a.) I think that Citizen Kane is frequently selected as the greatest film ever made because it pioneered many important film techniques and it attacked the most powerful newspaper man in the world at the time. Lastly, the film is socially relevant and the film’s message. Citizen Kane is socially relevant because it showed American society of the time, the class structure and the nature of money. According to an article posted on Spark notes, Citizen Kane made many cinematic advances, and its…
Cinematic techniques within a film can show more information to the audience sometimes more than the dialogue does. The cinematic techniques in There Will Be Blood help to establish the mood or tone in the scene and a sense of power and who has control of it. Paul Thomas Anderson helps to tell the story of There Will Be Blood with the use of many cinematic techniques. He shows us the story of a man overwhelmed with greed and the actions he commits afterwards. Anderson is a fan of using…
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace In 1998, Lucas Film released a teaser poster for their long waited and highly anticipated new movie, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. This was a relief to many fans and stirred much excitement with the community because Star Wars has been without a release since 1983 and many fans are looking forward to seeing the new George Lucas film. This teaser poster grabs the attention of long time Star Wars fans as it does new fans wanting to know what happens to the…
#Hasselblad is designed as a specialist studio and field camera [写真挿入] Leica, Hasselblad, Rollei, and Linhof are my favorite adoring cameras. Especially, Hasselblad seems to have a strong image of a high fashion model. Viewing through a waist-level finder and looking at a photo model symbolize a typical stereotype of a professional photographer. # History of Hasselblad Hasselblad was established in Sweden. It has an origin of an aerial camera during the World WarⅡ and was officially…
But the part of being secluded by a group and not believing that you are meant for greater things. Another attribute that i admire of this film is the main theme song at the beginning and throughout the film. You can feel the music with all the minor/major chords, various contributions of instruments like percussion, violins, brass section, vocals. The film which best exemplifies the highest expression of motion picture artistry would have to be The Hulk (2003) for reasons like Music, camera…
The film Kidulthood uses different types of media techniques to not only make the film effective but also to target the audience. One example of this is sound, sound is used to target the audience which are urbanites, which are people who live in the city or in urban places. The mostly used genre of sound in this film is grime and hip-hop, these types of genres have been used because this music would be what the audience would listen too, therefore it would attract the…
Don Siegel’s film Dirty Harry was released in 1971 during an anxious decade in the United States as well as around the world. There was rebellion following the Vietnam War as well as an economic recession. The film Dirty Harry received mixed reviews because viewers gathered different themes with each viewing. Filled with action, style, and detail Dirty Harry displays the anxious behavior and feelings of the American people. Dirty Harry is about extremism, justice, and ethics and reveals through…
on the stage. I think this wasn’t communicated properly between the director and the actors. While yes, the song was entertaining, it was entertaining for the wrong…
A movie date with DOD and Ironman2 We laugh when we see films like “the Battle of the Midway” created by John Ford because it SO in your face and almost obvious that it’s a film propagating the war effort that it leaves you almost yelling at the screen “HOW CAN PEOPLE BELIEVE THIS!” but in the last 80 something years since the second world war we have seen unbelieve advances in filming technologies that blockbusters have become these 3 hour experiences that leave us in silent awe while walking…
1940” At the dawn of 1940's, war was brewing Europe, women were entering the workplace and the United States was starting to emerge from the depression and embrace the New Deal. All these things influenced Hollywood which manufactured hundreds of films a year. People went to the movies roughly 32 times a year. Roughly the same rate that young Americans now "Netflix and chill." In 1940, Howard Hawks and screenwriter Charles Lederer adapted the 1928 play, The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles…