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Film Plots And Character In Mise En Scene Reflection
Film Still Analysis
1 The 400 Blows
The mise en scene of Figure 1 from The 400 Blows shows two youths scattering a flock … high water. The boys have their backs to him and are oblivious to his nefarious presence.
The still captures the essence of the film, which is a character study of the main character Antoine—a dreamy but rebellious youth, who has no place in the world as he ……
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My Criteria For Quality Film Part 2
My Criteria for Quality in Film 2
The period between 1970 and 2000 marked a significant change in the film industry as it was the second Golden Age of 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 … incorporation of global prestige. This period is regarded as the second Golden Age of Hollywood because the old studio systems that dominated 1930s films broke down totally. In addition, the period was characterized by loosening of restrictions on obscenity, sexual content and violence (A&E Television Networks, 2018). … In addition, the period was characterized by loosening of restrictions on obscenity, sexual content and 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……
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References
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 Beautiful Mind (2001) is about the mathematician John Nash, who developed the revolutionary theory of game theory. Nash suffered a schizophrenia breakdown … hallucinate and experience paranoid delusions.
Q3. Nature or Nurture: Was the character’s mental illness a result of biological or environmental influences? Explain.
The film presents schizophrenia as an organic illness. There is no evident trigger event that causes the schizophrenia, which is commensurate with how schizophrenia is … insight? Do they have a good support system? Are they motivated to change? What are the factors that perpetuate the disorder? Etc...
The film presents what actually occurred in reality, namely that Nash spontaneously recovered his sanity with age. It does show that he had a significant …
Q5. Was it a realistic portrayal of……
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Schizophrenia A Beautiful Mind Movie
… 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 … won a Noble Prize), his previous eccentricities gradually became more and more extreme. He believed he was being persecuted by the government. The film depicts Nash’s delusions at first as if they were real. Then, the film shows how many of the figures Nash sees exist only in his head, and the reality of the associations he perceives are the … his head, and the reality of the associations he perceives are the result of his dissociation from reality.
Over the course of the film, Nash is subjected to a variety of treatments, including the no-longer-used insulin theory, and there are……
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References
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
… and implies that Brom Bones was the one who dressed as the horseman to scare Crane away.
In stark contrast, Tim Burton’s 1999 film Sleepy Hollow is a horror film. The horseman is very real. Ichabod Crane is a policeman, not a retiring schoolteacher. Instead of a legend, there have been a series … Crane sorting out the supernatural mystery, determining who is really controlling the horseman, and then leaving in safety with Katarina. In short, the film makes Crane into a hero, while in the Irving story Crane is a figure of fun. Crane is an outsider in both film and book, but in the film his outsider qualities are positive ones that free the town from the curse it is under.
Works Cited
Irving, Washington. “The Legend of ……
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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
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 … 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 … especially since the Soviet Revolution was largely Jewish in nature and Eisenstein himself was Jewish. Thus, there is a natural sympathy between the filmmaker and the subject. Old World Russia was not beloved by Revolutionary Russia, and the film suggests that the reason was a lack of respect for Russia’s common people—the working class, the everyday soldiers treated worse than dogs by … worse than dogs by the authorities. It is essentially Orwell’s Animal……
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Works Cited
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
… 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 … 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 Lana, is his non-traditionally male sensitivity. Lana likes the fact that Brandon is able to show greater sensitivity and kindness … men in the area. Brandon clearly feels a sense of release and the ability to be his true self in the environment. The film is also interesting because it shows that not all individuals who identify with non-traditional sexual personas will necessarily feel at home in large, … in the world.
Q2. Describe……
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Racial Tension And Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird
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 … 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 … 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 unjust accusation of rape leveled against the black Tom Robinson reflects the……
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Works Cited
Executive Order 10925. Thecre. https://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal6/eo10925.htm
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Media Analysis Of Captain America The First Avenger
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 … 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 … 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 that space orientation is a big part of the visual stimuli that make ………
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References
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
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 … 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 … 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 … gnarly and the young girl……
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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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