Movement is one of the elements used effectively within this performance, as the actors used all areas of the stage creatively to enhance the meaning of the play. Both abstract and realistic movement is used in the scenes. An example of abstract movement is seen when Romeo and Juliet first meet; in this scene they circled each other as they talked., Tthis in a way is abstract movement as it is not necessarily something people do in real life, but Zen Zen Zo used the circling to represent confronting an enemy and falling in love . Another example of movement is seen at the start of the performance, where the actors are getting ready for school. This element was used efficiently .to identify their actions.
2) What is the role of source music in Casablanca? (10 points) Source music in Casablanca is used to give a setting to a scene and portray the emotions of the characters. La Marseillaise is the French national anthem that is frequently played throughout the movie. It’s supposed to represent liberty, equality, and the Allies during WWII, which was the time period the movie is supposed to have taken place. A particular scene in which La Marseillaise had significant meaning was when German soldiers were singing the Nazi anthem in Rick’s Café and then almost the entirety of the other people in the café started to sing La Marseillaise to drown out the singing of the Germans.
The second type of music is arrangements of well- known melodies used to set moods and emotion throughout the film. The third basic type of music is newly composed music just for the film, they used these new music to create themes that stand for the aspect of the story. 2) What
In 1952, Shepherd Mead's satirical book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, became a bestseller. Playwright Willie Gilbert and fellow playwright Jack Weinstock created a dramatic interpretation in 1955 that was unproduced for five years. [3] Agent Abe Newborn brought the work to the attention of producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, with the intention of retooling it as a musical. [3] Feuer and Martin had great success with the 1950 adaptation of Guys and Dolls and brought in the creative team from that show to work on How to....[3] Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser set to work on the new adaptation, with rehearsals beginning in August 1961. [3] Burrows collaborated on the book with Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, also serving as
Essay Question: How does Luhrmann uses costumes/music/camera angle/slow motion/sound effects/ other techniques to make the opening sequence of Romeo & Juliet effectively contribute to the viewers understanding of Act 1, Scene 2? Essay Answer: The opening sequence of the film is very important because the audience watches the opening sequence to get a first impression and then decide whether to watch the rest of the film or not. William Shakespeare was the original writer of the play, Romeo & Juliet; however, Baz Luhrmann edited the play and made a modern version out of it. Luhrmann uses a variety of techniques so the audience understand the play better as well as make the play better. One technique that Baz Luhrmann uses is that he freezes and then zooms into the characters.
During this time he also did many chamber music concerts with other well known composers and his friends such as Pau Casals, Mathieu Crickboom, Jacques Thibaud, Emil von Sauer and Camille Saint-Saens. In 1898 his zarzuela “Maria Del Carmen” was performed in the royal theater in Madrid, which gained the attention of King Alfonso XIII. Also in 1898 because of “Maria Del Carmen” he was crowned a knight by King Carlos III. In 1911, after a rewrite because he was unsatisfied with its original form, “Goyescas” was suppose to be premiered at the Paris grand-opera for 1914-1915, but had to be given up due to the war. Goyescas was a piano suite named after scenes from the paintings and tapestries of Goya and episodes from the Goyesque period in Madrid, a time marked by bloodshed and political upheaval.
At age eighteen, I relocated to Paris to study medicine, but became obsessed with music once more and decided to devote my life and time to music. I began reworking those quintets into an opera, at age twenty-five, and completed it a year later; it was subsequently rejected by the opera company in Paris. For several years henceforth, I tried composing and submitting musical works but was mostly unsuccessful until I wrote the Waverly overture. A year later, I conducted my first orchestral concert, which turned out to be the turning point in my musical career. I composed many pieces, including La Damnation de Faust, Les Ballet des ombres, Cleopatre, Neuf melodies irlandaises, and most notably, Symphonie fantastique, Symphonie funèbre et triomphale and the Roman Carnival scene of Benvenuto Cellini.
“…bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” The distinction between bullshit and a lie is at times very clear, but it also can be hard to identify. Bullshit is not a lie, and a lie is not bullshit, even though both are considered to be deceitful and insincere. Harry Frankfurt wrote his essay entitled “On Bullshit”, and through reading and analyzing his writing, his position on which is problematic (lying or bullshitting) becomes clear. Near the end of his essay, Frankfurt states, “Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person’s obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic are more extensive than his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic” (Frankfurt, On Bullshit, 99). Bullshit is a double-deceit towards a person, because you are hiding the fact that you do not know the information about a topic, and you are spouting out information which you are not 100% sure of, and claiming as if you know enough to hold a conversation.
The music for Gone with the Wind is the paradigm of the Classic Hollywood film score, and the music for Citizen Kane represents, like the film as a whole, a departure. The classic Hollywood style is defined by the following features: wall-to-wall music, music scored for symphony orchestras, a Post-Romantic style, employed well-known melodies which have a full range of emotions and reflect drama, and used leitmotifs which tend to be full melodies. A specific example of this in Gone with the Wind is evident in the use of the “Tara Theme” which is the Principal theme of the film. It is heard in the opening credits and in the film with the mentioning of Tara which was Scarlet’s
Jim Sheridan uses close-ups to express the emotion on each individuals face to show how everyone is affected by the betrayal of law. Sheridan also composes the scene with the people as the salient image and a strong path towards them, this makes the audience concentrate on what is happening, but the intensity of the scene is also backed up with no sound apart from their voices, this communicates with the audience well as they are engaged and drawn in by the betrayal of law. The audience then comes to a realisation about how the story is based upon the betrayal of law. Betrayal of law is also represented in, In Cold Blood. Truman Capote uses the betrayal of law strongly as the story is based around the murder of the Clutter family.