Kurt Warner

Olivianah Baugh October 26, 2015 Film Studies Singin’ In the Rain Analytical Essay Singin’ in the Rain premiered in the year of 1952 and was one of the most popular movies of it’s time. With a quite unusual plot, this movie intrigued audiences everywhere, and it’s originality is what made this the great film it is. Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, this classic was one of the most iconic films in the musical genre. Alongside directing, Kelly (Don Lockwood) acted in this film with other…

Casablanca is a movie set in December 1941 in Casablanca, Morocco before the United States was involved in World War II. The characters were fictional but the events display the role of Europe during this time frame. Casablanca was an important city as people wanted to escape Europe for America. Casablanca centers around Rick Blaine who owned the popular night club where refugees would purchase their letters of transit to travel freely in Europe and eventually freedom to America. The film…

MOTIVETIONAL ESSAY & JOURNAL The silent period of 1885 – 1930 was an age of great creation and experimentation. There were a number of soviet film like Melies, Edwin S Porter, D.W Griffth, Vesvolod I Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein. These people revolutionized the film industry with their techniques as film makers/ editors in different ways. The earliest films were less than 2 minutes’ length, although melies films grew to the length of 14 minutes they still remind as a series of single…

With American big blockbuster and independent films (Indies), there are many factors that contribute to the production of each. Even though both types of films can be great there are similarities and difference in the way they are made. The budget, cast, and film production concept are the biggest factors I will expand upon. The biggest difference between independent movies and big production movies is the budget the film is allotted. While in the comedy “22 Jump Street”, the budget was 65…

population can be found in literature ranging from fiction pieces that are meant to warn people to nonfiction analytical articles. Three piece of literature that demonstrates the use of power are “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, and “”Walking Dead” and the real Zombie America ” by Russ Castronovo. For a government to remain powerful it must maintain legitimacy and this can be done through tradition, history, and results. Tradition gives the…

five studios. Typically, each of these studios was also the owners of prominent theatre chains that spanned both domestically and internationally. Warner Bros, one of the five studios in Hollywood’s pioneered system, was chosen to sit at the forefront of the entertainment industry and produce the most remarkable films and musicals. During this time, Warner Bros was noted for its innovative nature of creating realistic films that were in strong correlation with the lifestyle of the suffering…

Bareback Scandal The play Equus was written by Peter Shaffer in 1973, and opened the same year. Since then it has been adapted for film, and has been revived for the stage. In 2007 it was reset with a famous British cast. It is interesting to compare the critical response of the original production and the revival. There aren’t very many reviews left of the original because it was 30 years ago, and they did not have as much media coverage back then. For the revival, however, there are a lot of…

a piano/organ to a full orchestra. Inventors tried joining images to reproduce sound through phonograph records, but it was too difficult to synchronize the sound due to the inadequacy of loudspeakers for theater auditoriums. Finally in 1927, the Warner Brothers released The Jazz Singer which was the beginning of synchronizing sound. Though sound had economic and technological implications, the style was affect. Before filmmakers realized that sound was used imaginatively, directors feared…

The Secret About Whitewashing: A Message to Hollywood Globalisation is an important factor in shaping modern life. With the world as interconnected as it is, it is critical that our media should reflect a much broader audience. Hollywood however has overlooked this need for more ethnic representation and instead blatantly ignores how the world is made up of a diverse collection of people who all have a story to tell. A non-stereotypical, non-background character of colour is a hard thing for…

In today’s society, most people enjoy going out to see a good movie or two. Before we do so we watch trailers and look at movie posters to see what these movies will be about. Movie posters are a good way to take a quick glance to capture the basis of a film before we pay to see it. Over the years we have progressively gotten better at capturing a movie through a single poster. In 1974, a very famous movie in the genre of drama and romance was release to the public. This movie is known as The…