1- Referring to your notes on the film‚ Imitation of Life‚ explain how having the ability to pass is a blessing and a curse. Make sure to be specific and provide one blessing and one curse. In the film‚ “Imitation of Life‚” Sara Jane is a black young woman with the skin color of a white person. No one really knows that she is black except Susie‚ Laura and Steve. The people at her school thinks she is white and they don’t expect her to have a black mother‚ until she shows up there to bring
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of relating our aesthetic identity to the African culture the most appropriate national film festival to compliment the film would be Design Indaba. This festival not only caters to the national entertainment industry but the international one as well. It not only focuses on film‚ but on various elements of art including fashion design and graphic design amongst many‚ which are elements that make up our film in terms of being discipline specific. Our aesthetic is predominantly South African‚ we incorporate
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I have chosen the film Forest Gump to write about my understanding of film. It was released in 1994 and directed by Robert Zemeckis‚ produced by Wendy Finerman and Steven Tisch. The movie based on the written screenplay of Eric Roth from the novel of Winston Groom. It has several well-known‚ talented actors such as Tom Hanks‚ Sally Fields‚ Robin Wright and Gary Sinise to name a few. The production cost of fifty-five million and it grossed six hundred and seventy-seven million worldwide. Forrest Gump
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movie is sometimes extremely underrated. Not a lot of people know this film‚ like they know about Alien.. and so on. Comparatively‚ this film has a compete with other incredible SF classics‚ for an example‚ a well known movie‚ ALIEN and ALIENS. PREDATORS has great action‚ a very good performance from Arnold Schwarzenegger‚ cool special effects and some incredible tension throughout the run time of this film. The story of this film is very simple. A group of highly trained soldiers are sent to the central
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For this film I used many different concepts learned from FTP 150 this year. I used concepts such as different camera angles‚ music to give the video more emotion and further the story‚ using jump cuts at certain points‚ telling the story visually‚ using a script to plan the film‚ filming multiple shots several times‚ giving the actor specific direction on how he should play the role‚ and much more. All of these concepts put together with the actual story I had envisioned created the final product
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In the film Taxi Driver‚ Travis Bickle‚ a middle aged man with no proclaimed direction in life in the beginning of the film. He soon enough‚ through his convictions about the "scum of the city‚" a love lost‚ and perhaps mental instability as a result of the Vietnam war‚ finds meaning in his life and carries it out through controversial actions. According to Merriam-Webster judging is defined as: "to form an opinion about (something or someone) after careful thought." Whether it be taking a girl out
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The main purpose of this film is the explore the life of African Americans throughout the world over the past several years. It gives you the highlights of the tragedies‚ triumphs and contradiction of the black experiences. This film was written and presented by Henry Gates Jr. Gates highlighted the black Spanish conquistador in 1513 named Juan Garrido convoyed Ponce de León on his expedition into what is now the state of Florida. Thus‚ the airing of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross coincided
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The action/thriller film of 1954 Rear window‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock shines the light on the primary theme of marriage throughout the film. Each of the characters are related to their marital status‚ at one point or another‚ even the crime on which the plot twists is the product of a failed marriage. Within the first couple of minutes you are able to tell that L.B. Jeff Jefferies‚ tosses the idea of marriage around throughout the film. With Jeff examining his neighbours marital problems each
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outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. The 1983 movie Scarface starred Al Pacino as Tony Montana‚ a ruthless Cuban immigrant killing his way to the top of Miami’s cocaine-crazy underworld. (The film was loosely inspired by the 1932 film Scarface: The Shame of a Nation‚ which starred Paul
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War of the Worlds’ is a Sci-Fi Thriller. Extra-terrestrials have launched a global crusade on our planet and they wish to exterminate the human race and use the planet for their own sinister reasons. The director Steven Spielberg incorporates many film techniques in order to portray the drama of the story. Some of these techniques include costumes‚ lighting‚ and sound. All of these techniques add to the drama and help convey the story and the characters’ identity to the viewer. Costumes are used
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