Chino Hills saw its first use back in 1771 as land used for grazing cattle that belonged to the San Gabriel Mission until being sold to Richard Gird in 1848 after Mexico ceded it to the United States. The city began to see a population growth in the early 1920’s when both a mineral springs and a country club were both built in the city. The mineral springs were built in an area of the city known as sleep hollow otherwise known as carbon canyon. The springs became a getaway from the big city and soon saw small dwellings being built around it. In the 1960’s the springs became a constant hang out for hippies and many permanent houses were built during that time to accommodate those that would hang out there. Unfortunately today they springs are no longer open but many of the houses still remain. The Los Serranos country club was opened in 1925 which allowed members to buy small lots of land around the club on which many members would build cabanas or casitas for weekend getaways which led to future more permanent housing.…
Film Noir, meaning “black film’ in French, was the trending style and genre in American culture between the 1940s and the 1950s. It is a combination of European cynicism and the American landscape. Film Noir has its origins from German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism. Nino Frank, who was a French film critic, was the first to introduce this black and white genre to Hollywood in 1946. Many of the directors who introduced Film Noir where refugees from Nazi, Germany. From that moment in time, it became a popular genre for all films being produced in Hollywood. It became a popular genre because it managed to create a plot with excessive visual and urban style, and a sense of ambiguity. Plots of Noir films are composed of some kind of murder…
Based on the 11 episodes heard, I don’t think Adnan should had been convicted for the death of Hae Min Lee. Since there isn’t enough information to prove Adnan’s guilt, he shouldn’t be convicted in the first place. There are various reasons why I think Adnan is innocent.…
Although Chinatown breaks certain rules of film noir – it was filmed in 1974 and is in COLOR (black and white film is a traditional element of Film Noir) it models itself with formal elements of Film Noir genre including the sexy femme-fatale (with a twist), a protagonist main character seeking truth, and the plot laced with deceit, murder and greed.…
In this essay I will discuss technical, stylistic, and storytelling from one of the great American noir films of all time, Chinatown. The storyline is unparalleled and the portrayal of the characters by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway are brilliant. Director Roman Polanski and writer Robert Towne created a masterpiece, and it doesn’t go unnoticed. The duo captures everything that is film noir from the World War II times while tweaking the rules along the way.…
The first director of this movie was Feng Xiaogang. He is a highly successful Chinese film director and is renowned for making comedies as well as dramas. He was a member of the Beijing Military Region Art Troupe as a stage designer, and he began his cinema work as an art designer in the Beijing Television Art Center in the 1980’s. Given his experience working in the field for an extensive period of time, it is clear that he has learned the necessary cinematography skills to accurately portray the economic struggle faced by many Asian American immigrants. I will be using this as an evidentiary source to show that many Asian Americans have had to forgo their passions in order to be successful financially. They have allowed for economic factors to be the primary motivation sources in their lives, and they measure their success based off of their financial success and not their happiness. I will be using this in conjunction with “The Rise of Asian Americans” to build connections and show that Asian Americans are now…
5. Chinatown = The mother took the kids to Chinatown one day and when they got home started her record player and played Oriental music. She then decorated the dining room with Chinese lanterns. She dressed in a kimono and served a Chinese meal. This effects the story because it shows how the mother changed from a loving, fun mother into a crazy woman that could’nt care less about David.…
When you first hear the word Mongol, the immediate image that comes to mind is that of a fearsome and ruthless warrior. This reputation helped the Mongols conquer and rule the largest empire in history which spanned from China to Europe. While the rise of the Mongols is largely attributed to the emergence of their famed leader, Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire itself would have lasting effects on China, Korea, and Japan even after his death. The Mongols would occupy Koryo Korea, defeat the Southern Song Dynasty to occupy China, and attempt to invade and conquer Japan on two occasions under the guidance of Kublai Khan. These aggressive maneuvers by the Mongol Empire would have significant ramifications on the development of China, Korea, and Japan.…
One of the most influential film movements in the 1940's was a genre that is known today as film noir. Film noir was a recognizable style of filmmaking, which was created in response to the rising cost of typical Hollywood movies (Buss 67). Film noir movies were often low budget films; they used on location shoots, small casts, and black and white film. The use of black and white film stock not only lowered production costs, but also displayed a out of place disposition that the conventions of film noir played upon. It is these conventions: themes, characters, lighting, sound, and composition, which are seen in the movie LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997). This paper discusses the techniques used in LA Confidential that link the movie with the typical cinematic conventions of the film noir style.…
Chinatown. [pause] To Chicagoans and tourists alike, it is widely known as the epicenter of chinese culture in Chicago. With its vibrant colors, traditional architecture, and time-honored cuisine, countless Chinese residents are able to sustain their culture as well as offer others the ability to explore a new one. For decades, Chinatown has been a unique tourist attraction in Chicago. A colorful gate decorated with a Chinese inscription declaring “The world is for all” stands at the intersection of Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue. Nearby is a landmark of Chinese architecture, the former Chinese Merchants Association Building. Adorned with red and green pagodas, flowers, and lion sculptures, the building houses a library, meeting rooms, and…
In Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, Da Mayor is seen as a drunken old man. During the movie, he tells Mookie to "Always do the right thing". I believe that Da Mayor represents "the right thing". Throughout the movie I think that Da Mayor proves that he can follow his own advice. His many acts of honor prove that he is not just a hopeless drunk.…
The film Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, incorporates the image system of blindness vs. seeing to effectively increase the depth and complexity of how the plot is revealed to the audience. The effect of this is the audience feeling that they are not just watching a film, they are solving a mystery in time with the characters and what they see is not always the truth.…
Peter Bogdanovich uses the closing of another theater on another Main Street to serve as a symbol for the events that happened in America in the early 1950s. Hence, this is a "representation of representation", which is characteristic of many Postmodernist films. Furthermore, in the film, the technique of pastiche is used. Although this film is part of the Modernist period, it is filmed in black and white when many movies at that time were filmed in color. The entire film was shot with long scenes, and the background music came from the 1950s--all of these elements came together to create a feeling of nostalgia. However, there were also unconventional filming techniques. Several scenes played around with different point of view, and Bogdanovich experimented with these perspectives by placing the camera on the car, or having closeups of the characters' faces. The language used is also vulgar and includes swear words. This intermixing of the old and new became one of the trademarks of the 1970s cinema. Throughout the era, classic films were “re-imagined or given a modern, more grown-up spin”. Graphic nudity can be seen in several scenes, which was a sight that films of earlier years wouldn’t been able to have. “It portrays the forbidden, private nature of sexual relationships that was often dealt with in past films with a soft, gentle fade or pan”. In this film, however, many scenes were awkward and open in a way that the characters are not afraid to express their feelings to each other. The exaggeration of reaction seen in melodramas is reflected in the sex scenes--the prolonged silence emphasizes the awkwardness and creates tension for the audience. This openness toward sexuality relates directly to the growing openness of America with its own sexuality at the time. “With sexuality in being received…
On May 4th 1919, five thousand students in Beijing protested China's diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference. This was only the beginning of a much larger development. Eventually growing to the New Culture Movement, China's socially hierarchical system of strict tradition was clearly under attack by this. Published more than ten years later, Pa Chin's novel, Family flawlessly encapsulates the atmosphere of that time through the use of character development and symbolism. Pa Chin's steady usage of ambivalence as the leading theme efficiently summarizes the division that Chinese society experienced in several ways.…
Though there are many different schools, branches, regional variants, etc., of Chinese cooking, together they constitute what one might reasonably term "Chinese Cooking", where "Chinese Cooking" is distinct from, say, "Italian Cooking". A nation's cooking culture reflects its food traditions, from the food-preparation and eating habits of the countryside to the food-preparation and eating habits of the city, notwithstanding the increasing introduction of foreign fare that is not only served in "foreign" restaurants in the city, but which today is also found in the freezer section of most supermarkets even in the countryside.…