. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Project Gutenberg. Web. March 28, 2019. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-h/41-h.htm
Sleepy Hollow. Directed by Tim Burton. Paramount Pictures, 1999.
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The Battleship Potemkin
...Movie Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film, produced during the Soviet era, depicts the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin from the year 1905, prior to the Soviet takeover of the state and seen as a foreshadowing of the wider revolution that was to come. In the film, the mutineers/rebels are depicted as heroes, embodying the spirit of the fight against Tsarist oppression that the good comrades of the Soviet world wanted to project. The Cossacks (themselves a symbol of Russian tradition that the Soviet era comrades despised) and the Tsarist cavalry are depicted as brutal thugs, slaughtering the innocent people of Odessa for daring to show support for the mutineers. As Odessa was one of the most open cities for Jews to live in the Pale of Settlement, the slaughter of people can be seen also as a persecution of Jews, especially since the Soviet Revolution was largely Jewish in nature and Eisenstein……
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Bascomb, Neal. Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Eisenstein, Sergei. The Battleship Potemkin.
Neff, Taylor. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Propaganda on the Big Screen: Film in the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1936.\\\\\\\\\\\\" The FGCUStudent Research Journal 3.2 (2017).
Osborn, Andrew. “Potemkin: the mutiny, the movie and the myth.” The Independent, June 14, 2005. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/potemkin-the-mutiny-the-movie-and-the-myth-225737.html
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Boys Dont Cry 1999 Transgenderism
...Movie Q1. Explain the impact of the social and cultural influences on sexual attitudes and behaviors as it relate to Brandon.
Boys Don’t Cry depicts the challenges faced by a young man in the 1990s attempting to transition from female to male. Transgenderism is the technical term used to describe someone who was born a particular anatomical sex, but identifies as the opposite gender. The film shows the difficulty of transitioning when the concept of gender is tied to anatomical sex. Even today, in more liberal cultural contexts and environments, there is often a great deal of tension when someone comes out as transgender. This tension is exacerbated in an area of the country where hyper-masculinity is embraced and the division of roles between the two genders are heavily policed.
Ironically, one of the reasons that Brandon Teena is so attractive to his love interest in the film, a woman named……
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Racial Tension And Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird
...Movie Historical Context of the Film To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck is a 1962 film adaptation of the 1960 novel by Harper Lee of the same name. The film was produced during a decade in which the Civil Rights Movement was reaching its zenith. Blacks had been protesting throughout the South, and Martin Luther King, Jr., would be arrested in Birmingham in 1963. There he would write his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, justifying his actions at the front of the civil disobedience. Soon thereafter would be the march to Washington and then the Selma to Montgomery march. In short, race and desegregation was on everyone’s mind. The film gives special attention to the issue of race, even though it is set in the 1930s. The activities abuzz in the 1960s were surely reflected in the film’s story. For instance, the……
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Executive Order 10925. Thecre. https://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal6/eo10925.htm
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Media Analysis Of Captain America The First Avenger
...Movie Captain America: The First Avenger
Camera angles determine how an audience interacts with a character in a film they are watching. This makes shot angles and camera angles some of the most significant aspects of a production. The emotions a character is going through can be highlighted by having the camera focus on them. When they are vulnerable, the camera can focus on them from a high angle. Further, the kinds of cameras employed in the film are important since scenes are shot with different cameras and then edited together. In Captain America: The First Avenger, the emphasis is on the key viewpoints and elements so as to inspire different emotions in the audience. It is possible that a greater perception of space as portrayed in the film leads to the audience being better able to empathize with the film’s audience. This is especially true when you consider the fact……
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Captain America: The First Avenger. Directed by Joe Johnston, Paramount Pictures, July 19 2011.
Lotman, Elen. “Exploring the ways cinematography affects viewers’ perceived empathy towards onscreen characters.” Baltic Screen Media Review, Vol. 4, 2016, pp. 89-105.
Stam, Robert., Burgoyne, Robert., & Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy. New vocabularies in film semiotics. London, New York: Routledge, 1992.
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The Coen Brothers True Grit
...Movie Western Film
The Coen Brothers’ (2010) film True Grit is an adaptation of the novel by the same name and contrasts sharply with the films of the same genre from the 1940s and 1950s. Save for John Ford’s Westerns, like The Searchers, which had a bit of realism mixed in with the sentimentality, there is not much comparison worth noting. The Coen Brothers created a film that is true to the book, while the earlier adaptation starring John Wayne romanticizes the relationship between Rooster Cogburn and the young girl who hires him to find the killer of her father. In the Coen Brothers’ film there is no romanticizing of this relationship at all: Cogburn is old and gnarly and the young girl is still a child. The Coens focus on the relationship as being one of mutual respect and the film ends with a deep not of gratitude and sense……
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Coen Brothers. (2010). True grit. LA: Paramount Pictures.
Dirks, T. (n.d.). The history of film. Retrieved from https://www.filmsite.org/40sintro.html
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