Executive director

The studio system was essential in the success of early American Cinema. It ensured that total control of the movies belonged to the biggest studios in Hollywood that made them (Classic Hollywood Central Editors, 2011). The ‘Big Five’ created the studio system to ensure they made the most profit. The ‘Big Five’ consisted of 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Paramount, Warner Bros., and RKO Radio. There were three smaller studios close behind: Universal, Columbia, and United Artists…

picture or painting in the background to completely change the setting of the scene. It doesn't have to be real or interacted with. It only lets the audience assume the setting of the scene is in that location. Where it gets more complicated is when directors use scale modeling to represent something normally many times larger. The titanic was a perfect example of this. They used the 40 foot scale model of the ship instead of needing the 800 foot actual thing. Using camera angles and context…

I give The Godfather four stars out of four stars. It is an excellent movie. The first thing that makes The Godfather an excellent movie is the music score. The music fit with the movie perfectly. The composers of the songs did an excellent job composing pieces that fit with the scene. The final song, composed by Nino Rota, is very memorable. From now on, whenever I hear Rota’s song, I will think of The Godfather. The action is the second thing that makes The Godfather an excellent movie. The…

Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, And Then There Were None has grown to be a Thriller. The book was published in 1939 and nearly every language has translated it. 25 movies, Television shows, and video games have been based upon it. It is often written in parodies because of its mysterious locked-door mystery. Agatha Christie who wrote the novel And There Were None set the theme of a powerful journey leading the main characters in a decision of survival and fate.The first And then There Were None…

Groundhog Day: Are You Repeating the Same Patterns? Remember the 1960's Sonny and Cher song "I Got You, Babe?" In the wonderful movie "Groundhog Day," that song is the one that Bill Murray's character, Phil, wakes up to every morning. The first time it happens, he continues on with his day, not sensing any oddities with how his day will unfold. Each subsequent day, however, the song is his indicator that he will be repeating the same day over again. Throughout the movie, Phil runs through an…

In Justin Lin's fifth installment to the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast Five , exhibits the lengths a person or rather a group is willing to go towards freedom and the consequences for that freedom. This is the case for the main character, Dominic Toretto ( Van Diesel) demonstrates this idea by forgoing his criminal past and starting his life anew with this last stint. The film focuses on a band of elite car racers who do one final job in Rio de Janiero, Brazil to gain their freedom from the…

Since I have always been exposed to contemporary films, I use to believe in their superiority over classic films. But, in the last two weeks, I have had the opportunity to watch a few classic movies that challenged my vision about this topic. During the last week, I choose to watch two movies as a Hollywood Classic Style like His Girl Friday and The Rear Window. From my personal experience with these movies, it has just been amazing, the first film captivated me by its realism, clear…

Technical aspects are critical to the success of the film, as they enhance the flow and establish a style of the movie. Extreme wide shots are defined as, “ panoramic views of an exterior location used to establish setting” (Thompson and Bowen 14). 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle, uses extreme wide shots to its advantage throughout the movie as a means of establishing intense emotion. The technical aspect used throughout the film allows Boyle create a vivid response. 127 Hour’s pathos is…

in the forehead of his face. This glows up as the scene ends. Throughout this movie, the director uses different types of camera shots, such as a full body shot, close-up, and the establishing shot, which tells the audience what the scene contains, such as the location of where the characters are at, what the characters are doing or like, and etc. One of the different types of camera shot that the director uses to tell the audience what…

Auteur theory is the theory of filmmaking in which the director is regarded as the key creative force in a film. Dubbed by American film critic Andrew Sarris in France during the late 1940’s, auteur theory was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of Andre Bazin and Alexandre Astruc. This theory states that the director, who oversees all visual and audio elements of a film, is considered somewhat of an ‘author’ of a film more so than the writer of the screenplay. This means that visual elements…