Distinctively visual images crafted by the art of cinema have an immense power to fashion our sense of being within the immediate social paradigm. Through incorporating distinctively visual elements into the ‘mise-en-scene’ of the camera frame, the composer is able to convey diverse meanings and present a myriad of perspectives. Didactic in nature, Tom Tykwer’s thriller Run Lola Run and Christopher Nolan’s dramatic-action film The Dark Knight are exemplars of how elements of virtual real time can be effectively employed to communicate the thought process and the emotional intensity of individuals as they experience the limitations of their world and struggle to control their destiny. The cinematic vernacular in both texts evinces the immediacy and urgency of actions, accurately emulating the dynamic relationship between the individual and the reality of the surrounding environment. 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.
Distinctively visual texts strive to introduce new ways in which an audience can interpret and explore the images we are presented with, which in turn can affect the way we make interpretations of situations we encounter in our lives. 'Lola Rennt', a German film directed by Tom Tykwer which translates to 'Run Lola Run', uses significant images and themes to present the viewer with an intriguing, thrilling film. Through the recurring use of motifs and symbols such as clocks, Tykwer places a strong emphasis on the importance of time, as the protagonist Lola is on a quest to find a solution that will save her boyfriend within the span of 20 minutes. In contrast, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T. S. Eliot represents a narrator who is complacent and believes that there is 'time yet for a hundred indecisions', the complete opposite of Tykwer's representation of humanity's tendency to rush from one destination to another. Even from the very beginning of the film, time is the most significant element explored throughout 'Run Lola Run'.
You you are a disgrace to your father's memory." (Discovering Literature, 1318) Then, Walter decides to joint venture with his friends to start a liquor store using the insurance money from his father's death. His ignorance to the business world eventually costs him all his money. One of Walter's business partners steals his money, and Walter learns from that incident but it comes at a high price. However, Walter's mother thinks although the money is lost, her son has come out as a better person: "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he?
Paid in Full is about a young man who rises to the top of the cocaine industry in Harlem; which is common for most African Americans to do for those who grew up without father figures. At the beginning of the movie, Ace is stuck in a dead end job working in a dry cleaner's shop. His sister's boyfriend, Calvin, is a big time drug dealer who often tries to lure Ace into becoming a part of the drug trade with promises of fast money and glamour. Ace resists these temptations, warning constantly that Calvin's flashy style and audacious method of dealing will get him arrested. When Calvin does get locked up, Ace ends up taking his position on the streets after a chance encounter with Lulu, a Dominican drug dealer.
Et. Al to highlight the deliberate emphasis current affairs programs place on certain aspects of reality in order to cater to their own priorities. The use of the satirical and film techniques such as the use of a hand-held camera behind the scenes, juxtaposition, dramatic irony, and cameo are manipulated to enhance the verisimilitude of Frontline in uncovering the way in which current affairs programs manipulate and misrepresent to truth to cater to their needs. The process of editing is one of the key mechanisms employed by Frontline to manipulate the representation of the truth that accommodates their own agenda and prospects. In order to increase ratings, bring about recognition from higher powers and greater possibilities of pay rises, the staff at Frontline purposefully emphasize perceptions of a story that satisfy their target audience.
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.
This soon spirals out of control and ends up with Ricky getting shot at the train station towards the end of the film. The director is trying to show how difficult it is for young people to get out of the never ending circle of gun crime. The message of the film is anti gun crime, trying to show young people living in the poorer communities who are more vulnerable to violence or gun crime will sooner or later pay the price unless they have the strength that Ricky didn’t have in-order to step out. Gun crime is often made into a big fuss by the media and glamorised as such. It is important that violence and gun crime are talked about in films and that young people are made to see the real side of it, because people are getting killed often in events where youths are carrying guns, this often appears on the news.
The boy then inherits a fortune only to become an egotistical newspaperman. Next, Charles wanted to enter the world of politics, and as his career reaches its climax, it all shatters after the exposure of his affair with a singer. Charles’s life was at a downfall, after two unsuccessful marriages, and a lifetime full of happiness and being surrounded by money and fame, he stumbles upon his own death in his mansion crowded with paintings and objects to fill the void in his life. In this diary, I will “analyze how Orson Welles technically constructed his film in order to convey the theme of the corrupting influence of power and wealth and the theme of loss”(Film Diary Handout). Orson Welles used various cinematic techniques to convey his theme in Citizen Kane.
This further enables the responder to engage and sympathise with the protagonists emotion, therefore evoking an altering of the responder perception of society and the broader world around them. It is evident that director Sean Penn’s film “Into the wild” successfully accentuates the concept of discovery and effectively portrays the effect the process of discovery has on individuals and the necessity for individuals to be pussed out of comfort for the effects to be meaningful. Penn utilises a plethora of cinematic and literary techniques to question the responders values, attitudes, and beliefs and challenge their preconceptions of discovery, therefore highlighting Penn’s ability to compose a text that ultimately alter individuals perspectives of the themselves and broader
Music, Film, and Cartoon “Music and art are similar concepts as they are both trying to explain and express ideas through abstract mediums” (Gilbert, 2007). The similarities of these two are that they are creative and can be understood in many different ways. Almost all arts forms are influenced by music in many different ways. Film is one of the arts forms that are influenced by music. 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.