The Coen brothers can be considered an example of what not to do when first starting out as a writer and director in the film industry. From the beginning‚ they did not try to get a big name producer‚ go for big name actors‚ or write movies they knew would be hits. Instead‚ they raised money from the citizens of their hometown to make their first film Blood Simple‚ which starred pretty much no-name actors and actresses in an absurd plot. However‚ this put their name on the map‚ and it was because
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With eyes downcast‚ she removes her shirt‚ exposed. The knife slices deeper into its neck. Vivid red blood spurts across the sacrificial tray. A slight smirk plays on her face as she kneels down. Slowly‚ she lowers her body… Djibril Mambety’s 1973 film Touki Bouki seems simple enough at a glance; two spirited‚ rebellious young lovers‚ determined to do whatever it takes to get out of their derelict town and live their dreams in the big city across the ocean. The plot is certainly not the most unusual
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we grow older‚ we all are forced to come to grips with our own fragile mortality. However‚ comedians and humorists have found ways of looking at the concept of death in a more light-hearted manner. Black comedy and gallows humor are used in a lot of film‚ television‚ and other media to assuage audiences’ anxieties about dying. Motion pictures like Pulp Fiction‚ Horrible Bosses‚ and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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Despite their obvious length restrictions‚ short films have a distinctive lack of commercial expectation and pressure which allows the director the artistic freedom to explore all other aspects of film to produce unique texts which engage the audience. An example of a film which ais short in length however conveys a strong message through effective use of various aspects of the film medium is The Lunch Date. The Lunch Date‚ released in 1990‚ was directed by Adam Davidson‚ and has received many prestigious
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It was premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival‚ where it received the United States Documentary Audience Award. The film features interviews with veterans from multiple branches sharing their stories surrounding their assaults. The veteran’s stories showed mutual themes which include; a lack of recourse to an impartial justice
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Twilight Samurai is a film set in the 19th century‚ towards the end of the Tokugawa or Edo era. It was a time when the samurai system was beginning to wane as Japan started to advocate itself towards modernization. The Meiji reforms had started to begin‚ and the samurai class was gradually being disregarded as of a higher social status. The lifestyle and demand for the samurai was thus in a process of change‚ as the samurai began to take on other trades such as merchants. The film depicts the story
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This case in the film involves multiple important aspects: race‚ family ties‚ injustice. However‚ these are not what this This is simply a story of two victims: one stripped forcefully through the violent stripping of innocence‚ the other stripped of the fundamental human right of justice‚ driven to provide justice for his flesh and blood daughter. The second victim is forced to commit crime‚ driven to vindicate his family and prevent potential crimes in the future. This film tells the story of
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offbeat‚ non-traditional sci fi horror‚ standing against the grain of traditional science fiction films touting the achievements of mankind scientific strength‚ Under the Skin manages to comment much more about mankind’s failures. It’s often clashing narrative explores blank slate theories‚ societal expectations‚ and sexualization in the postmodern world.
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A Single Man is a 2009 film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood and it was directed by fashion designer Tom Ford as his directorial debut. Taking place over the course of a single day‚ November 30‚ 1962‚ a month after the Cuban missile crisis‚ A Single Man is the story of George Falconer‚ a middle-aged English college professor living in Los Angeles. He explains after he wakes up from a dream about his partner‚ who died 8 months earlier‚ that he would take his life in the
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Virtual JFK takes a different direction in articulating its theme than the previous movies in the course so far. In particular‚ the various film techniques Virtual JFK uses makes the film argumentatively natured and it is not hard to detect the movie’s central message. The film argues that if Kennedy had lived‚ the United States would have most likely not have gotten into a massive ground war in Vietnam. In backing this large claim‚ the movie focused on six different times in Kennedy’s short presidency
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