1997 in film

Hard Days Night its celebrating 50th its anniversary this year which enhances my reasons for choosing this film. In this paper, I will argue its historical and cultural significance, its influences on modern films, particularly the music video and demonstrate how Richard Lester’s techniques paved the way what seems the norm in the industry. I will also look at the other elements that make the film so iconic today. My Paper will cover concepts such as the influences of ‘The New French Way’…

The Big Sleep is an film noir, which was pioneering in crime drama tropes and style. The film utilizes editing techniques and camera work to convey a intricate narrative. One of the most interesting scenes to me was in the opening of the film when Marlowe is talking to General Sternwood which really introduces the main character through his interactions with the old man. The scene also makes good use of the 180-degree rule, shot/reverse shot, and eyeline matching which makes the dialogue between…

Both the film and novel portray the theme of family yet display them differently through their use of dialog and speech. Benigni portrays a deep family connection which contrasts with Fly Away Peter in which Jim and his father experience a tense relationship. In the film, Benigni has used the actor’s speech to portray the close bond the family share. Whilst Guido and Giosue are heading to the concentration camp, Dora explains to the solider “My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on…

provided by James Horner and the cinematography by Mauro Fiore . The movie grossed of 700 million in the United States alone while international it made over 2 billion making it the highest grossing film of all time. James Cameron began writing the movie in 1994 and was supposed to begin shooting it in 1997 after finishing his other movie titanic but according to him the necessary technology was not available for what he had in mind. The segment which I have chosen to analyse is the first shot…

Traditional films have always followed a certain formula that of the Hollywood cinema style, one that audiences are familiar with. Along with this structured technique, great narratives can be produced while providing insightful views and commentary upon the world, whether they are subtle or not depends on the film. Not every film produced is meant to follow this familiar structure and some have broken away from the normal to make a film that is close to those who create it. Directors that have…

The movie Amistad was released in December 10, 1997. It was based in a true history of historical events of 1839 before the United States civil war, it was aboard the slave ship “La Amistad” that was traveling from Cuba to the South of the United States with slaves born in Africa to sell theme, but the ship instead traveled to the north. The film earned $44,229,441 at the box office in the United States, debuting at Number 5 on December 10, 1997. In a slave ship called “The Amistad” that…

In the 1997 film Titanic, the director James Cameron exerts to act the historic disaster of the damned ship. In the scenes of the ship's sinking, Cameron shoots the camera at a distance several times in order to show the mass scale of the disaster. He provides a viewpoint of the lifeboat survivors’ from their distance of the ship. He also thrives on capturing a visual in a bird's eye view of the incident during its occurrence. This view would provide the viewer with a sense of how isolated the…

new, iconic, and controversial to the table. One surprisingly effective way to do this is to analyze the film industry. Films often correspond with the attitudes and feelings of the time and can thereby be one of the best ways to analyze how society thinks, has developed, and how audiences have responded to everything from traditional gender roles,…

The silent cinema offers a treasure grove for the study of film acting. In the absence of sound, it shows performers constructing their respective characters by only using their bodies, not their voices. For this reason, silent cinema demands maximum expressiveness from actors. Rather than conveying their emotions by means of words, performers of the silent era knew how to express their feelings through gestures and facial expressions in such a manner that their feelings could be easily…

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian filmmaker whose films are so uniquely his they are in a genre of their own. Smart and profound films that offer many polysemic viewpoints and are full of ambiguity. Throughout his career there have been many different techniques, styles, and changes Kiarostami has tested and implemented. His movies all have a certain distinctive quality to them, but starting with his 1987 film “Where Is the Friend's Home?”, he settled into a style that is now uniquely his own.…