I will analyse the signifying factors a body has and the changing definition of the term ‘hard body’. I will discuss how the hard body can influence a films narrative whilst using relevant research to support my work. I chose to look at Fight Club (David Fincher - 1999) as well as Rebel without a Cause. (Nicholas Ray - 1995). A characters body plays a vital role in film, an audience are easily able to recognise certain stereotypes, partially through the differences in a characters body.
Traditionally, the role of a documentary is to present facts and information to the audience. However, documentary makers strive to deliver a particular point of view by producing a seemingly objective film and appealing to the audience. This is evident through the film techniques of footage editing, presence of narrativity and the dramatized order of events. Documentaries Seven Up!, Spellbound and Faces in the Mob skillfully manipulate their audiences to believe a certain point of view. Documentaries reflect the maker’s attitude towards a particular issue subtly under a neutrality disguise.
Distinctively visual - Run Lola Run (Chosen Film) Distinctively visual texts aim to manipulate the way we explore and interpret the images we see, affecting the way we make interpretations based on experiences we see in the world. The distinctively visual represented in 'Run Lola Run' (1998) by Tom Tykwer is significantly strong as unique images dominate the screen to create a thrilling film. This post modern film incorporates several sophisticating and effective elements to convey ideas and themes. Tykwer implements recurring motifs and symbols such as clocks to emphasise the importance of time. Time is a significant theme within the film as the pratagonist, Lola is on a game like mission to save her boyfriend, introducing the idea of game theory.
Film Essay Describe an important idea in the text and explain how verbal and/or visual techniques help you understand the idea. Conformity and non-conformity is a key idea used in the film “10 things I hate about you” directed about Gil Junger. A film which is based on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” but transformed into a modern 21st century version. The idea is affectively used in order for the audience to gain a thorough understanding of the directors purpose, to present the issue of conforming in today’s society. The theme was extended through the use of verbal and visual techniques of music, costume and dialogue.
[1] The various critical methodologies which have evolved around film are principally to do with a film’s provenance. And, as Matthew Sweet reminds us, “the history of film criticism has created its own orthodoxies.” [2] Like a piece of art, a film’s value is directly attributable to the signature in the corner of the frame. However, if it is possible to accept in principle that film is a collaborative venture where does that leave the screenwriter in terms of the attributing of a single cinematic signature? The case for Robert Towne as cinematic auteur lies in those tropes which mark his particular style of authorship – a consistency of dramatic elements as well as a special talent for writing the kind of dialogue that actors love to speak. A survey of his work demonstrates the kind of themes and qualities that compare with those characteristics normally attributed to auteur directors and here qualify as a
This infers that the auteur theory applies to both these films. Furthermore, both the films seem to break the common conventions of Hollywood cinema, this can be seen in various sequences throughout the films. This would imply that these films could fall into the independent cinema category. This paper will analyze how the auteur theory can be applied to the films, Please Give and Friends With Money, and their common writer/director, Nicole Holofcener. Additionally, this paper will analyze how these films can be classified as independent cinemas, through various sequences seen throughout both films that break the common conventions of studio films.
In other words, the medium of film itself is placed under inspection, so rather than only experiencing the subjectivity of its author, the subjectivity of cinema in general is made apparent. Corrigan relates self-refraction in cinema to the same mode in pre-existing media in the introduction to his chapter, by referring to the mode as “art through art… (that extends) “back through many centuries of literature and visual representation and forward into film history” (181). The difference Corrigan points out is the tendancy for self-refractive essay films to “aim at where aesthetic experience unwinds at the intersection of public and private life” (198). The self-refractive essayistic mode of filmmaking is a
Scene Analysis Shower scene - Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock Choose ONE sequence from ONE film studied on the module; then choose ONE reading (article or chapter) considered on the module. Analyse the sequence using the theoretical approach presented in the reading, explaining how the chosen theory enriches an understanding of the film in question. The shower scene from Psycho is one of the most renowned scenes in the history of cinema. With Alfred Hitchcock’s direction we come across some splendid camera movements and techniques which will be discussed in detailed analysis in this essay including V.F. Perkin’s reading based on Psycho in suggestion of the Montage theory alongside the help of Carol J. Clover’s essay “Her Body/ Himself” suggesting similar to the Feminist theories of framework for horror films.
This essay aims to look at different issues raised in Strange Fish (film version) by DV8 and how these issues can challenge traditional thought and feelings to provoke a redefinition of what is considered to be normal or even possible. Throughout, the essay will investigate the use of body and how it can explore emotion and meaning alongside how gender can ask questions about culture. The use of body in a physical theatre piece is obviously very important. The body can be a very powerful tool, when used correctly, to convey emotions that cannot be as honestly expressed with language. There is nowhere to hide when portraying emotion through a physical form.
Webster’s dictionary defines purpose as a desired goal; an intention; the use for which something is intended. The concept of purpose is the notion of idea of purpose. In an effort to abet in establishing the idea of purpose I have viewed the movie, The Book of Eli. To bring a sense of understanding to the concept of purpose I will explain the worldview represented in the movie as well as the characters sincerity. Expound on how the many barriers that attempted to keep the character from fulfilling his worldview were overcome and finally I will elaborate on my own reaction to the movie.