Gattaca Notes Context: * 1997 science fiction drama film * directed by Andrew Niccol * film presents vision of a society driven by “new eugenics” Title: * ‘GATTACA’-made up from abbreviations for the DNA nucleotide bases * During opening credits-names of cast & crew are telegraphed by the letters of the four bases-joined afterwards by the other letters of their names * Suggests the films point that people are first seen in terms of their genetic profile * And
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LA Confidential and Film Noir One of the most influential film movements in the 1940’s was a genre that is known today as film noir. Film noir was a recognizable style of filmmaking‚ which was created in response to the rising cost of typical Hollywood movies (Buss 67). Film noir movies were often low budget films; they used on location shoots‚ small casts‚ and black and white film. The use of black and white film stock not only lowered production costs‚ but also displayed a out of place
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The Hays Code in Film Noir The Motion Picture Production Code‚ commonly known as the Hays Code‚ was adopted in March 1930‚ though it was not truly enforced until four years later in 1934. This set of rules had tremendously influenced the way Hollywood movies were made for a number of years. This code was based on the ethics and norms if that time. There were three main principals of the Hays Code. The first was no picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standard of those who see it
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it with such intention: A Bout de Soufflé was the sort of film where anything goes: that was what it was all about. … What I wanted was to take a conventional story and remake‚ but differently‚ everything the cinema had done.1 Apparently‚ the film has novel‚ innovative features in almost every aspect of cinema including shooting‚ editing‚ narrative structure‚ and characters. It achieves such creativity by breaking stereotyped rules of film-making. Godard’s shooting style was innovative. It was rather
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French New Wave films can be seen as a contrast of Hollywood film which most of the elements apply in the film is opposite. However‚ some elements are still similar to Hollywood films‚ yet‚ has a different style as Hollywood films. Such mise-en-scene expression are most common style uses in both of the period. And Breathless‚ as an example film during the French New Wave‚ which directed by Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential film utilizing editing‚ mise-en-scene and cinematography to convey
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The Key Conventions Of Film Noir In L.A Confidential L.A Confidential (Curtis Hanson‚ 1997) is a neo-noir film about a shooting at an all night diner and the three Las Angeles policeman who investigate in their own unique ways. It is based on the book by James Ellroy and after a very well adapted screenplay‚ won nine academy awards. It starred actors with big names like Russell Crowe‚ Guy Pearce and Danny Devito‚ which made it a very high earning film. The Narrative or storyline is much
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~Graham Greene & The Third Man‚ 1950~ Greene said in his autobiographic book Ways of Escape (2007‚ p.9) ’Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write‚ compose or paint can manage to escape madness‚ the melancholia‚ the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation. ’ In a previous autobiography‚ A Sort of Life (1999‚ p.9)‚ which closes at Greene ’s 27 years of age‚ he wonders again about the reasons for his writing. ’And the motive for recording
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British Crime Films Of The 20th Century 1910-1920 – WW1 (1914-1918)‚ Depression‚ Unemployment‚ men out in France Fighting. 1911 – A Burglar For one Night (Bert Haldane) Silent Film Deals with unemployment (A problem at the time) A man fired from his job‚ turns to crime but is ‘rescued’ by his lover. Due to the war‚ the British crime film industry slowed down a little. People didn’t want to be reminded of the harshness of real life but wanted to be taken away from the war and real life therefore
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and in turn allowing them to associate‚ trust and relate to him. In bringing the reader closer to the protagonist Hammett has subliminally lured the reader closer to the crime‚ the suspects and the victims and ultimately dragged them deeper into the noir world in which Sam Spade resides. Sam Spade‚ the detective-protagonist is aware that his best efforts are ultimately futile‚ to the extent that the corrupt urban environment will inevitably undercut and outlast his heroic attempts to see justice done
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Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the
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