YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean
Essays 301 - 330
angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...
post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
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 ...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
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...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...
and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
he paid his dues. Many of those dues included working for other people and learning from some of the best in the industry. He wo...
of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...
the undeniable connection that exists between the foibles of falling in and out of love, regardless of the unreal circumstances in...
his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...
Godfather realizes that his son, Michael, has yet to arrive. He refuses to take the picture until Michael arrives. In thi...
film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...
began in Hong Kong back in 1979, and was like a "coming of age" for the film industry (Li 709). Suddenly, there was a new generat...
sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...
typical abused prostitute. Her boyfriend treats her badly and in fact the films opening shocks as he throws her into the water whe...
which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...
Platoons top-notch portrayals by the actors were a joy. Ensemble performances are all first-rate with Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...
and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the ...
but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...
statement that Social Fascism and Nazism actually worked. At the time, the Games did the job: Shirer noted that "the athletes from...
In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...