Alfred Hitchcock

6) Psycho http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I never thought black and white could be so gooooooood. I love this movie because it has so much meaning behind it. The beginning is one of the most powerful sense of its time. A women being undress on screen was a big no no. Then a trusted secretary women stealing 40 thousand dollars then running with it out of town. The director wanted to show that women at the time could do what men could do. That they weren't any different. I…

In consideration of editing techniques, I reviewed the video clip and transcript A Beautiful Mind (4/11) Movie Clip - Nash Cracks the Code (2011) HD, While the main character, Noel, is contemplating the information presented before him, on the wall of numbers, the montage theory of editing is used to show the juggle between his mental thought process and his physical placement in the room. The images flip flop between cut away scenes of the numbers wall, his face, and the faded background of…

Oswald Cobblepot or the Penguin seems to be a narcissistic, manipulative, megalomaticitist, psychopath. He was powerless as a child and due to the conservative personality of his mother he rarely talked to other humans or peer preventing him to learn to make emotional connections. He does not have antisocial personality disorder this is easy to tell from the beginning. He is deprived of emotional support and clings to any he gets. He clings to his mother throughout childhood and when she is…

A lot of people like a nice spy film, Action, danger, love, suspense. If I told you North by North West was one of the first spy films, would you believe it? North by Northwest influenced the bond films and the styling of the spy film in general, in plot structure, tropes, and even a set piece. The man on the run plot structure is the same where our hero quickly shows his word play at the beginning of the film while playing nice with the quickly identified villain as some plot elements develop…

American Psycho, Election 2016, and the Entropy of the American Dream The ‘80’s described in the book were a time of excess, immorality, and sloth. They were also significantly a time when the American Dream, as originally described was one of hard work and charismatic patriotism, changed to one of excess and moral competition. In this, the human persona became more animalistic; so begins this discourse with a genius line from the main character of American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, “There…

Kaufman’s Ouervre Charlie Kaufman’s oeuvre consists of films that play with style, reality, and filmic structure to discuss deep issues of humanity. A Kaufman script has a few idiosyncrasies of style and structure that make it very clear who the writer is. What is most notable about Kaufman’s style is his ability to take the ordinary and make it otherworldly. He presents us with normal people, most often an everyday guy, and then puts them into situations of science fiction, fantasy,…

Brad McGann was a very difficult and complex director to understand. His film (In my father’s Den) used unique cinematography, sounds, music and narrative structure that sparked the atmosphere through most of his movie. McGann’s style was to use complex narrative structure and convincing cinematography which would capture the emotion the actors portray into their characters. Everything he did in this movie was done to perfection. He is most noticed for using using vasts amounts of handheld…

Directors use many cinematic elements and techniques to give their movies a mood or feeling but director Tim Burton does this especially well in his movies Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in his films but the one technique that he does extraordinary in his films are camera angles. In his films, Tim Burton effectively uses the cinematic element of camera angles to create a sense of mood and feeling based on the type of camera he…

Masters of Cinematic Technique In Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Hitchcock’s Psycho, each director successfully utilizes unique camera movements to communicate important thematic and narrative information to their audiences. In each film, the consciousness of the camera encodes not only the director’s authorial vision, but it also serves as a device for communicating power and suspense. Kubrick begins to display his impressive command of camera movement in the opening minutes of Paths of Glory. An…

The movie Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, tells the story of general Maximus (played by Russell Crowe) that stands against crazy Emperor (played by Joaquiem Phoenix) is considered to be one of the best historical movies in modern history. However, as it goes in historic movies, Gladiator is showing the audience the popular recitation period and masks the real perception and the real course of government. It is true that most of the changes made in the movie could only strengthen the…