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.
This paper is intended to describe the elements of film design, from envisioning the story to designing, creating the film and the edited and revised end product that the audience views on the big screen. The movie that will be used to demonstrate the various elements of film design is the notorious, Forrest Gump. “Everything in the mise en scene is controlled, chosen or at least approved by the director (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011).” The production company, Paramount Pictures produced the film Forrest Gump. The director of the film, Forrest Gump is Robert Zemeckis, known for his use of special effects. Zemeckis is from the “Spielberg camp of film-making” and has even had Spielberg produce many of his films (IMBD 2012).
Auteur Theory – John Ford. A director’s film reflects a personal creative vision as if he were the primary auteur. The word “auteur” is French, meaning “author” in English. The use of Auteur theory has influenced film criticism since 1954, the use of “Auteurism” helps critics to analyse films or to understand the characteristics that identify the director as auteur. John Ford was an American film director from 1917 to 1966.
‘A bout de souffle’ is caught in a hesitation between two contradictory states: playfulness and death’. Discuss this statement, basing your answer on detailed reference to the film. A Bout de Souffle is Godard’s first feature film and is considered to be one of the initial and most influential movies of the ‘Nouvelle Vague’. This is a term first used by French journalist and politician Francois Giroud (1957) that originally described changes within post World War II in France and French society. Nowadays, it refers to the activity of a group of innovative French filmmakers who rejected the classical notions of filmmaking and instead used cinema as an art form; exploring aspects of society, such as death and playfulness, which incite audiences to think.
Soviet films that were produced in the 1960’s were influential in the development of documentary. Amongst the soviet film makers, Dziga Vertov, has been recognized as one of the most innovative soviet film makers due to his contribution and great interest in developing the concept of kinopravda and the kinoeye. Vertov strongly believed that was a close connection between technology and humans and believed that the two together can produce a better representation of reality, which was the main emphasis to his famous experimental films such as Man With a Movie Camera and A Sixth Part of the World. He also believed that both the camera and the human eye can reveal a certain truth that the human eye cannot see. Morever, Man With a Movie Camera and A Sixth Part of the World best exemplifies Vertov’s utopian vision and how he viewed the world in relation to the kinoeye, by emphasizing certain notions such as modernity, enthusiasm, and internationalism by simply capturing life as it is.
Nazifa Alam 03/07/11 B/D3 Beowulf Compare and Contrast Essay Within a new trend in the Movies Industry, a lot of classic books are selected to be turned into films for the big screen. This is the case of the epic poem Beowulf, which dates from Anglo Saxon times and is considered as the earliest poem in the modern European language. In 2007, the American director Robert Zemeckis produced Beowulf. In my opinion, he chose this poem as a source for a Hollywood movie because it carries valuable information about revelations and controversies of Old English social life and kingship. Moreover, the story is very interesting and it is full of amazing descriptions.
The House Un-American Activities committee (HUAC) was officially established on May 26th 1938. This special investigating committee was merely the latest incarnation of various other committees established since 1918. It was made to investigate suspected threats of subversion or propaganda within the United States that attacked “the form of government guaranteed by our Constitution” (Public Law 601 passed by the 79th Congress 1945-47). When HUAC became a standing committee in 1945, the committee focused on real and suspected communists in positions of actual or supposed influence. Having seen how important films could be used for propaganda purposes, the committee's attention turned to the Hollywood film industry.
This is made clear though the director’s use of [film technique and detail of the technique – eg what we’re seeing or hearing in the shot or sequence].Therefore/Thus/Clearly/evidently [vary those words for each paragraph] a new experience can result in …. [restate words of the question!!] IMPORTANT NOTE: SOMEWHERE IN THAT PARAGRAPH IT’S GOOD TO DRAW ATTENTION TO A SIMILARITY OR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NOVEL AND THE FILM. YOU CAN ADD THIS REFERENCE ALMOST
In 1913, Ohio was the first to establish a censorship council who would view all that would be shown within the state. Their main basis for the decision whether it could be aired or not was if the “…films were in the judgment and discretion of the board of censors a moral, educational or amusing and harmless character shall be passed and approved…” (Trager 2). This council set the grounds of topics deemed too sensitive for the population to bear, for example references to sex, violence, race relations, veneral disease, communism, divorce and abortion. Television had secured its place as the most important social and cultural influence in the United States by the 1940’s. Censorship has been around as long as television has.
Although myth was traditionally transmitted through the oral tradition on a small scale, the technology of the film industry has enabled filmmakers to transmit myths to large audiences via film dissemination (Singer, “Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film”, 3-6). In the psychology of Carl Jung, myths are the expression of a culture or society’s goals, fears, ambitions and dreams (Indick, “Classical Heroes in Modern Movies: Mythological Patterns of the Superhero", 93-95). Film is ultimately an expression of the society in which it was credited, and reflects the norms and ideals of the time and location in which it is created. In this sense, film is simply the evolution of myth. The technological aspect of film changes the way the myth is distributed, but the core idea of the myth is the same.