Rutger Hauer Essays

  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Handsomest Drowned Man

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    RAmen One time in my Humanities 1 class, we were talking about a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled, “The Handsomest Drowned Man”. In here, the drowned man who was found by some villagers thought of how he lived, despite his enormous physique, as a generous person who always considers the comforts of other people. The villagers then named the drowned man “Esteban” who now became the center of the villagers’ lives, especially for the women. This is primarily because of Esteban’s physical

  • Semali Language In Cinema

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    The concern of literacy debate in films in not only associated with authors but also bridges difference between classical and psycho-semiotic as well as modern and postmodern film theories. While conducting analysis, it is identified that film grammar is mainly divided into four aspects including frame, shot, scene and sequence. According to Semali and Asino (2013), language is just like a character of films or cinema and remarks that language is the ability of cinema to transcend perspective of

  • Ethical Issues In Blade Runner

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    Blade Runner is a movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1982. In the film's plot, replicants are automated pseudo-people delivered for bondage, however some revolted and they were banned from the Earth The fundamental character, Deckard, is a blade runner: a specialist in control to dispose of , or resign, present replicants on earth. The story proceeds around Deckard's voyage to end the individual replicants, be that as it may, in particular, it manages the entire issue of the ethical quality and character

  • Observation: The Lost Dog Restaurant

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    My observation took place at The lost dog cafe and my focus was mainly on the host welcoming customers. I started my observation at 6 pm and it took me two hours to complete my assessment. I was sitting at an high top chair right at the front of the restaurant which limited my eyesight to the back part of the restaurant. I decided to sit up front since I assumed the host would be standing at the front of the restaurant but soon I found out that she occasionally went to the back part on the restaurant

  • Blade Runner Mise En Scene

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    Rutger Hauer who played Roy Batty; the replicant, gave an intense performance while delivering this thought-provoking monologue about how all of his life experiences will amount to nothing after his death. The lighting also stood out to me. It was dark, with

  • Blade Runner Photograph Essay

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    A photograph can mean so much to different people, but it’s ultimate purpose is to capture an important moment in someone’s life and be able to hold onto a physical copy of a memory. Photographs enact a certain nostalgia for the past, the good times or perhaps an important person or location; it’s a memory you want to last indefinitely. It’s a subject many people don’t touch on when they examine a film like Blade Runner (1982), but director Ridley Scott’s film does place an emphasis on the importance

  • Analysis Of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige

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    Christopher Edward Nolan is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of the 21st century. The acclaim garnered by his independent films gave Nolan the opportunity to make the mystery drama, The Prestige (2006). He found further popularity and critical success with The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) and Inception (2010). His ten films have grossed over 4.7 billion U.S. dollars

  • Unicorn Origami In The Blade Runner

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    includes “Fiery the angels rose...” portrays Roy as Lucifer. Plus, we also devised some stigmata by transforming Roy from a devil type character into a Christ-like figure by saving Deckard’s life; representing salvation. Noteworthy, Roy played by Rutger Hauer carried a dove in this scene to represent his soul ascending into the heaven on his death in the form of a dove, which corresponds with Tyrell’s Prodigal Son metaphor. By and large, religious allegory was used to characterise

  • Alphaville Film Noir

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    Not since Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965), a French classic science fiction noir, has a film like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), an American neo-noir, evoked such an unconventional, dark, and gritty sci-fi tale involving a cynical police detective on the trail of murdering androids called “replicants” that look identical to humans. The film takes place in a futuristic, overcrowded, rain-soaked metropolis of Los Angele in the year 2019. “The infrastructure looks a lot like now, except older

  • Double Indemitity In The Film Noir Film

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    Introduction: Film noir is a well-known cinematic term that is generally used to deal with the briefing of Hollywood crime drama and is more particularly used to place an emphasis on the cynical attitudes that also deal with the sexual provoking activities. The time period of noir in the Hollywood history is generally marked as the extending period of the time of 1940 to 1950s. The Film Noir is the time period that deals with and is associated with the low-key and black and white visual styling