Movies

In film, the vision that the viewer sees and the story that they are given to interpret depends on several variables. The music, set, costuming, dialogue and lighting all play an important role in the accurate portrayal of the time period, mood and emotion that the screenwriter is trying to convey. The person that ties all of these elements together, along with countless others that make a film a work of art, is the director. A films director is the real visionary that takes individual pieces and...

Lewis Carolls (born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) Alice in Wonderland is a classic tale written in 1865 about a young English girl named Alice who stumbled into a world called Wonderland that is full of peculiar things and inhabited by peculiar beings from a frantic white rabbit to an ill-tempered queen with a penchant for demanding the heads of anyone who displeases her at the slightest.  The story, though nonsensical as it appears to be,  has made quite an appeal to both children, his intended...

Fraternities are a staple in university life in the United States and even have made significant contributions as well originally created to promote and recognize academic excellence, social networking has become the major contribution of fraternities not only in American college life, but also in American society as well.  Although some of the older prestigious universities, such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth have similar student clubs that are unique to their own institutions...

Argentina recently passed a media bill that will play a vital role in transforming the media ownership providing an allowance for democracy.  The senate has already approved the bill, which could open the airwaves to the community with a 44 to 24 vote. The passage of the bill has been fought by the Media in an attempt to preserve their control over news and information. The passage of this bill was met with celebrations outside of congress, where thousands of government supporters, union representatives,...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the character of John Scottie Ferguson, the police officer who developed acrophobia or fear of heights and later on turned into a private investigator, in the film Vertigo. This paper also aims to impart to its readers the concept of deception in the film, the ways in which it was manifested in the story and how it affected and changed Scotties life. Deception refers to the act of deceiving or misleading to bring about false representation, fraud or cheat....

The following is the review of the movie Clash of the Titans which was released in the United States on April 2, 2010 comprising 106 minutes. The language of the movie is English and has been rated as PG13 due to brief sensuality, violated fantasy action and a few intimidating images. Shooting of the Movie The shooting of the movie (filming) started in late April 2009. The location of the shooting was Wales, England and the Canary Islands Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote. The film was duplication...

Often the term auteur director is thrown about when describing the stylistic tendencies that pervade a directors film, whether it is through material, theme, or in style.  Consequently, established directors work within a vacuum of their own previous films, in which they set the tone for the auteur to either repeat or dismantle.  Robert Altman was a prolific director who continually directed for film and television well over three decades, in the meantime, glossing over nearly every genre...

Two films have proven to be among the most memorable in the long and lauded history of the horror genre. THE WOLFMAN (1942) and SAW (2004) remain two of the most influential horror films of the past 100 years. But, what is it about these two films that allow them to standout so strongly from the thousands of horror films that have been produced over the years There are a number of reasons and that is why a close examination of the two films is necessary. Also, the two films must be put into context...

World history is rich with stories of struggles in power, both in the positive and negative sense of the word. Power can appear in a constructive way, as a means of productivity or development, but it could also be negative, like in the form of domination and coercion. The struggle for this power and authority is very evident especially in historical accounts of decolonization, which is a violent phenomenon that takes place with the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature...

Surrealism is considered a 20th century invention. From painting to literature, self-exploration of ones dreams and psyche formed the basis of creative thought. In film, a relatively new medium of expression, the concept of an auteur had just begun to develop in the late 1950s in Europe. Autobiographical expressionism was an experimental approach in film and someone like Federico Fellini was egotistical enough to want to exploit it. In 8, we are bombarded with Fellinis innermost thoughts and desires...

American Beauty, the 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey, tells the story of Lester Burnham, a seemingly ordinary,  middle-aged, suburban man and his family.  On the surface, it is the story of a husband and father who undergoes a sort of mid-life crisis.  Lester is unhappy with the drudgery and misery of his boring office job.  And, he is also very unhappy in his home life.  He has a strained relationship with his teenaged daughter, Jane, and his relationship with his wife,...