Musallam Almashali Professor. Michele Desmarais INST-4140-856 December 11, 2017 Short Assignment #3: Chinese Traditions in Film Jia Zhangke’s 2015 film, “Mountains May Depart,” tells the story of Tao, Zhang and Dollar over three parts. In part one, a young, vibrant Tao is courted by poor but kind-hearted, coal miner Liangzi, and the brash, wealthy entrepreneur Zhang. Zhang eventually wins out, although Tao’s feeling for Laingzi remain.…
“It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” (Edward, 2002). To identify where is their home is a major problem for Islamic migrants, in particular for the second and third generation migrants. Unlike immigrants, migrants always are temporary works; they do not have passport and protection from the government that they are working. Most of them live in the country as an outsider.…
Her actions are often repetitive which makes it look rehearsed as if she is playing a character under her mask. “The gun pointed at my chest. Her hand seemed to be quite steady. The hissing sound grew louder and…
The culturally relevant film I watched was “The Vanished Elephant” directed by Javier Fuentes-León. The film was released in 2014 and is a feature narrative. It is from the countries of Peru, Colombia, and Spain. The film was played in Spanish with English subtitles. This is one of the only films that I have watched where the cast is mostly all Latino, not white, unlike other movies that would be considered popular in today’s generation.…
Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African intelligence is put toe to toe with the Greco-Roman mythologies in a manner similar to the asserting of the African Griot style as valid in comparison to the linear narrative. The respect of African knowledge is also evident in the peaceful co-existence…
(INTRO HERE) The war film genre is a type of film that you would imagine is concerned with warfare. Warfare that includes all types: air, ground, naval, etc.…
Alcohol use is often glamorized in society and viewed as an acceptable form of socialization and fun. Thousands of youths, college students, and adults partake in this behavior in order to either fit in with their peers or find an escape for their problems. Although many individuals are able to keep their drinking within an acceptable limit, others often exceed the boundaries and enter dangerous territory. The movie entitled “28 days” exceeds an audience’s expectations in regards to correctly portraying the dark side of substance use disorders.…
Her style is very repetitive as well as recognizable, while being very mindful…
Before coming to Full Sail University, I had encountered many obstacles that tried to detour or distract me. One in particular placed a great deal of doubt in my mind and made me question was this what beyond doubt I wanted to do, or who I wanted to become. Pondering should I desert my family that is grieving over our loved one, or follow dreams that she, my grandmother, hoped I’d accomplish? With each passing day that college was approaching this complex question tore me in two. The both of you have doubts I’ve proven that neither of you grasp what computer animation can do, nor where it can lead to moreover that’s what frightens you.…
FrackNation is a documentary produced by Phelim McAleer. Phelim aims to address what the filmmakers say is the wrong information about the process of hydraulic fracturing when drilling for oil in the ground, commonly called fracking. The film looks at many different ways that fracking for natural gas, oil, and other minerals in the ground occurs and tries to address the concerns surrounding the process that were said to be happening in the anti-fracking film Gasland. Gasland was made by Josh Fox. Who was upset because he didn’t get all the money that he was promised by an oil company.…
The Farm: Angola is a film based on a prison named Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) located in Louisiana. The film looks into the lives of six inmates in the prison. All of these inmates featured are sentenced to life, except one who is on death row. The central messages of the film shows how the criminal justice system is corrupt, survival and freedom is the central goal for every inmate in the prison, and how racism is portrayed in the prison.…
In the film, she was listening to a record, when asked what she was listening to she was unable to answer because she could not put a word to it. She said she knew what it was she just could not recall its name. When given the name she had a “oh yeah” moment. Fluency did not seem to be a huge problem for Lotje. In the film, she spoke effortlessly for the most part and it was somewhat rapid.…
Good morning/afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the Australian Film festival selection panel for 2016, I present to you an amazing and accurate representation of Australian culture and community, the film directed by Baz Luhrmann, Australia. The film Australia was set in 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley played by Nicole Kidman travels from Britain to Australia to meet her husband Maitland Ashley played by Anton Monsted in northern Australia as the business is failing at Faraway Downs Farm. Maitland sent his Drover played by Hugh Jackman to collect Sarah from the city of Darwin and take her to the farm; however, when they reach Faraway Downs Farm, she finds Maitland was murdered. Sarah becomes friends with Nullah played by Brandon Walters an Indigenous…
She seems to invest every bit of herself into her dance and with a unique style of execution. She controls the floor and flexed her muscles in such a perfect way that one begins to wonder if she has bones in her body. Something else that stands out is that she doesn’t struggle with any movement, regardless of how difficult it seem; in fact, she uses the same energy, vigor, and focus in all of her performances- she does have a penetrating gaze.…
She maintains eye contact with each section of the audience. Even though she has a microphone, she still projects her voice. She also used non-verbal behaviors such as hand gestures to complement her speech and even replace parts of her speech just by her actions. An example of this is when she demonstrates a demoralizing experimenter. It would be possible for me to use most of her strategies, besides the memorized speech part.…