My Fair Lady My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical‚ My Fair Lady‚ based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ending and the ballroom scene are from the 1938 film Pygmalion rather than Shaw’s original stage play. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. The film won eight Academy Awards‚ including Best Picture‚ Best Actor‚ and Best Director. Plot In Edwardian London
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The movie My Fair Lady satisfies the four elements that define fine arts. These elements include music‚ dance art and drama. Although the movie is set in a different time period‚ it still manages to successfully convey the important facets of fine arts. The movie My Fair Lady is a 1960’s musical‚ originally adapted from a play‚ Pygmalion. There are several different types of music included in the film. For example‚ one of the romantic songs is "I Could Have Danced All Night"‚ which is sung by Eliza
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With reference to “Strangers On A Train” analyse the mise-en-scene. In this essay I am going to write about the film “Strangers On A Train” and look at how mise en scene and narrative structure are used to establish the film’s themes. Strangers On A Train is about two men‚ Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony‚ who meet on a train by accidentally knocking shoes. Guy is a professional tennis player and Bruno recognises him and starts talking to him. Bruno knows from the papers that Guy wishes to marry
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‘MY FAIR LADY’ Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical
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(Anthony Perkins). Hitchcock explores the nightmarish themes of madness‚ duality of characters‚ personal traps and voyeurism through employment of devices like mise-en-scene and motifs. Through the use of mise-en-scene in the parlor‚ Hitchcock masters the visual arrangements that help engage the audience with the characters in the film. The scene commences with what
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characteristic approach to the genre suspense thriller‚ and Hitchcock made a massive change to the thriller genre. His films were not black and white anymore. Also‚ he started to use more glamour in his films like glamorous blondes as the leading ladies. We can see examples of this in Vertigo. The film was written during an earlier era for a different audience‚ which is an important factor to have in mind. However this does not distract the whole experience‚ rather one has to put the movie in its
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How does mise-en-scene create meaning and provoke response in the opening of American Beauty? The opening scene of American Beauty shows a teenage girl lying in a bed‚ venting her feelings towards her father. In this‚ the audience sees her in dull clothing and colours‚ minimal make-up and has greasy-looking hair. As she sits up‚ her hair falls around her face and she stares directly into the camera‚ giving a sense of unease to the audience. The next shot is an establishing shot‚ showing the
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The rational‚ thoughtful‚ and democratic Weimar republic Republic slowly lost its grips on the government‚ giving way to the delusional‚ fascist Nazi Party. In the film M‚ Fritz Lang uses mise-en-scene‚ editing‚ cinematography‚ and sound to embodyin order to manifest Hans Beckert’s mental illness‚
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I will be analyzing a 10 minute clip off the film called Juno that was released in 2007 directed by Jason Reitman. This analysis will cover mise-en-scene‚ colouring‚ costume and performance. The film begins with a long-shot of Juno standing outside of a house with a chair in front of her introducing the surroundings to the viewers. It then showed us a wide angle shot focusing Juno and a chair. The beginning part makes the audience confused to why a chair was outside and why she was focus with the
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disbelief an absolute breeze for anyone that views Wizard of Oz. Uniquely‚ for a production of the time period‚ Wizard of Oz begins in black and white and‚ through an exquisitely executed tornado scene‚ throws its viewers right into the middle of Munchkin Land with Dorothy. However‚ the black and white scenes can still hold their own in
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