‘Run Lola Run’ by Tom Tykwer is all about fate, communicating that time is an important player in one’s life and shapes their destiny. The opening sequence begins with the sound of a clock ticking, showing from the beginning that time is central to the film. The camera then pans up to reveal a clock with a low angle shot, which then indicates to the audience they are defenceless against time. Then later proceeds to show Lola being swallowed up by various clocks, conveying she is powerless against time. The importance of time in the lives of Manni and Lola are further emphasised through the split screen.
Tykwer uses a split screen shot to emphasise times power; showing Manni standing alone, Lola sprinting in slow motion and a large clock rhythmically ticking, this is an effective way of characterising time and emphasising the power time holds of the lives of Manni and Lola. During the casino scene of Lola, Tykwer uses a close up
He also foregrounds psychologically complex characters that lack clear morals, goals, or desires, making for an honest and unbiased representation of the human condition and psyche. Rachel Getting Married is first and foremost an example of an art film, due to its use of unconventional filmmaking techniques to present a realistic situation and show a subjective experience, yet also incorporates classical Hollywood film features through its use of a narrative cause-and-effect structure. As Bordwell articulates in the article, “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice”, one of the two ways art cinema motivates its looser causal relations is through realism; this pertains to showing the viewer “real locations”, “real problems”, and “realistic characters that are psychologically complex” (776). In the film Rachel Getting Married, one of the most salient aspects is that the whole
Danilo E. Chaves ESSAY ANSWER TO QUESTION #1 Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera and Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North were both conceived as educational devices. While both attempt to give viewers a new perspective on filmmaking, both differentiate significantly from each other regarding the delivered message, the context and the aesthetics. Vertov’s film aims to increase people’s awareness about the process of filmmaking, while Flaherty’s attempts to revive the viewers long lost “innocent eyes” by focusing on a preconceived Romantic perspective. As an important part of the Soviet Cultural Revolution, Vertov’s works were conceived mainly to transform people’s consciousness regarding political and social matters. Increasing the critical awareness and thought of the masses towards the deception of film was one of Vertov’s main goals as a filmmaker.
Allusions in Blade Runner Blade Runner arose out of a post-modernist society, as is evident by the many illusions found and Postmodernism's focus on mixing previous ideas and arts to create something new. There are subtle and direct intertextual references within the film’s dystopic depiction of mankind's loss of humanity and an inability to recognize a difference between the natural and the artificial. Filmic Allusions Stylistically, Blade Runner borrows from previous films and film movements to set specific moods and allow is heavily influenced by the film noir movement of the 1940s and '50s. Rachael’s clothing and hair styles are reminiscent of the film noir style. Many scenes are cast in dark shadows with lighting used to embody conceptual ideas of alienation and dehumanisation.
Description of Title Sequence The title sequence begins with the classic James Bond opening perspective of peering through a gun’s barrel as Bond emerges in the center of the radial balanced achromatic screen to shoot the viewer down. As the blood trickles down, covering the screen in red, the opening credits begin right in the center where our focus turns to. To emphasize this focus a spiral animation appears of various card suits spinning around the center, creating an implied point, initially introducing the casino theme to the sequence. These shapes were stylized to be very clean edged like vector graphics. To help this style textural emphasis is very minimal throughout the sequence due to the want of making it a clean graphical piece.
While no specific definition can encompass the whole of satire, it can be said to be the use of humour to expose and criticise humankind's folly, vice and stupidity and hold it up to ridicule. Satirists often use this technique to not only entertain the responder, but to bring about change by raising awareness of contemporary and historic issues and provoking action. Thus, while satirical texts are amusing, they also have a serious purpose. This is certainly the case in Michael Moore’s mockumentary Bowling for Columbine. He uses satire in his film to raise issues pertaining to the control of guns in America and find out the reasons why there is so much violence in America.
These three ideas will be discussed as well as different interpretations of journeys and how the composers have analysed in the two texts. The first idea of journeys is how an inner or emotional journey can change a person. This idea of a journey happens in the film Schindler’s List. This is show through many techniques and how the characters are portrayed. Such as the character Schindler, at the begging of the film he is portrayed as an arrogant, selfish and cunning war profiteer.
“There are two main areas of creativity in the fields I have chosen. There is invention and there is discovery. I have chosen and adhered to discovery in my photography – I am not interested in inventing.” (Cartier-Bresson) Cartier-Bresson was a street photographer, capturing candid situations in public places. Due to the inception of the surrealism movement in his youth, he was influenced to focus on unusual juxtapositions in his candid photography. Shooting from grand scale political riots and concentration camps to casual photographs of beautiful girls hanging out doors, his oeuvre follows the techniques of straight photography.
However, as McCarron states, this lack of interest is only apparent; reading Lord of the Flies a world dominated by wars, barbarism and evil instinct reveals, notions that characterized the Second World War. The novel is full of symbols. Even the main characters symbolize certain positive or negative values. In the following the symbols of civilization used in the novel will be presented. It will be also interesting to observe what each symbol means for Piggy, the Reason, Jack, the Savage and Ralph, the one somewhere in between.