has a significant impact on modern popular culture through the changes he brought the movie industry. No other twentieth-century movie producer has had a massive effect on the film business than George Lucas. His enthusiasm for development produced innovation that altered films. His business understanding transformed film into a multibillion-dollar industry. His "Star Wars" set of three introduced the time of the Hollywood super blockbuster. (Norwich). Lucas was born in Modesto, California, on…
Weber and Betty Thomas. Both women had multiple roles in the film industry. Lois Weber was an actress, screenwriter, producer and, director. Betty Thomas, is an actress and director. What education and work experiences did they bring to their work in cinema? Betty graduated with a BA in fine arts. She started off in comedy but landed a huge role in a TV drama. In the 1980s, Thomas decided to transition into directing films. Many of her films carry a comedic aspect to them, like her early…
critical engagement with science fictional aspirations at a time when space travel was exciting and new. To compare and contrast the two films,…
‘Bollywood’ is actually derived from a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood; which we all popularly know as the hub of the American film industry. India, the world’s largest producer of films actualizes an average of 1,288 to 1,500 feature films every year compared to films produced by Hollywood which are only a fraction. Although Hindi cinema is just a segment of India’s annual film production, it remains as the most popular and influential with an estimated 3.6 billion tickets sold worldwide,…
Novels are difficult to convert into a two hour film. The great details and characteristics are too much to portray into every single scene of a movie. To create a motion picture that is side by side and true to the story would result in a five hour or more movie. As for Hollywood, the business follows a specific formula that involves the protagonist, the antagonist, and the relationship character. Therefore, the motion picture cannot follow the novel scene by scene, and must alter and withdraw…
Classical narrative structures are a central feature to any genre of hollywood produced movies, in which a story is beginning told to the audience through this media. However, it is quite seldom that spectators of the movies will be able to see the specfic result of the narrative, due to the structure base created by the director. These narratives are created to give an effortless approach to the audience, who are blind-sided by the no trace of the narrative structure. “Narrative process…
these films many years after they were made and having the same reaction to them as the first time tells us that they were stories that can be told in any decade.…
In novel and movie Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, there were many unexpected things between the two stories. Although the film reiterates the basis of the book, there are many differences to contrast with the novel and the film. The two were similar including their setting, some of the plots, and the character development. But there were also many differences in those parts of the stories and how they were interpreted. There are details embedded into each one of the topics. In the…
Dr. Armin Tehrany has once again shown his love and support for the movie industry. The second movie Dr. Tehrany is proudly part of called “Thirst Street” is set to have the world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month in the US Narrative Competition. For this highly, Dr. Tehrany gladly joins the movie team as one of the executive producers. The “Thirst Street” is an intriguing retro-style psychodrama directed by Nathan Silver, and written by Silver and C. Mason Wells. This…
Having won 13 awards and 37 nominations, which includes 1 Oscar nomination for the Best Achievement in Costume Design, the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory successfully made it to the international film industry. Directed by Tim Burton, the movie is derived from a children storybook written by Roald Dahl and its main casts starring 3 times Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, who played as Willy Wonka, and Britain born Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket. (Anon, 2005). The movie began by an…