“Three Kings” (“Es ist schoen Koenig zu sein”) is a 1999 war film written and directed by David O. Russell. It tells the story of four American soldiers in the immediate aftermath of “Operation Desert Storm” in Kuwait and Iraq, as they scheme to find a secret trove of stolen Iraqi gold. While the film contains unique filmmaking and narrative techniques, it has clear signs marking it as a traditional American three-act film. In the first act (Set-up in Syd Field’s “Paradigm”), we see the exposition of the film.
Film allows individuals’ stories and struggles to come alive to the rest of the world. The recent coverage of Luis Valdez receiving one of the White House’s 2015 National Medal of Arts demonstrates the growing advancement of Chicano culture in the United States. Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino in 1965 to display the lifestyles and hardships of migrant farm workers, which included his own family. He also created the famous, yet still relevant, movie La Bamba in 1987 (Wildman, 2016). This movie tells the story of Richie Valens.
Throughout the film Stagecoach, there were several examples of archetypal characters. Not only is the typical true western hero exhibited, however you also see the damsel in distress and many antagonists. The typical western hero attempts to embody the frontier. They’re overall goal is to be successful amongst their tasks with minimal regard to the understanding of danger.
In 2010, a poll taken from over 1000 people named Darryl Kerrigan of The Castle as the favourite Australian movie character with 23% of the votes (Hayes, 2010). The accolades kept flowing for the 1997 film, with over a third of those interviewed thinking The Castle best represents the real Australian culture (Hayes, 2010). These results raise an interesting question. How does a film taken in 11 days with a budget of half a million dollars capture the hearts of more Australians than a Hollywood blockbuster? What is it about Darryl and his family, and the story of the Kerrigans that Australians can relate to?
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 western genre depicts an era in the United States of America where expansionism and imperialism were at its peak and the people who lived in the west where fighting to keep things as they were and used to be. In the book, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (McCarthy, 1985), published in 1985, the violence and brutality depicted by the American frontier can be the film, The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah in 1969. The film seems to be the filmic version of the mythical written version of the book. Both the film and book contain groups of outlaws who quest their way across the west killing anyone who gets in their way, which is the classic take on the stereotypical American myth of the west. Though the plot line may seem the same the movie has a different ending to the book.
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.
There is a new documentary titled “Three Identical Strangers” which tells the story of three identical triplets who were separated at birth and raised by different families. It was shown at the recent Sundance Film Festival. The three, born in 1961, were part of a controversial psychology experiment to answer the nature versus nurture debate on raising children. Robert Shafran, David Kellmann, and Eddy Gallan were monitored for the study by the Manhattan Child Development Center. It is headed by Dr. Peter Neubauer, a psychoanalyst.
The Wild West really was as violent as they said .cattle, cowboys and the Great Plains. But Hollywood did not define it as it really was back in the 1800s… it was only their stories. Railroads, mines, Cowtown’s and Indian wars just some terrors of the untamed west. Gold explosives and a chance of land and a better life all seemed appropriate for death rates to be so high especially in bondie ca.
No Country for Old Men (2007) is an American film based on a novel written by Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men is a Crime Thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat from the beginning to end of the film, the climax of the film will make you want more of the mysterious assassin, Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardem’s performance of Anton Chigurh in this film is excellent, every scene he is in is suspenseful and will leave you with a sense of dread. The way that the movie does not use music gives you the sense of the eerie silence of the desert. This is a movie that was interesting from the beginning to the end and it did not lose me, it held me tight, and in fact kept me on the edge of my seat.
Death of a Salesman has been extremely influential in regards to theatrical performance and it has been performed by multiple different theatre groups. It has also been made into a movie, which has actors such as Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, John Malkovich as Biff Loman, and Kate Reid as Linda Loman. All of these actors’ performances were true to the character and were extremely realistic. It was easy for the audience to get caught up in the characters that these actors portrayed. Throughout the movie, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, and Kate Reid all provided an outstanding performance by ensuring that their facial expressions, body language, and emotions always shined through all the while they were creating realistic characters that were easily believable by the audience.
This is just a myth because everything we know about has been romanticized, because the idea is much more complicated and we as a society like to group everything and make thing exciting, because if they were dull it wouldn’t be packed with action. The reality of it all is a hard pill to swallow rather than having a sugar coated pill. Throughout the Wild West the cowboy had been an idol for American culture while on the other hand, the American Indian has been portrayed as the barbaric individual who has no heart for anyone. The Wild West is simply just a myth and is a legacy that will forever live on even though we really know how the Wild West really is, but we deny the dull part of the story and accept the side that is action
One of the best usage of sound design as a tool of storytelling has to be in the first sequence of The Exorcist. As a horror movie, which as a genre builds itself on the vicarious experience it provides, uses more complex patterns of sound design templates to enhance the adventure of watching the movie. Throughout the first scene, Ken Nagle lays what the audience will be the experiencing through the duration of the movie with sound design; the duel between good and evil. The Exorcist’s first sequence, the audience can hear the digging sound of the workers, which resembles the heart pounding.
Damien Chazelle’s American musical film, La La Land (2016), with Director of Photography Linus Sandgren, won about six awards at the Oscars. One of the awards they received is in the Cinematography category. I personally agree with this voting because this beautifully-made film shows, not tells, the story. In the beginning of the film, the viewers see the story from Mia’s point of view, but the story later goes back and switches to Sebastian’s point of view.
La Amistad movie a movie released In 1997 was a true movie story based on slavery life it takes about how slavery was managed and about the slaves of La Amistad ship, La Amistad ship is a ship which carried slaves from other countries to the U.S. The historical setting is in Connecticut, a place in the U.S. The event took place in the 1800s. Body: At the beginning of the movie Cinque the leader of a tribe was in LA Amistad ship then he managed to scaped from the Spanish crewmen, slaves force 2 Spanish crew men to go back to Africa
