Welcome‚ Ladies and Gentlemen! I am sure that most of you love Hollywood crime dramas that incorporate heated relationships between main male and female characters. Rewind to the early 1940s through the late 1950s‚ add sharp black and white cinematography‚ and you’ve got Film Noir. Film Noir can be defined as film that conveys moral natures and real-life situations‚ usually dealing with crime‚ seductive women‚ and guilt‚ through dark lighting and shadows. Film Noir encompasses detectives‚ femme fatales
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I haven’t seen many Scorsese films‚ which I am ashamed of. Nor have I been able to finish a Lynch film. I have the gall to call myself a film buff‚ and I haven’t many of these so-called masters. But this review isn’t about David Lynch‚ it’s about fast-talking film entrepreneur Martin Scorsese. And there’s been Taxi Driver‚ The Departed‚ Casino and now Shutter Island that I’ve seen. One thing I have been able to pick up from his movies‚ is that his subject matter tends to be either disconnected people
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Film Appreciation Reflection Paper My Film Viewing Journey As I’m writing this paper I have to think back to the beginning of this semester and what motivated me to register for this course. As a third year college student I have to admit‚ taking a class on Film Appreciation never crossed my mind before now. I’ve always stayed away from any course that included the word “appreciation”‚ including art. I’ve just always felt like this
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are certain factors in a genre which will identify it. Things like settings‚ characters and themes can all be similar in one specific genre. L.A Confidential is in the film noir genre. Other films in this genre are The Big Sleep’‚ The Maltese Falcon’ and Double Indemnity’. Lighting is very important in film noir. It uses techniques such as chiaroscuro to give the film a darker‚ more obscured feel. The characters are often similar in film noir. The main protagonist is always some hard boiled
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Homosexuality in Film When sultry‚ womanly JoAnn steps into the five and dime‚ rarely would a viewer automatically leap to the conclusion that twenty years prior‚ that gorgeous she had been a he. Ed Graczyk and Robert Altman pushed the envelope when they so blatantly portrayed homosexuality and trans-genderedness in a movie in 1982. They were not‚ however the first to choose to display homosexuality in movies. "In fact‚ homosexuality‚ or the idea of it‚ has been with [the viewer] since movies
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Influenced by John Huston Director John Huston is able to grasp the depths of feelings the themes and characters in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” because of his life’s experiences. He was a product of divorce so as a child he never had stability. An accident early in his life caused him a huge amount of depression and he would go to Europe where he learned a great deal about art. His early writing career also had a great influence on his talent. John’s
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a more educated world (Price‚ C.A.‚ page 36). Furthermore the British Government implemented schemes to settle Maltese in other parts of the English empire. Cyprus for instance was lacking a healthy population‚ therefore the British tried to settle Maltese inhabitants there‚ to counterbalance both populations. As one will see later on‚ this was largely unsuccessful. The average Maltese inhabitant‚ loves his country and its traditions. Therefore leaving their fatherland and exploring new and unknown
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The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States‚ the Soviet Union‚ and their respective allies during the Cold War. During the Cold War‚ in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles‚ other countries developed nuclear weapons‚ though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. The first nuclear weapon was created by the Manhattan Project during the Second World War and was developed to be used
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outside sources for its culture. Though the Noir writers also find fault with the immense studio apparatus that sustains Hollywood. He refers to Noir as a method for the cynical exploration of America’s underbelly. He references films like The Maltese Falcon‚ and seminal Nathaniel West novel Day of the Locust as examples But he also dissects objects like the Getty Endowment as emblematic of LA as utopia. Places where intersection of money and art produce great beauty‚ even‚ like the Haussmanninization
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James Berardinelli’s review on Roman Polanski’s Chinatown purports that the film is ‘one of the best films to emerge from the 1970s’‚ exploring his value judgements and sweeping generalizations but providing minimal evidence to substantiate. Berardinelli immediately introduces his review in a positive light‚ often adopting debateable opinions. Not only does he cite this movie as ‘the high-water point’ in both Jack Nicholson and Polanski’s careers but he also labels it the ‘finest colour entry into
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