Film Analysis Essay

not considered to identify with male oppression (Genz & Brabo, 2009, p. 11). The noir films of the late 1990s and its heroines started to fundamentally undermine the institutions of the “supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” With this, social imagination was rather productively depicted. A familiar topic, the noir genre,…

lighting and how it distinguished between locations and guided our focus; and finally the editing and how it created suspense in the climax. These are only a few stylistic decisions that Griffith 's made, each one is equally important in developing the film form, however,…

Film Noir started when American film change its context to a much darker subject matter due to the aftermath of World War II. Based from the article of Christopher McColm, McColm gathers information to review the book “Blackout: World War II and the origins of Film Noir” whose author is Sheri Chinen Biesen. In the book, Biesen argues that the term noir emerged during the war era. Noir authors used the concept of post-war American angst to relay to the audience that noir fiction tends to…

such as Los Angeles were in the center. The American Dream was revitalized. In the late 1930s, the hard-boiled novel became increasingly popular, but when hard-boiled novels were later adapted as films, the films were regarded as works of Noir. The term Noir was adapted by French critics because the films featured techniques such as black and white coloring and peculiar camera angles. The Noir genre depicts a dark and hostile nature, and it has several genre conventions such as the anti-hero and…

Though it teeters on the edge of loving its style far more than its substance, Edgar Wright's exhilarating Baby Driver is a film that takes the getaway driver/crime story and turns it on its ear. Almost Literally. Through the use of a near constant, 30-plus song soundtrack that keeps the music pulsing and shifting gears like the transmissions our titular character pushes to the limits in all the cars he commandeers and drives in and around a busy few weeks in Atlanta. Known as Baby, our…

during the late 1960s. After watching Bonnie and Clyde, I discovered that both the film and its main characters are perfect examples of how the counterculture’s influence in society was rapidly growing in the country. In terms of cinema, the movie itself is definitely anti-establishment. I was legitimately shocked by the numerous scenes of graphic violence, which hugely contrasts with the scenes of previous films such as To Kill a Mockingbird, and I found that the sexual scenes were a bit…

Innocent Voices A bloody civil war that tore apart El Salvador during the 1980s was created into an incredible film twenty five years later. Released to theaters in October 14, 2005 Innocent Voices hit the box office at one million dollars in two weeks. An incredible story told by an 11 year old boy and the struggle of surviving the war, but also trying to live as normal as possible. The director Luis Mandoki gave his audience a powerful motion picture, although some people might disagree with…

The overall structure and organization of this movie is really impressive. It starts off with the story being told by the narrator to his sick grandson. The movie The Princess Bride is a fairytale adventure about a young girl and her one true love. The story begins with Buttercup, a young blue eyed girl, that lives on a farm. On the farm there’s Westley, a poor farmboy. Buttercup spends most of her day bossing Westley around ,until she realizes she's in love with Westley. Lucky for her, Westley…

into his crazy scheme for conning those corrupt politicians. Jeremy Renner plays the mob-connected New Jersey mayor to absolute perfection, and Jennifer Lawrence the beautiful, but ill-treated wife of Rosenfeld, who actually comes into her own as the film progresses. Louis C.K. is the FBI boss who seems permanently confused, and all in all this disparate group of people are all followed by the director gleefully as they stumble through the…

The Iron Giant is about a boy who helps an alien robot that landed on Earth. The director Brad Bird has also directed Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol and The Incredibles. The movie is about a giant robot that came from space and crashed into the Earth, then a boy found it and kept it safe from the government. Hogarth Hughes is showing the robot how to have fun and do a cannonball. The natural bright light and the jump cuts makes it active. The rule of thirds is showing the three characters…