“A special effect is a tool‚ a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.” That’s what Rogue One is about. Rogue One is about the rebel alliance trying to obtain plans from the evil empire for a massive weapon called the Death Star. It is capable of destroying an entire planet. Romanticism in this movie contains imagination over reason‚ intuition over fact‚ out-of-the-ordinary settings and characters‚ and grotesque characters. In this movie‚ there is a
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The film Metropolis‚ Fritz Lang adopts the same way of thinking as Eliot. Lang depicts the fragmented society through social stratification. He depicts the bourgeois as people who lead a callous and monotonous life in order to serve the wealthy upper class. The crescendo in the non-diegetic music with the addition of wavering vector lines in the beginning of the film forebodes the exploitation of the working class and creates a sense of chaos. The centralisation of the clock indicates that the workers
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The temporary transvestite films have offered a different perspective for a mass audience that isn’t used to these different gender constructions. In the movie I watched‚ Some Like it Hot‚ they did a very good job by making the whole disguise thing very funny and easy to follow once you get into it. It wasn’t normal at all back in the 50s for any one sex to dress like another. There was a very large audience that wanted to see these transvestites dressed in different situations‚ getting away from
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Miller 1/14/13 I adore comedy films. Comedy films really make me happy‚ because I am a person who attains great fulfillment out of simple laughter. After all who does not relish a good laugh? I have seen a range of comedies from stand-up comedy with Mike Epps‚ to Wedding crashers. I am absolutely a fiend for comical movies. However I do enjoy a plethora of movie types from comedy‚ romance‚ action‚ biography‚ historical‚ and horror. Diversity is integral when it comes to movies because
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Cisneros Film Noir Assignment 1--How is the mood of Sunset Boulevard representative of the Film Noir style? The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills. As we fade backward into the story‚ we quickly come to understand that this film is about "behind the scenes" Hollywood‚ self-deceit‚ spiritual and spatial emptiness‚ and the price of fame‚ greed‚ narcissism‚ and ambition
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2 Since the development of television and film‚ society has utilized the art form‚ specifically the plots of crime films‚ as a mechanism that draws on widespread attitudes toward crime‚ victims‚ law‚ and punishment prevalent at the time of the films making. The capacity to understand film history allows one to see more effectively underlying assumptions regarding the nature of crime in America as well as international society as a whole. The Silent Film Era (1897-1927) often reflected empathy for
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The ingenuity of Kreuzpaintner in Krabat (Question 1) The movie Krabat‚ directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner‚ addresses the adventure of a young orphan named Krabat who learns black magic from an evil sorcerer in a satanic mill. Krabat goes through several struggles that help him develop into this heroic character and ends up fighting for his freedom through love and friendship. The movie was released on September 7th‚ 2008. The main actors in the movie were David Kross as Krabat‚ Daniel Bruhl as Tonda
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an independent horror comedy movies that tells twenty-six stories of the different ways people can die. The producers and directors sought out fifteen different countries in order to film this widespread move. Each of the twenty-six films all have their own themes and titles‚ however while having different themes‚ death can be found as the strong point in each movie. As the entire movie goes on each death relates to a letter of the alphabet for instance‚ D as in Dog Fight. This film really stood out
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blockbusters with multi-million dollar superstars. Beginning with short silent films‚ movies have evolved over the years in different stages including: the Golden Age‚ the political era‚ sequels‚ and what is now the age of special effects and high budget films. The industry today that creates movies costing unimaginable amounts of money began with the simplistic‚ silent film. Although many are forgotten today‚ these short films were a key part in developing motion pictures created over the ages. Beginning
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Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012) Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including: Pastiche Nostalgia Disjointed narratives Emotional detachment Self-referentialism Time bending Altered realities ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods
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