Halloween is a great opportunity to make anything believable, because the world becomes a stage, and everyone has a chance to become their favorite superhero or character. Halloween is awesome because it's a time of year when people can drop their judgmental attitudes and accept one another as they are. A case in point is a Halloween dance party just like the famous Star Wars "scene in a bar" where Chewy and Han Solo find creatures and aliens of all different species laughing and drinking and…
Another key difference between Chekhov and Brecht is evident in the techniques implemented in their work. As previously stated, Brecht’s work features the use of Verfremdungseffekt or the V-effect in order to distance the audience so that ‘every spectator is enabled to become a participant’ (Benjamin, 1996, 68) as they take an active role in critically analysing the onstage action. Chekhov, however, adopts a different approach, as his plays immerse the audience in that particular world and…
to see how intercultural concepts represented in the world, and among people. My big fat wedding also is a popular Hollywood film which is relevant and valuable to the course of intercultural communication. My big fat Greek wedding is a Canadian-American romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick, released in 2002. The film tells a story about Toula Portokalos, a 30-yeard-old Greek girl, who live in the traditional values of the Greeks, spend youth working in the family’s store. Her life goes…
At the beginning of the play, Sheila Birling is shown to be very energetic and enthusiastic about life. The opening stage directions play an important role in presenting the character before she changes dramatically. She is described as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited." Priestley has decided to describe her as a ‘girl’ because it represents the immaturity of her character as seen through Act 1. Immaturity is a key theme at the start of the play;…
Samantha Lopez Vrooman Film Studies November 2, 2014 Jules and Jim Film Analysis Trying to comprehend this film was hard because to read the subtitles and trying to look at the scene of where the characters were at felt like the audience had to choose which one was important, the conversation between the characters or scenes of where the characters were at to make the plot. This understanding between the scenes and the words connect with the film of Catherine choosing between two men. This…
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…
we don’t love the actor who plays our favourite character, we might not be able to enjoy a film. This paper suggests that the use of well-established Disney characters in the 1983 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, “Mickeys’ Christmas Carol” makes it viable for the novelette to be condensed to a 25 min short film. It further argues that the appropriateness of certain casts is dependent on the shortness of the video. It also establishes that the existence of a backstory for each actor in the movie…
clearly not anaesthetic that Hollywood usually embraces or has seen as commercially viable. But more important fictional films reveal something of the dreams, desires, displacements, and, in some cases, the social and political issues that confront American society. Undeniably, films are a powerful and significant art form. Sentiment obviously is somewhat hyperbolic. But films shown in theatres, on television and in DVDs are clearly one of the prime forms of entertainment accessible element…
commerciality than its own theatrical production. With its Broadway priced tickets, private event offers which include very expensive drinks and gift shop they focus on getting your money than actually doing their theater. It gets to such a point where the actors reappear and attempt to sell souvenir programs! The set design doesn’t look like a hotel and makes little sense to the original text. Furthermore the show has staggered arrival times but ironically they make you wait outside and later…
1. Identify the film’s title, director, AND production designer (or art/visual designer). I watched the film Shawshank redemption. It was directed by Frank Darabont, and the production designer was Terence Marsh. 2. What is the focus of this film? Explain using examples from the film. I was undecided whether the focus should be the truth of human nature or the struggle for human dignity, but I think that it should be the struggle for human dignity. I say this because the main character was a…