Kafauver hearings‚ with the exception of Scarface (1932)‚ the majority of gangster films featured mobsters that were removed from any Mafia and did not tend to contain Italian characters. After the hearings‚ the genra has become narrower; mainly associating with Italian Mafiosos. Hollywood represents gangsters a dressed in tailored suits‚ violent‚ and traditional Italian. Before the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934‚ movies like Scarface were scrutinized for their excessive
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How has the "American Dream" been translated into popular film? Refer to at least four films. The American Dream is an often mentioned and well-known term used to describe the ideology of the United States of America. Despite the common usage of the term it is not always completely understood and so requires‚ at least‚ a brief introduction and definition. P Mueller in his writing Star Trek and the American Dream claims that " to some the American dream is just "from rags to riches"‚ to others
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“Why has audience positioning towards Gangster films and their main characters Changed throughout the evolution of film?” “The crime film is the most enduringly popular of all Hollywood genres‚ the only kind of film that has never once been out of fashion since the dawn of the sound era seventy years ago.”-Thomas Leitch The central theme of the gangster film has always revolved around law and order and essentially boils down to the Criminal institutions fighting one another or fighting a corrupt
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aspects of film making as an art form. Orson Wells used a new style of shot framing called Mise en Scene to show the dynamics in a scene. He also used lighting in ways that had never been used before. As the star of the movie as well‚ Orson Wells delivers an all time great performance as Kane. All these things add up to create one of the greatest movies to ever grace the silver screen. Citizen Kane uses Mise en Scene to show the true nature of the characters in a given scene. This can and does change
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1) An Incident Lu Hsun Six years have slipped by since I came from the country to the capital. During that time I have seen and heard quite enough of so-called affairs of state; but none of them made much impression on me. If asked to define their influence‚ I can only say they aggravated my ill temper and made me‚ frankly speaking‚ more and more misanthropic. One incident‚ however‚ struck me as significant‚ and aroused me from my ill temper‚ so that even now I cannot forget it. It happened during
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them‚ Al Capone‚ from Scarface. The movie was loosely based on Al Capone and his life. We all know that this story does not end well. However many young men idolize him and this movie. There was no need to do a scientific study here‚ they all admitted that they had learned behavior from the movie. I know that many factors we at play here‚ it was just so mind boggling to think that a movie could have such influence over young people. My own husband loves Mafia movies‚ Scarface included. Is he violent
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Philip Lee Joor Baruah Monday- 11:15-12:30 Film 20A 30 October 2014 Citizen Kane Sequence Analysis Essay Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography and editing are visual elements in film that create meaning in the shots/sequences of the film. Ultimately it is these factors that can establish narrative agents and their relations‚ drive the narrative and place the view in a certain point of view of the narrative. Orson Welle’s 1941 film‚ Citizen Kane‚ is considered significant for its technical innovations with
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The Reason Behind the Scene –Why We Keep Choosing “If the outlaw hero’s motto was ‘I don’t know what the law says‚ but I do know what’s right and wrong‚’ the official hero’s was ‘We are a nation of laws‚ not of men” (Ray 62). A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema‚ by Robert Ray‚ looks at the various opposing values in America through the history of Hollywood films and cinema‚ which one vital value is the dichotomy of outlaw hero versus official hero. Official hero tends to be an idealogy
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carries an umbrella as some kind of dance partner‚ and at one point using it as an air guitar. This technique is used in the movie to allow the audience to use the performance to perceive different perceptions and meanings of the images and sound. Mise-en-scene in this specific scene with Don creates a different effect‚ leaving the audience with a feel good
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