This scene is the intro to ‘the Departed’ directed by Martin Scorcese. It is a compression of time with narration by Costello that gives insight into some of the characters‚ mainly Costello himself and background information such as location. It effectively establishes the position of the main characters and the public’s reaction of them‚ letting us know what the movie is going to be about. I loved the camera work in this scene and the way Costello’s portrayed‚ he is later referred to as ‘the rockstar’
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The movie Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson‚ 2012) tells a story of two children‚ Sam and Suzy‚ who feel estranged and disconnected in their small island community of New Penzance. Wes Anderson’s use of cinematography and other audiovisual elements creates a highly stylized movie that explores the concept of family and the need for people in our lives. In the scene towards the end of the movie in which Sam and Suzy make a risky climb up to the top of the church bell-tower‚ in the middle of a storm‚
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Eden Lake-Poster Eden Lake is a horror film‚ this is immediately shown by the use of the dark lighting on the poster‚ by having a dark lighting creates a eerie effect for the audience. If this was a comedy film or a Romance the lighting would be bright and not at all dark‚ this then again proves this is a horror film. The Protagonist character of the film is on the poster‚ which is also the main feature that catches the eye. This is to show the audience who will be acting in the film‚ also the main
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Sitting in a large theater in front a giant screen with the light off is a wonderful experience that we repeat constant when seeing a movie because it disconnect for a moment of our reality. The American cinema is a great medium with the power to spread culture and ideas and influence in our behavior‚ thinking and trends. This is the way that it connects with the American Experience. In the American Cinema there are seven giant media corporations that make Hollywood movies (including Viacom
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With I Confess‚ Hitchcock broke his professional lull after The Strangers on a Train (1951). Setting the film in Quebec‚ Canada‚ with a strong French heritage & a city steeped in Catholicsm and its striking church architecture served well for the story. Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) acted as a true Catholic priest‚ friend and employer who hasn’t disclosed the confessional secret of Otto Keller (O.E. Hasse)‚ the caretaker of local catholic church and thus putting his own life in jeopardy
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Lack of speech‚ lack of music at first‚ when Norman Bates walks in the camera focuses on the shadow behind the shower curtain and the music starts when Bates is revealed behind the curtain with a knife. The music starts (same sound as a curtain reel moving that screechy sound)‚ when Marion Crane starts screaming it zooms in on her face. The camera flicks between the two characters showing that there is a struggle. Camera doesn’t show Bates’ face as it’s supposed to be a surprise as to who is the
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House of Night Series – Marked [pic] Zoey Redbird lived a typical life. She dealt with problems any typical teenager would deal with. But that was of course before she was Marked as a vampire fledgling. Once you’ve been Marked‚ there’s no turning back‚ and 16-year-old Zoey has got no choice but to accept her new life. Some people might think that being Marked is bad news. Even Zoey thought that it was bad news. But as soon as she started living as a vampire‚ she started to realize that Nyx
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Summary of Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur By Robin Wood In Robin Wood’s essay: Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur‚ Wood revisits Hitchcock’s films and analyses the different characteristics in the films. Wood focuses mostly on Shadow of a Doubt and It’s a Wonderful Life in which he compares and describes the different values of Hollywood cinema. One of Wood’s major points to hear two opposing views. Wood stresses that a critics job should be to look at a piece as a whole rather than at the particular aspects of one
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Hitchcock’s use of lighting and shadows in Strangers On A Train is very meaningful and cleverly masked. To add to the character development and understanding of Bruno and Guy‚ Hitchcock uses light very early on in the film‚ to help demonstrate the characters of Guy and Bruno. The window of the train compartment in the first scene‚ casts lines of shadows onto Bruno’s face‚ similar to those of jail cell bars. Because of this‚ we can infer early on that Bruno’s character isn’t to be trusted and that
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A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho are both used as texts by their authors to satirically comment on their different societies‚ Burgess writing as a warning of the chaos the social revolution of the 1950’s and ‘60s might bring‚ while Ellis is commenting on the commercialism of the incredibly capitalist 1980’s‚ and how humanism has almost been abandoned because of this. Both Burgess and Ellis’s satirical commentary of their societies is evident through the characters of their violent psychotic
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