When looking at the film Citizen Kane‚ it uses mise-en-scene to help paint a better picture throughout the film. Mise-en-scene‚ better known as staging‚ is the overall look and feel of a movie (Barsam;Monahan p.542) The first example that comes to mind when thinking about mise-en-scene is when Charles Kane Foster is running for office‚ he is giving a speech and in the background is a large poster of his face. For the majority of the film there are very few shots taken where Kane is not present
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Conrad Jarrett is the protagonist of this film. He is a teenage boy who has just came back home after staying in a psychiatric hospital for a few months. He was placed in said psychiatric hospital because he had wanted to commit suicide. Now that he is back home‚ Conrad feels distant from his friends and family members. We find out later in the film that Conrad is actually dealing with post-traumatic stress which was brought on by a sailing accident that took his own brother’s life. Beth Jarrett
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symbol and metaphor‚ setting and situation‚ and most importantly‚ contrast between traditional and non-traditional‚ Alice Wu and Ketan Mehta enable a different understanding of Asian and Asian American femininity and masculinity in their respective films‚ Saving Face and Spices. Several historical stereotypes characterize traditional Asian and Asian American culture; Alice Wu and Ketan Mehta address these stereotypes and more. Many historical stereotypes of Asian and Asian American culture revolve
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the Call of the Church” comes to a close‚ I find myself reflecting on the meaning of racial justice‚ as well as how to properly engage in this difficult topic in the city of Milwaukee. I had the opportunity to expand my knowledge while viewing the film Milwaukee 53206‚ which focuses on one of our community’s poorest zip codes as well as the nation’s most incarcerated zip code. The social ills of this area are not just a result of one issue‚ but multiple issues within the community including the average
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"Gasland" and "Fracknation" are two documentary films based off hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing as indicated by dictionary.com is the forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure‚ especially to extract oil or gas. Hydraulic fracturing started as a trial in 1947. It is a technique where a high weight of liquid (more often than not chemicals suspended in water) is infused into a wellbore to make splits in the profound rock arrangements through which
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In the film "Safety Last!" Harold Lloyd came a long way since his stage début at the age of 12 in "Little Abe"‚ and Harold plays a clumsy‚ dim-witted young man. Harold is leaving Great Bend in pursuit of better job opportunities in "the big city"‚ but ends up working at a department store. He does all this in hopes of making enough money to marry a girl he loves called Mildred‚ but things become increasingly complicated for Harold when Mildred makes a surprise visit to the big city at his place of
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Response 4 A film that I recently watched that draws upon stereotypes is Casino Royale. In this film‚ the people from Africa are portrayed as backwards and excessively violent. As the film opens up‚ a group of Africans are shown betting on a match between two animals – a snake and a mongoose – demonstrating that Africans enjoy watching innocent animals kill each other for sport. No doubt this makes Africans look backwards as‚ in the so-called civilized world‚ people do not watch animals fight for
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In the film industry they use something called elements to explain what is going on in the storyline‚ and in the movie Forrest Gump‚ the way they used different film elements helps in the explanation of the plot and assists in moving the storyline along. The different elements that I will be talking about are Effects‚ Costumes‚ and Camera movement/transitions. In Forrest Gump they used many different effects to emphasize and explain exactly what is happening. One way that they describe what is happening
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tending to the domestic duties. During this period of time the struggle of racial discrimination had exist and played a role onto to the main characters of the film. Through the film it showed that African Americans were both often incarnated‚ out of jobs‚ only can obtain low wage jobs‚ and couldn’t assimilate with the rest of the community. This film was able to showcase the rising of the black middle class‚ and the ability to obtain a “better” life then what the government standards has stated for African
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horror movie. I can’t assure you that this film is definitely bloody and includes some disturbing bloody imagery one might expect from a R-rated thriller flick. However‚ was this movie held up as the people were anticipated as? Well‚ technically‚ the answer is definitely a ’No’. Why? Because‚ it is very miss-marketed‚ hilariously awful‚ was an absolute flat comedy not a horror nor thriller‚ and one of M. Night’s worst movie ranked. The central story of the film does not make sense at all. The story is
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