The OWI would manipulate the scripts and outcomes of many films for the benefits of the country as a whole. These books were historical contexts on films during the time of war. The books found were historical because they went over the history of World War II during this time, and they were also able to glimpse at the history of film. Both books made it obvious to their readers that the government played a major role in cinema during this time. Pressure from the war was high, and any way for the government to interlude propaganda to the public in order to boost morale was
“I’m with me – Terry”. To what extent is Terry responsible for his own fate. Elia Kazan’s 1954 award winning drama, On the Waterfront, depicts Terry Malloy, an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman, who is caught up in ties with the corrupt waterfront union, as undergoing a moral and personal transformation. On the Waterfront is a combination of cinema verite, film noir and Italian neo-realism. The elements of film noir, like the use of black and white, ads to the authentic nature of the film, almost touching on the style of a documentary.
This popular Italian cinema stars the unprofessional actor, Lamberto Maggiorani as Ricci. Ricci’s bicycle is sufficiently necessary for his new advertising position because his job’s duty requires him to hang posters around the city to promote upcoming cinema flicks to the public. Alongside with Ricci is his young son, Bruno, who is played by Enzo Staiola, and he is a key symbol that poverty does not exclude any age group. Underprivileged families were the ones who assured that they were the ones to suffer the most from all other social classes and struggled to survive due to the massive job losses. The psychological aspect of this movie explains the high ratio of unemployment and how individuals are affected by it due to the struggle of finding work after the post war.
Italian neorealist films place the viewer in an unusual landscape. Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves (1948) transports us to real life in post-war Italy; with all of its dismay, discordance, and hopelessness. Italian Neorealism rose out of the ashes of an Italy defying the glamorised Hollywood depictions, to illuminate the plight of the people, significantly, the working class. Seemingly devoid of deliberate staging, and shot entirely on location, The Bicycle Thieves (1948) was in fact a thoroughly ‘directed’ film (Bazin, 1971, p50). By taking us outside of the usual mise en scene of the American norm, The Bicycle Thieves (1948) directed our attention with deceptive simplicity to the largely unremarkable story of a lost bicycle.
Mazzini created the Young Italy society after the 1831 revolutions. Young Italy helped spread opposition to the autocratic nature of the Italian rulers. It was established to create a republican nation-state. Although ‘Young Italy’ was still a small-scale, secret nationalist society, its effect on Italian attitudes was large, speaking in the long-term. Similar to the Carbonari groups, it was planned as a youth movement for the whole peninsula so had the potential to gain widespread and active support.
How far do you agree that the use of repression was the main reason the Fascist regime was able to control Italy in the years 1925 – 43? State repression was clearly an important factor In the fascist regime’s ability to control Italy from the mid-1920s. As Mussolini’s dictatorship was established in 1925-26, various instruments of repression, such as the OVRA and the special Tribunal, were introduced to target political opponents and keep the Italian population in line. However, Fascist rule was not simply based on coercion and intimidation. Fascist propaganda had some success in persuading many Italians to view the regime in a positive light.
Brandy Andrade November 23, 2010 Casablanca In Casablanca the movie was a propaganda film because it had war and in the movie they show the war going on. Also the reason I thought it looked like a propaganda film is because all the action and gangster actors that play in the film. In this film the way the film noir is because all the romantic scenes and all the love in the movie. Film noir in this movie was great and really nice. To show how Rick’s moods change when they play the song “A Time Goes By”.
Whatever your taste may be, as an audience, your role is to critique a film based on what you see on the screen and decide if your entertainment was worth the eight dollar ticket. A successful movie producer’s ideal vision, whatever his style may be, is to create a production that the audience will enjoy and satisfy its viewers. The novel, The Catcher in the Rye, has many connections to the era and generation of the society we live in today. Given a movie producer in present day was to create the book into a film, one would produce a movie coordinated to reach the audience of the current era while still respecting the culture of the time the book was written. A producer seeks to fulfill the viewers of its generation and society so he would modernize aspects of The Catcher in the Rye to be sure to make a successful film The time period of the book would still be used in the film, as done before in movies such as The Great Gatsby, to create and maintain the theme or plot setting for the movie.
In the movie “the untouchables” Al Capone and his gang are portrayed as strong Italian men who had a very big influence on life during the 1920s, with Elliot Ness constantly on his case trying to find something that will lock Capone up for life. The sources which i have found will help to confirm that the way we know Capone from the movies is very similar to the way he really was back in the 1920s. Looking at the sources, there are a few factors which confirm the statements given in the movie, such as the Cartoon (source 5) which shows Elliot Ness in comparison to the Loch Ness Monster, showing us how Capone would have felt towards Ness while he was constantly after him trying to find evidence against him that would send him to jail. In the movie Ness does everything in his power to try get something on Capone that would lock him away which is in a way the vibe we get from this cartoon where Ness is a monster in the eyes of Capone and the gangs of New York during the 1920s. The photo (source 1) gives us an idea of what these gangs looked like and how they appeared to the rest of society.
Analysis of a Language Variation: The Pink Panther Angela Thomas Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract This essay introduces the plot of The Pink Panther movie and explains the importance of the french dialect used in the language. The first part of the essay states that the french dialect was mainly induced into this film to create a humorous environment by adding to the silliness of the whole situation. This is explained using various dialogues of the movie. The second part of the essay focuses on the french stereotypes that are formed due to the way in which Inspector Clouseau annunciate his french accent. Finally, the last part of the essay explains that a french dialect places Inspector Clouseau in a particular social group.