The godfather film series has its own universe, dealing with crime, drama and a story about a criminal mafia family struggling to survive from their enemies. The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema, and as one of the most influential, especially in gangster genre. This epic series of films has to be one of the best films and considered a favorite of mine for its memorizing quotes, the actors, and the storyline. To begin, the Godfather series has so many memorizing quotes from any film I’ve ever seen. The godfather quotes are so profound and so memorizing that it touches you, you take those quotes into your heart and soul.
Our understanding of ourselves and our world can be challenged by powerful images introduced in distinctly visual texts, however the images themselves may be meaningless if not supported by the ideas behind them. The combination of the strong images supported by simple or complex ideas are what make the images powerful and possible to provoke our thinking. This is heavily evident in both the 1998 German crime thriller film ‘Run Lola Run’ directed and written by Tom Tykwer, along with a movie I love ‘The Matrix’, which is a 1999 American/Australian science fiction action film directed by The Wachowski Brothers. I chose the Matrix because it is a well know and well-loved movie that really depicts the ideas of time and chance just like Run Lola Run. It is clear that film as a text type gives an author specific ability to enhance their ideas and themes through a range of visual techniques, whether the film be set in 1998 depicting a fiery German woman on a desperate dash to save the life of her lover, or over 200 years later showing the human race ensnared in a digital prison.
Films sometimes use plays as their sources. William Shakespeare has been called the most popular screenwriter in Hollywood. We are likely to assume that any translation of a Shakespeare text into a ‘live’ dramatic form-theatrical performance, film adaptation, television production-will automatically constitute a progressive act. Shakespeare is so frequently adapted because he is a major author. There are also economic and legal factors: Shakespeare is helpfully outside copyright law as well as interesting to adapt.
Of Mice and Men by Nobel Prize winner, John Steinbeck, is a globally famous novel, capturing its audience by encompassing universal themes that are truthfully realistic in depicting human existence. The director, Gary Sinise, modified the text to accommodate the cinema without losing the essence and meaning of the novel. Thus, Sinise utilized the basic elements of film, such as cinematography, lighting, costumes, plot, sound, acting, and casting, to ensure the themes, relationships, plot and overall message was centralised. The novel is renowned for its pragmatic message of life itself. If excretes realism in the way it characterises life as a constant strain in which one must contend with numerous obstacles, like the protagonists, George and Lennie.
everything about [that person]” (Inception). This is precisely the world Christopher Nolan depicts in his “contemporary sci-fi action thriller,” “Inception” (IMDb). Its enigmatic story line, sophisticated plot and cast of award winning actors makes it an exceptionally well developed film. The setting transpires globally, juxtaposing from Tokyo to Paris, from Paris to Mombasa and from Sydney to Los Angeles, however the predominant setting takes place within the mind of the characters through an induced dream state. The characters of the film have great synergy and their emotive relationships draw even more emotion from the audience.
The opening scenes are classic as they have a voiceover explaining what the audience are to expect, however the sequence also places a distance between the film itself and the previous cold war narratives of Christianity. It is also showcased in the traditional style of grand Hollywood Roman epics, as an attempt to sell it as a creditable, innovative development of the genre, a ‘Spectacular lavish box office magnet’. The film claims to have an improved level of authenticity as it uses eighteenth century history books, such as Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall’ written 1776 – 1788, and due to the book’s influence the date of the Empire’s decline was placed about 180 AD. The apparently
BLADE RUNNER The Cruellest Cut by Elaine Lennon Introduction - Genre Genre films are Hollywood's lifeblood: they define American cinema as we know it. These are standardised films made to type engendering a disciplined framework not only in an aesthetic sense for filmmakers but also (and crucially in an industry renowned for its flops as well as its hits) economically, guaranteeing repeat success with the mass audience. A genre film (like any other kind of film) has a social and cultural function, sometimes aligned with the myths of the past, perhaps even reducing them in importance. The Great Narratives of the West (typically Judaeo-Christian belief systems) are now rivalled in the cathedrals of celluloid that we call the multiplexes. It could be claimed that generic forms transmit ideological precepts, be they social, political or whatever, either imposing values or questioning pre-existent ideas.
Are they mostly one sided, or are there alternative points of view? Does the host or journalist give ample time for both sides to present their argument? Or does the speaker abruptly interrupt an opposing viewpoint to get his/her favored viewpoint to win? What you typically might see is journalists will cut short an opposing viewpoint, and they might say things like "we're out of time" or "we have to go to a commercial break." The three things that control TV media in the US is first and foremost the ratings/viewers, second is the advertisers/sponsors, and corporate owners also have a significant influence on the type of media aired.
Ultimately, Dracula is portrayed as evil, a threat to society and a menace. Then in the new millennium, suddenly there was a sudden popularity rise in film and television in the ‘new’ and more ‘progressive’ vampire. Some of the many examples are Twillight (2008, Hardwicke), Blade (2004, Goyer), Underworld (2003, Wiseman) and True blood (2008, Ball). We see the development of the ‘vampire’ in the way these examples – including Let the right one in (2008) – and these ‘vampires’ we used to see as threats no longer seem scary and have formed a league of their own. They are even to some extent accepted in the societies that they are in despite their ‘otherness’ – a notion that I will explore and apply to both films raising other issues such as gender, sexuality, the monstrous child, foreign threat, ‘normality’ and the fear of male and female imbalance in dominance.
SIDDARTHA, A BRIEF ANALYSIS Adam Tefel Louis Luciani AP Literature 06/09/09 Adam Tefel Siddhartha, as Herman Hesse’s most celebrated work, was most influential in Europe when it was published circa the Great War, while being greatly appreciated in America during the 1960s and 70s. Why is this, you ask? Well, it helped Americans to have an English version of the book to read. But, more importantly, one must take into consideration the state of the country at the time. Siddhartha happens to be popular in times of national disunity, such as a world war or in America’s controversy with the Vietnam War.