Breathless

Chung King Express has been celebrated for its innovative use of popular cinematic formulas. This is because of Hong Kong new wave film movement. This movement derived from the French new wave is to rebel against conventions. It is to experiment with new equipment and styles, making a social and political statement at the same time. Wong Kar-Wai tries to make a statement about Hong Kong at the time as Hong Kong was being handed back to Peoples republic of China. Wong Kar-Wai experiments with…

n utilised in their own works. Though “the young French cinema indirectly reproached Hollywood’s long-established narratives and restricted storyline subterfuges” (Lanzoni, 206), the French New Wave directors also had a longstanding appreciation for directorial greats like Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Orson Welles. Each film was an exercise in honouring great filmmakers, and any other hero of the director: writers, great thinkers and even Hollywood actors, through countless references in…

angiogram were done. Mr Jones was told that he had a leaking valve in his heart and would be referred for the surgery to replace the leaking valve. Mr. Jones was now increasingly breathless and had slept with the use of three pillows , he noted that it was not uncommon for him to wake up or lying down feeling breathless and that this was relieved by sitting up for a short time. Past medical history On questioning , Mr Jones noted that he had been suffering with…

“There’s no room for pride, not in a slave, not with the lord and master standing by.” (Sophocles, ll. 534-535) says Creon as Antigone explains why she’s defied his decree and buried her brother. Creon is one of a few who admit that they think of Antigone as someone who is a foreigner or an outsider, which is a part of the build up for Antigone to believe that of herself. Creon compares her to a “slave” (Sophocles, l. 532), which are typically non-greeks who have been conquered by the Greeks and…

Accompanying with three films indeed marked a new beginning in French cinema and then in the wold, The 400 Blows By Truffaut and Breathless by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this…

Harbor House. However, they had not died and with bodies and limbs intact, they awaited darkness to make their escape. “Thank the Lord’s mercy those Yanks stopped shelling or we’d still be stuck in the cellar,” said Mary O’Toole, who was nearly breathless from dragging a croaker sack filled with foodstuff she had gathered from the cellar to take with them. “At least we won’t starve,” Mary said assuredly, “that’s if we live long enough to make it there.” “We’ll make it,” Allie said firmly,…

For anyone who has lost someone and doesn't know how to deal with it, this you should read. There's lessons to be learned. I should know since I myself, has lost two important people in my life within a eight month gap. It's hard, but when it came to Callie's struggles, she never thought it could ever be possible to move on with her life after losing her entire family. She became a hermit. And never invited people into the house she and her family lived in. As for Nash, he inherits a really old…

Algerian war going on versus commenting on American film habits. Cléo also seems to take on a much more serious tone, even though both films deal with death. Breathless seems to hide the horrors of existentialism and death behind it’s filmmaking techniques while Cléo very upon about the issues from the first twenty minutes. Like Breathless, Cléo de 5 à 7 takes place mostly on the streets of Paris and has a main protagonist who is doing some soul searching and in search for validation. While…

section that I will be examining is in The Lottery on the end of page 232 beginning with “After that there was a long pause, a breathless pause…” The first sentence shifts the story into a solemn, uneasy area. If this was in first person it would be “I paused with everyone, not taking a breath.” In contrast with the third person we know for certain that everyone was breathless where without that information our focus would only be one the first person narrator. Then it continues into Mr. Summers…

Memories chased through his mind with the fluid ease of cold silk plunging down planetary atmosphere, come and gone within split seconds, explosions of impacting water that mirror random details and fleeting moments ──── like following sunlight slanting down Luke’s side with his fingertips, tracing the fresh scars, thumbing the older marks that faded gray. A warm and sleepy smile. Strong arms wrapping around him, returning a sense of security he could no longer find on his own. Not…