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Black Swan It’s fascinating how people go to great lengths to get what they want or to pursue their goals. These actions that go beyond the extent of the audience’s imagination are what make movies consuming. Overall, the movie “Black Swan” shows such strange and creepy images that made me wonder what is a hallucination and what is real throughout the whole movie, and that thought kept me absorbed. The fragile and pure main character, Nina, who perfectly symbolizes the white swan, is constantly…

German Expressionism was well known to be bold, dark, distorted and spooky. It was emerged in Germany before World War I but, it tremendously influenced music, theater, painting, sculpture and architecture. These German Expressionism films at first were non-realistic, geometrically absurd angles, as well as designs painted on walls and floors represent light, shadows and objects. Meanwhile, many of these films plots dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal and other intellectual topics were…

When it comes to comedy movies, what names pop to your head? Jim Carrey in Liar Liar (1997), Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun (1988), Will Ferrell in Anchorman (2004)? Or maybe if you have a more "sophisticated" taste, Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) or Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998)? All of these Hollywood films are fun and memorable in their own way, but there is a younger lad coming from the moores of England who has altered the understanding of comedy in cinema. In this paper, I am…

From movie to movie, Tim Burton expresses a grotesque sensibility, while characterizing a socially awkward difference. He uses many techniques to torment the detail of his characters and their differentiated personality from their setting. To take into consideration, there are the movies Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, along with Big Fish to show the wide variety of techniques and their desired effect. Burton’s desired effect is to alter the audience’s emotions and builds…

Ratatouille Review Ratatouille is an extremely unique movie, with the story coming out of two writer’s minds instead of being based on a fairytale. Of course, Pixar is known for their creative minds, but this movie is a complete deviation from the norm. Rats are usually seen as disgusting and unlikable, but this movie is both a fan favorite and very well reviewed, with the characters being memorable and the tone of the movie being perfectly French. Ratatouille is a modern classic that has…

Swearing as global language! Are ‘bad’ words necessarily bad? Recently I saw a great movie called ‘The King’s Speech’, which led me to this question. First of all, I recommend everybody reading this blogpost and everybody not reading this blogpost to watch this movie because it is funny and interestingly themed. Besides, I recommend everybody to pay special attention to the swearing in the movie, partly because it makes one of the funniest scenes and partly because to me this scene says a lot…

Taylor Levant FMS 508 Defying the Odds: The Defiant Ones and Interracial Buddy Films Audiences have long been fascinated with interracial buddy films. From comedy to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley…

Callum Watt 000873235-3 Soundtrack Analysis - Psycho In the clip that we are provided (known as “The Murder) we are given a very famous and influential scene from one of Alfred Hitchcock's most critically acclaimed films. Bernard Herrmann, the composer for the movie did a sensational soundtrack with a low budget, and even went against Hitchcock’s wishes of the score to be jazz based. With the low budget instead of using an entire orchestra Herrmann only used strings to create an arguably more…

Boo, Who? In the classic Disney tale, Monsters, Inc., two outcast monsters strive to be apart of the elite team of scarers. Although the scarers wreak terror, we recognize the monsters’ fears when a little girl, Boo, enters the extraterrestrial world. Although the story is about changing tradition and love, it reveals the intimate relationship between fear and the individual. Moving away from fuzzy blue monsters and green spheres with legs, monsters still serve as an indication for the fears…

expert editing. The “shower scene” from Psycho is where this incredibly skilful editing creates intense emotion in a fairly small time space through the strategic use of action, direction, form and concept edits which all ultimately add to the thriller-horror narrative of the film. The first edit in the “shower scene” is a direction edit as the shot where Marion Crane holds her hand out with the torn-up pieces of paper in it cuts to the direction, which is the toilet, where she throws the pieces…