... day to create unbelievably realistic backdrops. For example, the fake snow that would blow in to the cabin or the scene where the cabin is on the edge of the snowy cliff did not seem at all out of place or completely unrealistic. A second film, made in the middle of the 20th century yet ... The Treasure of Sierra Madre- there is an excellent use of lighting that often articulates the mood of the scene. The lighting is dark and focused on the characters; often not giving them the Hollywood glam look but a more dirty ugly look necessary for the plot. Use of lighting in modern films seems ...

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... , "A Beautiful Mind," Universal's prize picture of 2002, was awarded the coveted best picture Oscar at last year's ceremony. Along with last year's award, Universal has produced 18 Oscar winning and 39 Oscar nominated movies. On the contrary, the students of Avonworth were on the mark with their choice of Warner Brothers as the best movie production studio. "Chariots of Fire," "The ... Patient," and "Casablanca," were among the 12 best picture winners for Warner Brothers. Out of the five studios I polled, Twentieth Century Fox received the most nominations and awards, 68 and 39 respectiv...

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... death, or the death of their identity/culture, while the white man was always seen in a positive light. However, in modern Westerns these characters are now portrayed from a different point of view, theirs. This may be the most notable difference with modern Westerns is that new directors with ... of a sort of love triangle. The film is interspersed with the killing of both white men and Indians, and comedic scenes filled with goofball characters designed for comic relief; this is something you would not see in a modern Western. Another example of the type of storyline you will not ......

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... it will not be the only camera sacrificed in this film. Along with this angry grad student, Slacker has a significant number of camera bearing characters in it. The first of these cameras is in the hands of a documentary film crew interviewing a bitter hitchhiker about his lackadaisical attitude towards ... a holy moment of cinema, our young filmmakers dance and laugh, then finally complete the ritual by throwing their cameras off the cliff. Characters in Linklater's films are always brimming with creative ideas for film and television projects. In Before Sunrise, Jesse, an American trav...

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... -American Catholic. The filmmaker's success can be credited to his keen understanding of the human nature and his ability to use that understanding to create many of Hollywood's most memorable characters. Lee's films, also colloquially known as "A Spike Lee Joint" are known for their controversial topics, bold, saturated colors, and also dynamic filmography. He is also known for ... Gotta Have It, where the character Mars Blackmon says the same expressions and catch phrases repeatedly to Nola for comedic effect. Lee spends a considerable amount of time focusing on his characters' expressi...

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... gaze develops when the audience is put in place of the heterosexual male behind the lens and displays the female as a sexual object for both the characters in the film, as well as the audience watching the film. The female then becomes passive to the active gaze of the male. In today's ... to the plot and follows these issues to pull us in as an audience. Hitchcock's characters usually follow a specific role in which his male characters are on the right side of the law while his female characters fall on the wrong side of the law. It is usually the male that is helping ... the female ...

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... the intended story. The stylistic properties employed do not allow the viewer a second to become preoccupied with anything but the causal motives of the characters, the unfolding plot and the necessary inferred events of the past. Thus, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a perfect example of a classical ... props. Much like the settings used, the props of the film are extremely simplistic as not to distract the viewer from the story. Characters never hold anything too pretentious and only manipulate properties that they positively need in order to present their role with strong convicti...

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... South. This sociological difference is a massive contributing factor to many gritty realist films being set in the North. Firstly it means that many characters in the north will be deprived of many material effects and objects and live just above or below the poverty line. This struggle once ... basic human needs creates a sense of grittiness which is again considered a suitably real subject for gritty realist films. In addition it means that the characters will have to deal with events and issues that the viewer can feel an empathy with, for example Saturday night and Sunday Morning (d...

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... (2000), and El Yuma (2012), seem to show the transition of cinema into an era where female roles are not subjected to such phallocentric notions. From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. However, these particular films, to varying degrees, contain a self ... the narrative themselves. The final look is what primarily concerns this essay as all of the films contain an awareness of the elements of objectification and scopophilia either in the characters...

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... brings up a very contradicting point within the 1930's usage of the "flapper film", as such which also points out the troubles the characters and cultural references of the times play to the narrative. As Landry describes about flapper films, they are more about modern femininity, "female independence ... as they either die in battle or are left for dead because of wounds and disease adds to the shortcomings the narrative presents to the characters. Andrea Noble translates these shortcomings the group experiences within the war to the their alliance to Villa as "loyalty to the legendary c...

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... figure and the lover. Love and death are seen as a fusion of contraries, "and is one of the conceptual centers of the film where sexual desire always has an edge of anxiety [that] entails the threat of annihilation" (Suarez 370). Freudian influences intricately adds a depth and complexity to the protagonist's plight of confronting her dreams. Distinctive film and montage ... ...

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... portrayed throughout the film is the day after Joel's procedure, Clementine coincidentally re-meets Joel on a train coming from Montauk, New York to Rockville (Gondry 4:50 – 9:04), and both characters become immediately attracted to each other through conversation. Although Clementine and Joel do not agree on everything, they have an undeniable, natural chemistry; this is heard through sound in the ... also the same colour as when he first meets Clementine. Joel's pants are brown which has the connotative meaning of stability (QSX Software Group). These personality traits explain why ...

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... portrayed throughout the film is the day after Joel's procedure, Clementine coincidentally re- meets Joel on a train coming from Montauk, New York to Rockville (Gondry 4:50 – 9:04), and both characters become immediately attracted to each other through conversation. Although Clementine and Joel do not agree on everything, they have an undeniable, natural chemistry; this is heard through sound in the ... also the same colour as when he first meets Clementine. Joel's pants are brown which has the connotative meaning of stability (QSX Software Group). These personality traits explain why...

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... urge to become actresses and move so far away from their own town. Both of these movies were set in southern Louisiana therefore the characters in both movies spoke with a Southern accent. It seemed that the actresses in The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood over-compensated the ... Southern accent. The actresses that portrayed the Southern characters in Steel Magnolias spoke with a more believable and realistic accent which is spoken through out southern Louisiana. One example of the over-compensation in ... the groom's cake was in the shape of an armadillo, there was a festival ...

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... overall satisfaction felt by the consumer. To further enhance the experience of their product, Hoyts has to introduce new methods to further entertain their clientele and give themselves the leading edge in the market. Hoyts could enhance the product experience for the consumer in many ways. They could theme their theatres and staff according to the blockbuster premiere of the week ... ...

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... flick. From the opening scene all the way to the closing, he forced me, not to mention the rest of my classmates as well, to view the movie from the edge of the desk's seat. Then, as a result of the film's completion, he had our jaws dropped, our minds racing, and, perhaps most importantly, our overwhelming approval. The most appealing aspect ... ...

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... they have an occasional upbeat ending "are enough to make Lupino something of an anomaly in the 1950s- and an investigation of Lupino's characters help determine why feminist critics may not have given her body of work a closer look. A large focus in Hard, Fast, and Beautiful ... , the spectatorship will naturally not be positive in the relationship to her character. Usually audiences, especially in classic Hollywood are meant to like characters unless they are specifically given all of the elements of a villain and Millie neither fits the role of a villain but neither is she ... a resu...

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... same vein. Scream relies heavily on its special effects and realistic nature of the violence, and this is evident by the frequency with which the characters are massacred. However, the question arises as to whether the film should include all these graphic scenes just because the censorship no longer restricts them ... conventions of focussing on the actor in a close up to follow the emotions they are experiencing. Scream does this throughout the film with many of the characters. However, the camera is not used to such a broad extent artistically to convey a suggestion of action as it is ...

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... detachment, and falls in love with the male hero, Neo, played by Keanu Reeves. Another way in which their heroism is different from the male lead characters, is that it is very rare for the woman's focus or mission to be saving one particular man, rather they are saving a minor or a ... however, have enjoyed killing the villain and getting the girl for decades. It can also be argued that science fiction is a easy genre for female characters to become dominant in as it encourages different realities which are not necessarily true to ours. Through out the work it has been shown that Women ...

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... Enemy, and Scarface so different from anything that had come before was that their protagonists spoke in ethnic urban vernacular voices'. (Munby, 1999, p 34). Despite most of the leading characters of these films being murderers, racketeers, and generally unsavoury citizens, they were still often idolised as 'heros' or 'antiheroes'. Many of the public considered Prohibition unfair, and the gangsters ... were seen as 'Robin Hood' type characters, rebelling against unjust authority. And it was this sympathy and admiration that they received, that led to this film movement obtaining major c...

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... flick. From the opening scene all the way to the closing, he forced me, not to mention the rest of my classmates as well, to view the movie from the edge of the desk's seat. Then, as a result of the film's completion, he had our jaws dropped, our minds racing, and, perhaps most importantly, our overwhelming approval. The most appealing aspect ... ...

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... much more interactive and open to interpretation. While reading Beloved, one can form his or her own opinion as to the mannerisms and characteristics of certain characters, whereas these characteristics are unchangeable and etched in stone in a film and reflect the opinions of the film's creators. In the same way, ... the reader is able to attain a better grasp of the characters" actions and reasoning through Morrison's description of past and present events and surroundings. In the film, the viewer has to rely on the ability of ... Morrison wonderfully weaves in and out of the past and ...

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... to scene in a planimetric but also story telling fashion from setting to setting giving the audience joyful memories littered with sadness as the main characters reminisce. This hidden darkness is the effect of joyful storytelling and Wes Anderson playing with Mise-en-scène by manipulating the setting, lighting, ... and performance of characters, which is meant to bait and hook the viewer and make them feel entertained but also hollow by the end of the film because of ... for the rest of the film by showing the explosive colors, various forms of lighting that keeps the audience subconsc...

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... a tragedy about the downfall of having too much ambition. Even though Shakespeare's Macbeth and Rupert Goold's film adaptation share numerous ideologies and general storyline, a difference exists in the setting, the characters, and overall atmosphere of the play. Shakespeare's Macbeth is a play set in the 16th century Scotland, but Goold modernizes the setting to a Soviet styled country and utilizes modern elements into ... the characters and theme. The main character Macbeth is seen as a dictator by the halls of the palace being decorated with murals of his face. The setting contributes...

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... . Steve Neale notes however that ˜the recorded image can be realist but not real.' (Neale, 1985: p.96) Social realist films also focus on the types of characters that mainstream cinema often neglects; the characters that inhabit the social margins of society in terms of status and power the working or lower classes, as John Hill notes: "traditionally social realism within Britain ... real locations gives the film an added sense of character; it is not that the landscape or location itself is a character but it becomes part of the films characters and adds a reality to the characters sta...

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