Hollywood and video games do not make a perfect couple Hollywood has made a quit amount of films that are based on video games‚ but none of them was a huge success as the games were. Top video games like Tomb Raider‚ Prince of Persia and Super Mario Bros all have been made into movies‚ but they were not executed well. Sometimes people wonder how can a movie with a $100 Million budget flunk easily? Nowadays video games include a perfect storyline‚ cinematic‚ visuals and it is more dynamic than
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In the films‚ The Secret in Their Eyes‚ directed by Juan Jose Campanella‚ and The Official Story‚ directed by Luis Puenzo‚ both directors create a revealing depiction of 1970s Buenos Aires. Although neither story takes place during the actual “Dirty War‚” the subject serves as the backdrop for both films‚ illustrating how political turmoil has impacted society in Argentina. During this period also known as the “Holy War‚” ruthless government retaliations to a growing Marxist-Leninist revolutionary
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The film Metropolis‚ Fritz Lang adopts the same way of thinking as Eliot. Lang depicts the fragmented society through social stratification. He depicts the bourgeois as people who lead a callous and monotonous life in order to serve the wealthy upper class. The crescendo in the non-diegetic music with the addition of wavering vector lines in the beginning of the film forebodes the exploitation of the working class and creates a sense of chaos. The centralisation of the clock indicates that the workers
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The temporary transvestite films have offered a different perspective for a mass audience that isn’t used to these different gender constructions. In the movie I watched‚ Some Like it Hot‚ they did a very good job by making the whole disguise thing very funny and easy to follow once you get into it. It wasn’t normal at all back in the 50s for any one sex to dress like another. There was a very large audience that wanted to see these transvestites dressed in different situations‚ getting away from
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Lincoln is a 2012 American historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg‚ starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln‚ Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln‚ and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life‚ focusing on the President’s efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Cisneros Film Noir Assignment 1--How is the mood of Sunset Boulevard representative of the Film Noir style? The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills. As we fade backward into the story‚ we quickly come to understand that this film is about "behind the scenes" Hollywood‚ self-deceit‚ spiritual and spatial emptiness‚ and the price of fame‚ greed‚ narcissism‚ and ambition
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in this film. Dax tries to get them out of the trenches but the soldiers will not move because they know they will die. When Dax goes up the ladder out of the trench to try to lead the charge shows why the soldiers won’t move because Dax can’t get out of the trench without a dead body rolling onto him. Another infuriating scene in Paths of Glory‚ that’s shows how greedy the people in charge during the war is the trial scene. This scene is why this film is highly regarded as a great film. This scene
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In the film “A Bronx Tale” directed by Robert De Niro an important event near the end of the film was when Sonny got shot in the bar. The main visual techniques used are slow motion and acting in the scene. This event was important because it showed the special‚ intimate relationship between Sonny and Calogero. This film is about a young boy named Calogero‚ growing up in an Italian neighbourhood in the Bronx. Sonny is the Mafia boss who becomes like a father to Calogero. In the scene near the end
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were mostly for pure entertainment‚ never delving too deep into the human psyche or touching on subjects outside of the day to day lives of the upper crust of society. Films never touched on the real day lives of the average person who‚ ironically‚ paid to those types of movies. During ww2 films served a similar purpose. Many of the films at the time were created to boost morale of people at home and to support the troops. They were understandably created to make the public at home feel a little less
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Film genre From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia See also: List of genres#Film genres and television genre In film theory‚ genre ( /ˈʒɒnrə/ or /ˈdʒɒnrə/) refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed. Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre criticism. As with genre in a literary context‚ there is a great deal of debate over how to define or categorize genres.[citation needed]. Besides the basic distinction in genre between
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