Film Analysis Essay

around everywhere...” The characters Helena and Valentine from the film MirrorMask have this dialogue and it sums up the randomness of surrealism. It emphasizes how two completely arbitrary unrelated objects can be fused together in the creative world of surrealism where there essentially are no boundaries. This essay will discuss that in terms of the film MirrorMask, and Un Chien Andalou. There will be explanations of what the films are about, and then some theoretical discussion relating to…

The film shies away from the assassination itself and instead focuses on the lesser-known and more personable grief of his widow – Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy. In doing so it adds back surprise, it adds back suspense, and it almost loses its historicity. Textbooks…

The film swimming upstream by Russell Mulcahey can be examined from several different levels. It is the story about a young man who loves to swim and strives to be an Australian champion and go to the Olympics. The film follows Tony’s journey from childhood to young adult. His journey is focused in gaining his father’s attention and love. By the end of the film he realised his is never going to be recognised by his father so his energy goes into doing things for himself such as university and…

One of the most enjoyable and well-known film genre is the Western, produced from the start of the movie business to even today. When one thinks of a Western, they might think of an iconic star such as John Wayne riding on a horse in a beautiful landscape. In one of the most classic Westerns, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Captain Nathan Brittles is tasked with simultaneously easing tensions with the aggressive Cheyenne Indians and transporting his…

subcategory a film belongs to (based on various personal factors), a film categorized as one of higher quality and values will affect the way the audience will perceive it. In other words: a serious, informative documentary that addresses issues of society will have more credibility and impact than a rather entertaining genre such as Reality TV for example (Hill, 2007: p.58). But the operation of arranging…

The revisionist western drama begins with cowboys, who look to be “bad”, all meeting up and riding into town, as a gang, on their horses. The film then shows us a man and woman getting married, also finding out the man is a deputy. Will Kane, the deputy, previously locked away Frank Miller, the outlaw, for a crime he was supposed to be killed for. High Noon is filmed in real time, the audience only know as much as the characters because everything is portrayed at the same speed between viewers…

(1941) is a film directed by John Hunston. In the film, a private detective named Sam Spade’s partner gets murdered and a woman, Ruth Wonderly, shows up needing his help to find a falcon statue. Spade meets a variety of characters all with the same motive of acquiring the falcon statue. This films use of a classical opening and closing, the way it develops its characters, the omniscience of the narrator, and causal linearity combined with the continuity editing system define this film as an…

The matrix is one of the most fascinating narratives piece of science fiction films ever been released in the late nineties, in the movie there are several distinct features that stimulates a lot of crucial questions about human existence, the world that we are living in and how we distinguish between what is real and what is not real. This piece of writing will analyze the Matrix film by means of sequence analysis, it will also focus on mis-en-scene and all elements that will include setting,…

Before I analyze the film Chungking Express, I would like to briefly introduce its director—Wang Kar-Wai, a great master who specialized in describing protagonists’ characteristics by details and the whole environment. Since he grows up in Hong Kong, a former British colony involving Chinese culture and western culture, he has lots of thinking on this metropolis and the people living there. Thus he directs bunch of films such like Chungking Express, telling the love stories happened in Hong Kong…

recorded for other purposes. However, structuring a narrative for the film turns out…