numerous techniques that constitute film editing‚ ranging from fade ins and outs‚ to the Kuleshov effect and the 180-degree axis rule. This response is dedicated to analyzing‚ relating‚ and pointing out the use of shot/reverse-shot patterns in The Big Sleep. When cutting a dialogue scene that typically utilizes a shot/reverse-shot‚ one character’s reaction to what is being said is just as important as what is being said. Through the 180-degree axis rule‚ the camera shifts along the axis without
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Why Significant Changes Were Made to the Plot in The Big Sleep Movie After reading the novel "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler‚ then watching the 1946 movie version starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall‚ I found myself asking why are there so many changes to the plot in this movie as compared to the novel. Many significant pieces of the plot were drastically different and there were even certain scenes that had been made up for the movie that were never in the book. After doing some research
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Marlowe - The Big Sleep What are my traits? Marlowe runs a single man operation out of the Cahuenga building in Los Angeles. He is tall and big enough to take care of himself. And his interests are Liquor‚ women‚ reading‚ chess and working alone. He is educated enough that he can speak English if he’s required to’. Marlowe used to work for the district attorney‚ but was fired for insubordination. Philip Marlowe‚ a private detective. Tall‚ dark‚ and rugged‚ with a poker face and a quick
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shot A and shot B 3. Spatial relations between shot A and shot B 4. Temporal relations between shot A and shot B1 Howard Hawks‚ being highly inspired by German Expressionist films‚ has used many stylistic film editing techniques in his 1946‚ Big Sleep. These techniques can fall into all four categories mentioned earlier. Hawks has widely used establishing shots to transition from one scene to the other. Examples of these shots can be observed as Marlowe commutes to various locations (Brody’s apartment
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Second “Arbeidskrav” Eng-2118‚ British and American Crime Novel Anastasia Puzyreva Question № 2. One of the distinguishing marks of all crime fiction is its emphasis on a sense of “atmosphere”‚ “decorum”‚ and “verisimilitude”. Using a specific example from one of the texts on our reading list agree or disagree with this statement. 1. Introduction «One of the distinguishing marks of all crime fiction is its emphasis on a sense of “atmosphere”‚ “decorum”‚ and “verisimilitude”. »
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outcomes. In the film The Big Sleep exemplifies film noir from the visual using the black and dark atmosphere. The genre film noir has a dark downbeat sort of feel to the theme. Film noir is very dramatic and in the movie when a character dies the movie has the orchestra play a dark‚ gloomy‚ grim type of music. The lighting in film noir is also used in the movie. During the car rides the lightening is clear showing what audience should be focusing in on. The shadows in the movie are shown on the characters
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Writing 39B January 20‚ 2013 Unconventional Conventional Women: Chandler’s Femme Fatales The Sternwood sisters‚ Vivian and Carmen‚ depict themselves as being the ultimate femme fatales in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. A femme fatale is an attractive and seductive woman‚ especially one who will ultimately bring disaster to a man who becomes romantically involved with her (“TV Tropes Femme Fatale”). While both women possess the attractive and seductive characteristics‚ they fail to become involved
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about the death of Rusty Regan and learns the deeper and scarier truth about human nature and desires. Chandler’s The Big Sleep portrays ambitious characters committing real crimes that are mentioned in the article “The Simple Art of Murder”. According to Chandler‚ good detective fiction comprises of real life situations. Chandler tried to fabricate a realistic situation so that the novel is more applicable [to its time] by using his experiences and knowledge about the world in the 1930s. General Sternwood
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Short Summary: Anastasia is an exciting fictional tale partly based on the Russian Revolution and the real life Romanov family. The timely story begins in St. Petersburg‚ Russia in 1916 during a ceremonial celebration for the Czar of Imperial Russia‚ Nicholas. He and his wife had four beautiful daughters and a son‚ with the youngest daughter being Anastasia. Her grandmother‚ The Dowager Empress Marie is leaving for Paris and she gives Anastasia a music box and necklace as a goodbye present. That
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In Raymond Chandler’s‚ The Big Sleep‚ he illustrates a clear tension between detectives and cops. Marlowe‚ an investigator is often challenged by factors not in his case such as resistance from local police. Marlowe says on many occasions that the law was corrupt. He explains how easily a “copper” could be bribed or persuaded and justice could be easily pushed to the side. In this case‚ he was right! The police of the city had been involved in many cases in which the facts had been hidden or slightly
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