A major theme that I would like to focus on in the movie Scarface is criminality. This film is littered with criminals and is the basis of the whole movie. Three techniques that I believe identify the theme are costumes, lighting, and acting style.…
The movie Stomp the Yard is filled with many conflicts and lots of suspense. Stomp the Yard was released in 2007 and is rated PG-13. This movie has a lot of profanity and fighting. The main character DJ had been in a dance-off with his crew and brothers, when a fight broke out and his brother was shot. Ever since his brother was shot, DJ changed his performance and continued to step and enrolled at Truth University.…
Arthur Penn’s film Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, tells and displays the story and career of the two notorious bank robbers Clyde Barrows and Bonnie Parker and their gang during the great depression. The film in many ways was a groundbreaker and a pioneer for the ”New Hollywood” in the way it distinguished and separated itself from the well established style of the classical Hollywood.…
"Lights! Camera! Action!" the dramatic yet traditional prompt associated with Hollywood and the pictures. Hollywood appears to be this extraordinary glamorous world; however, in reality is it? Many people dream of being in the limelight of Hollywood; where there is an endless amount of money, power, and fame. Society fails to examine what's behind fame; the dark, twisted, and the ugly truths hiding within those exact words. Billy Wilder explores and divulges the dark yet unknown, harsh realities of fame, following Hollywood's transition from silent pictures to talkies; with his film Sunset Boulevard.…
Between 1931 and 1934 Warner Bros typically made violent gangster films that glamorized mobster through brutality and violence. This was until 1935 which saw the film G-men starring James Cagney who previously starred in films like Public Enemy. This film intended on putting the focus onto the law enforcement and glamorizing them rather than the mob.…
he movie Gangs Of New York is filled with racism, war, and political corruption. The movie takes place between the years of 1846 -1862. The movie focuses on the issues between Irish immigrants that are enter New York and the Americans citizen who call themselves the Native Americans.…
The creation of a finished movie involves several stages of production; pre-production, production, post-production, distribution and exhibition (Media College, 2017). In the pre-production stage of a musical film a concept and storyline is brought to a prospective production company with the purpose of attracting backing. When this is successful then the actors are matched to parts, screenplay written, dances choreographed, songs and music written, settings and props sourced along with technical and support crews. Grease, initially being a Broadway musical written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, had to be adapted for film; while half of the original songs were used, others became background music and more were written specifically for the film (Callahan, 2016).…
“The world is yours” is the tag line of the historic pop culture crime drama Scarface. The line itself has had a big impact on hip-hop and the artists in it. Tony Montana the protagonist of the movie explained “in this country you gotta make the money, you get the power, then you get the women. The tagline was used and referenced by rappers such as Jay-z, Raekwon, Lil Wayne, Nas, and the Geto boys. The movie has been a guide and direct influence to a lot of these men’s coming to fame stories.…
The Roaring Twenties seem like a dream to many, but “The Roaring Twenties were the period of that great american prosperity which was built on shaky foundations “(J. Paul Getty). Even though the twenties were the calm before the storm, there are many forms of entertainment that helped shape the future of entertainment. These forms of entertainment include jazz music, the silent film industry, and the improvement in cartoons. One of the first things to influence this era in American History were silent films, they were called silent films because they didn’t add audio for the actors. One of the most famous actors of this time was Charlie Chaplin.…
For my research paper I decided to write a film analysis on The Gangs of New York. This film was released in 2002 and it follows the life of an Irish man named Amsterdam (Leonardo DeCaprio) during the late 19th century. The film is centered on an area called “five points.” Its name comes from the intersection of 5 streets- Mulberry, Orange, Little Water, Cross and Anthony St. The center was a place where the poor lived because it always had a stench of sewage. The town square catered to violence and disease. In the beginning of the film, there is a war between the “natives” and the “dead rabbits” that were Irish immigrants at the five points. Amsterdams’ father was the leader of the dead rabbits and the two gangs engaged in a deadly battle. The leader of the natives, “bill the butcher” ended up taking the…
“Although music, radio, books, magazines, comics, sports, and other forms of mass entertainment were all significant in the thirties, nothing else was a central to American popular culture in that decade as motion pictures,” (McElvaine, 208). Consumer and popular culture is present in the motion picture industry after World War I. A large percentage of Americans went to the movies each week during the 1920s. Surprisingly, that number increased during the Great Depression. This could be due to the new technologies of the film industry. Sound was added to films in the late 1920s. Going to the movies was leisure activity of most Americans and it still is. Upper, middle and working class individuals all went to the movies. Neighborhood theaters allowed all races and ethnicities to go to in familiar company. Movie theaters had an impact on youth culture as well. Some historians believe that American society was reflected in cinema. Films gave Americans a sense of hope.…
Jewish immigrants of the 1930s took American popular culture by surprise through their mass takeover of the Hollywood film industry. Through the creation of many production companies, these immigrants were able to establish themselves as a dominant figure in the movie industry early in their careers. Many of these Jewish productions are common names in our current cinema industry such as Warner Bros., Miramax, and any of the other companies owned by the Weinstein brothers. A majority of the films produced by these companies were created on the idea of gangsters. However these gangsters portrayed in the films were double agents in the eyes of American people: criminal yet heroic, stylish yet tasteless, bold yet ultimately defeated. “The ‘gangster masquerade’ was an important exercise in popular culture artifice.”(13) Through these cinemas the movie producers were able to introduce slang terms into our society. Some of these terms, which are still popular today, are ‘gat’, ‘clip’, ‘beef’, and ‘the joint’. With these terms sneaking their way into the American vernacular, the Jewish film producers were able to develop new words that were used by all of society and are still used in our current era. By creating this image of the “Jewish gangster”…
Silent films were of huge proportion in the early 1900’s. It wasn’t until the advent of sound in 1927, with the production of “The Jazz Singer” that would indefinitely change the ever-expanding landscape of cinema. Audiences and movie-lovers alike were shocked and mystified when Charlie Chaplin released Modern Times in 1936, still being proclaimed as a silent film (excluding the movies soundtrack and occasional Foley sounds). Even in such changing waters, Chaplin manages to create one of the greatest comedies the film world has ever seen. It seems to be timeless in its comedic actions and telling of the dehumanization of labour. He thoroughly symbolizes the common man and the troubles of “The Great Depression” with his character “The Tramp”. On top of that, I will argue that his use of sound, and likewise his non-use of sound could not have been more balanced and eloquent.…
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3 1. Presentation of the movie, “Gung Ho” ................................................................................ 3 2 . Theoritical Analysis: ........................................................................................................... 4 A. Hofstede’s dimensions ................................................................................................... 4 B. Kluchhohn & Strodbeck’s Model .................................................................................... 6 C. Analysis of scenes .......................................................................................................... 8 3. Cross- cultural communication .......................................................................................... 11 A. Differences of languages ............................................................................................... 11 B. Communication style ..................................................................................................... 12 C. Nonverbal communication: ........................................................................................... 13 D. Negotiation .................................................................................................................... 14 4. Leadership and corporate culture ....................................................................................... 15 A. Organizational culture ................................................................................................... 15…
At this stage film was becoming rapidly more popular with the general public and by the 1930’s Hollywood started creating some of the first “Classic Hollywood” motion pictures we know today, such as Howard Hawks’ 1932 “Scarface”. The introduction of Hollywood cinema dramatically increased the size that a film production could be and with increased investment it meant more actors, bigger production…