Even from the very beginning of the film, time is the most significant element explored throughout 'Run Lola Run'. In the opening sequence, the viewer observes the large, monster-shaped pendulum of a clock swinging from side to side across the screen. Accompanied by the diegetic sound of a clock ticking rapidly, the sequence implies the importance of the motif. The viewer observes another clock in Lola's bedroom when she runs from it, a clock outside Manni's phone booth, and Lola constantly asks other characters for the time as she runs. Also included in the opening sequence is the use of a simplistic animated short, which becomes a recurring technique used to further emphasise Lola's urgency and one-track mindset.
Many texts show a great depth in visual elements to portray their central ideas. “Run Lola Run” Directed by Tom Tykwer and “Next” by Lee Tamahori both dramatically portray our position within time itself and how much of a difference a day really makes. Although our lives are governed by time, these directors show us the possibility of time being manipulated, which makes the viewer ponder, “If only I could control time”. Time itself is the way the world moves on. In ‘Run Lola Run’, we see the constant visual technique of clocks re-occurring throughout the film to remind us of how time has a greater power over us than we sometimes realize and that we cannot control it.
In order to communicate life’s possibilities, Tykwer manipulates the distinctly visual to portray meaning to the audience. He communicates aspects of society and the world and us through the distinctly visual, which shapes our perspective of the truth. Tom Tykwer’s 1999 film Run Lola Run presents his audience with a postmodernist experiment in film. His distinctly visual and his unique methods create a dynamic film that challenges traditional methods. This style is shown through the exploration of games and the game theory.
Moreover, both composers accentuate the magnitude of every fleeting moment in life, as a split-second decision can lead to multiple possibilities and alter the course of one's future. Accordingly, the medium of film exemplifies the individuals’ capacity to revolutionize the personal world, vividly illustrating the significance of choice and selfdetermination in altering the course of one’s life. Distinctively visual devices presented in Tykwer's Run Lola Run demonstrate the conflict between the notions of fate and chance, exemplifying life as a series of volatile and unpredictable situations. This idea is apparent in the opening sequence of the film where a voiceover presents a series of rhetorical questions: “Who are we? Where do we come from?
ESSAY RUN LOLA RUN & SCREAM Abdul Shah Tom Twyker and Edward Munch use distinctively visual elements to convey meaning in “Run Lola Run” and “The Scream”. They use many different techniques to evoke their emotions and their ideas. Run Lola Run is a movie based on two main characters, Lola and Manni. The movie shows how Manni loses the money and how desperate Lola is trying to get the money for him. The movie is divided into three parts with three different endings and conclusions.
Peter Rush COMM 410 Video Response Paper Akeelah and the Bee: An Exemplified Cultural Evolution Cultural awareness and the expansion of new ideas throughout the world are rapidly expanding mainly due to the advances in technology, but also to the evolution of the individual’s cultural identity. The film, ‘Akeelah and the Bee (Atchison 2006)’ is one that echoes these thoughts, and perhaps provides a parallel to seeing how one’s cultural identity adapts and evolves. Through dissecting examples shown throughout the film and by comparing those to key principles taught in the book, ‘Intercultural Communication: A Reader (Samovar, Porter, McDaniel 2012)’, one can gain an understanding of how an individual’s culture is developed, and how we will evolve our cultural identity to adapt and survive in the future. First, we must look at the film, ‘Akeelah and the Bee’ and draw from it a short summary. Akeelah is a young black girl from south Los Angeles living with her widowed mother, her sister, and her niece.
Aside the crazy drum solo’s, the loud tubas and yelling coaches, the movie is jam-packed with messages. For example, throughout the entire movie, they repeat their slogan, which is “One Band! One Sound!” This motto is an excellent example of how important a team is for success. Together, all the synchronized musicians play an amazing tune and complex choreography. During the film, the drum line captain, Sean, says to Devan “You're the best, Devon!
Müge Aribilginç 07130000379 Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Midterm Exam Paper for Introduction to Western Thought I Philosophical Analysis of The Matrix The Matrix, which was released in 1999, has a revolutionary place in the film industry. The film impressed audiences with its spectacular effects and extraordinary fight scenes, and became the biggest cult film. Despite the fact that The Matrix has been known mostly for its perfect visual effects, it contains many intellectual and philosophical meanings to enlighten us. First of all, The Matrix creates some situations to symbolize the basic and traditional notions of reality. It indicates several both materialist and subjectivist notions, especially based on the question of reality.
Music makes a film, a movie as well as an animated cartoon more interesting by bring out audiences’ emotion, introducing and setting a tone of a movie, dictating characters’ action, and misleading audiences. It expresses characters’ feelings, actions, and a film’s tensions (King, n.d., Watkins, 2013, and A Brief Discourse, 2008). Due to the fact that music raises human emotion, it is that music plays an important role in film (Picardi, 2013). Music makes a film more significant. It provides the audiences with the connection of emotion, character, and situation.
It convenes the message that determination and hard work can surmount any challenge thereby rewriting the American dream in modern lingo. The lead roles are assailed by stars that have already proved their mettle numerous times and it is not surprising that Will Smith - who played Chris Gardener, was nominated for an Oscar for his role in this film. The strength of the story and the power of his character cuts through the script like a blade of steel and the characters alone make evaluating the movie problematic. With their remarkable performances they compensate for any shortcomings that the script might have had. The challenge of the movie was to depict the conflict and tension of Chris Gardener’s life without draining the energy of the viewer.