In the film The Shawshank Redemption‚ directed by Frank Darabont the purpose of the beginning sequence is to introduce us to Andy Dufresne and his situation; being accused of the murder of his wife and her lover. This sequence uses lighting‚ music‚ sound and camera work to show us Andy’s struggle. A production aspect that shows us this idea is lighting. Low Key Lighting is used in the scene when we see Andy in his car drinking bourbon and loading his hand gun. Low Key Lighting is when the lighting
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The Blind Side film review The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock. Is a family sports drama film. This film is about a young man taken in by the Tuohy family and introduced to the sport of football. I liked the movie because it showed the caring side of a family and it shows how good people can actually be. I am going to comment on the aspects of costumes‚settings and dialogue The Blind Side is a movie about the struggles of Michael Oher and the story of how he is taken in by the Tuohy
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In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ a reclusive character is portrayed by the grumpy old Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge‚ the main character of the story‚ was an old man living in his own terms. However‚ grave iniquities were naturally overflowing in his veins. Scrooge detested the human kind in general. His misanthropy caused his greediness and lack of interest in life. His selfishness and awful misanthropy‚ however‚ changed with the help of the three ghosts. In the midst of the gleeful Christmas
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Hellboy II (2006) - source: Universal Pictures Hellboy II (2006) - source: Universal Pictures Hellboy II: The Golden Army is an excellent sequel. It maintains the interesting characterizations from the first film and expands the scope of the adventure in satisfying‚ creative ways. Whereas the first Hellboy feature spends much of its time explaining Hellboy’s existence and setting the stage for his development‚ the second volume is committed to myth-building. The
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“It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol” “ I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link‚ and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will and of my own free will I wore it” (Dickens 10). This statement made by Marley from “A Christmas Carol” not only embodies that of the story it hails from‚ but also another prominent Christmas classic titled “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Additionally both stories share similarities that only a senseless man could miss. But behind the mutual correlation
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In this article‚ I am going to compare and contrast the narrative structures‚ generic codes and conventions of film noir with more recent neo-noirs; the films I’m going to use to do this are Double Indemnity and Pulp Fiction. I’m also going to investigate the relationship between original film noirs and the Hollywood studio system and contemporary production contexts in the North American Film Industry. The first film I’m going to be looking at is Double Indemnity‚ a classic noir film which follows
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The Big Fish is based on a genre‚ Southern Gothic‚ where freak nature comes in a role in story telling. The Big Fish have three most common elements in Southern Gothic. Those elements are imprisonment‚ freakiness‚ and supernatural. The father would tell a story to his son about his life. However‚ his son thinks his father is full of lies. It brings the conflict between reality and fiction. In Southern Gothic‚ it doesn’t matter because it combined reality and fiction into one story. Although‚ it
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In the movie Edward Scissorhands‚ Edwards conditional acceptance and eventual banishment suggests that the people in the world that Burton creates will only accept individuals that are different than the norm if they are of use to them. At the beginning of the movie‚ all the residents are uneasy about a foreigner entering their community. However‚ as soon as they realise the potential that he has to fulfil their own desires‚ they welcome him with open arms. This shows that all the residents in the
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The storyline of the film Bigger Than Life follows a schoolteacher and family man named Ed Avery. Ed has been suffering of severe pain and is hospitalized and diagnosed with a rare inflammation of the arteries. At this point Ed is told that he will die shortly and agrees to try out an experimental treatment that might save his life. The experimental treatment involves taking doses of hormone cortisone. The treatment works‚ and Ed retunes back home to his wife and kid. Though not all is good‚ Ed begins
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II‚ scene II of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ As a result of the dreadful crime of killing his own king‚ in II‚ii Macbeth expresses his feelings of remorse. As Macbeth leaves the castle hall‚ Lady Macbeth imagines that her husband is killing the Duncan as she speaks. After hearing what she thinks is Macbeth crying out‚ she worries that the others have woken up. She says that she would have killed him herself but he looks too much like her father. Macbeth returns to his wife‚ his hands covered in
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