Wambaa Mathu 9/20/07 Arch 423 ASSIGNMENT #4 ENVIRONMENT - BEHAVIOR IN FILM GIRL‚ INTERRUPTED I Title of film: Girl‚ Interrupted Film director: James Mangold Film producers: Carol Bodie and Winona Ryder Year of film: 1999 Film stars: - Winona Ryder plays the part of Susanna Kaysen the autobiographical main character who is admitted into a psychiatric ward to be treated for borderline personality disorder following a suicide attempt. - Angelina Jolie is the character Lisa Rowe‚ an ex-junkie and
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it enhanced the significance and created more suspense.The director successfully cultivates an early sense of pointless sex and adultery in the viewer through effective use of camera angles‚ multiple close-up shots‚ and tight spacing. The first scene of the movie opens with a super close up of Ben showing no emotion yet moving. As it continues music and credits‚ without his knowledge‚ are playing in the background while all the viewer can see is his face and a white wall. This shot does not move
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Code and convention of horror film: A horror film follows certain code and convection to achieve its purpose of scaring and alarming the audience. The following are some of them: Setting/location: The location used for this genre of a film is isolated and lonely area that has been abandoned or an area where the victim will feel vulnerable. For example small communities‚ dark streets‚ narrow alleyways‚ roads‚ woods‚ haunted places‚ farms‚ country sides and cities etc… sometimes places with ‘dark’
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Scene Analysis: Maria’s Essence Transfer The scene in which Rotwang recreates the Machine-Man in the likeness of Maria is one of the most visually complex scenes in the silent film; Metropolis. The events leave the viewers with several important questions. What is being taken from Maria and putt into the robot? What does the scene say about the difference between machines and people? Why is the pentagram painted on the wall of the labratory? What is being taken from the Maria and putt into the
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“you can’t do that because you are not a boy”. It never occurred to me that the media has a hand in this way of society’s thinking. At the end of watching Miss Representation the viewer will actually feel that the media is the primary reason for undermining the growth of women in the United States. Jennifer Siebel Newsom‚ the director of Miss Representation‚ does an excellent job to convince her audience that women need to be portrayed as more than just pretty objects in the media. She does this
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In the 1939 film Mr. Smith goes to Washington‚ directed by Frank Capra there is a strong corrupted depiction of the United States political system in the way that the Senate functions. There is evident character conflict‚ development‚ and interaction which is able to entice the audience and keep them guessing as to who will come out on top. The characters manipulate one another for personal gain and political gain which keeps the film moving‚ as well as helps the main character‚ Mr. Smith‚ grow‚
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Film Analysis: “MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING” Introduction to Sociology “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ is a wonderful movie all about the Greek sub-culture in Chicago. This movie explores‚ and demonstrates many sociological points. This movie is exceptional because‚ this movie also shows the values of Greek immigrants living in America. Furthermore‚ the American Greeks in this movie promotes three traditional values - marry a Greek boy or girl‚ have Greek babies‚ and feed everyone. This is a value that
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Analysis of the text «Miss Brill». by Stefanovskaya A. The text under analysis is «Miss Brill» written by Katherine Mansfield. The plot of the story is simple‚ and the themes are by no means uncanny. What touches our attention is‚ indeed‚ the way Mansfield narrates the story and the language she employs in the whole process of narration. The style of this text is gallant‚ sensitive‚ lyric and also ironic. It`s written in third person narration. The plot tells us about an old lady‚ who spends her
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Exploitation films have been produced since the beginning of film‚ but once the Production Code was no longer in effect‚ more these films could be produced and at a faster rate. One genre of exploitation cinema is the drug crime film. Starting as early as the 1930s‚ filmmakers made movies about the dangers of doing drugs. These films were often cheaply made and aimed at a small audience (Clark 4). They were theatrically simple‚ with an uncomplicated narrative: “these are films whose entire function
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On May 11th 2017 I went to see Miss Julie performed at Shaking The Tree Theater in in Southeast Portland. Miss Julie is a drama adapted by Craig Lucas and directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe‚ who also was the scenic designer. The show revolved around a cast of three‚ the character Miss Julie was performed by Beth Thompson‚ her lustful lover Jean who was played by Matthew Kerrigan and his fiance Kristine who was performed by Kelly Godell. In this analysis I will be discussing the performance of the
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