Cinema: West to East
Film Authorship
Ricciotto Canudo (1828) pointed out, “Cinema is the seventh art”. Any artists in each type of art have its own artistic style, even it is a film. Mise-en-scène is a good example to distinguish these artists. Every time we watch a film, we can find some period or some shots that we can identify the unique style. In film, we call autheurism. Although every film have its own story, different setting and different contents, we still find something whatever in comedy or tragedy that they are similar. According to the rule of auteur theory and authorship, each director has their own style. Because they can control anything in mise-en-scène including the set, attentive to décor, performance, and camera positioning and movement, so they may add something automatically in their film even they do not know. We can identify it like appraisal on each artist. Even though there is a difference in film genre, we may find some similar shots in mise-en-scène. To prove the rule of auteur theory and authorship, we choose a famous Hong Kong female director---Ann Hui, and find her two literary films - The Way We Are (2008)and Night and fog(2009). These two films have a same location ---Tin Shui Wai and same topic about family, but they have different story and plot. We will analyze these two films and find their similar period even if their story and plot have directly difference.
Film style by Ann Hui
About Ann Hui
To understand Ann Hui's style, we should know some information about her background first, because the majority of the people's habits is the portrayal of the background of life.
Ann Hui was born in Anshan and moved to Hong Kong when she was five years old. She studied in SL Paul’s Convert School and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1972. After she acquired master degrees English language and literature and comparative literary studies, she flight to British and spent two years studying in the International Film School. Ann Hui returned to
Ricciotto Canudo (1828) pointed out, “Cinema is the seventh art”. Any artists in each type of art have its own artistic style, even it is a film. Mise-en-scène is a good example to distinguish these artists. Every time we watch a film, we can find some period or some shots that we can identify the unique style. In film, we call autheurism. Although every film have its own story, different setting and different contents, we still find something whatever in comedy or tragedy that they are similar. According to the rule of auteur theory and authorship, each director has their own style. Because they can control anything in mise-en-scène including the set, attentive to décor, performance, and camera positioning and movement, so they may add something automatically in their film even they do not know. We can identify it like appraisal on each artist. Even though there is a difference in film genre, we may find some similar shots in mise-en-scène. To prove the rule of auteur theory and authorship, we choose a famous Hong Kong female director---Ann Hui, and find her two literary films - The Way We Are (2008)and Night and fog(2009). These two films have a same location ---Tin Shui Wai and same topic about family, but they have different story and plot. We will analyze these two films and find their similar period even if their story and plot have directly difference.
Film style by Ann Hui
About Ann Hui
To understand Ann Hui's style, we should know some information about her background first, because the majority of the people's habits is the portrayal of the background of life.
Ann Hui was born in Anshan and moved to Hong Kong when she was five years old. She studied in SL Paul’s Convert School and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1972. After she acquired master degrees English language and literature and comparative literary studies, she flight to British and spent two years studying in the International Film School. Ann Hui returned to