Blood Diamond – Film analysis Plot: Main events Chronological‚ flashbacks‚ parallel story‚ reverse Suspense‚ foreshadow The most important sequences in the movie is when Solomon finds the huge pink diamond and buries it‚ and when Dia points a gun at Danny and his father Solomon. Chronological‚ the son is taken by the RUF. Parallel story‚ Solomons son on one side Climax: What is to come (Foreshadowing): When Solomon meets his family at the camp‚ we know that he is going to get them out
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An analysis on how Mise-en-scene and sound create meaning and generate response in the film Marnie‚ by Alfred Hitchcock. The scene is of Mark trying to rekindle Marnie’s memories from the night of her mother’s ‘accident’: Marnie‚ having seeing Mark trying to hold back her mother’s punches‚ begins to remember parts from that night. The first shot‚ of Marnie‚ her mother and Mark‚ uses Mise-en-scene to show the higher achy within the three characters. Whereas towards the beginning Hitchcock had always
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readers to understand it easily . The fantastic detail description and the vivid character are featured of the story. I think the outline of the story is a kind of messy‚ when the writer describes the family supper‚ at the same time‚ there is a flashback about his dead mother. The memory of the mother reveals his feeling of missing to his mother. the dialogue of character occupies a big part. It’s not a lineal story. The plot kinda be a little complicated. In the surface‚ the narrator just talks
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literature particularly poems‚ short stories‚ essays and drama‚ my first venture into the play “Sepang Loca” by Amelia Lapeña- Bonifacio made me puzzled. I felt the plot was leading me to a more exciting maze as the story continued to unfold. The use of flashback made me confused and wondered why the story became malicious all the time. The narrator of the play was given enough focus and presented comprehensive details in order to provide the information of the past that would answer the questions of
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Foreshadowing “When he was nearly thirteen‚ my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”(3) Parallelism Simile “…his head was like a skull lookin’ at her.”(13) “By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of Catawba worms.” (18) "...Popped me like a cork onto pavement." (50) Metaphor “I wanted you to see what real courage is‚ instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand”. (149)
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written and the way it was presented in the film adaptation we watched in class. One major difference was that in the movie‚ the girls were shown dancing in the forest at the beginning. In the play it is only a flashback. The scene was added in the movie to make it more dramatic and foreshadowing. I think it helps to understand the movie better and it sets the mood of the story from the very beginning. In the movie‚ when the girls visit Betty before the trial‚ Betty is very wild and almost violent
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happened if his mother and the headmaster had done something before it was too late. In “Sticks and Stones” the agent ‘flashback’ is used repeatedly. Mostly to show the reader why Lewis is‚ whom he is at this point of his life‚ and to show why he has not been able to go on with his life. It is furthermore to show how the traumas have shaped the boy into an obsessed man. The flashbacks are used to make the reader almost feel the pain that Lewis felt by being ignored by his mother‚ when he cried for help
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displays a complete lack of positive belief. J.D. Salinger uses such techniques as narrative style‚ symbolism and foreshadowing‚ in his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The reader’s feelings of despair and hopelessness for Holden Caulfield are stimulated through the use of Salinger’s narrative style. He is unable to logically sort information with a constant variation between flashbacks and events. For example‚ whilst Holden narrates his longing for a ‘good-by’ he then changes the subject and talks
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Techniques used in Citizen Kane In film class this past week‚ we learned that there are many cinematic techniques used in films that contribute to the way a film is portrayed by an audience. We had the pleasure of watching a film directed by Orson Wells In 1941 called “Citizen Kane”. I am glad that this particular film was the film of choice to demonstrate some of these techniques. The movie “Citizen Kane” uses each cinematic technique in a way that is obvious to the viewer. I have chosen five
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incorporates a lot of foreshadowing‚ symbolism‚ and imagery. It is based on the Guatemalan civil war. It lasted six years and was fought between the government and several Guatemalan groups. The government forces were very much condemned for committing genocide against the Mayan population of Guatemala. It began with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency commanded by Colonel Carlos Castillo against Jacobo Arbenz. “Three Dirges” gives you a sense of fearfulness. “Don Lazaro begins with a flashback of the Colonel
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