1 Please write a description of the mise-en-scene and musical sore from the opening scene. Note: you will want to write notes on this as you watch for the first time. Why do you think the director‚ Hal Ashby‚ made these choices? Defend your answer. The mise-en-scene of the opening scene is a boy dressed in brown tones with neutral and similar tones around the boy. The song is actually the opposite though because it is saying words like keep your head up high and the song has a “bouncy” beat to it
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In the movie Harold and Maude there are many topics that may be seen as deviant or taboo. Although the movie came out in the 1970’s‚ the themes of deviance that are portrayed are very relevant in today’s society‚ and even to the topics of our own class. There were many abnormal topics in the movie‚ but the ones that stood out to me most were the issues of love and parenting. Both of these themes are depicted in the movie in terms of deviance. One of the major subjects in the movie is love and relationships
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Harold and Maude is a romantic comedy film that focuses on the contrasts of youth and age‚ apathy and energy‚ and life and death. Harold Chasen is a wealthy young man with an obsession with death. He frequently stages mock suicides‚ so much so that his domineering mother doesn’t pay attention. To entertain himself‚ Harold goes to funerals of people he never knew. On multiple occasions he runs into Maude Chardin‚ an energetic octogenarian woman who believes in living life to its fullest. An unusual
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Youngil Yoon Professor Virginia Shirley English 300W 08 October 2013 Harold did not Ruin her Suicide In 1997‚ the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress selected the movie‚ “Harold and Maude “by Hal Ashby‚ 1971‚ for preservation for being “culturally‚ historically‚ or aesthetically significant.”1 This movie was dealt with black comedy and‚ at the same time‚ romance that leaves uncertainties in the ending which was significant at that time because it was unusual for Hollywood films
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1. Hal Ashby’s film‚ Harold and Maude‚ is full of subtle uses of technique used cleverly to advance the plot of the film. Perhaps the slyest example of this is the use of overlaying once scene from the next. Often the dialogue are is over-laid from one scene to the next for example‚ a shot still focused on Harold’s face as his Uncle Victor begins speaking before the cut to him in his office has taken place. This is a clever way of drawing in the audience; the voice is displaced‚ neither coming
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[Type the company address] 08 Fall Destroying Stereotypes in “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle” Keith Hernandez 3/6/12 Professor Sandoval CHLS 341 “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle” is a film unlike any I’ve ever seen. Not because it involved to successful “pot heads”‚ not because it their journey to a White Castle restaurant took an entire night to get to (although that is part of it)‚ or even because it starred Neil Patrick Harris as a complete drug addict looking for the next
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portrayal of Harold Chason in Hal Ashby’s film‚
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Hal Ashby’s cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles)‚ but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death‚ Harold freaks out his blind dates‚ modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse‚ and attends funerals‚ where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core‚ Maude lives exactly as she pleases‚ with avid collecting
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answer an endless stream of questions only to find the answers to be a complex path of even more questions. This film tells the story of Harold‚ a twenty year old lost in life and haunted by answerless questions. Harold is infatuated with death until he meets a good role model in Maude‚ an eighty year old woman that is obsessed with life and its avails. However‚ Maude does not answer all of Harold’s questions but she leads him to realize that there is a light at the end of everyone’s tunnel if you pursue
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Sister Maude Christina Rossetti begins her poem “Sister Maude” with two similar questions‚ asking who told her parents about her ’shame’. We do not know at this point what the narrator’s shame is‚ but it gradually becomes clear that she was having an affair with a handsome man. In Victorian times when Rossetti was writing‚ this would certainly have been considered shameful. The narrator answers the questions in the first quatrain‚ naming her sister Maude as the person who told her parents what was
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