Destroying Avatar "The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented" (Roger Ebert‚ Chicago Sun-Times). Many have sat through and watched The Last Airbender‚ directed by Shyamalan‚ while others have ravished over Avatar: The Last Airbender‚ the Nickelodeon cartoon. Both of these have the same concept and story line‚ but yet still vary completely. Shyamalan altered the setting‚ plot structure‚ added and deleted ideas and details
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Avatar James Cameron‚ the director of Titanic‚ is innovative and intelligent. Cameron is a man that knows exactly what variables are necessary in creating a movie. About 12 years after the release of Titanic‚ Cameron creates yet another smashing‚ breath-taking‚ mind-boggling film. One that initially raised suspicion but later proved to be an extraordinary film. The name of that film is Avatar. Avatar is a sensational piece of work. It has a clean cut message about earth preservation and anti-war
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beginning of the clip from The General‚ the use of costume and camera position helps to clearly introduce and identify the characters of the film. The clip opens with a medium close up shot of the protagonist Johnnie Gray as he looks into the distance‚ showing his importance in the film and directing the audience’s view towards the other characters of the film (General Thatcher and the ten men) respectively. A few of these men first appear in a long shot‚ hammering the top of the train. This builds
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sooner or later‚ though‚ you always have to wake up‚” (Cameron‚ 2009). When comparing James Cameron’s Avatar with Walt Disney’s Pocahontas‚ you may find several similarities in the movies; but don’t be fooled‚ because it is the differences of these two movies that sets them so widely apart‚ rather than the similarities that supposedly bring them together. Many people seem to have the opinion that Avatar is just a futuristic‚ visually stunning version of Walt Disney’s Pocahontas but in reality‚ they are
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Philip Lee Joor Baruah Monday- 11:15-12:30 Film 20A 30 October 2014 Citizen Kane Sequence Analysis Essay Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography and editing are visual elements in film that create meaning in the shots/sequences of the film. Ultimately it is these factors that can establish narrative agents and their relations‚ drive the narrative and place the view in a certain point of view of the narrative. Orson Welle’s 1941 film‚ Citizen Kane‚ is considered significant for its technical innovations with
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Name: Dorcas Bamigboye. Student Number: 7781917. Course: FILM 2380. Instructors Name: Jonah Corne Reading Response 2 In the essay The Ontology of the Photographic Image‚ Andrew Bazin argues that film and photography surpass painting as a form of visual art because they in a sense capture time and the moment as it is in the moment i.e. they in a sense freeze time. This argument might have been true at the time this essay was written but this above statement is not true at this time. When a painting
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Sequence Analysis – Poison Poison (1991) by Todd Haynes depicts the life of a scientist who accidently drink an elixir he brewed and must face the consequences. Tom the protagonist and his female colleague Nancy‚ takes a walk to town as a way to overcome Tom’s nervousness over his new appearance. He receives a lot of disgusted stares from onlookers as the sequence progresses and ultimately exposed of the reason of his skin condition. The sequence this essay will analyze portrays the back and forth
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one each from Sections A‚ B‚ and C. Each essay answer must be 500 words. You may write about the same film more than once ONLY if you are writing about different subject matter. You may not write about the same film more than twice. You may write only on films viewed in class. Films viewed outside of class are not eligible for analysis. Please indicate‚ by number‚ your answers. Eligible Films: Casablanca‚ In the Heat of the Night‚ The Graduate‚ The Shining‚ Silence of the Lambs‚ LA Confidential
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Both Tony and Rick are faced with a dilemma throughout Argo and Casablanca‚ respectively. They catch themselves getting more and more involved with the escape plan‚ and then their emotional connection leads to altruistic actions. Both Argo and Casablanca have a scene that underscores these characters transitions. On the first movie Mendez‚ have a heated up conversation with his boss on the phone‚ while on the other movie‚ Blaine points a gun at an official. Up to this part‚ the characters were
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disgrace to the South". This method is extremely prevalent today. When comparing this scene to a more modern film‚ such as the chase scene from The Dark Knight we watched in class‚ Harvey Dent and Rachel are speaking to each other at the beginning of the chase scene in shot-reverse-shot. In modern films‚ shot-reverse-shot is so commonly used that it is difficult to
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