American film directors

It takes many factors to make a good director: a director must be calm, he must be articulate, and most of all he should be inspiring. However, Christopher Nolan is not simply a good director, he is one of the greatest directors of all time. Not to mention his impeccable writing, his directing expertise is beyond comparison: he skillfully draws the best performances out of the renowned actors in his cast, his imaginative stories can bogle even the most ingenious of minds, and his movies, while…

The “Minority Report” ,by Stephen Spielberg, takes a classic short story also called “Minority Report”, by Philip K. Dick, and adds a more Hollywood modern twist to it. Similar to the short story, the movie takes the viewer on a journey filled with enough mystery and suspense to incite an internal war of right and wrong, but the movie separates itself in that it is made with a business aspect in mind. Therefore, Spielberg makes certain characters much more relatable. More specifically, Spielberg…

Pan’s Labyrinth was directed by acclaimed Mexican director, Guillermo Del Toro, and released on December 29, 2006. Del Toro is known for putting rich, sympathetic characters- usually children and otherworldly creatures- in grandiose stories. He has directed films from the Gothic Horror of Cronos and The Devil's Backbone, to the humor of his comic book adaptation of Hellboy. He combined both his favored character types when making Pan’s Labyrinth. The movie is also shot wholly in Spanish, with…

The film, “Quiet on the Western Front”, is a great film that has a lot of merit to it’s content. I will be talking about the plot and setting. I’ll talk about the issues and the main purpose of the film is. The themes of the movie will be discussed and I shall talk about the movie itself in the context of acting, directing, and etc. I will analyze literary techniques in the movie. In this article, I will be talking about my analysis on whether how accurate it is. The strengths and weaknesses…

hurts.” ( carmen Ofelias mom), Even if it hurts was what Ofelia discovered on her own and losing it all in the film “Pan’s Labyrinth” by Guillermo del toro . A film created to highlight the ongoing battles lived within the people of spain after the Spanish civil war. The reality of war and the magical world encountered creates a path for itself within the movie. The monsters seen in the film are replicas of the monsters of the fascist movement being lived by the people. This wasn’t fairytale…

the director that I will be examining thought the rest of the essay. Christopher Nolan was born in 1970 in London England, and started making films at the early age of 7. He attended University College London where he studied English literature, and was a part of the school’s film society. According to IMBD.com he has been credited as a writer 15 times, producer 13, and as director 14 times, with all 13 of the films with credit as a director he was also credited as a writer. Many of the films…

After viewing Citizen Kane I was really blown away by the editing techniques which play a huge role in the story telling of a newspaper tycoon who was given the power from a very young age, but in fact all he wanted was love. The continuity editing technique is present from start to finish in this piece which moves the story along without spoon feeding the viewer about the events taking place. The use of montage and fading from one scene to the other allows the viewer one last glance or breath…

Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the film, Branagh used all of the main texts, rather than editing a specific version. Many Shakespearians have named this film the most comprehensive adaptation as compared to both its predecessors and subsequent versions. The film is based out of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England and features a cast of recognizable actors. In comparison to other film adaptations, this film contains elements of fantasy, which its predecessors did not. Further, the film is…

Guillermo del Toro uses visual storytelling, character traits, and comparison through editing to convey the essential themes of Romance and fairytales. He then uses these strategies to mix fantasy and reality, and increase the sense of danger for Ofelia and the viewer. In the classic Romance narrative, the hero acts as a metaphor for the divine, and the villain acts as a metaphor for the devil. Ofelia in Pan’s Labyrinth is the hero that is a associated with nature, and therefore the divine.…

In 2014, one of my favorite director of all time, Christopher Nolan, released a scientifically accurate science-fiction film, Interstellar, worldwide. A film about a team of space explorers’ travel through a wormhole as an attempt to save the humanity. A year before film’s release, an intriguing teaser video was posted on YouTube that highlighted our achievements related with space such as spacewalk and moon landing which ended with a short clip from the film showing Matthew McConaughey’s…