Memento: The Norm Of A Detective Film

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. Memento is considered to be in the Baroque stage because it tells the story in a different way so that it focuses more on how they tell a story than what the story is about. Memento does what a typical detective movie does find out who killed this person by finding evidence and ultimately bring the killer to justice, and for the most part it follows the norm of a detective movie. There is however a difference, Memento doesn't start with the beginning of the movie of the person investigates someone who is killed and wants to find out who killed that person. Instead they have already gotten to the climax of finding the killer in the movie they show the main character of Memento Leonard confronting Teddy who he thinks killed his wife, he then …show more content…
I think it about in between because CGI in the 90s and 2000’s have their share of films that use CGI in a way that made film better for instance films like Jurassic Park, the way the special effects people made the T-Rex and other dinosaurs in the film look realistic, it made you forget that dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. What this film did was made CGI look like an incredible way to make new worlds; make things that aren't possible, and visually make it like it could exist in our world. Although CGI in the 90’s and 2000’s had its share of bad films like Godzilla where it made CGI look bad in the eyes of movie goers and Hollywood. In the movie Godzilla though he did looked like a monster, the film relied too much of CGI to carried the movie and didn't focus enough on the acting of the …show more content…
This is similar to rear projection except that in rear projection the background image or scene is played behind the actor or actresses so that they have to react to it on the spot instead of in chromakey where they have the actor or actresses who are in the background entirely. Another method is CGI where you take computer graphics and create physical objects, places, and things that couldn't be achieve

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