An individual detailed analysis on the style‚ editing techniques Mise-en-scene and cinematography in the film "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind". Michael Gondry’s Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004) is not your typical Hollywood rom-com. Its cinematic style is very original and by far out of the ordinary for its genre. The use of techniques and the way the film is produced is the reason why it is so memorable. The non-linear narrative is based around a middle-aged guy who falls in
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<center>E-mail me if you would like me to do your essays!!!!</center> <br> <br>Directed‚ produced and starring Orson Welles‚ Citizen Kane (Welles‚ 1941)‚ is famous for it ’s many remarkable scenes‚ cinematic and narrative technique and experimental innovations ’ (Dirks‚ 1996). Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz and filmed by Gregg Toland Kane is classed as a fresh and classic masterpiece ’ (Dirks‚ 1996). Kane is a brilliantly crafted series of flash backs and remembrances centering around
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To start‚ in the opening scene‚ viewers watch Barnum perform with his circus‚ and the camera moves along with him as he acknowledges all of his performers. Eventually‚ the camera circles P.T. and everything around him becomes black. He turns around to see himself back as a penniless boy gazing into a store window at a beautiful red suit and top hat. The use of this iris transition from the first scene to the second shows the viewers that in that moment‚ the opening scene was just a figment of
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filmmaker who turns his life upside down when he goes “undercover” and is “poor” so he can make a movie out of it. The scene of them jumping on to the train and going on an undercover expedition shows how some people really had to live during the great depression and that to get somewhere they had to use a cargo train to travel where they wanted to go. The theme of this scene is for the main characters to set out on their journey to develop a plan for the movie Sullivan wants to make‚ but also
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Darko‚” directed by Richard Kelly‚ starts and ends in the same place: Donnie Darko’s bedroom. Before any other sound is played in the movie‚ a deep voice is heard saying “wake up‚” followed by an eerie and discordant mixture of noises. Already Kelly has set the tone of the movie to be dark‚ mysterious‚ and suspenseful. From the beginning of the movie‚ I was captivated by how a few sounds can create such an ambiance surrounding Donnie’s unusual actions. As Donnie seems to be sleep-walking out of his
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will inform you that there will be many other openings discussed before this one. Eavesdropping on an Eavesdropper: The Opening of The Conversation In 1974‚ while Watergate was capturing headlines‚ a movie about eavesdropping written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola was released. In The Conversation‚ Gene Hackman portrays Harry Caul‚ a virtuoso technician and probably the best professional eavesdropper in the business. In the opening sequence‚ Caul has minions with sensitive microphones
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Significance of the opening scenes in the film you have studied The opening scenes in the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrman are captivating and as a result hook the audience completely into the film. They do this by introducing the stark contrasts between 1929 in the sanatorium to New York in 1922. They also begin to develop the characters of Nick and Gatsby. Finally the first two scenes introduce some of the main themes and symbols that reoccur throughout the film. The first scene starts with old
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Lennie are two men who travel together and work on different ranches together. If the music playing was upbeat and intense then that sets the mood for the scene. For example there was sad music then candy gave away his dog and then moments later you heard a gunshot in the distance and the music set the mood for that scene. The beginning scene was a girl in a red dress running away and George and Lennie were running away while being chased by dogs and people on
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An important scene found in the movie To Kill A Mockingbird is a scene concerning Mr. Tate recoiling upon the outcaste‚ Boo Radley‚ and unraveling a new perception of friendship. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck)‚ his daughter Jean-Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout (played by Mary Badham)‚ and Boo Radley (played by Robert Duvall) all play an important role in the scene. As scout relates what had happened‚ she notices a man in the corner of the bedroom behind the door. She identifies the mysterious
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Silence of the Lambs Silence of the Lambs was a work of genius‚ the list of reasons why this movie works is just short of infinity. I believe I was too young for my initial viewing of this movie. As I watched the movie on the big screen it felt as if it were an all new experience. I found this movie was much more of an immersive movie than most others. It has a detective-like aspect to the movie‚ very much opposite to Citizen Kane’s detective-likeness in the best ways. The clues in this movie
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