Movies

In 1861, the Union launched a massive offensive designed to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. The South mobilized about 50, 000 troops as a response to the invasion. At the First Battle of Bull Run, the Confederates defeated the Potomac Army  the 90, 000 strong conscript force. In successive battles, the Confederates won several major victories, threatening to envelop Union forces in the Mississippi region. Brilliant Confederate generals like Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Braxton...

The sense of touch is not so common in most of racists countries in the world.  The combination of several stories in one compatible set of movie has not been so easy in the past but the production of the crash is very appreciable because it takes into consideration the selection of a good setting that is the city environment where there are so many people from different races of the world.  This is a movie whose setting is in Los Angeles.  Los Angeles is generally a multinational...

I want to paint the film as one paints the canvas I want to invent the colour relationships, and not limit myself to photographing only natural colours. - Michelangelo Antonioni    Red Desert ( Il deserto rosso in Italian ) is an Italian film written by Michelangelo Antonioni, directed by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra on 1964. The film was Antonionis first color film. Its working title was Celeste e verde (Sky blue and green).     The film is placed in an commercial...

This paper answers the main research question  How does color correction affect the original movie and the audience In addition, it also answers analytical questions that arose from studying these articles. The discussion section also includes the reflection on how these articles affected my project on color correction. Color correction cannot be seen as detached from its context, but as a process and the outcome that engages in a dialectical process with the environment and its actors. The...

If you were asked to make a choice between a first love and a knight in shining armor, who would you choose Making this choice would not be simple especially when complicated by the fact that the first love is a vampire and the knight in shining armor is a werewolf. This was a choice faced by Bella in the movie New Moon shown last November 2009.     In the prequel to this movie, Bella fell in love with Edward who is a vampire. Their attraction was so intense they forgot that one was...

The  film  exceeded  all  expectations, grossing  5,358,000  in North  America (the highest for any MGM film at the time) and 3,520,000 abroad. In Britain, it was named the top box office attraction of 1942. Of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine Film Daily, 555 named it the best film of 1942. The Times columns were short reflections on everyday life, based in part on Struthers own family and experiences. While the columns started out as lighthearted...

This 1943  war  movie  deals  with  the  story   group of nurses returning from the war in the Philippines recall their experiences in combat and in love. Proudly  We  Hail brings  you  the  authentic  voices  of  heroes   heralded  and  unsung   who  made  and  are  making  Americas  great  history. Series  host  William  Sackett ...

This  is  a  1998  war  film. The  story  is  a  work  of  fiction  yet  it  deals  with  the  personal  problems  faced  by  fighting  soldiers  in  a  war  like  situation  very  well. It  is  based  on  a  novel  by  James  Jones. It  is  a  story  that  deals  with  a  group ...

There are a lot of good things that can be said about the 2009 movie Whip It. Aside from the oozing girl power projected in the movie and the interest stimulated by the unique Roller Derby girl team, the Hurl Scouts, the story also has real substance and is heartwarming in a fun way. The protagonist of the story, Bliss Cavendar, is played by the award-winning actress Ellen Page. Bliss character offers an inspiring tale of a teenager who wants to find her real self amidst the dictates of her surroundings...

1. Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in. If a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found.2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. Music must not be used unless it occurs within the scene being filmed.3. The camera must be a hand-held camera. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. The film must not take place where the camera is standing filming must...

Ghost world is a movie based on a comic novel by Daniel Clowes who did the screen play for the movie as well. The movie was released back in 2001 with the expertise of director Terry Zwigoff. (Terry Zwigoff, 2001) Ghost world is a story circling around the life of two teenage girls, Enid played by Thora Birch and Rebecca played by Scarlett Johnson. The motion picture is based in Los Angeles. (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)  Even though the movie did not win a big name in the box office, it has still...

There are so many remarkable similarities in Baz Luhrmanns 2001 film Moulin Rouge and Vincente Minnellis An American in Paris with regard to their musical format and usage of Paris as the stories setting. However, there are also several differences found in the films when it comes to how they depicted the iconic artworks and life in Paris at the time both films are set. Luhrmanns production presented the 1889 Montmartre, Paris through the underworld life in the infamous club known as the Moulin...

The French influence on the language and presentation of modern cinema is enormous. Several key aspects of cinema politiques and camera techniques have been introduced by the French schools of film studies. Camera-stylo or camera-pen refers to an innovative camera positioning technique that enables the audience to view the cinema from the perspective of an author involved in writing with a pen. This paper is going to illustrate two scenes from the 2001 film Moulin Rouge in the light of this particular...

Marchand states, The ideology of advertising is an ideology of efficacious answers.  No problem lacks an adequate solution (227).  As a means to sell, advertising does initially highlight the problem and then presents a solution in the form of the product that is being sold.  For several decades, advertisements have to make sure of two things that they have communicated effectively the message of the product, and that the means of communicating the message of the product is impressive...

21 tells the story of six genius MIT students apply their excellent grasping of probability to beat all odds in the world of gambling. Directed by Robert Luketic, it is an adaptation of author Ben Mezrichs best seller novel Bringing Down the House The Inside Story of Six MIT students Who Took Vegas for Millions.     Jim Sturgess stars as Ben Campbell, a brilliant student facing the threat of being kicked out of MIT because he cannot afford to raise money for his tuition fees. The...

Goodfellas is a movie that defies the typical production of films, especially the part where scripts are already complete and final once they are given to the actors prior to actual filming. The most interesting part of the films production is the part where the three main actors were given the freedom to improvise on several parts of the script. During the rehearsals, director Martin Scorsese gave Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci the privilege of shaping the flow of the dialogues. Eventually,...

For many decades, Andy Warhol is considered as one of the most influencial avant-garde artists of the past century.  Warhols Screen Tests of which he made over five hundred between 1964 and 1966, constitute his most ambitious cinema artistic project (Elsaesser and Barker, 1989). For these artistic experiments, the subject was placed in front of the camera for the duration of three minutes. They were never given a script, or told to undertake any kind of specific action.  Warhol had begun...

By examining the mise-en-scene, editing  sound in Jean-Pierre Jeunets Amelie or Le Fabuleux destin d Amlie Poulain, we can show Amelies (played by Audrey Tautou) displacement from the people around her and from her environment, given that she spends most of her time within her own world  her imagination  a world of imaginative romance, red  green overtones  outsourced happiness which she uses as a compensation for her lack of happiness. The dream like state created helps...