On thursday night I went to see Jerry Finnegan’s Sister. The play had two actors which were Morgan Fox and Genevieve Craven. They played the roles as Brian Dowd and Beth Finnegan. Brian is in love with Jerry Finnegan's sister (his best friend’s sister) ever since a young age, but can never tell her. He is in the conflict of wanting to tell her, but his window is closing.
It brought in great interviews, whether they were that of townspeople or official representatives, the interviews were solid and differed enough to make each one stand on it's own. The filmmakers found a way to follow the narrative with it's statistics and interviews blending in a way to keep my attention without me wanting to shoot myself in the face due to boredom, which is great. The way ethos, pathos, and logos weaved together for the end product was certainly admirable. I wasn't concerned with the issue at all when going into the interview, but if I'm going to be honest, I still don’t really care. I understand the issues and what they're doing to both the world and it's inhabitants, but I think bottled anything has become so integrated into society.
In a world where the opinion of the indigenous does not matter, many men and women battle a constant struggle resistance. How could they resist constant lack of voice, stereotypes that dominate their true traits (or racism), and absence of proper representation all at the same time? What could be the motivational drive that allows for them to overcome such obstacles? While some collaborate and stand for political issues, others face being misunderstood and misjudged across towns. Muxes in particular, face obstacles and continue to resist them in their communities.
The exotification of women of color through the introduction of sound technology in films in the 1920s and 1930s drastically influenced Dolores del Rio and her career. Because the sound of a language in films could now be heard on screen, cultural diversity in the English language and its use in the United States was acknowledged through different accents and slang. Cultural diversity in the United States was only allowed if it was through ethnic European accents. The rise of sound films in the 1930s challenged Mexican star Dolores del Rio’s ability to conform to public demands and Hollywood’s expectations through the hypersexualition of Latinx women and her involvement in transnational affairs.
The third issue we found out from “Serpico” is corruption. In the movie, police officer Frank Serpico exposed corruption in the New York City police department. He was the first officer to testify against another officer. Corruption is the dishonest behavior and wrong doing on the part of an authority or powerful party through means that are illegitimate, immoral, and incompatible with ethical standards. Corruption are include giving or accepting bribes or inappropriate presents, double dealing, under-the-table transactions, manipulating elections, diverting funds, laundering money and defrauding investors.
Mise-en-scéne is crucial to classical Hollywood as it defined an era ‘that in its primary sense and effect, shows us something; it is a means of display. ' (Martin 2014, p.XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation.
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) A lone gunman arrives in poor city in Nevata, named Yuta, where the Genji and the Heike clans are warring over a mythical treasure that is supposed to be buried there. The gunman denies requests from both clans to join them and eventually meets Ruriko who takes care of her mute grandson Heihachi, since his mother, Shizuka has become a prostitute to protect him. After a while the gunman decides to take revenge on Shizuka 's stead.
In the film, Wit, Vivian Bearing is a patient with stage IV metastatic ovarian cancer who is being admitted to a research treatment. Ms. Bearing experiences different treatment from each healthcare provider. These differences are important in many aspects of the patient’s life especially psychologically. Most of the health care providers treat Ms. Bearing as a lab rat while the nurse attempts to nurture, provide comfort and privacy for Ms. Bearing. Thus, explaining what the differences were and how it impacted Vivian shows how she was being treated.
In Orlando-the film history –mainly a very selective as well as English history – was made the central theme in the film’s overall structure. In addition to this, Potter has treated her protagonist’s travels specifically from the Elizabethan era to the 21st in only six chapters including Death in1600, Love in 1610, Poetry in 1650, Society in 1750, Sex in 1850 and lastly, Birth (the date being unspecified). Considering these events, the death was that of the Queen Elizabeth I, the love was of Orlando for her Sasha, the Muscovite ambassador’s daughter to England, and lastly the birth of Orlando’s daughter mainly in one of Potter’s very few significant modifications to Woolf’s text mainly where Orlando’s first child was a son (Jean-Pierre Boule
Ladri di biciclette is a classic norealist film set just after World War II in Italy. The non- professional actors and improvised dialogue, made this film truly present the Italian society during post war. There are multiple significant scenes that represent the overall themes of the film. In the opening scene, there is a crowed of unemployed men surrounding a police officer. The police officer announces the name of Antonio Ricci, the main character, and he is given a job.
2 / 12 Although the novel and film differ slightly in regards to the plot the same cinematic techniques are used. I will firstly discuss the cinematic techniques used in the Bertoluccis film which has made the film all the more intriguing such as style, lighting, flash backs, camera angles........................ 3 / 12 Structure and the language of literature and cinema Il Conformista is narrated in a flowery style, where Bertolucci expresses his most inner thoughts mostly through the means of mood and visuals Like the tremendous fascist architecture constructions and the workplaces of authority that contain towering corridors that make visitors seem completely insignificant. The cinematic technique that I particularly thought brought the film to life was Bertoluccis use of flashbacks. They add
The movie itself was okay, but Percival decisions to lessen the character of the storyteller, Death, to leave out parts of Max’s character as a fighter and the beginning of his friendship with the man who spared his life, and to changes the circumstances in which the mayor and his wife quit using Rosa to wash their clothing, ultimately destroy the movie. Death, the narrator, describes the souls he collects and the reader hears him throughout the book, always there, but
Student’s Name Professor’s Name Subject DD MM YYYY SANKOFA – CRITICAL REVIEW Sankofa, a movie by Haile Gerima revolves around the horrors of slavery, revealing the humiliating and torturous experiences people from the African Diaspora had to go through during the Atlantic slave trade period. A film based in Ghana, where the slave trade was rampant for centuries, it highlights the savagery of white people and how internalized the oppression was for the Africans through poetic descriptions of complacency and fear.
Introduction -The Art of Laughter “ He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” (Rafael Sabatini) Rafael Sabatini, writer of Scaramouche which tells a story of a young lawyers during the French Revolution dealing with topics such as inequality and each individual’s role in the society which is something that is still prevalent today. Like the quote, everyone is born knowing how to smile and laugh. It is a gift given to everyone, the day they were born.
Based on the homonymous novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, "Paprika" concerns a machine called DC-Mini that enables doctors to infiltrate their patients' dream in order to treat the psychological issues. Dr Atsuko is the head of a team that researches the machine's potential uses. However, its usage is illegal, therefore she has to use an alternate persona named Paprika, when she is diving into her patient's subconscious. Eventually, three of the machines are stolen, an act resulting in their malfunction and the subsequent collision of the real world and the dream world.
