Donnie Darko‚ starring Jake Gyllenhaal‚ Jena Malone and Patrick Swayze is an edgy‚complex‚ psychological thriller about a suburban American teen dealing with the pressures of modern life and psychosis inducing anti-depressants. As well as being a masterpiece of modern cinema‚ Donnie Darko is also an excellent example of modern tragedy‚ as defined by Northrop Frye’s Modal theory. Firstly‚ the movie takes place in the month of October‚ a subtle (though not necessarily intentional) link to the Modal
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Double Indemnity and Memento Double Indemnity‚ directed by Billy Wilder‚ and Memento‚ directed by Christopher Nolan are films that make use of femme fatale concept. According to Dictionary.com‚ a femme fatale is “an irresistibly attractive woman‚ one who leads men into difficult‚ dangerous‚ or disastrous situations”; a woman with the ability to control men with their charm and beauty that they posses. The woman tend to satisfy their needs which having the men committing a crime or by inspiring
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blew up by accident and that he had insurance and wanted money. The only problem with that is that Keyes finds out that it was not an accident and that the truck owner did it on purpose to get the money. The newspapers were an important part in the film when Huff approaches the house of Mr. Nirdlinger. “I drove out to Glendale to put three new truck drivers on a brewery company bond‚ and then I remembered this renewal over in Hollywoodland. I decided to run over there. That was how I came to this
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Francis Coppola represent two outstanding examples that compare relevant ideas regarding racism‚ colonialism‚ and prejudices. The two combine film along with descriptive language to portray their mastery during different eras. For Heart of Darkness‚ Conrad uses his writing techniques to illustrate Marlow in the Congo‚ while in “Apocalypse Now”‚ Coppola uses film editing and close ups on important scenes with unique sounds to identify Willards’ quest for Kurtz. Both portray the idea of colonization in
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Theme of Casablanca Sometimes‚ one needs to give up something they cherish in order for things to turn out for the better. In the movie‚ Casablanca‚ this theme is distributed throughout. Each character has many decisions to face. Their reasons and motivations are very interesting and relate to the theme of the movie. Such as choosing between two people‚ letting go of a loved one‚ or going against their beliefs. Ilsa‚ a woman in the movie‚ has to choose between two men: Rick‚ whom she once
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thing to consider is that the late 1920’s were a much more relaxed‚ party era‚ while the early 1940’s were an era of strict decorum. While Hammett’s Spade is depicted as demeaning and a womanizer‚ the film makes him out to be a traditional clichéd hero‚ which is subsequently detrimental to the film and disregards Hammett’s original vision of Sam Spade. The book conveys a more complex portrayal of Sam Spade‚ whereas the movie presents an idealized‚ simplistic version of Spade. In the novel‚ Spade
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think for any main character.) By his looks/appearance‚ “He [Spade] looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan” (p. 3). Suggesting he is not angelic looking like lets say Humphrey Bogard (an indication that the movie isn’t true to the novel). The film ruined the ironic un-charming hero concept the novel have and so do I as one of my first example of the “things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammett’s message.” Spade is callous‚ avaricious‚ and shares a similarity with Mike from ‘The House
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Donnie Darko is a psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. For all that‚ first-time viewers are going to struggle in places. Kelly is a writer and director who refuses to give us easy answers and that’s definitely true in this movie. Even with the director’s cut‚ the film plays like a joke but is not Donnie Darko should be any teen. That massively heightens the sense of unease but it will also drive us some mile away and make the visual setting important for us. The movie
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Casablanca‚ (Michael Curtiz‚ 1942)‚ explores the ideals of love and sacrifice in the context of World War Two. These themes are propagated by the selfless actions of Rick‚ a cynical night club owner‚ and Ilsa‚ who must suppress her love for Rick in order to support her husband‚ Victor Laszlow‚ an anti-Nazi crusadist. The key scene in which Rick and Ilsa are reunited in the presence of Victor Laszlow and Captain Louis Renault at Rick’s Café emphasizes the tensions which arise from Rick and Ilsa’s
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201/S2/Day/Tutorial_1/03 Friday 11:00 12:00 1:00 W5C 213 ASN 201/S2/Day/Tutorial_1/05 Friday 1:00 2:00 1:00 X5B 132 Changes made to previous offerings of the unit The two-hour seminar has become one-hour lecture and a tutorial‚ and a weekly film screening slot has been added immediately prior to the lecture. In-Class Test has been discontinued. ABOUT THIS UNIT This unit is a study of contemporary Asia through cinema.
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