... , greed, materialism, need for love, abandonment, ambiguity of Kane's self, stolen childhood, and lost innocence. Orson Welles is able to bring out these themes through use of extreme low angle/high angle shots, transitions from one scene to the next, lighting techniques, symbolism, such as the snow globe, etc. Two themes that are important in this movie are corruption of power and ... the Inquirer, a newspaper company. When he enters his office for the first time, everyone stands up and surrounds him as if they are praising him. This is shot at a low angle shot as if to say that the aud...

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... director used many camera techniques and film techniques to express things such as: Jim being older, and the PTS that Jim suffers at the final stage of the movie (high angle to make him look weak). In the end, however, Spielberg does a great job in showing how Jamie had changed over the course of the movie, which was his intention right ... he is trying to "make sure" that it is really her. In addition to the actions of the actors, Spielberg has placed the camera looking down on Jim, creating a high angle between the camera and Jim thus makes Jim look weak. This furthers the idea of a p...

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... filled movie. At the beginning of the movie there is a scene, where a guy goes into, which first looks like a new underground club with a woman he had just meet. The camera angle is really neat, because it seems like you are looking down at him through the ceiling while he is walking in the club. After dancing a while a spray of blood that ... looks like red water shoots out of the sprinklers and everybody starts to go crazy. Then the camera angle changes again so that you see exactly what he sees. He begins to see these people grow fangs and have strange eyes. The way it is shot it mad...

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... to work with for the scenes we were creating. However, during the actual creation of the movie, we found that different angle shots were more effective than those of the ones that we intended to use. The shots that we had of Okonkwo, the main character, we concentrated on low angles and ... ...

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... freewill is discussed in many places, from the beginning till the end. Half of the novel is told through Dwayne's point of view. When the events are looked from his angle, they certainly seem a little bit odd. It is like everyone is pretending to be a specific person to Dwayne. It is like they are programmed to do so. Dwayne could notice ... ...

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... rate of 12,000 frames per second, allow the filmmakers to manipulate the on-screen action much like in the Gap commercials where the dancers are frozen and the camera angle shifts around them. Andrew Mason lends the film the same look he gave Dark City, only this time the good guys wear black and everyone else is either a sentinel or ... ...

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... the lifeboats are lowered. The crew lowers them in the same order as described by the British Inquiry. When RMS Titanic was halfway submerged and tilted to almost a 90-degree angle, the ship began to buckle and eventually broke into two parts. This also was accurately portrayed in the movie. The historical content in these scenes shows how the events in ... ...

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... ground. The director also used angles to emphasize. When Jake was beating and stabbing the uncle, and also during the rape seen, the director turned the camera to an upward angle. This gives the viewer an idea of what the victim sees. In conclusion, the director used the cinematography well, although the film quality was still had a second rate feel. A lot ... ...

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... rate of 12,000 frames per second, allow the filmmakers to manipulate the on-screen action much like in the Gap commercials where the dancers are frozen and the camera angle shifts around them. Andrew Mason lends the film the same look he gave Dark City, only this time the good guys wear black and everyone else is either a sentinel or ... ...

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... he knew how knifes worked. All of the jurors agreed that the boy on trial probably knew how to use a knife properly, but as this particular juror pointed out, the angle the knife went into the father's chest meant that the knife was used improperly. This got the other jurors into thinking that maybe the boy did not kill his father ... ...

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... to remember. The use of camera angles was very limited and did not successfully enhance the viewers experience. Typically, to depict impending doom or death, the editor would use a high-angle shot to act like a higher power is looking down on the character. This movie did the opposite. In one instance, when one of the characters were climbing the stairs, a low ... ...

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... camera movement throughout the movie, this adds to the success of its suspense. In the scene where Chrissie gets eaten by the shark, the camera goes under water and a low-angle view is used to look up at her body. The camera then switches to an eye-level view on top of the water. This is where the viewer see's Chrissie ... ...

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... the brutal ending. Some of the technical aspects of the movie would include the final shot that a gaze out the automobile is brilliant and disturbing. Also the long-range high-angle shot of a hopeless Bonnie running across the field as Clyde pursues her, just as a large cloud passes over them. Also Bonnie's emotional family reunion filmed with a bluish filter, with occasional ... ...

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... back in time and reverse something that took place, or take back a decision once made, Solaris touches base with these types of themes. Soderbergh has constructed the feature in an angle where not all of it is explained, as it needs to be thought over and discussed. The director reaches a type of filmmaking that is rarely ever produced these days, as ... ...

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... gave up the love of her adopted brother and their renewed future and committed suicide. Mary Shelley left it unresolved and left it in the grey area. She provided an angle of sympathy to both, Victor and Creature, and points of view from both sides of the spectrum. She had Frankenstein reflect upon his actions which allows the audience to feel ... ...

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... to follow her heart. The scene where Helen puts her on the "right" track and Alice's inner turmoil afterward is very touching. One striking element is how much the War angle is downplayed. It is a pivotal concept of the movie, but there is very little flag-waving. The fact that Joe must return to his battalion in Europe is treated as ... ...

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... the lifeboats are lowered. The crew lowers them in the same order as described by the British Inquiry. When RMS Titanic was halfway submerged and tilted to almost a 90-degree angle, the ship began to buckle and eventually broke into two parts. This also was accurately portrayed in the movie. The historical content in these scenes shows how the events in ... ...

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... body sets the viewer up for the later sex scenes in the movies. The ninth shot of the scene shows Amelie wearing a red dress in St. Martin's Canal. The camera angle starts off in Bird's eye view and it slowly tilts to show Amelie skipping stone. The water that was supposed to be blue is shown in a shade of green as ... ...

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... were both covered with a cloth as they were being electrocuted. The witnesses totheir executions were not able to see the look on their faces as they were dying. The camera angle that the director used allowed us to see the injection machine and Matt's body in the same shot. That allowed us to visualize which phase the machine was in and ... ...

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... red and brown anticipates danger. Color working closely with shadow, is not always used in such obvious ways. When closely examining certain parts in the film, we notice a popular lighting angle that leaves only half of a characters face in the shadows. Shed light on only one side of the face portrays the transforming of a character from a side of goodness to a side ... ...

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... the house. The fourteen screen theatre that has about 2,800 seats, and has a Sony Dynamic Digital Sound System. The screen that I got to sit in was in a forty five degree angle. It had eight speakers on the two side walls and had a total of four subs, two in the front and two in the back. During the movie, the sound system ... ...

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