Film Analysis Essay

Bugtai, Keith R. Castillo Intro to Film October 15, 2017 Film Analysis: Superbad High school seniors Evan and Seth have been best friends since they were kids, Seth the leader who is all talk and no action type of guy, Evan who is the most faithful and smart follower of Seth. Both best friends are a part of the out crowd in high school, meaning that they have had few other students who were kind of their friends and a few people who are in the popular crowd. Seth and Evan have been doing…

Filmmakers use a variety of techniques to make their films captivating to the viewers. Movie scene transition techniques include the dissolve, the wipe, the jump cut, and the fade. Camera shot and angle techniques used by filmmakers are low, high, and level camera angles, pan, p.o.v, close up, and long shot. All of those filmmaking techniques are utilized throughout the Lost Names’, “An Empire for Rubber Balls” storyboard and work together to create a special meaning for what the viewer sees…

Who knew the best way to portray reality was to be wildly unrealistic? Directed by Spencer Stussey and Daniel Campos and winner of Tropfest 2016, the film 'Shiny' extravagantly and entertainingly shows a mass of limbless people furiously fighting for a diamond. Literally. Now, stop-motion animations like this one often include some fairly unusual animations and ideas, but 'Shiny' goes wild with this. There are moving clothes without bodies that act as the film's characters - yes, moving…

first, I had thought to myself that I wouldn’t have liked this film. But it turned out that it became one of my favorite films, if not, my favorite film of all time. Reasons that I liked it were because of the screenwriting was extremely well done, and you can really feel that you are there. The life lesson to stand up for the truth, and to not let anyone stand in your way. Finally, for the grit mindset that Trumbo was showing in the film. To begin, the screenwriting in the movie “Trumbo”, was…

The Canadian film “What If” also known as “The F Word” is like many cliché romance films. Add in some quirkiness, awkward moments, realization that the main characters are falling in love and then they live happily ever after. Before I get into why I didn’t favor this film unlike the others who rated it 7/10 I’ll give a synopsis. “What If” is based on the main character Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe), a medical school dropout who is trying to recover from a broken heart. His over-the-top best friend…

Atonement Essay- Symbolism, narrative structure, and special effects are significant features of film. Focusing on one or more of these features, discuss the extent to which you agree with this view. Based on the novel written by Ian McEwan “Atonement”, directed by Joe Wright has four distinctly different parts. Part one is set on one glorious summer’s day in 1935. Parts Two and Three are set in overlapping times in 1940 during the war, first in France and then in London. The Coda is set in…

Separation of Emotional and Critical Views in Film The human race has created a complex web of social and personal relationships and connects between people, the universe, and themselves. War and Upheaval through Film has helped me understand these connections and the issues that people face through a rhetorical and contextual perspectives. The course has help me to look at films from a different perspective; it forced me to separate my emotions from the truth of what the plot is revealing to me…

In the films “Tiny Furniture”, “It”, and “Mildred Pierce” stands against the patriarchal views of society are taken in very abstract ways. By refusing to employ the “gaze technique”, – a technique filmmakers use to draw attention to the physical features of a female character, portrayed by using different perspectives; most commonly the male perspective – redefining the portrayal of female characters, and breaking gender stereotypes these three films defy the patriarchy and work to change the…

The Film, Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age is written and directed by Dennis OʻRourke. The film was released in 1986 and won the Peace Film Award in Berlin later that year. The film gives a well-balanced insight on the impacts on the indigenous communities from the Castle Bravo nuclear testing of 1954, in the Marshal Islands. The film shows multiple perspectives of the event from personal accounts of the indigenous people, to military personal, and even US political leaders. Declassified…

classic western films ever made by a director who was so versatile that many people might confuse him with other great western directors like John Ford or Anthony Mann, but Howard Hawks had an eye for character driven stories, had an expert sense of visual style, and knew how to use actors better than most. Hawks was one of those classic Hollywood directors that could easily orchestrate the action and compelling aspects that make a great western, and Red River is one. The film Red River (1948)…