Alfred Kinsey

Luis Bunuel pioneered surrealist cinema. Many of his films revolve around three themes he was fanatic about. These being, religion, class and sexual desire. These topics can be linked to Bunuel’s early years. He was born on February 22nd, 1900 in Calanda, Spain. His birthplace was of highly religious mindset as many places were in Spain. In Bunuel’s semi autobiography My Last Breath he says, “The middle ages lasted until World War I” (8). The “Miracle of Calanda” (13) was a tale in which an…

Jaws is an American thriller/suspense that falls into human fears, the fear that people sometimes even do not know they have it until they face it. That blockbuster describes the summer story that turned into disaster and put a fear in a lot of people because of water, but more because of its habitants. So to what genre actually Jaws relates to? A lot of sources describe film Jaws as a thriller and a lot as suspense, however it has the features of both genres. What is a thriller? Thriller is…

Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974) offers a newer, fresh take on the typical 1940s film noir. Chinatown preserves so many of the conventions of film noir, while also putting a completely different spin on them. By 1974, movies were no longer following the production code and Chinatown took advantage of the new MPAA rating system by adding more complex, realistic issues and scenes that the previous code would not have allowed. Chinatown has become the poster child for neo-noir films due to…

Title of film: Psycho Review #1 Critic: Roger Elbert Title of Critique: Great Movie : Psycho Provide a basic outline of the critic’s article. Critic reason circularly how the membrane is set up and where they tape-recorded it Informs the readers on how the bear wanted it to seem Discusses the elements the grow used to force this film fortunate Summarizes the pellicle and its reputation Includes what the viewers destitution to occur (which did occur in the film) Summarize his or her evaluation…

the day after you leave it physically? Will your haters still hate on you? Will the ones who once didn’t have a nice word to say about you, praise you at your funeral? Will they care now that you are gone? Many scholars including film director Alfred Hitchcock argue that characters are more important dead than alive and I agree with this statement. It takes death for people to care about you even though it is much too late. Therefore this shows that gratitude is much stronger than regret. …

head of the suffering Nat is undergoing. In the short story The Birds, Nat must defend his family from the invasion of birds, and the author creates a suspenseful story with strong imagery during and after the raid of the birds. On the other hand, Alfred Hitchcock skillfully creates tension in his film through silence. Although both versions of…

Sean Reape Comm 320 10/12/2015 Ray Harryhausen to Peter Jackson Ray Harryhausen is arguably one of the most influential and creative artists to ever lay a hand on the camera, with his master visual effects skills he carries the title of father of stop-motion model animation, and created ?Dynamation? which is an animation technique where a certain object is physically manipulated making it appear to move on it?s own. This was a technique that would change not only the…

The film There Will Be Blood was an outstanding film. This film was released in 2007 and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The main actors were Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, and Paul Dano. This film’s screenwriter was also Paul Thomas Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson did an amazing job making this film because, it came out incredible. One of the best films in my opinion and has a brilliant lesson to be learned from the film. There Will Be Blood is a must see movie. This film is packed…

Another great example for production design in science fiction movies is the movie Ex Machina. To begin with, production design includes the design of sets which makes set design one of the most important aspects while producing a movie. For example, one of the points set design deals with is the location where the film is going to be shot. Funderburg (2015) explained that in the movie Ex Machina, they used two Norwegian locations both designed by the architects Jensen & Skodvin. One of the…

Intro Paragraph “One person's craziness is another person’s reality” Tim burton says this everytime he describes himself or one of his movies. This is an interesting concept on his movies because he is explaining how what one person thinks, but it someone else. This is just one of the few things that make Tim Burton and his movies so interesting, but the number one thing is something any director can use. The number one thing he does to make his movies, like Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the…