... journey to find a good story to write for my own. Realistically, it is a difficult task to try and conjure up an interesting and distinct narrative to put on a film, especially when it's only based on something you made up in your head. Then I started to think differently in order ... in a film. Take Hitchcock's Psycho for instance, what made that film a classic is how Hitchcock put the story on film and not particularly the narrative itself. The pacing of the film, starting from what seemed to be a getaway film, and suddenly turning into a suspenseful view of the human psyche ... that I...

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... of a classical film (Bordwell and Thompson 441). Many different film movements occurred at this time simultaneously, all with distinct differences in style and narrative principles, thus making it impossible to identify classical Hollywood cinema merely as occurring during a specific time range (Bordwell and Thompson 441). How then ... have a better understanding of their desires, emotions and subsequent causal motives. However, nothing caters to the viewer's understanding of the film's narrative more than the style of editing used throughout the duration of the film. The consistent use ...

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... from Texas isn't probably going to make it in the city. "Midnight Cowboy" was not only a breakthrough film because of the stereotypes that it bent and broke, but also the techniques used in making it. John Schlesinger was one of Hollywood's most groundbreaking directors in one of Hollywood's most creative times. Wald Salt who wrote "Midnight Cowboy" said of Schlesinger "I think ... 74). He was one of the filmmakers who wasn't afraid to break down the patterns of filmmaking and editing of the 1950's and early 1960's. Schlesinger " subverted the traditional narrative and cinematic represe...

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... a camera could do. His style of cinema was dubbed meta cinema, cinema about cinema. As for Eisenstein, he had ties to each Griffith and Vertov. Vertov and he felt that narrative story telling should not tell all. The viewer should be forced to fill in parts of the story, not just be a latent audience. To Eisenstein, art was conflict. In comparison ... their anguish and the brutality of the soldiers. Each of these three filmmakers impacted the world of cinema we know today in their own way. Though they shared ideas and techniques about film, each was able to create new styles that have h...

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... other online newspapers. They seemed to have a more critical approach to Fincher's style, implying that his emphasis was on impressing the audience with camera work and not so much with narrative. However they did agree on Auteur similarities and post modernistic style, especially in Fight Club and speak of him as a talented camera artist. Fincher, not actually believing himself to be ... auteur is "the director of a film is the equivalent of the author of a novel. The film auteur therefore imprints all of her or his work with an identifiable style and techniques that carry from film to...

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