Law Abiding Citizen

During the black and white era, the controlled use of contrast and intensity of lighting was a key factor that allowed for depth and even emotion in film. Keating talks in his writing about how Noir helped pioneer the excellent use of lighting to create enriching scenes with high contrast and irregular shapes and patterns. Keating talks about how lighting inside noir films are more low key and deep focus, while in regular studio cinema it tends to be more shallow and high key. Keating goes on to…

Pulp Fiction, and The Lord of the Rings all use MacGuffins to drive the plot forward. The featured MacGuffins in those films include the plans to the Death Star, Marsellus Wallace’s brief case, and the One Ring, respectively. In Orson Welle’s Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane’s last word happens to be “rosebud,” a name that has not the slightest meaning to the other characters. However, it is the instigation for the reporter to interview many people from Kane’s life, which illustrates the…

criminal who with the help of others is skillfully trained to complete very dangerous robbery operations. His physical characteristics and charisma also contributes in developing the character. Usually in films criminals represent the opposition to the law and are viewed as the bad guys versus the good guys. However this film subverts this convention by portraying the characters as intelligent masterminds who use their skills to their advantage. Every story has a range of personalities we…

Comparison Paper: Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction Influences on film making in today’s industry occur often, with new skills and techniques being implemented by daring producers and directors and are typically recycled by the next movie premiere. However, being boldly different is how particular film makers succeed, inspire future artists, and even make their mark on the industry, such as Orson Welles and Quentin Tarantino. Both film makers have been notarized for their accomplishments with not…

movie goes along, and it is because every different narratives from characters tells about Kane's beginnings, and change in age, failures, success, loves, ideas, and it basically explain how miserable Kane was in his false joyful perfect life of citizen Kane ! 4. A. Define Mise en…

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was a smashing success at the box office and is hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time. Though it did not win best picture, it has shown to be one of the strongest movies both in content and visual quality. In contrast, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner did not rise to fame until after it was on cable. However, there is a strong link between the two films. Citizen Kane utilizes camera angles to symbolize power and weakness. The power struggle of Citizen Kane…

Citizen Kane was a film that set the curve for future productions to reach. The infamous Hollywood style is clearly shown in Orson Welles’ masterpiece by executing numerous conventions of film exceptionally well and using new methods of cinematography such as deep focus. The storyline of Citizen Kane revolves around flashbacks of Charles and his rise to wealth. Along the way, he encounters love interests and companions, while eventually dying alone in the biggest man-made castle since the…

This was my first time watching Vertigo and my god, what a masterpiece. It is, of course, as good as anyone says it is. This film is packed with fantastic suspense techniques, a whole lot of mystery and a great amount of unhealthy obsession. There is no doubt about it, Alfred Hitchcock executed this film to nearly perfection BUT this film would not be the masterpiece it is without another incredible genius, Bernard Herrmann. His compositions throughout the entire movie literally made the movie…

Orson Welles is still know till this day as the director who one of the best movies of all time which was Citizen Kane. But not only was he a director but, he also was an American actor, producer, and writer. With all that he also has worked on the radio, film, and theatre. Orson was born May 6, 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Son of Richard Head Welles and Beatrice Ives Welles, growing up was hard on Orson his parents divorced and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father became an alcoholic after he…

“Citizen Kane has been called many things; some call it the greatest American film ever made, while others call it a triumph of form over content. Techniques and elements make up a film’s greatness. Some of these include Mise-en-Scene, sound, lighting, scripting, camera shots, angles and editing. Mise-en-scene also commonly known as staging is what makes up the entire film or rather what the audience sees and hears, which includes are sound, lighting ,props ,shot, angles..etc. . In the…