LA Confidential and Film Noir One of the most influential film movements in the 1940’s was a genre that is known today as film noir. Film noir was a recognizable style of filmmaking‚ which was created in response to the rising cost of typical Hollywood movies (Buss 67). Film noir movies were often low budget films; they used on location shoots‚ small casts‚ and black and white film. The use of black and white film stock not only lowered production costs‚ but also displayed a out of place
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CTCS 190: Lecture/Discussion Notes Style/Mode of Representation • Another voice into the production/consumption of a film text • Particular film is rendered in a particular style; has to be addressed by consumer • Objectivity v. Realism Realism • Mode of representation that attempts a 1:1 correspondence with reality with how the subject is depicted (in film‚ artwork‚ etc.) — exactly how a person sees it • Never possible to have exact realism • Everyone’s reality is different • Ideology — relative
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fiction action film Inception was written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan is most known for the Dark Night. The concept of the movie was written in 2001 but was released in 2010. Inception was filmed in 6 different countries including the United States. The main character is played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The weekend opening the film made 62.7 million dollars. It was the sixth highest grossing films of the United States. While being mainly a science fiction film the genre often
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society. Dystopian Essay On one level‚ dystopian films have a direct relationship with society. By their very definition‚ dystopian films present a negative representation of a future or alternate society. They are often mis-labeled as science fiction films because of their futuristic setting but although here are obvious similarities‚ their overriding artisticness is more closely united to another genre: film-noir. Stylistically‚ many dystopian films hark back to the darkest times in Western Society’s
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symmetry‚ Tim Burton’s gothicness‚ and Michael Bay’s extravagant explosions are very distinct. This attention creates long lasting films that are memorable. Furthermore‚ images should add to plot and impact the viewer. In film‚ The possibilities of communicating are endless. Sight and sound are used to carry our emotions and to help build a relationship between the film and the audience. Drive is one of the best examples. The employment of music‚ subdued cinematography‚ and symbolism help achieve that
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Gattaca Notes Context: * 1997 science fiction drama film * directed by Andrew Niccol * film presents vision of a society driven by “new eugenics” Title: * ‘GATTACA’-made up from abbreviations for the DNA nucleotide bases * During opening credits-names of cast & crew are telegraphed by the letters of the four bases-joined afterwards by the other letters of their names * Suggests the films point that people are first seen in terms of their genetic profile * And
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Review of Blue Velvet‚ Film Directed by David Lynch Exposed: Voyuerism from Shadows into Shadows _____________________________________________________________ Blue Velvet is a bizarre neo-noir film that explores raw themes of sadomasochism‚ voyuerism and violence. Lynch skillfully weaves his vision of a “strange world” into the small‚ seemingly unadulterated town of Lumberton‚ unraveling a human darkness that‚ much with the same impulses as the protagonist‚ one takes a guilty pleasure in viewing
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it with such intention: A Bout de Soufflé was the sort of film where anything goes: that was what it was all about. … What I wanted was to take a conventional story and remake‚ but differently‚ everything the cinema had done.1 Apparently‚ the film has novel‚ innovative features in almost every aspect of cinema including shooting‚ editing‚ narrative structure‚ and characters. It achieves such creativity by breaking stereotyped rules of film-making. Godard’s shooting style was innovative. It was rather
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French New Wave films can be seen as a contrast of Hollywood film which most of the elements apply in the film is opposite. However‚ some elements are still similar to Hollywood films‚ yet‚ has a different style as Hollywood films. Such mise-en-scene expression are most common style uses in both of the period. And Breathless‚ as an example film during the French New Wave‚ which directed by Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential film utilizing editing‚ mise-en-scene and cinematography to convey
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~Graham Greene & The Third Man‚ 1950~ Greene said in his autobiographic book Ways of Escape (2007‚ p.9) ’Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write‚ compose or paint can manage to escape madness‚ the melancholia‚ the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation. ’ In a previous autobiography‚ A Sort of Life (1999‚ p.9)‚ which closes at Greene ’s 27 years of age‚ he wonders again about the reasons for his writing. ’And the motive for recording
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