This essay will look at the importance of narrative in two CG animated films which are Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Hironobu Sakaguchi, 2001) and The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004). The essay focuses specifically on the narrative and the spectacle of the films and how through the cinematic medium, they help each other to deliver […]
A Comparison of French and German Cinema, 19301945 Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: The effect of fascism on German Culture, 19301945 Chapter Two: Occupied France: Vichy Collaboration in Moulding the Image of Fascist Europe Chapter Three: Josef Goebbels and the Intervention of Propaganda Cinema Chapter Four: Heimatfilme Chapter Five: Exilfilme Chapter Six: Pacifist Cinema […]
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Get help with your assigmentIn 2004, the American film-maker Morgan Spurlock made a documentary film “Supersize Me”. Produced in response to the unsuccessful legal suits against McDonald’s fast food, the film brings to light Spurlock’s own experiment with eating fast food and, above all, addresses those Americans who are obsessed with unhealthy fast food. The film-maker conducted the experiment […]
European film movements are most clearly understood as part of the cinema of periphery in relation to popular Hollywood productions. In consideration of examples from one European country, to what extent is this an accurate view? This essay will focus on some of the key movements in British cinema, looking at how they relate to […]
Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from IWO JIMA: Two perspective of the same war Introduction War movies have stand the test of time and gain critical and commercial success because it is important that it should be about the real war. War movies, particularly movies depicting World War II have a trend in being […]
Alfred Hitchcock movie review Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant technician who blended sex, suspense and humor. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. He remains one of the most popular and most recognized filmmakers, and his works are still popular today. Hitchcock was able to master not only the […]
The Philippine cinema is the youngest of the Philippine arts, and still is considered as one of the popular forms of entertainment among the Filipinos. It directly employs some 260,000 Filipinos and generates around PHP 1. 5 billion revenues annually. [Contents [hide] Overview History Origins American period World War II and Japanese occupation 1950s 2. […]
Thus fundamentally, this short film takes on a different approach compared to the other two texts, as it exemplifies the notion of how one’s sense of belonging can essentially be hindered upon by barriers in life and a lack of acknowledgement by the wider community. Factors such as poverty, hunger and homelessness can ultimately become […]
Using systems theory as an approach to analyze people and their problems means putting more value on understanding the interactions between themthan each individual as a separate entity. Hansen (1995) explains this as non-summative and the idea that the whole is greater than its parts. Your perspective becomes relational instead of intrapsychic, allowing you to […]
Introduction The boy in the Striped Pajamas is a film with a WW11 setting. The drama explores horrors of extermination in German concentration camps. The movie is mainly based on two characters; one is a young boy called Bruno who lives in Berlin with his family and Shmuel a young Jew in a concentration camp. […]
Abstract The movie Joy focuses on the strong female icon especially those who are successful in different entrepreneurial lines. Thought the entire film, the author indicates that female personalities also have capabilities of making their success story. More so the author emphasizes the need to have the power of imagination, independence, the determination as well […]
Abstract Women in the film industry have usually being sexualized and ignored especially when it comes to playing the roles that are supposed to elevate the men. This is because society has always been inclined towards the male version of doing things and when there is an imbalance in the social order women are usually […]
Introduction Being a colored person in America has for a long time been one of the biggest catastrophes in life an individual can experience. White supremacists and a country marred with racial prejudices has been the struggles of every black man in America. The law has been amended over and over to accommodate African-Americans but […]
When we think of a horror movie, what comes to mind is an individual materializing from nowhere and killing or chopping people into pieces. Finding an unsuspecting audience nowadays is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We are very well versed in the rhythm of the jump scare, such that the audience knows […]
The movie Inglorious Basterds, was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino was born in March 27th 1963, he grew to be an actor and later a movie director. His stories are known to be satirical and nonlinear. The author is considered to be the greatest filmmakers of his time. Tarantino started his career in […]
The iconic film series Star Wars. A cultural phenomenon that’s been with us all throughout all our lives. Something that no one can quite get away from no matter how hard they try. In a galaxy far far away, from the frigid ice world of Hoth to the sleek chic design of Cloud City. In […]
Pop culture has a considerable influence on society. One of the major trends in pop culture, which has influenced most of our youth is the popularity of Disney movies. Disney has been around for over 80 years, and most people grew up watching Disney movies. They have played a role in how society displays gender […]
In 2017, Walt Disney Studios and Lucasfilm released Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, this film was second movie in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and the eighth installment in the Star Wars film franchise. The blockbuster was highest-grossing film of 2017, but it was met with mixed reviews from […]
Capitalism and the effects of it in current day society, has allowed Disney to gain access to many people worldwide in order to market and be apart of the public’s everyday lives. Because of this, since they are buying so many companies and brands owned by Disney, they are able to make more money and […]
The movie, Star Wars, is about the struggle for control of the galaxy between the Rebels, representing the old Jedi Republic, and the Imperial Empire. The movie opens with a rebel space ship being stopped, boarded, and seized by Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. Previously, the galaxy was a republic. After a war and […]
Star Wars is more than just cinema. Beyond technological feats, lightsaber fights and the often promoted marketing venture, the saga created in the late 1970s by George Lucas conveys values and messages that reflect social, political, and even religious concerns. One of the concerns that Star Wars raised in the original saga is gender inequality. […]
The Odyssey sets the standard for many modern-day epic stories. There are many examples of this, however, focusing on Star Wars, this becomes quite evident Every epic has a plot around A Hero’s Journey. There is a theme for the film that has an acronym, G.O.E.S. Which stands for Glorified, On a Quest, Ethical, and […]
Star Wars represents a simplistic view of the conflict of light versus dark. The black and white morality with good guys, such as Luke and Leia wearing bright fair colors, while the villains, such as Vader wearing all black, are the first visual color motifs and cues that the Star Wars films rely on (Campbell). […]
Throughout the 1900’s, communism took the world by storm as it spread through Europe and Asia. Karl Marx wrote about the widespread ideology in his greatest work of writing, The Communist Manifesto(1848), and declared that all property in society should be equally owned, and payment would be dealt according to his or her abilities and […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens American film director, J.J. Abrams set out to return to the roots of the first Star Wars film and be based more on emotion than explanation with a smooth transition. Abrams felt that the film “needed to take a couple of steps backwards into a very familiar terrain” and use […]
Almost everyone is familiar with those iconic words before every Star Wars movie. And in the time of greatest despair there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as THE SON OF SUNS.’ Journal of the Whills, 3:127 No? Doesn’t ring a bell? Oh, that’s right, that wasn’t in the final draft. Here […]
PART I: Musical Style and Development in the Star Wars Universe John Williams, and the Musical Qualities of Star Wars John Williams has been attributed for the revival of the classical Hollywood system of film composition, based on his late-Romantic compositions for large orchestra in the Star Wars film franchise. Traditionally, composers used early science […]
The Movie Forrest Gump, a Comedy-drama and romance movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, and Screen play Eric Roth in 1994. The main actor in the film is Tom Hanks as (Forrest Gump) and other actors such as Robin Wright (Jenny), Mykelti Williamson (Benjamin Buford Bubba Blue) , Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Dan) & Sally Field (Mrs. […]
The movie Forrest Gump was made in the year 1994. Robert Zemeckis was the director of the movie, and he made great decisions about the camera techniques to be used in each scene. In 1996, a restaurant with the name Bubba Gump was opened in honor of the movie, and surprisingly, there is one in […]
On July 6 of 1994, the two hour and twenty-two-minute film, Forrest Gump, hit movie theater screens. The movie was adapted from a book Forrest Gump written by Winston Groom in 1986. The movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis, who also was the director of The Polar Express. The movie grossed more than 660 million […]
