Rod Serling Mini-Course Paper 10/10/09 Influence Still Present The complete impact of Rod Serling’s work and how influential his legacy has been on the industry and the world will never be fully understood. His collection of scripts took on issues of the day while entertaining the masses. During the transformation of live broadcasting to the “Golden Age of Television” his presence resulted in solid framework for modern television to build from (Webb). His ability to take the audience from a specific issue in a typical situation and pull them away to the realization of a bigger and more complex picture was impeccable and the underlying philosophies of his work showed of a man who was not afraid to attempt to break stigmas present in Hollywood. Two images, the refrigerator and the television would probably dominate a glance at modern civilization.
Everyone assumes that directors and writers decide what happens in a movie, but many times the movie star is the most powerful person involved with the project. For instance, when Jim Carrey wanted to make a movie about his favorite number, The Number 23 hit theaters across the country. A much more entertaining abuse of this star power occurs when huge movie stars decide they look awesome doing something, and proceed to force that something into every movie they make. For instance ... #5. Tom Hanks' Career is a Urinary Morality Play Most movie stars use their careers to build up enough credibility to avoid urinating onscreen.
Jose Munguia Professor Hartmann English 152-03 1 December 2013 Success of the Wizard of Oz through Television The Wizard of Oz was a spectacular movie. The decade around Oz paved the way for many other amazing movies, which created new genres and set new standards for what a movie should be like. Some of the amazing movies that also came out during 1939 were: Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Love Affair, The Hunchback to Notre Dame, and many other great award winning movies (Films101). Each of these movies have been awarded for their amazing directors, story, actors and visual effects. However, out of all of these movies there has only been one that has been called the most popular movie
This increase of involvement that the audience now has in Ed’s life makes them believe that they have the right to judge Shari which causes her to loose some of her personal freedom and control in her life. In both films, the protagonists’ lives become broadcasted over live TV regardless of what those said characters are doing. However, the protagonists’ “overseers” whether it was TrueTv or Kristof saw it necessary to intervene and therefore change the course of events for the show. In The Truman Show, Truman’s life had been under surveillance since day one of his birth. Since Truman was under surveillance Kristof had the ability to observe Truman’s every move and interfere with his daily life as he saw fit to
“The Charm School”, as well as three other novels from Mr. DeMille is in current production for major motion pictures. This novel is already successful from sales, but the addition of the motion picture will make it even more economically successful than it already has become. The fan base has been sending numerous requests to all of the major motion picture companies pleading for more of Nelson Demilles’ books made into movies. The cultural values challenged in Mr. Demille’s novel “The Charm School” brings to light the thoughts that this type of situation did, “in fact,” take place, and the ramifications and consequences of this if it did happen. There have been a lot of conspiracy theories that have been thrown out by not only the media, and government, but by actual participants of the Vietnam War.
Mise en scene is what the audience sees on the screen, “the most visable part of the film, especially the actors, so much so that for over a century the inclusion of a certain actor has often alone been enough to bring an audience to the theater (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). “ More goes into the production of a film than the end product that the audience views. There is an abundant amount of behind-the-scenes staff that makes all of the “magic” that makes today’s films so special. The creation of a film is so much more than actors memorizing lines for the camera, it is a rich process with multiple rolls with actors and directors that requires many nights of long hours and a tremendous amount of preparation. 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.
American artists are reported the most successful and wealthiest in the world. No wonder United States is called the land of opportunities. In conclusion, everyone can agree that United States is a very interesting country and what captures my attention the most is its customs and traditions. No other country in the world has so many different holidays and different foods. I think that America is truly one of a kind because not only does it offer many chances for people to start a new life, it is also different from every other country due to its customs and traditions.
They then go into discussion while watching home movies about how she constantly feels that she is being compared to Rebecca. This then leads into a discussion about how he can't be happy anymore. This is the turning point because it's the first time you get to see the other side of him, Maxim's angry side which, can be easily provoked. This is brought out in the scene by the light from the projector illuminating half of his face, which symbolizes that he has two sides, a light and a dark side to
truman show The Truman Show Good morning/Afternoon. I will be discussing the television movie “The Truman show” Pete Weirs film “the Truman Show” offers us a critical view at reality television and the dangers associated with it. Weir positions the Audience to be able to question what is real and what is fake. He wants us to be aware that reality television is not actually “real” but controlled and manipulated by the media. Weir uses the character of “Marlon”, Truman’s best friend, to show the extremes of television manipulation.
In the masterpiece ‘On the Waterfront’ directed by Elia Kazan, shows a wonderful story of a man standing up to a tyrannical rule. For the story of this film is all about the conscience and that is shown throughout the whole movie. And the story about the conscience is based on the past experience of Kazan himself when he had agreed to testify the former associates who were involved with the Communist Party and became a pariah in left-wing circles. Terry Malloy, played by Brando can be considered as the avatar of Kazan in his past. Kazan’s life was a difficult one, full of many difficult decisions.