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Introduction

In 1998, Steven Spielberg directed a World War 2 film showing the events that happened during the Normandy invasion. The film was called “saving Private Ryan” and was based in Normandy and some parts of France. Screen play for the film was done by Rodat Robert with main actors being Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, Tom Sizemore as Mike Hovarth, Barry Pepper as Daniel Jackson, Adam Goldberg as Stanley ‘Fish’ Mellish, Vin Diesel as Adrian Carpazo, Giovanni Ribisi as Irwin Wade, Jeremy Davis as Timothy Upham, and Matt Damon as Private James Rayan. The movie was produced to depict a ...

Eros is a cinematic trilogy that brings into perspective the scenes of sex and love in various depictions and forms. The film is a combination of three short parts directed by different characters. It comprises of The Hand, Equilibrium, and The Dangerous Thread of Things. These short films bring out the cinematic wits of Wong Kar-Wai, Soderbergh, and Antonioni. In their analogy of the film, the directors attempt to unravel the sexual orientation of various characters within the context of eroticism (Bettinson, 2014). In the film segment, “The Hand,” Wong Kar-Wai shows cinematic antics and prowess to demonstrate the ...

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000) directed by Darren Aronofsky is a significant example of director’s skillful and subtle work. Due to the various techniques this film is not only visually beautiful but also magnificently tells story. Techniques that are used in this film are:
Accelerated montage can be observed at the beginning of the film when Harry (Jared Leto) and Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) roll TV to the pawn-broker (0:04:56 – 00:05:00). The other example of this technique can be found in scene when Harry, Tyrone and Marion (Jennifer Connelly) have a party (00:15:39).
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The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

The Oscar-nominated film ‘12 years a slave’ stands as an epitome amongst all the period films which have their central theme based on the plight of slaves in America. This review aims at assessing the various aspects of the film which made it a huge success and a matter of adulation for the global cinema lovers.
The content of the film is extremely well crafted via using an autobiographical account which makes it perfectly competent for its plot(Cameron and Belau 227). The most interesting part of the film is that the story focuses on the most traumatic and ...

Movie Troy is one of the most successful blockbusters directed by Wolfgang Petersen starring Brad Pitt with a box office of over half a billion, and is now regarded as one of the most sophisticated historical dramas in history. But if we start talking about the history, it is worth mentioning a number of major discrepancies between the movie and the reality.
The main primary source of the movie script is the Iliad written by the ancient Greek poet Homer which is partly fictional and embellished. But the movie Troy somehow diverges with the epos Iliad. First of all, ...

American gangster movies have been in vogue for a very long time and have been a favorite of the American audience. The issues which surround law and order in the country have been captured well by gangster movies which depict criminals and vivid crime scenes. Although the movie is basically about letting the bad guys lose and the good guys emerge triumphant at the end, the movies usually swerve with the bad guys in the movie going about their crimes successfully without getting caught. Although the public has a clear recognition between the good and the bad, it is ...

Introduction

The American Revolutionary War was a turning point in the history of the United States of America. It signified the independence of America from the British colonizers. The war surrounding this independence of America has been featured in films such as The Patriot. Through such films, everyone can learn about historical wars that shaped the future of the United States (Ansen 58). However, the questions that arise from such movies as The Patriot is if they are truly historically accurate in their character depiction, scenery and weapons that were used, what the film got right and what it got ...

I love Lucy is one of the pioneer sitcom comedies shot in front of a live audience in the US. The setting of the sitcom is in New York with the show following the life of Lucy Ricardo and her husband Ricky Ricardo, who is a professional singer. The show also includes the couple's friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz. The show follows the life of Lucy, who is naïve in her ambitions to become a star in the big city. Together, the cast gets into various hilarious situations that are brought about by the actions of Lucy in ...

The movie i.e. Deadpool targeted a lucrative market as the movie focused on the two groups like comic-book cognoscenti and hormonal teenage boys. The movie on one hand includes humor content and on the other hand, it contains violence. The sense of humor in the movie at the same time is appalling and immature. The positive point of the movie is that the main character i.e. Deadpool was well-aware of his fictitious status, which is referred to USP of character. It can be ascertained by the fact that he was aware of the presence of camera and constantly communicated ...

Introduction

The Jurassic Park film 1993 is an American science film that is directed by Spielberg. It is set in an Isla Nublar. The movie is based on a science fiction novel to show that dinosaur can rule the world. The park is owned by Patel Corporation. Hammond lab was used to create the breed used in the Steven Spielberg’s movie. The founder of the park was the late Richard Attenborough, a renowned cinematographer. The film expresses the imagination of the scientists dealing with research on animals. They are depicted as being experts who tend to compare human beings ...

____(3) 1.  Select which category [in parentheses] this documentary fits into and explain why you think it best fits that classification. (awareness/social concerns, biography, research/informative, investigative)
This documentary fits best into the category of awareness/social concerns because the slave trade was a terrible event that more people need to be aware about because it destroyed the lives of many African families for at least 400 years.
____(3) 2. Discuss at least three major themes within this documentary, using examples from the film to support your choice. Your discussion should consist of a paragraph for each theme and ...

Bridge of Spies (2015) is a historical film that was directed by Steven Spielberg. One of the stars in this film is Tom Hanks. This film received a very positive feedback from the viewers and in my opinion it is one of the best films about the confrontation between the USA and the USSR in the past few years. The film is set in 1957 – 1962 and is based on a true story. In 1957, the USA arrested a Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, but a few years later he was swapped for the American pilot that was brought down ...

Shot in the 1970’s, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and The Marriage of Maria Braun by the same director, the films reflect on the intercultural and interracial relationships and the society’s reaction to the phenomenon. Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes his audience face the uncomfortable dilemma and choose the side to support. Though the contemporary audience may not find anything bizarre in the storylines offered by the director, it is important to remember that the film were shot in the 70’s, and their audience was basically the society Fassbinder reflected in his movies. From the perspective of ...

Our university’s recent production of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene showcases a relatively straightforward performance of the opera by Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice. The drama of a group of neighbors along an ordinary New York tenement in the 1940s, Street Scene (as produced by the theatre department) seeks to illustrate the inherent drama and tension of ordinary American city life, and the universality of those conflicts to human history. Through the elements of performance and lighting, Street Scene elevates the domestic dramas of these New York characters into universal themes that resonate greatly with the ...

____(3) 1.    Present a short summary of the plot (at least a paragraph; don't be too brief) IN YOUR OWN WORDS. (Please do not go online and cut and paste a summary of the film.)
In 1960 the federal government mandated that all public schools be de-segregated. In Louisiana, the governor refused to comply. Ruby Bridges was one of the black children selected to integrate the schools. When she arrived at her new school, with federal marshals as escorts, she discovered that the other black children did not show up and the white parents pulled their children from ...

Many critics called the film Sholay (1975) directed by Ramesh Sippy the best film in the history of Bollywood, or the "Film of the Millennium". The critics praise it so much so that several critics insist that "innovation in Hindi films ends with Sholay and that everything after that is repetitious trash" (Banker 55). This picture is a mix of crime thriller with the elements of "Japanese samurai epics and American and Italian Westerns, most obviously The Magnificent Seven (which was based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai)" (Banker 55). The director involved a number of best Indian actors ...

Creating the Image of a Supervillain in Six Minutes

Superhero films are expected to offer an explosion of action, and starting the film with an action scene sets the viewers’ expectations high. The initial scene of Christopher Nolan’s “Batman: The Dark Knight” gives viewers an adrenaline rush, which makes them feel even more excited about the rest of the film. However, in this film, the initial scene has an even more important function because it introduces the film’s antagonist, the Joker. The film relies on viewers’ prior knowledge of the character in order to reveal the main antagonist of the film in this scene. Even though ...

Movies are a source of entertainment and act as agents of recreation. Around the world, millions of people at one point in their lives will admit to having watched a movie. Whether it is at the big screens, rental DVD’s or streaming online. With a larger followership, movies are popular with both the young and old, the polarity of the film may be due to the theme expressed, or the role the main actor plays in the movie. Furthermore, the popularity of the movie may be because of affiliation with another big box office hit of the year ...

Undoubtedly, Terrence Malick is one of the most enigmatic artists of the modern cinematography. The majority of his films affect the most profound and controversial issues of human existence. The director is well known for his visual and poetic approach to cinematography, for which he is occasionally praised and scolded by critics. Recently, he turns to the Christian themes and speaks directly about God and with God in his films. In the film "The Tree of Life," Malick raises the question of the knowledge of God and the meaning of suffering, while his picture "To the Wonder" interprets love ...

INTRODUCTION

In the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott takes great care to fashion a detailed, unique dystopian world for the characters to inhabit. The setting is Los Angeles in the (at the time of production) dystopian future of 2019, where corporations rule the world and synthetic humans called replicants have been outlawed. The film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is tasked to hunt down several replicants who have escaped to Earth. The care taken in the creation of the world of Blade Runner, in combination with the dreamlike, meandering story, creates a visual and cultural ...