Screening: The Third Man (1949):
Directed by Carol Reed, this black and white film had exceptionally articulate visuals of landscapes throughout the city of Vienna in 1948. In spite of being for the most part shot around evening time and in the sewers, the director does an incredible job capturing the overall character of the city. The music was fairly interesting, and added a feeling of peculiarity to the film. Although all the actors played their roles, respectively, Orson Welles was my favorite. He was Charming, but yet evil at the same time. Joseph Cotten played Holly Martins and played it exceptionally well as he was really unconscious of what inconvenience he was getting his character 's part into. He was determined, but at the same …show more content…
Showing the not so distant future, where books have been banned and everyone gets information from television, this film revolved around Guy Montag, a fireman. When someone was caught with books, firemen were assigned to burn them. However, when Clarisse asks him why he does his job, and if he is happy, Montag becomes curious as to why books are so dangerous. From there on it was a battle between choosing sides. As I would like to think, this film was satisfactory. Despite being slow at times, I was content with how the dystopian world was set up. The costume’s were dated which to some degree met their objective of attempting to display the future. The acting was mostly bland, however it is hard to tell whether or not that was part of the story. Many great scenes were portrayed such as the woman who made the decision to be burned with her books, and when Montag is reading the book to the women at the party, they begin to fell emotions, and one of them starts crying because of the overwhelming emotion that was suppressed was let out. She says something along the lines of forgetting all those feelings that novels can bring upon. A funny quote that stuck out to me was, “We all got to be alike, the only way to be happy is for everyone to be made equal.” That was a justification of the captain’s reasoning to Montag as to why the books must be burned. After doing further research
Directed by Carol Reed, this black and white film had exceptionally articulate visuals of landscapes throughout the city of Vienna in 1948. In spite of being for the most part shot around evening time and in the sewers, the director does an incredible job capturing the overall character of the city. The music was fairly interesting, and added a feeling of peculiarity to the film. Although all the actors played their roles, respectively, Orson Welles was my favorite. He was Charming, but yet evil at the same time. Joseph Cotten played Holly Martins and played it exceptionally well as he was really unconscious of what inconvenience he was getting his character 's part into. He was determined, but at the same …show more content…
Showing the not so distant future, where books have been banned and everyone gets information from television, this film revolved around Guy Montag, a fireman. When someone was caught with books, firemen were assigned to burn them. However, when Clarisse asks him why he does his job, and if he is happy, Montag becomes curious as to why books are so dangerous. From there on it was a battle between choosing sides. As I would like to think, this film was satisfactory. Despite being slow at times, I was content with how the dystopian world was set up. The costume’s were dated which to some degree met their objective of attempting to display the future. The acting was mostly bland, however it is hard to tell whether or not that was part of the story. Many great scenes were portrayed such as the woman who made the decision to be burned with her books, and when Montag is reading the book to the women at the party, they begin to fell emotions, and one of them starts crying because of the overwhelming emotion that was suppressed was let out. She says something along the lines of forgetting all those feelings that novels can bring upon. A funny quote that stuck out to me was, “We all got to be alike, the only way to be happy is for everyone to be made equal.” That was a justification of the captain’s reasoning to Montag as to why the books must be burned. After doing further research