Contrary to his unwavering independence in technique and style Spike Lee has taken on the challenge of film remake. Remaking a movie is always tricky, particularly when the original has an already strong following. The 2013 remake of the Past Chan-wook’s classic, Old Boy had Lee’s critics wondering why he engaged in such a dark film. When Chan-wook’s Old Boy hit theatres in 2003, it was praised for its unique structure, it’s magnificent and action packed fight scenes, and it’s visual flair, making Spike Lee a very bold choice to adapt the film for an American audience. It’s not a shot for shot remake of the original or the 2003 version, but like Chan-wook’s version, it’s graphic so don’t watch this on a fall stomach.
Shawshank Redemption-Courage by Thomas McKernan "The Shawshank redemption is a film about courage. Discuss. In your answer include at least one of the film scenes that add drama to the film including mis-en-scene." Frank Darabont, a master of his craft meticulously and carefully constructs the film The Shawshank Redemption. As director the nuances of his genius are processed through many stages to reach an elite level of cinema very few have had the privilege to ascertain.
Most of the tempos are extremely slow and a mellow romantic tone. There is sound in movies that are not to dramatize the scene but to rather notify the audience that this is an important scene coming up. There are specific elements that should evident, the movement and tone of actors must be believable to convey a story. After viewing trailer, two films come to mind in which the music, narrative, and structure was changed to present two very different themes, one of cheerfulness and the other of horror. The costumes, expressions and music executed, to get the desired end.
In his essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King tells us that some reasons we like a good horror flick are: to prove that we aren’t afraid of things that go bump in the night, to make us feel “normal,” and to have some good old-fashioned fun. Upon reading these assertions, I began to reflect on my own attitudes about the horror film genre. I have never considered myself to be a horror film fan. I tend to shy away from movies with extreme gore, violence, and gratuitous blood shed. They aren’t fun.
Bourne identity – action mystery thriller Raider of the lost ark – action adventure 1. The definition of an action film is one where the protagonist is put into many difficult situations where they must win or escape with extreme physical feats, fights and guns. In conventional action films they seem to follow a code of rules: guns girls and explosions. These films are known as ‘dumb’ action films while action films that make you think more where there are less of the conventions aforementioned. However all action films follow certain conventions such as having a romantic subplot where the protagonist falls in love with someone, there are always nearly weapons in an action film whether it be a gun or a bow an arrow, and most notably is the simple plot line of good against bad.
In critical essays, some of the most important features for the writer to develop are: critical insight (non-obvious ideas or observations that you believe may assist the viewer or reader in “discovering” the films more completely and complexly); originality (putting your own personality and “voice” in your writing); and credibility (your ability to convince the reader that your ideas are sound and interesting). One of the most important things to keep in mind when viewing or considering these films is the question of what you think the director was trying to “say” to the audience with his movie. A movie is usually a visual representation of a narrative story, after all, and if so it should be reasonably coherent and preferably have a “point”
Many composers represent conflict, even though you may not recognize it. Whether it’s a song about a breakup, a kid’s movie about princesses or a news article about last nights footy game.Conflict in the film freedom writers and the song pumped up kicks is shown by different techniques like camera shots, flashback, repetition and point of view. Freedom writers is heavily reliant on conflict as a theme, but to help put it into perspective uses a lot of techniques. One of these techniques is camera shots.In the film, camera shots are used to help the audience to understand the film better and make it interesting. You have to admit, a movie would be pretty boring if it only used one type of camera shot or angle the whole movie, right?One of the shots used in the film was the panning shot, used to show the conflict during the school fight, in one of Mrs. Gruwell’s first days.
Allan Ball leaves it completely up to the audience how they want to interpret it, but he also makes sure that once you have seen it, you will not be able to forget it. The movie provokes you to think about your own life and forces you to ask yourself, if you are truly happy with what you do. One of the more apparent themes in this movie is about the American Dream and its promises of happiness connected to materialistic wealth. However, the movie also draws attention to other themes, such as appearance versus reality, denial and repression, control versus chaos, loneliness versus feeling connected and beauty (subjective and objective). Each character in the movie represents one or more of these themes, which will become apparent below.
Film Theory debates the essence of cinematic value and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding a film’s relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. In order to successfully approach film criticism it is important to examine several theories. It is important to keep in mind that, “no critical approach can tell us everything about a film but, rather, different approaches can teach us different things about a film” (Luhr, Lehman 80). First and foremost, films are perceived in terms of their narrative structure. When discussing a film, audiences will recall its story line or characters to exemplify what the film was about.
Question: Tips: Question: How can I read a film from different perspectives? TIPS: Reading or interpreting a film is an important skill in English. When you first see the film, the most obvious interpretation will be to read the film literally, as the director wants you to see it. For example you might read it as a story about love or a story about a detective or a story about soldiers at war. However, a film is a created work of art and if you look more deeply into the film, there are many ways you can read it.