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Essays 151 - 180
his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...
sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...
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...
Godfather realizes that his son, Michael, has yet to arrive. He refuses to take the picture until Michael arrives. In thi...
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 ...
post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...
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...
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...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
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...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
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...
of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...
angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...
surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...
Scripts go through many rewrites up to the day of the scene production (and sometimes even through the scene production (Sherwood,...
in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...
This essay pertains to documentaries. The writer defines the genre and then discusses the strategies it employs and the way in whi...
a conversation with Colonel Brighton (Anthony Quale), Feisal shows that he understands that the British are there to protect their...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...