Film noir

In this essay, I will be discussing the 3 acts and how the movie Chinatown is applied to the Acts including examples from the movie which substantiate each point. The story is about a private investigator who discovers underlying corruption, deceit and the beginning of a romance. The first act begins at the start of the movie and closes after the death of Mr Hollis Mulwray. The second act begins after the following events have occurred in act 1. Act 1 In act one we are introduced to several of…

Citizen Kane is an American drama film made in 1941 that was written, produced, and starred by Orson Welles. He was one of the first people to challenge normal elements/ethics in the Hollywood industry. Orson Welles elements included storytelling techniques, and special effects that made his movie different from others. In fact he was the first person to ever show people a movie (Citizen Kane) that showed the ending at the beginning of the movie. The whole movie is a flashback and is telling a…

American film maker who has produced more than 30 films in his lifetime. Three films in particular though have caught critic’s eyes everywhere. Double Indemnity, made in 1944, The Seven Year Itch, made in 1955, and Some like it hot, made in 1959. Billy Wilder’s style in his films could be described as comic in most of his films but some of them like Double Indemnity could be described as dark as it is a film noir. Over the decades Billy Wilder’s films do improves in style. In his earlier film…

“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown” (Film “Chinatown”, Roman Polanski) The brilliant film “Chinatown” has longstanding entered the lists of the greatest films of the twentieth century. This statement applies, of course, to the lists compiled by the American film critics. It is considered that the film is made in the style of Noir, but, first of all, it felt not Noir but outstanding so-called Hollywood style. At least I feel the author’s handwriting Roman Polanski - Polanski, whom we know from his…

Wording, clothing, and sex were some of the most reoccurring problems the Production Code Administration had with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window. Throughout their communications, the PCA and the filmmakers discuss scenes that have subtle sexual undertones, risqué costumes, and wordings that the PCA found to be unacceptable. The correspondence between the filmmakers and the PCA begin around November 1953 and go on until around April 1954. Most of the letters are between Paramount…

people in Hong Kong, and delicates the subtle people relationship happened on four characters in the modern city. Cope 633, acted by Tony Leung, is one of the isolated figure. Wong Kar-wai’s unique directing style and soundtracks make the film stand out in many art films in the nineties of Hong Kong. In Wong Kar-wai’s movie, Chunking Express, Tony Leung’s acting has been a certain degree of promotion. Wong Kar-Wai’s mise-en-scene plays an important part to help Tony Leung become a success actor.…

There are two major themes that dominate the score of this film, a melodic solo saxophone, and dissonant trumpets over rhythmic drums. The sighing of the solo saxophone evokes the lonely melancholy of an individual alienated from the bigger environment he dwelled in. With the smooth, jazzy tones from the eight-bar sax, it also complements the night glamour of the New York City’s urban terrain. When we see Travis on his yellow cab passing through the various neighborhood of this fascinating city,…

era, this film charts the relationship between Michel, a stylish but unpredictable criminal, and his estranged American girlfriend. Again, the notion of escapism through the cinema is key to this most famous of the new wave pictures. Essential Readings: Hart Cohen, Juan Francisco Salazar and Iqbal Barkat. (2009). Case Study: French New Wave. In Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practice. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, (pp. 230-232). Buckland, Warren. (1998). Film…

“Eisenstein’s Theroy of Montages: 22 Jump Street (Lord & Miller, 2014).” The film 22 Jump Street is a comedy and a sequel from 21 Jump Street (Chitwood, 2013) that follows the story of two officers named Schmidt and Jenko that are after drug dealers once again (Seitz, 2014). There is a lot to say about the movie and the way it developed. In general, this is really fast-paced film which creates such a dynamic tendecy in the plot. This movie also showcases Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of 5 montages…

loyalties. The fierce tension, realistic car chases through Nice and Paris along with the Cold War spy craft convolute the plot which centers on a mysterious briefcase. The briefcase turns out to be a MacGuffin which is “an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite unusually lacking intrinsic importance” (Merriam-Webster). Ronin is a rough and serious thriller that reminds us of a Seventies action thriller such as Dirty Harry. The main…