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    Vertigo

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    Vertigo Vertigo is a very deeply loved masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock’s. He made a stack of movies‚ yet Vertigo happens to be my favorite. The movie is about the inner and outer journey of two characters involved willingly and unwillingly in a set-up. In fact‚ there were a lot of behind the scenes ideas that the average movie-goer may not have known about yet. The movie begins with Jimmy Stewart talking to his friend after a long sequence where he is chasing a burglar on a roof top. In a

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    Inception critical review

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    Grown tired of watching the end of a movie and feeling that it’s been spoon feed to you with the care of a loving parent‚ any extra mess having been scrapped off the side of your face for you to swallow? Give Inception a swirl around your pallet. While many films give the viewer everything they need and all the answers wrapped up in a neat little package‚ or dazzle the eye with little supporting substance‚ there is a film that offers so much more; simultaneously thought provoking‚ riveting‚ and

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    Donnie Darko (2001) is a surrealist‚ mystery‚ sci-fi film set in suburban America‚ which follows the disenchanted and troubled teenager‚ Donnie Darko. The film follows the teen as he begins to explore what it means to be alive and believes to uncover secrets of the universe that gives him‚ what he believes to be a tempting power to alter time and destiny‚ letting him lose touch with what is and is not reality. In the following text I will be analysing and focusing on the opening scene of Donnie

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    The Sting

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    in such a way that he never realises that he has been cheated. The plot unfolds with great ingenuity; until the final denouement the audience are never quite sure which developments are for real and which are part of the elaborate scheme. Crime thrillers set during this period are normally associated with the classic `film noir’ style‚ with its dark‚ brooding‚ cynical atmosphere. In `The Sting’‚ however‚ George Roy Hill deliberately sets out to create a very different mood. The style is almost the

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    Breaking Bad analysis

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    Series analysis Breaking bad is an American television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series premiered January 20‚ 2008 on AMC and the series final aired on September 29‚ 2013‚ having a total of 62 episodes. The series is considered to be one of the best television series of all time. The last season was among the most watched cable shows on American television. About the show The main character‚ Walter White‚ is a chemistry teacher in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. When he is

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    The Lives of Others

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    The Lives of Other’s (2005) is set in East Berlin during the socialist reign from November 1984‚ up until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The political context plays a significance role not only in the film’s subject matter but also in its cinematography‚ which exploits the voyeuristic tendencies of the audience‚ reflecting the surveillance of the Stasi Secret Police officers. The film follows a loyal socialist and playwright‚ Georg Dreyman who becomes subject (along with actor girlfriend Christa-Maria

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    1102‚ along with the romantic tension and multiple subplots. The first time a saw the movie I really didn’t see the voyeurism of the film‚ mostly because it was in my high school humanities class and was told to figure out the story behind the thriller. The teacher told us to find out the mystery of Mr. Thorwald. But after refreshing myself of the movie a noticed that Hitchcock was a very smart‚ nosy man‚ just like the rest of society. I pictured Hitchcock in the wheelchair watching all those people

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    has been murdered in her apartment that was meant to look like a suicide. The classic noir was a fascinating account of the kind of moral doubtfulness and detachment that was typical post-War American society. This film was revolutionary for its cinematography (movideva). 1949- The Third Man Director-Carol

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    Based on this analysis‚ we can say that filmmakers’ approach to the problems of women in most cases is subject to the external terms of community. In the study of cinematography‚ you can see that over time the story of most films becomes related to the theme of women‚ who play an important and prominent role in the film. This means that the plot of the film revolves around the topic and talks about the reasons for the

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    film noir of society

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    menace and cynical characters. French critics used it to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s. The term literally means ‘Black Film’ and features extremely negative themes. Fedora hats‚ trench coats and nighttime make up some of the distinguishing features of film noir. Film Noir of this era is associated with low-key black and white visual styles that have roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir

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