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Essays 511 - 540
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...
it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...
the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...
across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...
foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...
of hope and a future for the people, not a controlled government that decimates the people. Without really having been in ...
crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...
indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...
In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...
This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...
In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...
In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...
This is a 5 page paper that considers two different cinematic filmmaking approaches to specific battles, one from a Third World pe...
Coppola also uses the aspect of theater, which acknowledges that each member of the audience will bring with them, to the theater,...
This paper examines how artistic expression can be conveyed through cinematic expression. The author also addresses censorship, c...
In 5 pages this paper discusses the Nouvelle Vague or New Wave French cinematic movement of the Fifties and Sixties in a considera...