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Sanjay Dutt (born on 29 July, 1959) is a famous bollywood actor widely known for his deadly image on screen. Sanjay Dutt is son of Sunil Dutt and Nargis, two great actors of Indian cinema. He was involved in Indian politics for a very short time and mostly was infamous for involvement in Bombay Blasts, 1993. Actor is now is spending his jail term in Yerwada jail, Pune making paper bags and doing clerical work for jail officials. When the riots between hindus-muslims took place in Bombay in 1992…

Suspense thriller is one of the subgenres of a film that is popular for its excitement and tension. It usually includes crime scenes that trigger audience’s curiosity. Not only that, it also has been known to give a sense of tension that can cause the audience to feel uneasy and disconcerted. One film that can be taken as an example is a film titled Fracture (2007) by Gregory Hoblit. This film tells about an attempted murder case of the wife of an aeronautical company owner named Ted Crawford…

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Film is one of the most creative form of art that exists, and it is huge in this generation. The ultimate image we see in a movie frame comes from a trail of artistic decisions that had to be made by the director to give meaning to the story. For this paper, the opening scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will be analysed. The paper has the following order: an explanation of what needs to be considered to analyse a movie, a brief explanation of the important elements of…

The movie industy is a huge industy with three groups of players in the value chain. First, the production studios who create the content. Second, the movie exhibitors who provide a place for movie goers to watch the content. Third, the distributors who bring the content from the studios to the exhibitors. Being lower in the value chain, the movie exhibitors bear the risk of poor movie attendance, and incur high cost of renting the content from the studios. In this case study, the market…

“Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.” Known for his infamous creations of film which usually have a depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity, Martin Scorsese has had an overwhelming abundance of success in the film industry. In this essay I will discuss how the director Martin Scorsese uses certain techniques such as long tracking shots, freeze frames and the structure of his films in the films like “Goodfellas” and “Casino”. I will discuss and analyse these…

Film Noir, launched just before USA’s entry into the World War II and peaking during the Cold War, was a hybrid of glamour and grittiness, exposing a seamy underside of America during the mid century. Film Noir was cast with wised-up men and wordly women who might not have had the right answers, but certainly had all the right moves. More than often, they held mixed motives and malign agendas. The name ”Film Noir” was coined by french film critics whom, after the trade-blockade following the…

The Birds represents more than the threat post by nature Daphne Du Maurier’s 1952 novelette The Birds depicts a small town in England during WWII where all the birds inexplicably started to attack people. While it perfectly captured nature’s cruel mechanism, The Birds actually represents more than just the threat post by nature. In fact, It also represents the notion of a threatening presence, larger than human beings with unrivalled power, an example of this that people are more familiar with…

The Auteur Theory, is the idea that the true author of a film is the director. The director leaves an implicit remark on the film and because of this cinematic, literary, or thematic signature, they are credited as the author of the film. While there are numerous people involved in the production of a film, with some directors it is truly prominent who can be described as the author of the film. Mel Brooks, renown comical director and screenwriter is one instance of the undeniability of the…

Exit Trough the Gift Shop The film ‘’Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary of street art that focused on the two street artist, Banksy a secretive artist who never revealed his identity, and Thierry Guetta a French immigrant from Los Angeles whose passion is film making and became an overnight sensation. Before gaining Thierry’s fame as an inspiring artist he became Banksy’s guide in Los Angeles when he need somebody to help him find walls to do his art, a film documentarist, and an…