... 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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... the plot or lends atmosphere. Besides these common functions, the different music in Wong's films represents different emotion and the personality of different characters, or the different meanings of different scenes. The most distinctive factor is the repetition of music to create atmosphere. Usually there is always some ... when they are rejected or reject others. Apart from the mainstream music, in Wong's works, there is some other music applying to special characters or special places, like California Dreaming' to Ah Faye (in Chungking Express) and Quizas Quizas Quizas' to Su Lizhe...

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... objects and people within a given area is a constant source of information in life as well" (Gianetti, 2005:72) For example, dominance is indicated by space between people. Characters placed in close suggests lack of statue. Another idea, which can be suggested by closeness, is discomfort, as with a character who invades the personal space of others. Literally, mice ... such worries were fully acceptable and readers of Victorian time could comprehend the Marianne's behavior. In order to effectively interpret the adaptation in relation to the perception aspects two other characters were...

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... with a ball. 1988 Another new CG technology was pioneered in 1988 when LucasFilm used "morphing" to good effect in Willow5. The technique allowed for characters to seamlessly change from one image to another. Also, in the same year, John Lasseter6 worked on "Tin Toy". This tells a story of a ... James Cameron6, who directed and produced "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" used CG graphics to create"T-1000", an evil metallic robot which chased after the characters, changing from one form to another seamlessly. All together, more than 100 CG elements were created for T2 by ILM, making up over fiv...

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... struggling to find clothes etc. This however does not fit with the stereotypical women heroine as in "Scream", "Halloween" and "TCM", the women characters, how ever close they are to their friends, are very independent and reliant on themselves. At the funeral scene, we get a closer look at ... into the rabbit hole. She can't leave the subject alone, making her more and more involved. This is a subversion with women role characters in the genre, as they want to get away from where the danger lies, Rachel seems intrigued in embedding herself to gain information. ... see more negative port...

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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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... really. She nailed that part for four years Off Broadway. (Gartler) The best actors on the planet, however, cannot fix poorly-written characters. The greatness of the characters themselves, in the recent film adaptations (as well as the stage musicals) is another important element to the success of both films. The ... Little Shop of Horrors uses a very upbeat, 1960s-style music, including a sort of Greek chorus, to both fit and contrast the actions of the characters. Elizabeth Lara Wollman explains the purpose of this "Greek chorus" in the film: Functioning as a kind of informal Greek ch...

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... of a character's bursting into a song at the slightest dramatic provocation. (Pg. 407) " A Star is Born (1954) took the genre even further with an inner battle between two main characters. The band singer becomes a star while the mentor tries to deliberately sabotage apprentices career with violet dances as well as singing. Continuing through the 1950's and early 1960's, Musicals served ... once was a famous concert pianist. Charlie and his girlfriend become involved with gangsters and must flee the city. The film a nonlinear narrative to control the radical mood changes of the character...

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... development. Musicians began using simple motifs that introduced a character or foreshadowed an event. Motifs are the elements of music that are pivotal in shaping the characters and the theme of the film. It was the use of these motifs that made the music much more sophisticated and people began to take the ... as it is. The film, Since You Went Away, has many similar elements in the music that make us feel and understand the feelings of the characters. This film contains a scene in which a young woman, Jennifer Jones, races along the railway platform alongside the train that is carryi...

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... . In many ways viewers can look upon Seahaven and see a perfect world, as one may look upon the Garden of Eden and see the same. In both places the main characters of the places, the Garden of Eden having Adam and Eve & Seahaven having Truman, were provided for. They had everything that they could ever need at their fingertips, although this ... , whom Stites felt was a lot like a Jimmy Stewart type of character, they made his dress look less polished, then the other characters. This was due to the fact that Truman was in reality the only character that dressed himself (the other characte...

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... created as a portfolio piece by Woo to court Hollywood executives. Woo's Hong Kong gangster films were more than just shoot-"em-up bloodbaths. Unlike most of Hollywood's action heroes, Woo's characters are more three-dimensional, thereby creating a hyper-realistic persona. The antagonist and protagonist in a Woo film will typically have an intertwined relationship that goes beyond the usual antagonist/protagonist relationship ... antagonist is even more pronounced when he goes beyond an intertwined relationship to an intertwined history, fractured by betrayal. Broken Arrow (1996) and Mi...

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... did start getting on my nerves though. It was shot as if the entire movie was done in one take, so the camera is constantly following the characters. The lighting was actually pretty unique at parts giving it a true gameshow-like feel. They also used a ton of colores in the lighting that ... than this one. One of the main reasons I couldn;t get into it very well is because I definately was rooting against the main characters. How am I supposed to connect with young teenage girls on the rag? Let alone gothic-suicidal ones. Like I said before, I was definately laughing along with ... well...

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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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... 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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... Matrix", and "Se7en". I will discuss the use of cinematography, the genres of the films, and how effective they are. I will also look at the characters, action, plot and atmosphere created, and how these are aimed at each film's target audience. The genres of the two films are slightly different. "The ... solve the murders, and catch the killer. Straight away in "Se7en", it is made apparent that there is a contrast between the two main characters, Detective Mills and Lieutenant Somerset. This clash of personalities is displayed when the two detectives are shown getting ready in the morn...

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... - or romances, tales of chivalry based on legend and adventure, or the supernatural. Romances, then, in the medieval sense of the term, treated imaginary characters involved in events remote in time or place and usually heroic, adventurous, or mysterious. Gradually, the term has evolved to evoke a love story, usually ... romantic comedy films will end with either the wedding or the marriage proposal as this is where the plot as such ends, with the two characters now safely wedded together. The marriage plot, indeed, is a staple of much fiction concerning relations between men and women,...

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... . Comics come with illustrations that consist of violent acts that make comics even more believable. The reader tends to confuse reality from fantasy, and without knowing it, they depend on characters of their hero in time of need, when the only person that can solve the problem is himself or herself. They lack independence and confidence. Furthermore, satire comics have the ... examples that confirm that people imitate violent scenes from television. For instance, the cartoon Beavis and Butthead on MTV in the United States was widely criticized for depicting the cartoon characters shape...

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... look upon Seahaven and see a perfect world, as one may look upon the Garden of Eden and see the same. In both places the main characters of the places, the Garden of Eden having Adam and Eve & Seahaven having Truman, were provided for. They had everything that they could ever need ... a Jimmy Stewart type of character, they made his dress look less polished, then the other characters. This was due to the fact that Truman was in reality the only character that dressed himself (the other characters were supposed to have the look as if they were dressed by wardrobe for the show). For ... t...

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... in the violent death of Dr. Tyrell. Amazingly, these characteristics of Metropolis seem to transcend time. They continuously sprout up in films and movies, and with real significance to the characters' identities and plots' storylines. This we can see numerous times in individual instances, and while it offers good insight into how Metropolis has helped shaped the sci-fi genre, if ... roots of Star Wars run deep with Metropolis. With all of its success it can be easy to overlook where most of its inspirations come from. One example are the characters. Many characters in Star Wars are in...

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... genre beyond the realm of simple stories, but by the 1960's, the genre shifted into the refinement stage, opening itself up to more complex characters who tended to be extraordinarily violent and even antiheroic compared to the characters of earlier films of the genre. Such films of the refinement stage are Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, A fistful of dollars (1964) and the Good ... be bigger and more gunfights than in a classic western where there is a hero and maybe a sidekick and the villain. The added number of characters and spectacle shows we are in the refinement stage. Howeve...

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... Bordwell 121). So too did the French Impressionists and German expressionists who used other of the cinematic formal elements, such as camera work and mise-en-scene, respectively, to externalize characters' inner states (Thompson & Bordwell). For French Impressionists, such as Louis Delluc, filmmaking was about photogénie, "that quality that distinguishes a film shot from the ... and-white film stock transforms their appearance, special optical effects further change them, and so on" .This emphasis led the Impressionists to develop innovative camera techniques to externalize character...

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... by the classical American film form. The film's dialectics are intricately constructed around the making of The Survivers -obviously inspired by Ford's The Searchers-, the stranded crew waiting -self-sufficient characters, living in oblivion, sleeping, having love affairs, playing music, telling long stories- at their hotel for money and director's trip to Los Angeles to find his producer. The visual structure ... as a point of certainty, oblivioius, self-sufficient and innocent of history. It is open and responsive to the world and is able to filter out the despair of the adult charact...

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... the audience and what is going on in the film, which gives ground to further distance between the debacle happening and the audience. Gojira highlights the inner clashes inside the characters that are not shown in the American rendition. Depicting these internal conflicts lets the group of viewers to construct a more cozy association with the ... characters in the film, and also giving a chance to pass on vital thoughts that set a correlation to the premise of Gojira. This thus lets the audience to look at their own ... ...

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... displacement and alienation, major themes in his work. (pg. 535) " Antonioni announced a new style, which deserted original plot concepts for a collection of random events and situations, which intimately connected his characters to the environment they found themselves in. Instead of using montage, he was able to emphasize the importance of material environment through his use of long takes and sequence shots ... occur on the screen as it would in empirical reality. (pg. 536) " By incorporating widescreen to express the oppressive surroundings, both effects together give the viewer a p...

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... cinema. When one is in a sleep-like environment, such as the cinema, it is easy to see how through the unconscious process of "wish fulfillment- one can identify with the characters or lose oneself within a film. This is similar to what we do in our dreams. Through this process of feeling like one is within the story of the film, the ... power of the art. In Persona, Bergman looks at artists' inherent exploitation, and creates a masterpiece in the process. It might seem awkward to tell a story so tightly focused on two characters, one of whom doesn't speak. But Bergman uses these silenc...

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