Although introduced almost seventy-three years apart‚ Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times‚ and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis share many common parallels and themes. Through the use of biblical allusions‚ both Lang and Dickens are able to compare characters in their stories to holy figures such as Freder and Stephen Blackpool being alluded to as Christ-like. Both stories also show the harsh effects of industrialization‚ and present similar situations of with the school children and factory workers living
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an exploration "into juxtaposing light and shadow" as well as madness and obsession in an urban setting complete with complex architectural structures. When Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was released in 1927‚ Luis Buñuel wrote that‚ "if we look instead to the compositional and visual rather than the narrative side of the film‚ Metropolis exceeds all expectations and enchants as the most wonderful book of images one can in any way imagine" (Hudson). The narrative is supported by the visual images‚ but more
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Texts often reflect upon problems faced by a society‚ at the time of the texts creation. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Metropolis by Fritz Lang take the social context of their time to deliver a warning to society. Through their deliverance of their messages‚ they explore the impact of oppression‚ rebellion and the interaction between them and how that has an impact on society‚ as well as‚ introspectively. The puppet in Image 1 is being oppressed by the hand‚ this is shown through the
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facilitates dictatorship” To what extent does your comparative study of the intertextual perspectives of Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflect this statement? The extent of which technology facilitates a totalitarian regime is elucidated by the comparative study of the composers’ intertextual perspectives. Despite living in different time periods‚ both George Orwell’s 1984 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis convey their perspectives of technology as beings factors that bolster a dictatorship. ****** Technology
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Metropolis the story set in the future which shows the gap between the working class and the wealthy. Joh Fredersen is the city’s ruler‚ his son Freder is seen enjoying a carefree lifestyle. Freder is in the eternal garden when a woman appears with children that are filthy that live in the worker’s city. Freder is awed by the women’s beauty decides to follow her to an underground city. He is distraught to see the machine these people working explode and killing many of the workers. Freder runs to
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French New Wave v Soviet Montage The differences between soviet montage and French new wave cinema are interesting and many. Both genres of film seek to create contrast between adjacent shots via discontinuity editing‚ but subtle differences in their editing styles allow this contrast to produce very different results. In French new wave editing is used to both draw the audience in‚ and push them away‚ it draws the audience’s attention and inspires distaste. Soviet montage on the other hand uses editing
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Camera Shots A camera shot is the amount of space that is seen in one shot or frame. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of a film’s setting‚ characters and themes. As a result‚ camera shots are very important in shaping meaning in a film. Reviewing the examples on the right hand side of this page should make the different camera shots clearer. An extreme long shot (animation on right) contains a large amount of landscape. It is often used at the beginning of a scene or a film
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Chicago - a land of opportunity. Today one might chuckle at the thought‚ but during the nineteenth century it was very much the case. William Cronan’s Nature’s Metropolis was published in 1991 and still remains one of the greatest books ever written about the city of Chicago. Cronan uses the book to describe the rise of Chicago and how it played a role in the flourishing of economics in the country as a whole; thus‚ using Chicago as an example of the interconnectedness between city and country. Beyond
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the weakened economy; therefore‚ he decided to come up with a plan- the financial plan. In the song My Shot by the Hamilton production‚ Hamilton sings “Hey yo‚ im just like my country‚ scrappy and hungry” (Hamilton) This line emphasizes
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Corner Shot Gun Corner Shot can change the nature of relevant operations by providing security forces with an effective tool to accurately pinpoint and engage a target‚ at minimal risk to their personal safety. Amos Golan‚ the inventor‚ one of Corner Shot ’s founders and a former Anti-Terror Unit Commander‚ said: "I believe that the Corner Shot weapon system can be extremely beneficial in the global war on terror. It protects soldiers ’ lives and increases their chances of survival‚ while drastically
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