Grace Massett Professor Delmira Valladares Film 101 September 16‚ 2015 Casablanca Casablanca was a romantic film produced in 1942. Internet Movie Database summarizes Casablanca as “Rick Blaine‚ who owns a night club in Casablanca‚ discovers his old flame Ilsa is in town with her husband‚ Victor Laszlo. Laszlo is a famed rebel‚ and with Germans on his tail‚ Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.” Rick Blaine is the main character and he is described as cynical and doesn’t have a care
Premium Marriage Love Wife
Movie Extra Credit During the winter break I watched the movie Matewan. It was directed by John Sayles and stars Chris Cooper‚ James Earl Jones‚ and Mary McDonnell. It takes place in the turbulent town of Matewan‚ West Virginia during the 1920’s as heads butt on whether creating a workers union is the right thing. The coal workers go on strike to fight against the hazardous working conditions and low pay‚ but are dismayed by the fact the coal company is replacing them with Italian immigrants and
Premium United States Film English-language films
A reflection on “Lost in Translation” In everyday life‚ communication is constantly and subconsciously used. The importance of human connection in life is often overlooked. The Film “Lost in Translation” is focused on two main characters: Bob and Charlotte. They are Americans who have come to Tokyo for an extended stay. During each of their trips‚ the significance of human communication is brought to light. In the first half of the film‚ the characters do not meet which intensifies the communication
Premium High context culture Culture Anthropology
“I would argue that feminist film studies is not only still alive and well‚ but has‚ in fact‚ become much more heterogeneous‚ dynamic‚ and open in its scope‚ encompassing not just film analysis but also television and new media studies…” says Karen Hollinger from Feminist Film Studies (Hollinger 19). Film’s have definitely grown and expanded from the years pass. Women are now starting to be given roles other than those to please the male eye such as the girlfriend‚ secretary‚ receptionist‚ or mother
Premium Gender role Gender Feminist film theory
Mash‚ a counter culture classic‚ the themes and techniques used‚ represent the ethos of 1960s - 1970’s youth perfectly. The first thing i really noticed with Mash was that it did not hold back‚ religion was mocked and Mash really didn’t hold back‚ this is very pertinent in one scene‚ the legendary Last Supper scene‚ followed by Painless rising from the dead‚ only after a nurse has sex with him. This scene also shows the use of satire as sex‚ and honoring the “Faux Dead” with the use of sex and booze
Premium Film Film director English-language films
The medium of film is enriching as it is able to transmit powerful themes and/or social issues to an audience‚ leaving them with a new understanding. Explain how this statement is true of the set film you have studied. "On the Waterfront"‚ a well-known film by Elia Kazan‚ tells the story of the old former professional boxer Terry‚ energetic‚ at New York Harbor when union leader Johnny Friendly sent Terry’s brother Charlie to kill Terry’s friend Joey. Eventually in front of the bloody reality
Premium Film Film director Art
Drug trafficking‚ violence‚ murder‚ Joaquin Guzman Loera‚ known as El Chapo‚ is the Chief Executive Officer of the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel. This cartel specially stands out among the others because it supplies more heroin‚ methamphetamine‚ cocaine and marijuana than any other cartel or crime syndicate in the world‚ controlling 80% of drugs brought into the United States. El Chapo started selling drugs as a teenager‚ in Badiguarato‚ Mexico‚ where he was born. He founded the Sinaloa Drug Cartel
Premium Illegal drug trade Drug cartel Drug
narrative and narration. The film "Speed"‚ starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock is classed as a film where narrative plays a very large role in delivering the viewer with a broader understanding of the story or plot of the film. Narrative meaning a "chain of events in cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space" (Bordwell and Thompson‚ 2005).What the above statement merely translates to is a word were all very familiar with namely‚ story. The narrative of a film typically begins "with one
Premium Narrative Narrative mode Film
In anything one does‚ they have to know that passion fuels persistence. According to the article‚ once someone’s being becomes intertwined with a goal‚ a wave of unconscious motivational energy is released (para.4). The author of the talent code‚ Daniel Coyle‚ proves this by an experiment. In this experiment‚ young musicians who saw themselves as adult musicians learned 400% percent faster at their instrument than kids who kids who did not. For any profession or goal to work‚ practice is inevitably
Premium Management Psychology Leadership
was a work entitled ‘Come Out’ in 1966. This work continued exploring the technique of phasing from ‘It’s Gonna Rain’‚ again exploring the acoustics of speech to create musical ideas. ‘Come out’ was produced from an interview from a young man named Daniel Hamm who was arrested during the Harlem riots in 1964. The opening of the piece features original material from the interview detailing how Hamm and several others were taken into police custody and beaten savagely by the police. The speech from
Premium Music Jazz Bob Dylan