A movie director

... the stairs and hallways, he has no idea where he is lead. The bodyguard does not open his mouth even when they are left alone in the elevator. The director of the movie uses his own ideas by making the short meeting between the bodyguard and Nick appear humorous and silly. However, in the novel, hardly any character identified as "the bodyguard ... Gatsby and Nick meet in public, Fitzgerald gives an opened first impression of Gatsby to the reader. But in the movie, by allowing Nick and Gatsby to meet in a segregated area, the movie director creates Gatsby's first impression as someone o...

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... will look at how the characters and drama are developed through the dialog and the effect use of their surroundings. The director of The Hustler, Robert Rossen, went through a lot of personnel hardship to get to the chance to get this movie made. In nineteen forty-seven Robert Rossen was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and forced to admit ... pool match ends, Eddie finds himself drunk in a bus station diner where he meets Sarah played by Piper Laurie. The director takes a small chance with giving a lot of screen time to some of the other character but it works i...

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... elements include actors, lighting, props and costumes. Cinematography also plays a huge role in the mise-en-scene within a film. In the movie "Prisoners," the director (Dennis Villeneuve) does a fantastic job incorporating key elements in order to portray the films mood. The film is based on Keller Dover ... and further away from his faith. I noticed however, when Loki was first introduced he had no shadows lighting up his face. I believe the director specifically incorporates this because he feels as though Loki is the hero and he is trying to bring light back to the family and especial...

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... also give you my very logical yet opinionated answer. I say opinionated because in film when deciding whether or not the movie is good or possibly great, is an opinion. One person (most likely the director) could love it, and another (most likely the person who never picked up a camera) could hate it. The ... let me say that I believe that there is no one thing (or person) in a movie (and the making of that movie for that matter) that is more important than the next. Making a movie is the ultimate team effort; from the director to the grips to the "go-for" (you know, the person that has ...

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... distinguishing the muggle world from the magical one. At the beginning of the movie, we start out in the muggle world, and we see a lot of plain colors like dull blue, brown, white, and etcetera. It also seems like the director uses a flat lighting her, to give the appearance that this world is not ... arrived. They should him from underneath, instead of a strait shot from down the hall. Also during this shot, the music that is associated with the movie started playing in the background. With both of these signals, we know that something very important is going to happen. Until this poin...

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... Helen away to Troy, which results in war. The movie shows many individuals' characteristics, such as the good and moral prince of Troy, Hector, or the greedy and powerful King of Mycenae, Agamemnon. However the most famous character that the director tries to describe is Achilles, the greatest warrior in ... director, portrays him based on the Greek heroism. At the same time, however, he seems to try to distort the hero manual with his Hollywood style adaptation. As a result, Achilles became not the ruthless hero who competes with gods and goddess but a muscular romanticist. Achilles is d...

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... getting paid more than them, and this was an issue. This is just is just one of the ways this film expresses feminism and the sexual equality. The director even takes away the first names of the characters to remove any sense of gender. Viewers may see Ripley as a female, and Dallas as a male, but ... it states, "For those committed to feminism, a central concern has always been how the media reflects and recasts feminist issues." (page 1). This is important because the director of Alien did a very good job of portraying the female hero as someone who is respected not a woman who is loo...

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... elements that would eventually become Woo's trademark; elaborately choreographed action sequences (arranged by a young and unknown Jackie Chan) and fluid camera work. The movie was banned by the Hong Kong censorship board due to its extreme violence. Fortunately, Lui was able to sell the film to Golden Harvest Studios ... . Studio executives were impressed with what they saw and, despite shelving the film for two years, offered Woo a contract as a director. It was as a salaried director that he proved himself an extremely versatile filmmaker. He directed Kung-fu films, such as Shaolin Men...

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... history tells us that during the Battle of Gettysburg, Chamberlain was a colonel - he had been promoted sometime earlier. Upon the mutineers" arrival, the movie shows Colonel Chamberlain as instructing a certain Sergeant Andrew J. Tozier (played by Herb Mitchell) to set them up near the trees. This is our ... . The scene changes and we are now shown more of the Rebel Army travelling through Cashtown, this time led by Lee. The director, Maxwell, has again observed attention-to-detail as many of the army are shown with bare feet and worn clothes, suggesting that ... Kemper (played by Roy...

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... the river had many interesting differences and similarities. The movie as many others had to cut certain events that were demanded not necessary in order to have a realistic time frame. the similarities show what the director thought was important enough to be shown and the differences show what was either too expensive to shoot or was not important to show. The author ... time describing the scenery and surrounding which takes many pages and detail which are able to be done in a single scene in a movie but the author is not limited to the amount of material that they can write but a di...

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