In the Halloween season‚ children have always dressed as trending characters for the specific time‚ however‚ the creature from Frankenstein has always been a classic horror figure for kids to dress as. Frankenstein has been an influential film among the horror genre‚ inspiring similar plot lines for films‚ a continuation of the series‚ and remakes of the film‚ as well as an overall classic everyone knows of. Though it had minor imperfections‚ the story was greatly portrayed and produced for its
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close-up shots‚ colors and spacing. The first scene of the movie opens with a close up view through a window‚ showing Mac and another man fighting in the hotel room. Punches and things breaking stay throughout the scene‚ and a sense of panic was felt by the viewers. However‚ despite the violence‚ the view point of the camera starts to focus on the shadows of the two men. With an unknowing sense of who would win the camera starts to have an open frame. The scene ends with a tracking camera following the
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The Great Gatsby & Citizen Kane " You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. "- James Allen The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane are both classic American stories about the so called “American Dream”. The main characters in both stories are Mr. Gatsby and Mr. Kane. They each come from similar backgrounds. They also both hold much power as adults. A difference between the two is one chose their way of living the other did not. He was
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favor of Kane against Jim Gettys‚ also. I think it also shows bias when Kane is speaking about “Jim Gettys having something less of a chance”. Examples of fallacies: In making the statement “the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys”‚ that is an example of ad hominem‚ because he is attacking Gettys. The statement that Kane makes “the dishonesty‚ the downright villainy‚ of Boss Jim Gettys political machine” is an example of ad hominem‚ also. The campaigner uses apple-polishing about Kane being the
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house‚ and tons of money? All of those things have been what individuals set goals for from before 1941 and even now‚ to present day. Citizen Kane is a movie that shows a great example of the “American Dream” in 1941. Charles Foster Kane is the man the entire plot of the movie is about. They begin the movie by showing newspapers headings that “Charles Foster Kane has died” then they go on to explain who and how important Charles was. At that point I hadn’t created an opinion about the man‚ only
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Citizen Kane is a brilliant piece that changed the film industry‚ illustrated the American dream‚ and accurately lampoons the life of William Randolph Hearst. Citizen Kane was produced‚ directed‚ co-written‚ and acted out by Orson Welles in 1941‚ by Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) studios . The movie appears to be unanimously popular both in the day it was produced and even more so today. The film techniques used were due to the fact that Welles was an amateur‚ and his camera man was adventurous. Citizen
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Significance of the opening scenes in the film you have studied The opening scenes in the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrman are captivating and as a result hook the audience completely into the film. They do this by introducing the stark contrasts between 1929 in the sanatorium to New York in 1922. They also begin to develop the characters of Nick and Gatsby. Finally the first two scenes introduce some of the main themes and symbols that reoccur throughout the film. The first scene starts with old
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To start‚ in the opening scene‚ viewers watch Barnum perform with his circus‚ and the camera moves along with him as he acknowledges all of his performers. Eventually‚ the camera circles P.T. and everything around him becomes black. He turns around to see himself back as a penniless boy gazing into a store window at a beautiful red suit and top hat. The use of this iris transition from the first scene to the second shows the viewers that in that moment‚ the opening scene was just a figment of
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Who is Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) and what where the defining moments of his life? These are the questions that lead Thompson (William Alland) and the viewer on a captivating goose chase through the memories of Kane’s closest associates. Like the many possible meanings contained within the word kane‚ such as the Irish interpretation “little battler”‚ the Japanese translation of “money” and “gold”‚ the Welsh’s interpretation of “beautiful”‚ and the Hawaiian’s definition as “man”‚ friends
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Cinema 100 Citizen Kane Citizen Kane is hailed as one of the best films of all time‚ and with good reason. Citizen Kane is in the Film noire genre and is about Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)‚ who is the owner of a huge media empire; He dies in his bedroom at his estate named Xanadu. Clutching onto a snow globe as he dies‚ Kane’s final word is “Rosebud.”A news reporter named Jerry Thompson (William Alland) is interested in the life and death of Kane‚ so he tries to find some extra information
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