Film director Essays

Film directors are hired to oversee the production of movies and make sure all involved are doing what they’re supposed to. They usually have the final say in most decisions involving the movie including financial decisions. Many would say that the director is the author of the film. There are many film schools around the world that help aspiring film directors to learn the ways of film directing. The salary of a film director varies based on how successful their previous works were. Film school

George Lucas is an American movie director and entrepreneur. He is mainly recognized for being the director of Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. He is the creator and founder of Lucasfilm, THX, and Industrial Light & Magic. He was born in Modesto, California on May 14th, 1944, to Dorothy and George Lucas. They owned a store and a walnut ranch. He acquired a passion for cars and racing. He wanted to become a professional racecar driver, but he changed his mind after he got in a really bad accident. He

Visual Communications and has presented many great opportunities. The Rockwell Foundation Scholarship Interests me because, the scholar ship would be a great opportunity to help me gain the knowledge needed to reach my long-term goal of becoming a film director. I feel passionately about the work I’ve done in class, looking back at my work produced as a first-year student compared to now, I can see how much I’ve grown by paying more attention to detail and becoming more organized. Impact has given me

Bringing out the meaning: Deacy, Nolan, Scorsese, and what films 'mean', is giving the director credit as the author of the movie due to the directors creative hand through the filmmaking process (Ellis). Throughout the decades, some names have stood out more than others based on the critical acclaim of their films. Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick are two well known directors, both considered to be highly influential people in film; even with their varying directorial styles and techniques.

Of the films that I have seen of John Huston and Martin Scorsese it’s hard not to notice their similarities and numerous differences. Perhaps the most obvious comparison to make is how they use decor and costumes, both of their films, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Taxi Driver (1976), take place at the time of their release, so the costumes and settings are realistic and most importantly lived-in. How these locations are lived in are portrayed a little differently through lighting and

the similarities and the differences of two film adaptations of Hamlet. A version is the one by Michael Almereyda which was released in the early 2000 while the other is by Kenneth Branagh which was released in an earlier date of 1996. Both of these were similar to one another to an extent as they were based on the true original text of the play Hamlet but at the same time presented in two different ways. As the plot stayed the same within the two films there were other factors that made it different

formula for creating a successful film that will top the charts and bring in the most revenue. As the name states, it is composed of three distinct acts: the setup, the confrontation, and the resolution. Each of these three acts has their own partitions called beats. The beats are checkpoints for important events that screenwriter and film analyst Blake Snyder says are imperative for writing a screenplay that will both captivate and entertain it’s audience. Director Wes Anderson utilizes the three-act

The director, producer, and co-author of the film Citizen Kane is Orson Welles. The main characters of this productions are Charles Foster Kane, Jedediah Leland, Susan Kane, and Emily Kane, Mr. Bernstein, and Jerry Thompson. The main conflict is Jerry’s troubles of uncovering Kane’s story. In this film, reporters are try to decode the last words of Charles Foster Kane. Kane’s life is played through flashbacks that start when he was a young boy and show his rise of riches to his eventual downfall

One of the most interesting adaptations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is Michael Almereyda's 2000 film, which sets the story in modern-day New York City. The film, starring Ethan Hawke as Hamlet and Julia Stiles as Ophelia, keeps the same basic plot points and characters as the original play but reimagines them for a contemporary audience. One of the main ways that Almereyda's adaptation parallels the original work is through its exploration of themes such as revenge, madness, and mortality. Hamlet's

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-author, director and star. The film opens with the most famous one word in movie history, Rosebud, which is the last thing Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), uttered before he died. Immediately, reporters compile a newsreel to recap the major events in Kane’s life. But, something is missing, Rosebud; who is it? What is it? And why did it mean so much to Kane that he would say it on his death bed? To crack this mystery we

Overlook Hotel looked much less creepier than it was perceived as in the text and it revisions the whole ending of the story. This movie made it clear there was another author in the making of the story and that is the director. The main ideas were clearly modified in the movie by the director. The name of the novel is The Shining. The reason to the name is because of Jack and Wendy's son Danny has the ability to shine. Throughout the novel it focuses on his ability to shine and what it is to be able to

name. And it is a genre that has built a new world. Longer, larger, freer, it was like seeing films of category X on paper, in which sex and violence, were explicit, even very visual without going to excessive lengths. In this case, Tarantino extracted the subgenre of the gangster, where bondage and erotic elements stand out. However, Quentin is not Quentin without his personal stamp, and what the director did was simple: deconstruct the genre, separating it into smaller fragments and build his way

and marriage- a thematic approach Alfred Hitchcock was a successful English film director and producer. He was often known as “the master of suspense.” He filmed psychological thrillers, one of these thrillers include “Rear window” which in mostly all of his films, he portrays women to look and act a certain way. Two significant themes portrayed throughout this film include marriage and the gender roles within the film. Rear window is about Jeffries, a man who is isolated in his own apartment,

during a time of sexual repression for sexual minorities. The film correctly portrays the progressive development of Milk’s political ideologies, from when he first moves to San Francisco till his time in office during 1978. In 1972 Harvey Milk and Scott Smith move to San Francisco and buy the Castro Camera, a store which initially sold cameras but later became a political hub for Milk’s campaigning (Source 9). The evident appearance in the film of Milk’s belief in gay rights in seen through his methods

lives of several famous American tycoons, but Hearst was the most obvious. Photography Gregg Toland, the cinematographer for Citizen Kane, considered the film the high point in his career & thought he might ‘learn something’ from the boy genius (Welles). Welles, used to setting up his own lights in the live theater thought the movie directors were also responsible for the lighting. Toland would let Welles determine the design of most of the lights, but quietly instructed the camera

Director Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey paints a 1968 image of the year 2001 and the predicted progress that humanity has made. The film takes the audience on a journey through space, to places that even today, we could only dream of. Kubrick’s brilliance shines throughout this film exposing a dark image over human progress. The two particular scenes that most accurately show this dark image is the “Dawn of Man” scene, where Kubrick shows humanities first use of tools, and the “Hal versus

Facts and Fiction: A Manipulation of Language in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood English is a fascinating and riveting language. Subtle nuances and adjustments can easily change the understanding of a literary work—a technique many authors employ in order to evoke a desired response from their readers. This method is used especially in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, a literary work which details a true event about the murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small community of Holcomb

Citizen Kane Review Citizen Kane (1941) is a drama movie directed by Orson Welles, who also has the main role in the movie; his character: Charles Foster Kane. The story starts at the end of the life of the tycoon Charles Foster Kane, at his very last breath, which he uses to pronounce the word “Rosebud”, while a snow globe falls from his hands. This beginning is what catches the spectator’s attention within the first thirty seconds into the movie: The mystery about the meaning of that scene, that

This paper highlights close proximity with feminism and post colonialism in Atwood’s novel, The Edible Woman. Woman’s colonization, victimization, humiliation and silence disrupt or increase her pace towards survival and freedom. Women as well as countries are displaced and deteriorated incessantly. Weak bodies and fertile lands are raped and conquered. The complicated relation between consumer culture, the health and beauty industry, patriarchy and gender roles is made explicit. Unrealistic expectations

actively deceived throughout the film to believe the convenient truth to what his heart or sex life desire. To better understand what I have just thrown on you I should probably better explain the circumstance of this deception. Beginning with the back story behind the deception Scottie faced through out the film, and how his own mental issues played into it. We must also analyze Scotties obsession and we can do so by analyzing one of the most pivotal scenes in the film, which I will call the neon green