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Essays 301 - 330
and editing equipment to the ability to use special effects as never before. Thus, there is mise-en-scene today and some film mak...
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
a football player. Ford then told Duke to "try to tackle him" (PG) and Duke attempted it but was thrown roughly to the ground. W...
Thompson 115). The number of possible angles is infinite since there are an infinite number of points in space that the camera can...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
lost prior to being sent from his home (1995). The camera is suddenly outside focusing on smoke rising form the chimney and then ...
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 cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...
Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...
novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...
most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
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 ...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...
the River (1935), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), King Solomons Mines (1937), Gunga Din (1939), Beau Geste (1939), and The Fo...
somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she...