The Soloist – Movie or Novel? Movies or novels? This is always a tough question to answer. Some like the depth of a novel while others like the simplicity of being entertained by a movie. It is rare to find perfect harmony in both.
Although both Preston Sturges and Frank Capra use imagery and comedy to deliver messages in their respective movies, Capra’s ability to express his ideas in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington regarding perseverance conveys a much more poignant message, despite Sturges’ more recognizable views about smiling through the pain in his movie, Sullivan’s Travels. The comedic elements of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Sullivan’s Travels add to the theme of each movie, subtly giving away major plot points. Both movies draw the audience in with the use of farce, such as when Sturges has Sullivan and his companion pushing each
Fellini’s Departure from Neo-realism In my opinion, the films, “Nights of Cabiria” and “La Dolce Vita” to be the best films our class have seen so far. It left me in awe and absolutely stunned. They were both beautifully produced, presented well and unmistakably Fellini fims “La Dolce Vita” gives us glimpse of a filmmaker that has moved far neo-realist his roots. The “Nights of Cabiria” had many more neo-realist elements than “La Dolce Vita” and therefore was a departure from neo-realism. “Nights of Cabiria” had some of the classic elements of neo-realism showing Cabria’s poor and broken troubles, she is just an ordinary person and throughout the movie you are just simply looking into her life, also there is a feel of onset location.
Dial M for Murder/Psycho Comparison What do you get when you take everyday life and turn it 180 degrees? You get a Hitchcock film. Alfred Hitchcock has long been known for his fright inducing and thrilling movies. Three of his classic movies are “Dial M for Murder,” “The Birds,” and “Psycho.” Camera angles, music, and attention to detail dominated the psyche while watching these movies. Although these movies are all very closely related in many ways, as well as very different, there are many more similarities in “Psycho” and “Dial M for Murder.” “Dial M for Murder” takes the classic story of a gold digging spouse looking for their cut and adds a very interesting, and frightening, twist.
I'm much more of a "genre" fan, and I much prefer fantasy, surrealism and absurdism to realism. My preconceptions were throwing me off of the film initially. The realist drama stuff seemed to drag on, and it made much of the film a hard sell. I loved the touches of weirdness, but they were too little, too far between--at least until I reached my personal interpretation of the film around the halfway mark. The film is also odd in that it's so retro.
Each serves its purpose well; the steel frame buildings just do so with more flair. I like to think that only a good movie would still be watched after fifty-three years. But, everything good about the book is missing or distorted (plot, characters, details). The plot is too convoluted to make a movie. But the movie of The Big Sleep is still a success and, well, a good movie, just because they changed the plot and the characters.
The Importance of Being Earnest: Film vs. Text Oscar Wilde’s highly popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest, elicits numerous dramatic elements which fall under one of the two major dramatic modes, comedy. Throughout the play there are many miscommunications, errors in judgment, and failures by the characters which are displayed in a humorous fashion. With this brilliant play available as text or a film version, one may wonder which medium truly conveys Wilde’s witty characters and genius comedic satire more accurately. Through extensive analysis and in depth research, it is apparent that the film version trumps the text by delivering the play more precisely and grabbing the audience from start to finish with its vivid visual aspects,
Also he believes that Clary has something that he wants; however, she doesn’t know she has it. Individuals who have not read The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones are missing out on action-packed, thriller experience. This novel is similar to the Twilight series; however, there’s a lot of action in it and the plot captures and draws in its audience in never ending suspense. I would definitely recommend this to readers who also enjoy novels in the fantasy, young adult-fiction, and urban fantasy genre. Author Cassandra Clare really gives you a theatrical experience as if the novel was an Oscar-winning film.
– Stephen Hunter, Washington Post "I was crying a lot throughout the movie. That was not a surface feeling, but rather a deep-seated feeling that came from me as a Japanese." – skaskaclub88, Yahoo!Japan reviewer ABSTRACT Hollywood, struck by a case of Japan "fever" in the early 21st century, churned out a crop of Japan-oriented films such as Lost in Translation [Coppola 2003], Kill Bill Vol. 2 [Tarantino 2004], Memoirs of a Geisha [Marshall 2005] and Letters from Iwo Jima [Eastwood 2006]. But among all these, The Last Samurai [Zwick 2003] received the most positive Japanese audience reaction.
The Culture Industry and A Walk to Remember Adam Shankman’s A Walk to Remember has proved to be a favorite of audiences across the country. The movie’s legitimacy as something artistic, however, is bound to be questioned by some. As a part of the film industry, A Walk to Remember provides good means to explore the true motives of the culture industry using the opposing views of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer and Gerald Graff. Theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer would see this movie as nothing more than a new spin on the same old story. Gerald Graff, on the other hand, would commend A Walk to Remember as an art form that gives rise to many debates and arguments about the movie and that gives viewers a chance to prove their intellectualism outside of the academic realm.